FFXIV 6.5 patch details – everything in the Growing Light update

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FFXIV 6.5 is coming in early October and, while we might be waiting a while longer to get our hands on the next full expansion, FFXIV Dawntrail, the next major Final Fantasy XIV update is already delivering on some big requests from the playerbase. Hosting FFXIV Live Letter 78 live on stage at the massive Fan Fest event to celebrate the world’s biggest and best MMORPG, game director Naoki Yoshida and community producer Toshio Murouchi detail everything we can expect from FFXIV patch 6.5 as we build towards the Dawntrail release date in summer 2024.

FFXIV patch 6.5 is titled ‘Growing Light’ and it releases in early October 2023. It will be followed by the arrival of patch 6.51 in late October, with the second part of the main scenario quest building to Dawntrail arriving in patch 6.55 in mid-January 2024.

There’s just about everything you’d expect from a standard update, although because this is the final major patch prior to the next expansion we’ll be getting the second half of the story at a later date with patch 6.55, to keep some of the setup for Dawntrail a secret until then. Yoshida teases that the new dungeon, The Lunar Subterrane, will feature “scenery changes partway through.”

With a spoiler warning for patch 6.4, he also notes that we’ll be facing FFIV’s final boss Zeromus in the next trial, The Abyssal Fracture. There’s also a return to Heavensward’s climactic showdown with Thordan in The Singularity Reactor (Unreal), as the latest Unreal Trial aims to capture the showdown at its original level of challenge.

Alongside all the usual changes, there’s some really fantastic news in here for players of all types. The first big note, of course, is that the much-memed FFXIV Free Trial will be expanded to include