Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail is bringing back the MMO content everyone is missing from Endwalker

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Keen to avoid some of the mistakes of Final Fantasy 14’s post-Endwalker content run, Square Enix is ensuring Dawntrail gets the flexible open-world content fans have been missing.

During the latest Fan Fest held in Tokyo, director and producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida reveals that Dawntrail is getting a new Field Operation akin to Shadowbringers’ The Bozjan Southern Front or Stormblood’s The Forbidden Land, Eureka. 

As per Nova Crystallis, the team received plenty of feedback about Endwalker not having one, so that’s being remedied in the next expansion. You’ll have to wait for more information, though Yoshi-P says the new Field Operation requires plenty of players to clear, which is likely to be music to the ears of many.

Field Operations are some of Final Fantasy 14’s more open-world content, allowing solo players and parties to gather in one instance to tackle large-scale public challenges. What those tasks entail differs on the Field Operation, though you can come and go as you please without putting anyone at a significant disadvantage.

So why does that matter? A recurring topic of conversation throughout the MMO community following Endwalker is a dearth of ‘midcore’ content. Simply put, casual fans may be catered to by logging on here and there to catch up on the story, blast some dungeons, and sample ‘lifestyle content’ like Island Sanctuary, which turns the MMO into a farming sim. Hardcore fans with set raid groups, meanwhile, have challenges like Eureka Orthos, Criterion Savage, and more to topple. 

Midcore content is for the fans in between. Those who want to spend more time with Final Fantasy 14 than just keeping up with the story but don’t have the time to master brutal raids regularly or a friend group with an equal interest in doing so. 

Content like Bojza provides those fans with a solution: an open field filled with foes and stronger enemies on a timer that unlocks even nastier bads when toppled. Styled similarly to the MMO’s FATEs – open-world