Final Fantasy 14 Duty Support System Adds Beloved NPCs to Heavensward Dungeons
Final Fantasy 14 recently held a Live Letter from the Producer on the subject of Patch 6.2, Buried Memory, its next major content patch. In addition to the new content coming in the patch, Final Fantasy 14 is continuing to expand the solo-friendly Duty Support System through all of its story content.
The Duty Support System is an evolution of the Trust system introduced in Shadowbringers. This system allowed players to bring NPC allies into dungeons instead of players. These NPCs often have unique dialogue, interactions, behaviors, and actions in the Duty Support System.
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More recently, Final Fantasy 14 has gone back and added the Duty Support System to all story-required dungeons through all of A Realm Reborn, with a promise to add this system to every story dungeon up until Shadowbringers, where it was already implemented. This will eventually allow players to complete the entire Main Scenario as a nearly-solo experience.
In theA Realm Reborn dungeons, players bring nameless adventurers with them into dungeons. While charming in their own rights, these characters are less important than the major NPCs players can team up with in Shadowbringers and Endwalker. However, the new screenshots shared by Final Fantasy 14 showed that Estinein, Ysayle, and Alphinaud will be able to fight alongside the player character in some Heavensward dungeons.
This means the Duty Support dungeons in Heavensward and Stormblood will break that mold and allow players to bring beloved Final Fantasy 14 NPCs with them in certain dungeons. In the future, it may be possible for players to party with popular characters like Haurchefant, Aymeric, and Hilda in some Heavensward dungeons, and
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