The Live letter can be watched on YouTube.
Everything Announced:
- Patch 7.1 named Crossroads
- Releasing mid-November
- MSQ will dive deeper into Zoraal Ja’s character
- Pelupelu Society Quests
- Additional Wachumeqimeqi Quests
- Manderville/Hildibrand quests are back!
- More of a short introduction, and will be expanded on later
- NewGame+ for 7.0
- MSQ
- Job Quests
- Role Quests
- Duty Support
- non-MSQ dungeons implemented moving forward.
- Halatali added in 7.1
- Updates to Hall of Novice
- Training for specific mechanics to be added
- Unlocked at lv.49
- Stack markers
- Tank Busters
- Training for specific mechanics to be added
- PVP Updates
- Action execution and hit detection updates
- Job actions additions and adjustments
- Except for Viper and Pictomancer
- Red Sands and Cloud Nine arena improvements
- Frontline and Rival Wings balance adjustments
- Series 7 starts with 7.1
- New Dungeon: Yuweyawata Field Station
- Alliance Raid: Echos of Vana’diel
- Final Fantasy XI for those who don’t know.
- Part 1 - Jeuno: The First Walk
- Staff from XI helped work on it
- New Trial: The Minstrel’s Ballad - Sphene’s Burden
- New Unreal Trial: The Jade Stoa
- Setup for lv.100 and future Unreal Trials will aim for this.
- New Battle Content
- Chaotic Alliance Raid
- “Savage” difficulty 24-man Raid
- Only one planned so far.
- The Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) - she appears on the key art.
- Has new mechanics
- No trash mobs so may only be the last boss.
- Offers unique rewards for completing
- Uses new reward system to encourage replay and help others
- New Ultimate Raid: Futures Rewritten
- Possibly to be released shortly after 7.1 release date, cannot confirm right now
- Chaotic Alliance Raid
- Doman Mahjong Updates
- Voiced reactions and commentary from Scions
- Housing Updates
- Interior renovation - various different designs to choose.
- Removing pillars and changing staircases for example.
- Free as often as you want to change
- Would like to offer interior size changes in the future (make Small house a Large inside)
- Dawntrail OST to be release.
- The Primals latest concert (Sept. 21) available to stream.
- New Merch (already announced throughout TGS)
- This is part one of the PLL, part two will be later and include updates on graphic changes, characters, etc