Holy crap Frenz!

Dawntrail is right around the corner! With Early access launching Friday this week (6/28/2024), excitement is higher than ever for the community. Especially for those that have pre-ordered and have early access on their accounts.

I’ll post a brief overview of the patch notes and seconds below. However if you would like more detail, please check out the official post here.

Areas

New Cities – Tuliyollal and Solution Nine
New Field Areas – Urqopacha, Kozama’uka, Yak T’el, Shaaloani, Heritage Found
New City and Field Aetherytes have been added – no detail was given
The number of Aether currents in all Endwalker areas has been reduced

Quests

New main scenario quests have been added.
New side story quests have been added.
Role quests have been added.
New job quests have been added.
Wachumeqimeqi Deliveries have been added.
Players can now temporarily hide the display of nearby player characters when interacting with quest-related NPCs or objects.
Quest objectives that require following an NPC will now utilize visual indicators to help players avoid detection.
Players can now select icons in the Duty List to carry out quest objectives such as using emotes or opening the Crafting Log.
Players may now adjust text auto-advance settings to apply only to voiced dialogue.
To help alleviate issues with misinputs when completing quest objectives that require entering phrases with the chat mode in Say, certain half-width and full-width characters will now be treated as the same character when typing.
The categorization of certain allied society quests has been adjusted.
Certain quest battles can no longer be undertaken using limited jobs.

Leves

New tradecraft and fieldcraft leves have been added.
Experience points rewarded when using a class at level 90 or above to complete a leve with a level requirement below 90 have been capped at 1,000.

FATEs

New FATEs have been added.
The maximum store of bicolor gemstones has been increased from 1,000 to 1,500.
FATEs that grant a bonus to experience points gained will now also grant a bonus to earned bicolor gemstones.
The game client will now respond more quickly when opening the Shared FATE window or changing between categories.
Large-scale FATEs that take place at fixed locations will now also appear on the map like regular FATEs.

Treasure Hunt

The following additions and adjustments have been made to treasure maps:

• Loboskin Treasure Maps and Br’aaxskin Treasure Maps have been added.
• Rewards for Saigaskin Treasure Maps, Kumbhiraskin Treasure Maps, and Ophiotauroskin Treasure Maps have been adjusted.
• Allagan tomestones rewarded for completion of Saigaskin Treasure Maps, Kumbhiraskin Treasure Maps, and Ophiotauroskin Treasure Maps have been changed from Allagan tomestones of causality and Allagan tomestones of comedy to Allagan tomestones of poetics.
• Starting in Patch 7.05, there will be a chance for a teleportation portal to appear when completing Br’aaxskin Treasure Maps.

The Excitatron 6000 and the Shifting Gymnasion Agonon will now be level synced, adjusting player levels to 90.

Grand and Free Companies

Additional items will now be accepted for supply and provisioning missions.
Viper and pictomancer symbol options have been added to the Charge category of the Company Crest editor.
New craftable items have been added to the company workshop.

The following additions and adjustments have been made to subaquatic voyages:

• New areas have been added.
• New items have been added.
• Maximum submersible rank has been increased from 115 to 120.

The Manderville Gold Saucer

New prizes are available for purchase using MGP.
The following additions have been made to Triple Triad:

• New cards have been added.
• New NPC opponents for Triple Triad have been added.
• Players can now engage in Triple Triad matches in new areas.
• Card numbers have been added to the item description of all Triple Triad cards.

Battle System

The level cap for all Disciples of War and Magic has been raised to 100.
The Viper and Pictomancer jobs have been added – These jobs have no corresponding classes and begin at level 80.
New job actions have been added.
Actions and traits have been adjusted.
The layout of the Blue Magic Spellbook interface has been adjusted.
The following adjustments have been made to limit breaks:

• Monks will no longer change position when executing Final Heaven.
• Dragoons will no longer change position when executing Dragonsong Dive.

Certain status effects granted by class and job actions will now be removed when changing areas or entering an instanced duty.
The effects of certain monster and NPC actions have been adjusted.
The armory bonus granted below level 90 has been increased from 50% to 100% – The armory bonus is applied to all available Disciples of War and Magic other than your highest level job or class, from level 90 onward the armory bonus is a 50% increase in EXP gained.
In accordance with the increased level cap, New World and Preferred World character bonuses now apply to all jobs at level 89 or below.
New enemies have been added.
New dungeons have been added.
After beginning a boss encounter in dungeons newly introduced in Patch 7.0, the shortcut warp will take players to the boss area’s entrance.
In accordance with the increased level cap, players can now gain experience from level 90 dungeons, trials, and 6.x alliance raid dungeons.
New trials have been added.
Unreal trials have been temporarily disabled.
Players will now receive the power of the Echo in the event all party members are incapacitated during the following trials:

• The Abyssal Fracture
• The Gilded Araya

Each time players restart the aforementioned trial, they will be granted a 10% Echo effect boost, which increases each restart up to a maximum of 50% – If a player restarts after battling for less than three minutes, they will not be granted this effect.
The Abyssal Fracture (Extreme) – Each time players restart this trial, they will be granted a 5% Echo effect boost, which increases each restart up to a maximum of 25%. If a player restarts after battling for less than three minutes, they will not be granted this effect.
The strength of the Echo granted in Pandæmonium: Anabaseios (Savage) has been increased – The Echo will take effect upon entering Pandæmonium: Anabaseios (Savage), increasing players’ maximum HP, damage dealt, and healing potency by 20%.
The Spire of Trial, an expansion of Stone, Sky, Sea, has been added.
The weekly restriction on receiving Cracked Anthoclusters upon clearing Thaleia has been removed.
New elite marks have been added.
Players can now hunt regular and elite marks in the new areas.
Viper and pictomancer’s arms are now available from the following deep dungeon vendors
Allagan tomestones of aesthetics have been added.
The following additions and adjustments have been made to Allagan tomestones:

• Allagan tomestones of causality and Allagan tomestones of comedy. The aforementioned tomestones will no longer be obtainable. All trials and duties where these tomestones could be obtained will now offer Allagan tomestones of poetics or Allagan tomestones of aesthetics instead.
• Allagan tomestones of astronomy have been removed from the game.
• Allagan tomestones of poetics may still be obtained from duties up to level 90, as well as certain Duty Roulettes.

Additions and adjustments have been made to the Duty Finder
The Raid Finder now only lists trials and duties introduced with Patch 7.0.

As a reminder, if you would like more details or information on a missing section, please use the link above to check the official posting. Some of the sections were very long with lots of tables to show the changes more effectively.