If you’re playing Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, you’re undoubtedly excited for the free server transfers coming on October 15th. But there’s more!
Square Enix has announced exciting details on what it callsan “upcoming hot fix”. Its changes aim to make the endgame experience feel more rewarding and less grindy by improving how Tomestones are rewarded and adjusting dungeon difficulty.
Below are some of the changes according to Square Enix:
- Changes will be made to the way equipment is bound.
- Introducing additional servers and enhancements to act as a countermeasure against the congestion to enter “Amdapor Keep.”
- The difficulty for level 50 dungeons will be adjusted.
- The number of areas where you can acquire Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy and Mythology will be increased as well as the amount you can acquire.
- Implementation of a population cap for each field.
- * The population cap is planned to be introduced separately. (Added on October 11th, 2013)
- Adjustments to the spawn rate of monsters that drop diremite web and additional locations where Karakul can be found.
- The amount of experience points that can be acquired on botanist and miner, as well the experience points that can be acquired from their fieldcraft leves, will be increased.
- User interface elements related to materia and target information will be adjusted.
The patch will also include changes to trash mobs in dungeons such as Amdapor Keep, marks the beginning of the Ghost and Coblyns event, and will add an NPC where you can purchase the Cactuar and Bomb Earrings rewarded for the PAX event.
The hot fix nomenclature sells these changes short. This is a full-blown content patch that any level 50 should be craving.
Maintenance will begin on October 14th at 8:00pm PDT and is expected to run for several hours. You can read more about the server transfers here.
