Ultimate Fantasy’s XIV’s 6.18 patch is launched in the present day, with essentially the most vital modifications together with new worlds for each the RPG’s Japanese and European servers, and the added capacity to journey your characters between information centres.
Two new chaos and two new gentle worlds have been added to the European servers, together with Meteor, a recent information centre, being added to the Japanese area. The long-awaited information centre journey system has additionally been carried out, permitting gamers to journey to different information centres, and play with mates who’re native to them. Gamers visiting different centres may have “traveller” added to their nameplate, and be topic to varied restrictions.
Legendary and unspoiled gathering nodes are inaccessible to travelling gamers. Equally, retainers can’t be summoned or employed, and you can’t put up objects on the market at a international information centre’s market. Linkshells can’t be fashioned or joined, neither can PvP groups. There’s additionally the chance that your chosen information centre isn’t accessible – as acknowledged on Ultimate Fantasy XIV’s official Twitter, in case your goal world is oversubscribed or “congested”, it is going to be briefly disabled as a vacation spot.
🧳 Relating to Knowledge Middle Journey
If the goal World is congested (e.g., as a result of login rush after upkeep or when logins are concentrated), that World shall be briefly disabled as a vacation spot.
— FINAL FANTASY XIV (@FF_XIV_EN) July 5, 2022
Patch 6.18 additionally introduces some PvP rebalancing. The bottom efficiency of the Darkish Knight’s bloodspiller motion has been elevated from 4,000 to six,000, just like the Gunbreaker, whose burst strike efficiency has jumped from 6,000 to 7,000. Different lessons have been marginally weakened. The Ninja’s unsealed seiton tenchu motion is now solely efficient for eight moderately than ten seconds, and the Black Mage’s barrier efficiency is down from 16,000 to 12,000.
Sq.-Enix says within the patch notes that it’s planning “a lot of changes for patch 6.2, together with additional modifications to the speed at which the restrict gauge fills for every job, in addition to harm modifiers”. Patch 6.2, titled Buried Reminiscence, is scheduled to reach in late August, and can introduce the brand new Island Sanctuary the place gamers can collect supplies, construct homes, and take care of animals.