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After the launch of the new expansion Dawntrail in July, FFXIV has clearly made a new wave of MMO game enthusiasm. Although the popularity of FFXIV Dawntrail has declined because of the launch of new seasons or new DLCs in many games on the market later, the recent updates have undoubtedly given it new vitality.
In the latest 7.1 Crossroads update, besides some relatively fragmented gameplay updates, the most eye-catching new content added by Final Fantasy 14 for Dawntrail is the new raid activities.
These raid activities are usually large in content and complex in mechanism. Players need to team up and fight as multiplayer teams to complete them. It is precisely because these activities are difficult that the rewards they offer are very generous. Even if you don’t contribute much to the team, you can still get a considerable amount of FFXIV Gil.
In the alliance raid, Echoes of Vana’diel added after this update, if players want to play it in a team, they need to meet fixed conditions to unlock them before they can start playing. So this time we will introduce the specific method of playing this raid.
Jeuno: The First Walk is actually the first part of Dawntrail Echoes of Vana’diel Alliance raid, which was added to the game after this update. It is said that the second and third parts will be added in the new update.
In Jeuno: The First Walk, the participating players will be divided into three groups of eight people each. However, before entering Echoes of Vana’diel, players must complete some tasks to unlock this first part of it in order to fully experience the entire event.
First, you need to reach level 100 in any war or magician class and complete Dawntrail MSQ, and your item level needs to reach 695. After meeting these conditions, you have a ticket to enter the new raid, but before that, you still need to go to Tuliyollal.
Once you reach Aetheryte of Tuliyollal, you’ll find a Hoobigo Messenger near the coordinates (13, 11.5) giving you a quest called An Otherworldly Encounter. Hoobigo Messenger will then ask you to go to Mamook and talk to Miilal Ja, so that’s your next destination.
Miilal Ja is located west of Mamook Aetheryte, and once you find her, she’ll tell you that she and her companions have found a strange Elezen who keeps blabbering about something they don’t understand, so Miilal Ja wants you to help them figure out what Elezen is talking about.
Elezen doesn’t remember his name, or how he was found by Mamook. But rather than trying to understand him, you should first find Bakool Ja Ja and talk to him. After that, you only have to go through a few more cutscenes and dialogues before you’ll be notified that Jeuno: The First Walk is available. That’s actually the name of the first part of Echoes of Vana’diel.
After completing Jeuno: The First Walk raid, you will continue to advance the story of Echoes of Vana’diel and unlock all the rewards you can get.
Prior to the release of Patch 7.2, loot in Jeuno: The First Walk raid was limited. You could only pick up one piece of equipment in the event each week, and it reset time coincided with the weekly reset time.
Currently, all loot available in this raid includes items such as armor sets and the tattered sheet music. The armor set is also known as Ark Angel armor.
If you get the tattered sheet music from the treasure chest and the dice roll is lucky, you can trade it with specific Goblin NPCs in Lower Jeuno to exchange it for Echoes of Vana’diel orchestrion rolls, a Nano Lord minion, and a Nano Lord Triple Triad card. It is worth noting that there is no limit to the drop of the tattered sheet music.
Additionally, when you complete Aglaia once a week in Echoes of Vana’diel, you’ll also receive Ordelle Coins. You can exchange them for Surgelight Twine and Surgelight Glaze to augment your Quetzalli tomestone gear. Just find Uah’shepya in Solution Nine and trade with her with Ordelle Coins. Or you can trade the rope and glaze you get to Hhihwi. He’s also an NPC vendor.
In the future, if FF14 continues to follow the previous expansion plan, we expect Echoes of Vana’diel Alliance raid series to have two more raids. One may be launched with patch 7.3 and the other may be launched with patch 7.5. But no matter when the latter raid activities are launched, you should try to complete the first part, Jeuno: The First Walk. This will not only help you accumulate game materials but also prepare for the new activities.
If you have figured out how to play Jeuno: The First Walk in Echoes of Vana’diel series through our introduction, then log in and start your new adventure! Have fun!
Before players start playing, it’s important to know what’s in store and what’s new in the game. Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail brings new dungeons to explore, character classes to master, and weapons and gear to collect.
With the new level cap of 100, it can be a daunting task for players trying to reach the endgame as quickly as possible. So finding where to start quests and preparing items ahead of time is key to ensuring a smooth experience.
This guide will give you some tips on taking on the new Viper or Pictomancer classes and getting your character to level 100 as quickly as possible.
Acquiring various experience buffs ahead of time can help you reach the new level 100 in Dawntrail as quickly as possible. There are three main types of experience buffs to look out for.
Well-fed buff granted by any food increases experience gained by 3% for 30 minutes. Food that grants the Well-fed buff can be easily obtained from various vendors, obtained from other players via the Market Board, or crafted by players who have upgraded Culinarian crafting job.
Rested experience, which increases experience gained by 50% during the event. Rested experience must be accumulated over time by logging out of the Sanctuary.
The maximum amount of Rested experience a character can accumulate after resting for seven days is one full level’s worth. If you don’t have the luxury of time to earn this experience, FFXIV Gil can help.
Free Company buffs are available to Free Company Officers and Squadron Commanders, increasing experience gained by 5% to 15% during the event. Heat of Battle line of Free Company buffs can be got by Free Company members who have obtained permission to get company actions.
These company actions can be got from OIC Quatermaster located at each Grand Company headquarters. Heat of Battle I costs 3,010 company credits, and Heat of Battle II costs 6,020 company credits.
Heat of Battle III cannot be got and must be crafted in the company workshop in Free Company and then recharged in Aetherial Wheel Stand for 70 hours. Players who have unlocked and upgraded a company squadron can obtain a personalized version of Heat of Battle III buff that lasts two hours by completing quests that grant Squadron Battle Manual items.
You can prepare a full set of level 80 gear in advance before you can experience the two new classes, Viper and Pictomancer, which will start at level 80.
Augmented Cryptlurker set is the best armor set available for level 80 characters. Viper uses Scouting series of equipment, while Pictomancer uses Casting series of equipment. These can be purchased from Aymark in Eulmore (X:10, Y:12) or Mowen's Merchant in The Crystarium (X:10, Y:12) using Allagan Tomestones of Poetics. In order to purchase a full set of armor and accessories, 3455 Allagan Tomestones of Poetics are required, as well as an additional 600 poetic tomestones for weapons at the launch of Dawntrail.
Dawntrail’s new quests bring a ton of new rewards and items. You’ll want to clean up your inventory, including your chocobo saddlebag and retainer inventory, ahead of time, to prevent spending time thinking about how to make room when you get new weapons and gear, new consumables, and new crafting materials. You can pass on obsolete items to other players, which is also a great way to earn extra gold.
Some good examples of items that can be sold or thrown away are low-level materials that have become obsolete, excess food and potions that will receive new upgraded versions, or old crafting materials that are unlikely to be used in new recipes. Additionally, gear that players have upgraded and no longer use can be placed inside an ornate dresser to save inventory space while preserving the appearance of the gear for aesthetic purposes.
Early Access begins on Friday, June 28, but weekly events won’t reset until the following Tuesday, so you can complete multiple daily and weekly quests to accumulate items and upgrade experience in advance.
With the release of Dawntrail, the current set of Allagan Tomestones used as end-game currency will become obsolete, but until then, it’s not unnecessary to have a sufficient supply.
After Dawntrail’s release, all Allagan Tomestones of Causality and Allagan Tomestones of Comedy can be redeemed for Allagan Tomestones of Poetics, the currency used to get previous chapter end-game rewards. While players can usually only hold up to 2,000 Allagan Tomestones of Poetics at a time, stockpiling Causality and Comedy tomestones allow players to redeem more Poetics tomestones as soon as a new chapter is released, effectively increasing the maximum capacity.
So that’s some of the things you can do to prepare for Dawntrail’s release. So collect as many items as you can for your game upgrades! Hopefully, these preparations will help you get a head start when the game starts.
Digital Theater is a growing field in online games, especially in FFXIV. From Curtain Call Theater to A Stage Reborn, the culture of Digital Theater is growing stronger and stronger. Of course, it is not just FFXIV that is doing it. Fallout 76 is also inviting Wasteland Theater Company and others to participate.
At this stage, FFXIV players have established a relatively complete community, which includes sports events, community festivals, museums, etc., and the most important thing is that there is a theater club covering many performing companies. This is what we call a Digital Theater.
Today, let’s talk to several experts in the FFXIV theater community: Stanzek Rosyasch and Soso, to learn how these virtual companies prepare and rehearse, and how to adapt real stories into the settings of Etheirys.
Recently, a Sherlock Holmes classic, A Scandal in Bohemia (localized in Etheirys as A Scandal in Aldenard), was performed at Firebird Theater in FFXIV. Stanzek Rosyasch plays an assistant named Watson in it. Coincidentally, we’re going to be discussing how they’re going to prepare for the role in a digital theater roundtable.
Interestingly, we entered the chat room in advance. Rosyash entered the chat room, and his first words were: “Sorry, I’m late!” The quiet chat room suddenly erupted in laughter and the atmosphere became lively. He explained that out of respect for everyone’s attention, the chat room is usually very quiet, but this does not mean that it is always so serious. So Rosyasch often acts as the one who makes jokes, and small mistakes will become inside jokes, which will be easier to accept.
When rehearsing, you may have a wire on your head at any time, which will be very stressful. Rosyasch also said that this kind of fun helps to relieve the pressure of rehearsal. For Rosyasch, rehearsals are done on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday afternoons and evenings. However, he also explained that the most important step in balancing the focus of the production and his own work is to group the scenes to be performed. In order to give the actors a place to rest for the night, they may not be performed in the order they will be performed on stage.
Rosyasch also gave an example of sometimes asking what rehearsals involve. Someone would jokingly tell him to wear a skirt, and then on the day of the performance, all the actors would show up wearing the same skirt. This is a bit ridiculous! Besides this vignette, performers can obtain more equipment by trading FFXIV Gil, making their outfit closer to the character.
As for the content of rehearsals, their nature is obviously different from that of real theater rehearsals. Although it is less nervous to face a large audience, it is still much more difficult in other aspects. One of the biggest challenges in FFXIV is cues and timing. In the real world, this kind of drama performance is usually logically understood by the actors and involves a certain element of natural movement in the timing. Performances in Etheirys require super densely choreographed time precision, and there is no logical or natural instruction that can be easily remembered. So let’s throw the next question: what is it based on?
Macros in games allow players to coordinate actions, lines, expressions, and other personalized performances. If performers in Etheirys were to work together like in the real world, the timing would become very tight. Without precise timing, the desynchronization of macros would become more and more serious until the next macro appeared. This is what Soso explained to us. From this, we can see that macros are one of the most important tools for performers in the game.
Ordinary players may use macros when they want to do two actions together, such as Swiftcast and Resurrection. But performers who use macros to achieve three synchronizations of lines, expressions, and actions, Digital Theater also takes the use of macros to a new level.
Each macro can only have 15 lines, and at least half of these 15 lines are used to control expressions. In addition, actors may use some macro instructions to start a countdown so that their actions can be performed correctly. Some echoes are also used to help actors remember their next step or remind them to perform an action outside of the macro.
This means that FFXIV often needs dozens of macros for a full performance. This is also a problem if people leave macros for HUD features or other conveniences for players. A player can use up to 200 macro slots, so this is very limited for performers in FFXIV. Soso emphasized that this is not just a problem for actors, but also for writers to adapt to the limitations of the macrosystem.
Ultimately, rehearsals are about preparing performers to be watched by an audience. Although there is no similarity between this and real-world performances, the rehearsals of FFXIV performers are also a full reflection of their own technical knowledge or skills.
