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Warning: This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the main story of Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail. Four days before Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.2 went live, Square Enix gave players a look at the preliminary patch notes for the Seekers of Eternity update. Along with the expected main story and raid content, the new Final Fantasy 14 update will upgrade the textures of various zones and glamours and add some quality-of-life changes.
Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.2, Seekers of Eternity, will pick up where the Crossroads update left off, as the Warrior of Light and their allies uncover the secrets behind Queen Sphene's sudden return from her supposed demise at the end of Dawntrail. The story will take players to the Underkeep dungeon and the Recollection trial, each heavily influenced by Final Fantasy 9. Along with the ongoing main story quests, Final Fantasy 14 raid squads can challenge the Arcadion's Cruiserweight Tier once Patch 7.2 goes live on Tuesday, March 25. However, Final Fantasy 14 will undergo 24-hour maintenance starting Monday, March 24, at 6:00 AM Eastern.
The Seekers of Eternity update will also add some cosmetic changes for Final Fantasy 14 players to enjoy. Job-specific weapons and armor from A Realm Reborn will get updated textures as part of Dawntrail' s ongoing graphics overhaul. The relic weapons from the Shadowbringers expansion will also receive a second dye channel, giving players more options to customize their favorite appearances. Specific Final Fantasy 14 Online Store glamours, including Lyse's Leadership Attire, will receive two dye channels and a texture makeover. Several older zones in Final Fantasy 14 will also get additional touch-ups, as grass and shadow textures and polygons will be updated. An additional Fantasia potion will be granted to players in Patch 7.2 by speaking to the same Moogle NPC in Gridania that previously distributed a Fantasia.
Final Fantasy 14's upcoming patch will also address a lingering concern. Account ID information will be reset following news of a dangerous mod called PlayerScope that was used to track and harass players by accessing client-side data. Due to the changes, Final Fantasy 14 players' blacklists and mute lists will be affected and will show an error that states that character names are unable to be retrieved from the lists. Players can reorganize their lists to correct any outstanding entries.
The Job changes planned for Patch 7.2, including a nerf to the Pictomancer, will be listed during server maintenance. What further changes and surprises await Final Fantasy 14 players in Seekers of Eternity remains to be seen.
Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.2 Preliminary Notes (March 21, 2025)
Playable Content
Quests
New main scenario quests have been added.
A Glimmer of the Past (requires level 100 Job, starts by speaking to Krile in The Backroom after completing Crossroads)
Seven more quests will be available afterward.
Chronicles of a New Era quests (The Arcadion) have been added.
Souls under Siege (requires level 100 Job, starts by speaking to Yaana in Solution Nine after completing The Neoteric Witch)
Five more quests will be available afterward.
A new sidequest (The Cornservant) has been added.
When Death Comes to Dinner (requires level 100 Job, starts by speaking to The Cornservant in Tuliyollal after completing Dawntrail and Tasteful Memories)
It will now be possible to perform repairs and access weather forecasts while playing New Game Plus.
Treasure Hunt
Rewards for Loboskin Treasure Maps and Br'aaxskin Treasure Maps have been adjusted.
Rewards in Cenote Ja Ja Gural have been adjusted.
Grand and Free Companies
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 125 to 130.
Housing
SSAO can now be disabled for indoor furnishings.
This setting will be applied for all who enter the estate, not just the estate owner.
Adjust this setting via the Interior Settings window by opening the Housing menu while inside your estate hall, then checking or unchecking the "Disable SSAO for furnishings" option.
In accordance with this addition, the Adjust Lighting interface has been renamed Interior Settings.
When changing this setting for a free company estate, you must have "Hall Remodeling" authority. For private estates, you must have "Adding/Removing/Dyeing Furnishings" authority.
A warning message will now display on the screen when entering the garden of an estate scheduled for auto-demolition.
The message will be displayed to private estate owners, and in the case of a free company estate, to all members of the free company.
New furnishings have been added.
Furnishings from the FFXIV Furnishing Design Contest 2022 have been added.
New furnishings inspired by entries that did not win have also been added.
New orchestrion rolls have been added.
New aquarium fish have been added.
A new seed for flowerpots has been added.
Paperflower Seeds
The Manderville Gold Saucer
New prizes are available for purchase using MGP.
New Triple Triad cards and NPC opponents have been added.
Miscellaneous
A new category, Field Operations, has been added to the challenge log.
Following this change, challenges related to the Forbidden Land, Eureka have been moved from the Other category to the Field Operations category.
The Sunken Temple of Qarn and The Underkeep have been added to Duty Support.
The Underkeep and Jeuno: The First Walk have been added to Wondrous Tails
Prizes available in exchange for Khloe's Gold Certificate of Commendation, Khloe's Silver Certificate of Commendation, and Khloe's Bronze Certificate of Commendation have been adjusted.
Duty roulette names, and the requirements for high-level duties to display, have been adjusted.
The Faux Hallows trial has been changed from The Jade Stoa (Unreal) to Hells' Kier (Unreal).
New items are available in exchange for faux leaves.
Jeuno: The First Walk can be recorded via the Duty Recorder.
New Emotes (Daze, Tomescroll, Study) have been added.
Battle System
The following actions can now be cued for execution:
Use (Meal)
Use (Medicine)
Sprint
A new dungeon, the Underkeep, has been added.
Players may enter with Trust or Duty Support NPCs to clear the duty or with explorer mode enabled.
Requires level 100 Job and an average item level of 705 or above.
After beginning a boss encounter in any dungeon introduced prior to Patch 7.0, the shortcut warp will take players to the boss area's entrance.
A new trial, Recollection, has been added.
Requires level 100 Job and an average item level of 715 or above.
Recollection (Extreme) is accessible after completing the main story quests added in Patch 7.2
Recollection (Extreme) requires level 100 Job and an average item level of 730 or above.
The items obtained upon completion can be exchanged for gear by speaking with Uah'shepya in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).
Hells' Kier (Unreal) has been added.
Hells' Kier (Unreal) can only be accessed via the Raid Finder.
Item level restrictions and role requirements do not apply when registering as a full party.
Following the release of Hells' Kier (Unreal), the Jade Stoa (Unreal) is no longer accessible.
Different unreal trials will be available in each major patch.
Requires level 100 Job and an average item level of 690 or above.
The drop rate for the Wings of Ruin and Wings of Resolve has been increased.
They can also be purchased in exchange for totems from Uah'shepya in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).
The Wings of Ruin can be purchased for 99 Skyruin Totems.
The Wings of Resolve can be purchased for 99 Resilient Totems.
The new raid dungeon AAC Cruiserweight Tier has been added.
Requires level 100 Job and an average item level of 715 or above.
Players can queue solo via the Duty Finder after unlocking the raid.
Treasure coffers that appear upon completing AAC Cruiserweight Tier will not yield gear, but instead yield tokens that can be traded for gear of your choosing.
You can only receive one token per match of AAC Cruiserweight Tier each week.
In the event you are awarded a token from the loot list, you relinquish your right to vie for all remaining tokens regardless of whether you selected Need or Greed.
Also note that there is no weekly restriction on entering AAC Cruiserweight Tier. Reward eligibility is reset every Tuesday at 1:00 a.m. PDT (8:00 GMT / 19:00 AEDT)
The items obtained from treasure coffers can be exchanged for gear by speaking with Hhihwi in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.4).
Upon completing AAC Cruiserweight M4, players can also earn a Cruiser Holosaber once per week.
This reward can be exchanged with Hhihwi in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.4) for universal tomestones 2.0, which can in turn be exchanged for weapons.
Reward eligibility is reset every Tuesday at 1:00 a.m. PDT (8:00 GMT / 19:00 AEDT)
The new raid dungeon AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) has been added.
Please be advised that AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) will not be accessible until Tuesday, April 1 at 3:00 a.m. PDT (10:00 GMT / 21:00 AEDT).
The unlock quest, item exchange, and Stone, Sky, Sea will be unavailable until that time.
AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) can only be accessed via the Raid Finder.
Item level restrictions and role requirements do not apply when registering as a full party.
Requires level 100 Job and item levels of 730 to 740 or more. Two or more of the same Job is not permitted.
Upon completing AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) duties, treasure coffers will appear containing Babyface Champion's Coffers.
When used, these items transform into gear corresponding to the user's current job. In addition, the coffers that appear upon completing AAC Cruiserweight M4 (Savage) yield weapons.
Regardless of whether your party contains a player replaying a duty prior to the weekly reset or not, one treasure coffer will appear.
If there are one to four players in your party replaying a duty, the number of treasure coffers appearing upon completion will decrease.
Players will be ineligible for rewards from treasure coffers as well as AAC Illustrated: CW Edition when replaying a duty prior to the weekly reset.
If there are five to seven players in your party replaying a duty, no treasure coffers will appear.
Reward eligibility is reset every Tuesday at 1:00 a.m. PDT (8:00 GMT / 19:00 AEDT)
By selecting "Duty Completion," players will not be matched with those who have already completed the duty.
In addition to gear, players will receive an AAC Illustrated: CW Edition from each area, which can be exchanged for gear of your choosing.
Players will only receive one copy of AAC Illustrated per area each week upon completing said area for the first time.
By speaking with Hhihwi in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.4), players can exchange copies of AAC Illustrated: CW Edition obtained from AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) for rewards.
The following duties have been added to the Raid Finder:
Recollection (Extreme)
Hells' Kier (Unreal)
AAC Cruiserweight M1 (Savage)
AAC Cruiserweight M2 (Savage)
AAC Cruiserweight M3 (Savage)
AAC Cruiserweight M4 (Savage)
When registering to undertake these duties, parties will be matched with one pure healer and one barrier healer.
The following duties have been moved to the Duty Finder:
The Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden
AAC Light-heavyweight M1 (Savage)
AAC Light-heavyweight M2 (Savage)
AAC Light-heavyweight M3 (Savage)
AAC Light-heavyweight M4 (Savage)
Players will now receive the power of the Echo in the event all party members are incapacitated during the following trials:
The Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden
Each time players restart the aforementioned 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 following adjustments have been made to Jeuno: The First Walk:
The weekly restriction on rewards obtained from coffers has been removed.
The weekly restriction on obtaining Ordelle Coins has been removed.
Tattered Sheet Music found in the additional treasure coffer that appears at the end of the alliance raid can now be found in the final treasure coffer designated to each party.
Tattered Sheet Music can now also be found in each party's treasure coffer that appears after each boss.
Bonus experience points received upon completing the following duties in Duty Roulette: Alliance Raids has been increased:
The Labyrinth of the Ancients
The Void Ark
The Weeping City of Mhach
Dun Scaith
The Royal City of Rabanastre
The Ridorana Lighthouse
The Orbonne Monastery
The Copied Factory
The Puppets' Bunker
The Tower at Paradigm's Breach
Aglaia
Euphrosyne
Thaleia
Experience points earned upon defeating bosses in the Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thaleia alliance raids, as well as the experience points earned upon the completion of these duties, has been decreased.
As a result of this adjustment, the experience points earned from these duties should now be more in line with other alliance raids.
When speaking with Uah'shepya in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5), the position of Clouddark Demimateria II in the list of items sold under Sublime Curiosities has been changed.
This adjustment was made to align Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) exchange items.
The following adjustments have been made to Futures Unwritten (Ultimate):
The weekly restriction on obtaining Oracle Totems has been removed.
Item level sync has been set to IL 735.
This adjustment was implemented to preserve the difficulty of the encounter, as well as the rarity of the achievement rewarded for its completion.
Allagan tomestones of mathematics have been added.
Players can only obtain 450 Allagan tomestones of mathematics per week, and carry a maximum of 2,000.
Moreover, players can only receive Allagan tomestones of mathematics after reaching level 100 with at least one Disciple of War or Magic.
The weekly limitation on Allagan tomestones of heliometry has been removed.
All trials and duties where Allagan tomestones of heliometry could be obtained will now offer Allagan tomestones of mathematics instead.
Allagan tomestones of aesthetics are no longer obtainable.
All trials and duties where Allagan tomestones of aesthetics could be obtained will now offer Allagan tomestones of heliometry instead.
Any Allagan tomestones of aesthetics obtained prior to Patch 7.2 will not be lost.
The NPC Auriana in Mor Dhona (X:22.7 Y:6.7) will now give players the option to exchange Allagan tomestones of aesthetics for Allagan tomestones of heliometry.
Allagan tomestones of causality and comedy 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.
Duty Roulette
Duty Roulette: Expert now lists Yuweyawata Field Station and The Underkeep. Duty Roulette: Expert now requires an item level of 705 or above to register.
The Duty Roulette: Level-Cap Dungeons category has been added to the Duty Finder, and contains Alexandria, Tender Valley, and The Strayborough Deadwalk.
Recollection has been added to Duty Roulette: Trials.
Jeuno: The First Walk has been added to Duty Roulette: Alliance Raids
The AAC Cruiserweight duties have been added to Duty Roulette: Normal Raids.
Duty Roulette: Mentor now includes duties introduced in Patch 7.2.
The required average item level to register for Duty Roulette: Mentor has been increased from 695 to 715.
The number and types of Allagan tomestones received from Duty Roulette have been adjusted.
The types of Allagan tomestones received from PvP duties have been adjusted.
The number and types of Allagan tomestones awarded for defeating elite marks have been adjusted.
The number and types of Allagan tomestones awarded for defeating elite marks have been adjusted.
The number and types of Allagan tomestones awarded for defeating elite marks have been adjusted.
The type of Allagan tomestones obtained from Cenote Ja Ja Gural has been changed.
AAC Cruiserweight Duties and Recollection (Extreme) have been added to Stone, Sky, Sea.
Adjustments have been made to the Teratotaur, Temple Guardian, and Adjudicator boss battles in The Sunken Temple of Qarn.
PVP
Series 7 will end and Series 8 will begin.
Series 8 will be held from Patch 7.2 to the release of Patch 7.3, during which time you can earn Series EXP and increase your Series level by participating in any PvP duty.
Increasing your Series level will unlock various Series rewards.
Rewards from Series 7 can only be claimed until the end of Series 8.
To claim rewards, select Series Malmstones from the PvP Profile window, then select Previous Series.
Crystalline Conflict Season Thirteen will end and Season Fourteen will begin.
When the season ends, the top 300 ranking players from the North American, European, and Japanese data centers, and the top 100 ranking players from the Oceanian data center will receive vouchers via the moogle delivery service.
Players finishing in the Bronze tier or higher can claim rewards by speaking with the Seasonal Quartermaster at the Wolves' Den Pier (X:4.9 Y:5.7).
Players will begin Season Fourteen five risers lower than the rank at which they finished Season Thirteen. Rising Stars will be reset to zero.
Season Fourteen will be held on the Meteor, Crystal, Chaos, and Materia data centers.
The tactical crystal's movement speed is no longer increased if it is within a distance from the centerpoint that is less than the opposing team's progress record.
The tactical crystal's movement speed will still increase as usual if you move it within your team's progress record.
The losing team's clear progress speed is no longer increased at checkpoints.
Keybindings for directly targeting opposing players have been added.
Frontline battle high ratings have been adjusted.
The Borderland Ruins (Secure) campaign map has returned.
The Frontline Campaign Info window has been added.
Items
New Items have been added.
New recipes have been added.
The Dyeing interface has been adjusted.
This adjustment is to accommodate the additional dyes due for implementation in Patch 7.21.
Several items now have two dye channels.
The Black-feathered Flat Hat and Red-Feathered Flat Hat can now be equipped regardless of gender.
When creating an outfit glamour, the location in which each individual gear piece was previously stored is now displayed in the log window.
Marks for outfit glamours have been added.
The Outfit Glamour category has been added to Filter Settings.
Neo Kingdom gear can now be purchased in exchange for Sacks of Nuts by speaking to Ryubool Ja in Tuliyollal (X:13.9 Y:13.4).
Certain items can now be sold, desynthesized, and submitted as expert deliveries, or used in materia extraction.
Secondary attributes have been adjusted for the Exquisite Zwill Crossblades and the Exquisite Renaissance Brush.
The description of certain pugilist's arms has been updated to indicate that weapon appearance may take precedence over the display of hand gear.
New miner and botanist gathering points have been added.
New items have been added to gathering points.
The location of certain gathering points in Yak T'el has been adjusted.
An effect now displays when the Collector's Standard and Collector's High Standard statuses are active.
New fishing holes have been added.
Mudfish and Yak T'el Catfish can now be caught using Golden Stonefly Nymph bait.
A feature to batch select required materials by quality has been added to the Crafting Log.
If you lack the sufficient quantity of required materials, only the amount in your possession will be selected.
Level requirements for master crafting recipes have been removed.
The level cap for desynthesis has been increased from 720 to 740.
New mounts, minions, and facewear have been added.
Mounts can now be summoned while moving.
New chocobo barding has been added.
System
Graphical adjustments have been made to player character models based on feedback from the community.
In conjunction with these adjustments, players can obtain a phial of Fantasia from the wandering moogle in Old Gridania (X:10.7 Y:6.4) for a limited period of time.
This reward will be obtainable until the release of Patch 7.3.
Shadow quality has been adjusted.
Multiple light sources are now factored when casting shadows, leading to improved shadow quality for characters and mounts, in group pose, and in certain cutscenes.
Model quality, texture resolution, and material qualities of faces have been improved for certain NPCs.
Texture resolution and material qualities of gear have been improved.
The number of shadows cast in rooms has been increased.
Vegetation in several 3.x to 6.x areas will now be rendered in high resolution.
No changes have been made to the Coerthas Western Highlands, the Rak'tika Greatwood, the Tempest, or Ultima Thule.
The general action Sprint now grants the Jog status once the effect expires.
Jog affords a more modest speed increase but has an unlimited duration. The effect can be manually deactivated, and expires when enmity is generated.
A display option to list actions by function has been added for Disciples of the Hand and Land. The display can be toggled using the buttons at the bottom right of the window.
New actions corresponding to targets marked with different Signs have been added to the General tab.
When multiple targets are marked, using relevant actions will cycle through targets numbered from lowest to highest. Please continue to use macros for targeting specific numbered Signs.
The Duties category has been added. This category includes Duty Action I and Duty Action II.
In order to prevent server congestion, we will be implementing multiple field instances for Solution Nine, Heritage Found, and the areas newly added in Patch 7.2.
New achievements and titles have been added.
New items can now be obtained from quick exploration ventures.
The gil currency symbol now appears next to the amount of gil entrusted shown in the Retainer window.
With the exception of gear, trade items are now displayed in the log window.
Certain online statuses will now also display when "Display class or job icons with nameplate" is selected.
New portrait poses and accents have been added.
The "PvP" category filter accessible via the Edit Portrait window has been split into "PvP Series" and "PvP Seasons."
Group pose depth of field effect has been adjusted. This adjustment will apply to a variety of visual effects.
Values (f/) of 0.5, 0.56, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1, 1.1, and 1.2 have been added to the depth of field slider.
The default value has been changed from f/5.6 to f/2.5.
The range of focal length parameters for manual focus has been increased from 0-100 to 0-400.
New stickers have been added. The Patch Logo frame has been updated with a Patch 7.2 logo
Blacklist
In accordance with measures introduced in Patch 7.2 to help prevent the identification of account IDs that are not displayed in-game, relevant saved client data has been reset.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused and ask for your understanding as we introduce these measures.
Although information registered on the Blacklist has been preserved, characters blacklisted prior to Patch 7.2 will be displayed as "(Character name could not be retrieved.)" and any saved comments will be deleted.
As a result, players will no longer be able to distinguish between characters blacklisted prior to Patch 7.2.
To have blacklisted character names display once more, please consider removing relevant characters from the Blacklist and registering them again. We apologize for the inconvenience.
All information registered on the Mute List has been deleted. Players will be unable to blacklist characters that were registered as contacts prior to Patch 7.2 via their Contact List.
Data Center Travel
Destination Worlds are now listed in a random order.
This adjustment is designed to alleviate system stress caused by players tending to select destination Worlds from the top of the list.
On the Data Center Travel confirmation screen, the cursor is now positioned above the "Proceed" button by default.
Miscellaneous
Additions have been made to the auto-translation dictionary.
Additions have been made to the PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, and Xbox Series X|S auto-complete dictionaries.
New trophies have been added (PlayStation®5). New achievements have been added (Xbox Series X|S).
New music, sound effects, and voices have been added.
The "Now Loading" text displayed while logging in has been removed. This adjustment is to reduce discrepancies between different platforms and languages.
The following additions and adjustments have been made to the launcher:
A portion of the design has been altered.
The name of the "The Lodestone" tab in the menu at the top of the launcher has been changed to "Community."
Selecting the tab will open the Community menu, from which players can access the Lodestone, Event & Party Recruitment, Community Finder, and Blogs.
New backgrounds have been added (Alphinaud, Alisaie, Y'shtola, Urianger, Thancred, and Estinien).
