On November 11, Final Fantasy 14 released Patch 7.38 on all supported platforms, which brought some bug fixes and removed loot restrictions for the Arcadion AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) raids. Final Fantasy 14 players can also collect a new poster for their virtual homes, featuring key art from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, in Patch 7.38.
The 7.38 content update arrives amid a rough time for Final Fantasy 14. Since November 3, Final Fantasy 14 has been the target of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on its North American servers, as players on the Aether, Primal, Crystal, and Dynamis data centers have experienced disconnections from the game without warning. Though the outages have been brief, Final Fantasy 14 players have reported lost progress on the Pilgrim's Traverse deep dungeon and similar activities due to the frequency of the DDoS attacks. Other servers in Europe, Japan, and Oceania have been unaffected by these DDoS attacks so far.
Final Fantasy 14 Will Bring Back Some Unobtainable Rewards
Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida confirms that some previously unobtainable rewards will come back for more players to earn.
Despite the ongoing DDoS attacks on the North American data centers, Final Fantasy 14 has released a small content patch for players to download. Final Fantasy 14's 7.38 update has removed the weekly limit on loot from the AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) raid series, which will allow raid teams to farm as much gear and items from the current Arcadion raid tier as they wish. Players may also skip across the AAC Cruiserweight Tier without having to clear each fight in sequence. This includes players skipping the tier to face Howling Blade, the AAC Cruiserweight Champion. Additionally, players looking to upgrade a Historia weapon will have a new method of doing so, as one Ordelle Coin and one Montiont Coin can now be exchanged together for an Evercharged Ester.
The Ordelle and Montiont Coins can be obtained by clearing the Echoes of Vana'diel alliance raids, making the Evercharged Ester upgrade item accessible to players who don't participate in Savage raid content. Additionally, a new housing item is available for players to collect in Patch 7.38, as the Legends of Ivalice poster can now drop from loot chests in the Return to Ivalice alliance raids. The poster features key art from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, which was largely developed by Creative Studio 3.
Some bugs that affected features like Pilgrim's Traverse and Cosmic Exploration were addressed with the November 11 update. Final Fantasy 14's 7.38 content patch will be the only update released in November, as Square Enix turns its attention to the December 16 launch of Patch 7.4, Into the Mist.
Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.38 Notes (November 11, 2025)
Patch 7.38 removes the weekly limitations on AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage).
Housing
New furnishings have been added.
- Legends of Ivalice (wall-mounted poster)
- Obtained from shared treasure coffers that appear upon completion of the Royal City of Rabanastre, the Ridorana Lighthouse, and the Orbonne Monastery.
Battle System
The weekly restriction on receiving Cruiser Holosabers from AAC Cruiserweight M4 has been removed.
The following adjustments have been made to AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage):
- Treasure coffers will now always appear, with no reduction of rewards, regardless of whether any party members have previously cleared the area.
- The weekly restriction on rewards obtained from treasure coffers has been removed.
- The weekly entrance restriction has been removed.
- Players may now proceed directly to any area.
The item required to enhance weapons purchased with Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics, Evercharged Ester, can be purchased from the following vendor:
- Uah'shepya, Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5) for one Ordelle Coin and Montiont Coin apiece
- After acquiring the items to enhance your equipment from Uah'shepya, speak with Theone in Solution Nine (X:8.5 Y:13.6) and exchange them for gear of your choice.
Resolved Issues
- An issue when using pomanders of steel in Pilgrim's Traverse wherein the status Vulnerability Down was overridden and nullified when enemies inflicted the status Vulnerability Up.
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An issue wherein the statuses Light Vengeance and Dark Vengeance, which are granted by moving over certain floor sections in the area marked by stone 99 of Pilgrim's Traverse, the Final Verse, and the Final Verse (Quantum), were not granted to players experiencing lag or other network issues.
- * We have implemented measures to reduce the impact of network issues on these duties, and will continue to make improvements in the future.
- An issue with the Final Verse and the Final Verse (Quantum) wherein players were not removed from the duty when the timer ran out.
- An issue with the Final Verse (Quantum) wherein, under certain conditions, the draw-in effect of the boss action Bounds of Sin did not function correctly.
- An issue when using the Party Finder to recruit for the Final Verse wherein players were unable to participate when conditions were set to Duty Complete, despite having already completed Pilgrim's Traverse.
- An issue when using the Party Finder to recruit for the Final Verse (Quantum) wherein players were unable to participate when conditions were set to Duty Complete, despite having already completed the duty.
- An issue when playing cosmic exploration wherein the fish obtained from certain fishing stellar missions on Phaenna were incorrect.
- Other minor text issues have also been addressed.
- Other various issues have also been addressed.
- Released
- August 27, 2013
- ESRB
- T for Teen - Language, Mild Blood, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- Square Enix
- Engine
- Originally the Crystal Tools engine, but currently it's a custom engine using parts of the Luminous Engine.
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- Genre(s)
- MMORPG
