In a post published on the Lodestone, Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida has announced an emergency maintenance will be held on July 3 to implement two pieces of feedback that were covered during the 87th Producer Live Letter.
Specifically, the 4-hour-long maintenance, which is planned to be held from July 2, 2025 11:00 p.m. to July 3, 2025 3:00 a.m. (PDT), will be adding some changes to the Forked Tower duty of Occult Crescent, the Field Exploration that was introduced in Patch 7.25.
Changes to the Forked Tower Entry System
Two changes will be implemented. The first is the ability to enter the Occult Crescent instance with a preformed alliance of up to 48 players. Furthermore, auroral mirages will generate sooner after the Occult Crescent instance has loaded, allowing for players to quickly submit their Ciphers in order to enter the tower.
Initially, these changes were planned to be implemented in August, with the release of Patch 7.3, but according to Yoshi-P, when evaluating the team’s development and QA capacity, he came to the conclusion that releasing some of those systems would be possible to do with minimal effect to their previously planned schedule. The other improvements, such as the ones meant for Cosmic Exploration, will be made on Patch 7.3.
What’s Coming in Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.3
- New Main Scenario Quests
- New Alliance Raid: Echoes of Vana’diel, Part 2: San d’Oria: The Second Walk
- New Dungeon: The Meso Terminal
- New Trial: Includes both Normal and Extreme modes
- New Deep Dungeon: Pilgrim’s Traverse
- New Unreal Trial: The Wreath of Snakes (Unreal): Take on Seiryu, one of the Four Lords, at level 100
- Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures
- New Allied Society Quests: Yok Huy
- New Treasure Dungeon: Vault Oneiron
- Duty Support Additions: Support for the Cutter’s Cry will be added
- Cosmic Exploration: New Planet: Phaenna – A new planet for intrepid crafters and gatherers to explore
- PvP Updates: The start of PvP Series 9, existing action adjustments, new ranked tiers and the addition of a new Crystalline Conflict arena: the Bayside Battleground
- System Updates: New Chat Bubbles feature and improved implementation for the use of hats in player characters of the Viera and Hrothgar races.
- Weapon Enhancements Quests: Phantom Weapons
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail is available now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
