Month: September 2016

With the servers down for maintenance until tomorrow morning, the development team has given us the full patch notes to go over in anticipation of Patch 3.4, Soul Surrender!

We have new main scenario quests, new Scholasticate and Hildibrand side quests, the final chapter of Alexander, and the second of the Warring Triad, Sophie the Goddess to look forward to as well as many new QoL changes, crafting and gathering updates, and more! Check out the full listing on the Lodestone.

With patch 3.4 a couple of weeks away, we are starting to get new information about the upcoming Main scenario, as well as the two new dungeons, Xelphatol and the Great Gubal Library (Hard).

Patch 3.4: Soul Surrender

After a thousand years of bloodshed and sorrow, the shade of Nidhogg, rage incarnate, fell at last to the Warrior of Light. So it was that the Dragonsong War drew to a close, and the survivors, bloodied but unbowed, could begin to pick up the pieces. A new day dawns in Ishgard, and her champions may rest easy─if only for a moment. For every ending marks a new beginning.

Dungeon: Xelphatol

Forced to flee the Black Shroud for fear of the elementals and their boundless wrath, the Ixal settled the windswept mountains of Xelphatol more than five hundred and fifty years ago. Since that day, they have labored tirelessly to eke out an existence in these harsh and unforgiving lands, slowly but surely expanding their dominion over the entire region. Yet the Ixal have never forgotten that which was once denied them, and so they seek divine intervention once more─to summon Garuda and beseech her strike down their enemies. In the shadow of the First Mountain, the ritual nears completion, as a brave hero once more races against time to deliver the realm from destruction.

Dungeon: The Great Gubal Library (Hard)

Though long-since abandoned by its Sharlayan keepers, the Great Gubal Library does not want for visitants, its halls ever stirring with the voidsent guardians who walk its corridors. With danger at every turn, the fool who dares trespass here would find not wisdom but certain doom. Yet it was not long ago that an intrepid adventurer braved the deepest depths of this forbidding vault of knowledge, returning unscathed and wiser for the experience─a feat of daring that would be sung of the realm over. Mayhap that is why an anonymous individual would beseech that selfsame champion to return in search of long-forgotten knowledge. One can only hope this venture proves yet another enlightening lesson.

Both dungeons have a minimum ilvl requirement of 210. Full details can be found at the Lodestone.