The Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival’s Japan leg kicked off in Tokyo yesterday, bringing with it a emcee of edicts about the upcoming expansion. The keynote by administrator Naoki Yoshida was a welcome FFXIV Shadowbringers Fanfest update; it established a number of rumors that had been kicking around, especially with regards to a new job and a new playable hasten to accompany the highly-anticipated Viera.

The announcement of the Viera earlier this year as a playable scoot inspired a lot of discussion amongst devotees as to what else Yoshida could be delivering to the counter with Shadowbringers. The proclamation of the NieR: Automata collaboration raid was considered an outlandish yet fitting pairing, which merely arguably fostered the bar to its implementation of parish expectations for this next installment in the FFXIV saga.

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The official FFXIV Twitter detail tweeted about the FFXIV Shadowbringers Fanfest updates, listing off the highlights including the newest Dancer job and the introduction of the Hrothgar as a playable race. Alongside those two notices, government officials website for Shadowbringers too lists a number of disclosures from the Fanfest keynote, including brand-new troubles, a brand-new endgame 8-player attack announced Eden involving a spunky new NPC, and a new location for the Warrior of Darkness to explore — Norvrandt.

Our burning questions about how we’d segue from Stormblood to the upcoming stretch were also asked to a certain degree: Yoshida confirmed that the Shadowbringers story would be taking place in an alternate macrocosm of sortings without light epoch, separate from where the story of the game has previously taken place. This realm has been mentioned as The First, and the Warrior of Darkness will be tasked with making symmetry to a world controlled by Light. Our ramshackle of the various FFXIV Shadowbringers Fanfest updates continues below.

As mentioned, the Dancer is the newest responsibility that’s been introduced as one of the purposes of Shadowbringers, and the trailer above from government officials Final Fantasy XIV YouTube paths shows the job off in style. Available when the new swelling lowerings, we know now that the Dancer will be a utility DPS job. Much like the existing Bard, it looks like the Dancer’s kit is going to revolve around buffing collaborators as well as doing wandered damage.

The official promotional photos on the Shadowbringers website show off some neat-looking chakram, so we have some hypothesi of the fluid vogue that the team is trying to achieve now when combined with either the symmetrical weaponskills of the reveal trailer. While it’s unpredictable at this stage whether Dancers will only use chakram or have other artilleries available to them, one thing is clear: it seems incredibly stylish and fantastically fun.

After all the hubbub about there not being any male Viera in the game after the race’s notice, it’s been officially was indicated that the Hrothgar is the next playable scoot. Much like how you’ll be unable to play as a soldier if you want to be a Viera, it looks like you’ll be unable to play as the status of women if it wishes to go a Hrothgar.

Interestingly enough, the appoint “Hrothgar” was firstly brought up when FFXIV was patched last month, with the French version listing off every race in the game as one of the purposes of a kink including both the Viera and who we know now are the lion-maned playable race that will be secreted with Shadowbringers. Not much know anything about them at the present stage, though these leonine reputations gape amazing and we are going to be able likely expect to find out a little more as the stretch describes closer.

Progression thiefs with their sees set on the next large-scale thing will have been pleased that the Shadowbringers high-end raid has now been given a name. Devotees will be able to look forward to Eden, the most recent developments to join the ranks of FFXIV end game content. This raid is apparently going to see facet a woman named Gaia( visualized above ), though not much is currently known about this particular NPC or what she has to do with the Warrior of Darkness at this stage.

However, Yoshida’s keynote approved one improbably interesting fact: the character and boss design for Eden are going to be the product of eminent Kingdom Hearts head Tetsuya Nomura. It’s possible that this collaboration might have something to do with the aesthetic that Gaia is rocking in the promotional idols. So far Shadowbringers searches to be drawing heavily on other Square Enix qualities and the artistics behind them, so it’s possible that Taro and Nomura could be only the tip of the iceberg here.

Yoshida’s keynote also uncovered what would be the latest material centre for the swelling. Shadowbringers and its passage to The First will also take participates to the city of The Crystarium, which will be the Warrior of Darkness’ base of operations as you are trying to impart poise to the realm. This is a 180 -degree change from the rocky field of Rhalgr’s Reach with its intricate pattern and the bustling township feel. Exploring it should prove to be interesting, but those missing a bit callback to Heavensward might very well also enjoy the other municipality that was razzed: Eulmore.

Eulmore is somewhat of a different devil when it comes to the hub of The Crystarium. Described during the course of its keynote as a locate designed for people to live as large as possible before the end of the world as they knew it, it’s both a locate of prodigious excess and what appears to be incredible inequality. Much like Ishgard’s issues with corruption, it looks like the upper specific areas of Eulmore have a hugely different life to those living below, which will be an interesting parallel to experience in person.

For those involving a bit more to sharpen their passion for Shadowbringers, Fanfest likewise delivered in the form of an updated full trailer for the stretch. While most of the material is substance that we’ve already been previously exposed to, this latest trailer showcases the Crystarium and a romp Viera, bringing the latest FFXIV Shadowbringers Fanfest announcements full circle with the footage that’s been shown off to the community to date. With FFXIV Patch 4.56 to look forward to very soon, the motors are in motion for this next chapter in the game’s long-running narration, and we’re definitely chomping at the fragment to experience the Warrior of Darkness forging new paths.

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