Dawntrail Diary: The Runup To Patch 7.2

Creative Studio III deployed Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 7.18 Tuesday morning marking we are probably a little less than 4 weeks away from the release of the next major point patch. As usual Yoshi-P is releasing a stream of content and events before the patch to get everyone ready for the next major drop which I think will fall on 25 March. Instead of looking back on the boring grinding I've done since my last diary post, I'd look ahead at what I plan on doing for the next month.

Moogle Treasure Trove - The event that is the harbinger of a major patch, the Moogle Treasure Trove event gets everyone out into the world collecting tomestones for prizes. Some of the prizes quite frankly are a pain to obtain the regular way in the game, so the Moogle Treasure Trove event is popular for those looking to cut corners.

I think for me the prize most tempting is the Magicked Bed followed by any Triple Triad cards I don't already have. The Magicked Bed is a craftable mount so I may take up the challenge to create a mount instead. If so, I might just pick up the Ancient One minion instead of repeatedly running through Anamnesis Anyder waiting for it to drop.

The Moogle Treasure Trove runs from now until the launch of patch 7.2.

Little Ladies Day - The event celebrates the Shinto holiday of Hinamatsuri. While running through the event usually doesn't take very long, I do look forward to what the devs have cooked up every year. Unlike some games, the event is fresh from year to year. This year's reward, a seneschal's outfit, looks pretty good too.

The event, the 14th in the series, even has some lore.

Legend of the Lost Lady

Three centuries past, the plucky princess Edvya, tired of being sequestered within palace walls by her overprotective father—the sultan Baldric Thorne—exchanged garb with a miller girl and wandered off into town in search of adventure.

Upon learning of his daughter's disappearance, the sultan was stricken with panic. He summoned the palace guard, ordering them to tear the city apart to see that no harm befell his precious princess—and tear the city apart they did. The poor miller whose daughter assisted the princess in her escape saw his house nigh ripped from the ground, while the family was threatened with imprisonment and worse.

To the good fortune of all, Princess Edvya was soon found just outside the palace walls, and was quick to reveal the truth of recent events. Racked with guilt, the sultan had the miller's house rebuilt by his most skilled craftsmen, and offered to personally serve as seneschal to the miller girl for a day to atone.

Rumors of this unforeseen display of humility were quick to spread through Ul'dah. So well received were they, in fact, that the sultan declared one day from each solar year on which he would select, via lots, a common girl from the city and serve as her personal seneschal, as he had done with the miller's daughter.

Catch-up mechanics - For those involved in raiding, restrictions have been lifted to allow those behind on completing the 8-character content a chance to catch up. Those running AAC Light-heavyweight M4 no longer will no longer face a restriction on the number of Light-heavy Holoblades they can receive each week. Those running AAC Light-heavyweight M4 (Savage) will see the following improvements.

• 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.

PvP Tournaments? - Yes, although FFXIV is not known for its PvP gameplay, Square Enix is holding PvP tournaments in Europe and North America, although the action won't begin in NA until after the launch of patch 7.2.

Finishing the Role Quests - Moving on to my own personal gameplay, I only need to level Dragoon to 100 to finish the last set of role quests. I have to say I really enjoyed the role quests for Endwalker. Honestly, the role quests and the master role quests were the end of the story in a way the first three expansion point patches usually are. I've never taken advantage of New Game+ before, but I may to relive the role quests.

One unexpected development is if I need to make sure I level 5 jobs to end game each expansion, that's five times the crafting and gathering required to keep myself equipped properly. Which, in the grand scheme of things, isn't really a problem.

Wachumeqimeqi Deliveries - After all my talk about the crafting and gathering feature, I still have one quest remaining: Appreciated Value. And while I did link to the page, I didn't read the text as to not spoil the end of the story. But I got so caught up in doing the hard thing (levelling characters up to 100) that I haven't completed the final task at hand.

Hildibrand Adventures - Yes,  the Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures Quests was introduced in patch 7.15. And yes, the first quest is most likely just an introduction. But I made up a cosplay because my character looks she could be Nashu's sister.

Gearing up my crafting and gathering - Yes, I haven't crafted the latest set of crafting and gathering gear. While I've done the role quest grind, I haven't really needed the advanced abilities. But I have all the materials to craft everything so I just need to carve out a week to do so. I've got four weeks until patch 7.2, right?