Final Fantasy XIV players will be pleased to know that the game's next expansion, Stormblood, will be released on June 20, 2017. Pre-orders for Stormblood will start on January 24th with the Collector's Edition featuring a Syldra mount, a Barts minion from Final Fantasy XV and the Chicken Knight for Red Mages. The announcements came during this weekend's Fanfest currently ongoing in Japan.
Other pieces of information:
- Red Mages are ranged magic damage dealers and uses a rapier with a crystal medium
- Red Mages use White and Black magic
- Red Mages begin at level 50
- Nobuo Uematsu will be composing the main Stormblood theme
- The Bend of Time - Omega, Return to Ivalice are new top end raids
- diving and swimming will come in Stormblood but will be limited to only certain areas of the game and there is no water combat
- Anata is a new Beast Tribe that are Snake Women and worship Lakshmi, Lady of Bliss
- new jobs will be discussed at a later time
- the level cap will increase to 70
- the battle system has been reworked
- the Skill System is being overhauled
- new areas and primals
- Stormblood is considered a stand-alone title with an entire game's worth of content
- new dungeons with new tactics and concepts
- new Alliance raids
- inventory expansion
- a new residential area
Check out the Final Fantasy XIV Reddit for more details.
