The Crossroads Patch is Releasing to Final Fantasy XIV Sometime this November

Square Enix announced that the next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is set to be released sometime in mid-November 2024. Patch 7.1, which is titled as "Crossroads," is the first major patch to come out after the release of the Dawntrail expansion.

This announcement was made by none other than Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida during the latest Letter from the Producer LIVE broadcast streamed from Tokyo Game Show 2024. In addition to the reveal of the upcoming patch, Yoshida also shared some of the additions. An archived stream of this announcement is available though it's in Japanese audio only. You can watch it here.

The highlight of the patch is the introduction of the crossover alliance raid with Final Fantasy XI. It's called as the "Echoes of Vana’diel" and features a 24-player battle content which marks the start of the new alliance raid series. This is an adventure that invites players to a different world. There's also going to be different high-level battle content of varying difficulty added through the new patch. This includes the high-difficulty 24-player alliance raid which is "The Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic)."

That said, here's some of what's arriving in Patch 7.1:

New Main Scenario Quests

New Dungeon – Yuweyawata Field Station

New 24-Player Alliance Raid Series – Echoes of Vana'diel

New Trial – The Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene's Burden

New Unreal Trial – The Jade Stoa (Unreal): Face off against Byakko, one of the Four Lords, at level 100

Chaotic Alliance Raid – The Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic): A new 24-player, high-difficulty raid

New Ultimate Raid – Futures Rewritten (Ultimate)

New Allied Society Quests – Players can now join in new allied society quests for the Pelupelu that are designed for battle classes and jobs

A New Custom Delivery Client – Nitowikwe

Additional Role & Wachumeqimeqi Quests – A new role quest story will become available after completing all Dawntrail role quests, similarly a new Wachumeqimeqi story will become available when completing all of those associated quests