Patch 6.5

Patch 6.5

"Growing Light"

Expansion

Endwalker

Release Date

6.5 - 3 October 2023
6.51 - 30 October 2023
6.55 - 16 January 2024
6.57 - 12 February 2024
6.58 - 19 March 2024

Promo Page

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Patch Notes

6.5 6.51 6.55 6.57 6.58

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Introduction

Patch 6.5: Growing Light is the fifth and final major content update introduced for Endwalker.

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Here’s the patch schedule in tandem with our global Fan Festival schedule.
Patch 6.5 and Part 1 of the main scenario will be released after the North American Fan Festival.
Patch 6.51 will be released in late October after the European Fan Festival.
Patch 6.55 and Part 2 of the main scenario will be released in mid-January 2024 after the Japanese Fan Festival.

— Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXVIII (08/14/2023)

Notable Features, Additions, and Changes

New Content

• Main Story: Growing Light: Part 1 (7 quests), Part 2 (3 quests) (6.55)
• Side Story: Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures (2 quests) (6.55)
• Side Story: Tataru's Grand Endeavor (2 quests) (6.55)
• Tribal Quests: Endwalker Tribal Alliance Quests (2 quests) (6.55)
• Alliance Raid:  Thaleia, the third and final part of the Myths of the Realm story and raid series
• Dungeon:  The Lunar Subterrane
• Variant Dungeon:  Aloalo Island (6.51)
• Criterion Dungeons:  Another Aloalo Island,  Another Aloalo Island (Savage) (6.51)
• Trials
  •  The Abyssal Fracture,  The Abyssal Fracture (Extreme)
  •  The Gilded Araya (6.55)
• Faux Hollows:  The Singularity Reactor (Unreal)
• Manderville Weapons final stage (6.55)
• DoH/DoL Splendorous Tools final stage (6.51)
• PvP:  The Red Sands (Crystalline Conflict arena) (6.51)

System Changes and Additions

• Main Scenario improvements
  • Duty Support for  The Drowned City of Skalla,  The Burn, and  The Ghimlyt Dark.
• Custom Deliveries: Margrat
• Gold Saucer update: Fall Guys collaboration (6.51)
• Island Sanctuary update
• Free Trial expanded to include Stormblood (Lv. 70 content)
• Xbox Series X|S open beta (begins 21 February 2024)
• Cloud Data Center test (21-27 November 2023)
  • East Coast North America
  • Newly created characters only, no transfers, backup configuration settings disabled.
  • Characters will be granted  50,000,000 gil, Tales of Adventure, and all jobs through Shadowbringers.
  • All character data will be deleted at the end of the test.

Miscellaneous

• Item Level restrictions for the  Duty Roulette: Alliance Raids, to increase its diversity.
  • EXP and Allagan Tomestones rewards for each alliance raid adjusted according to difficulty and time required for completion.
• IL sync added for  The Final Day
• Existing Hairstyles enabled:   Modern Aesthetics - Lexen-tails and   Modern Aesthetics - Form and Function for Viera, and   Modern Aesthetics - Styled for Hire and a new default style for Hrothgar
• Gender-lock removed from Omega-M Attire and Omega-F Attire

Note: Not all content listed here will launch on the same day. This article is about the 6.5x season as a whole.