Final Fantasy XIV Patch Notes 6.25: Hildibrand and Unsteady Vault are coming today

Final Fantasy XIV is bringing patch 6.25 with its new content today. You can find out how to unlock the new quests and dungeons here.

This is the situation: Today, October 18th, the new update 6.25 goes online in FFXIV. It brings a whole range of new content, which is why there is a 4-hour maintenance on the servers beforehand.

The patch has now been applied and you can download it to get started right after maintenance ends.

How long does the maintenance last? According to the official announcement, the server maintenance should end today at 12:00 noon. In the past, however, it has often happened that maintenance work was completed earlier than planned. If that is also the case with update 6.25, we will share it in this article.

Hildibrand’s return

This is one of the pre-quests for the new “Relic Weapons”, this time called “Manderville Weapons”. Your unlock is tied to the entire Hildibrand questline.

How to unlock the quest:

• Name of the starting quest: Attack of the aliens
• Contract NPC: Nashu Mhakaracca
• locality: Radz at Han (X:11.8 Y:11.2)
• Requirements: A level 90 combat or mage job. Completion of the previous Hildibrand quests “A Man of Honor Awakens Desire”

Manderville weapons

This traditional type of weapon is unlocked through a quest and upgraded and improved over the course of an addon. At the end of the addon, this temporarily makes them the most powerful weapons in the game.

How to unlock the quest:

• Name of the starting quest: Make a Manderville play out of it
• Contract NPC: Still unknown
• locality: Still unknown
• Requirements: A level 90 combat or mage job. Completed the previous Hildibrand quests, Copy of an Inimitable.

The tribe of the Omicron

The tribe are new dailies, of which you can do 3 pieces per day (6 if you manage to do the first batch before the reset today at 5:00 p.m.). For the Omicron, you do the daily quests with your collector classes. By the way, they offer a lot of EXP for your collectors if they are not yet at level 90.

How to unlock the quest:

• Name of the starting quest: The seed of peace
• Contract NPC: jamming way
• locality: Ultimate Thule (X:25.4 Y:26.3)
• Requirements: A level 80 Collector. Complete the Stigma Holometry dungeon quest.

Unsteady Vault: The undercity of Sil’dih

The new dungeon is designed for 1 to 4 players and offers variety compared to the usual dungeons in FFXIV. You access the content via the new “Vault Visits” in your main menu, under Game Content.

How to unlock the quest:

• Name of the starting quest: A key to the past
• Contract NPC: Shallow bog
• locality: Old Sharlayan (X:12.0 Y:13.3)
• item level: 575
• Requirements: A level 90 combat or mage job. Completed the quest “Under Protecting Wings”. Then speak to Osmon in Old Sharlayan (X:11.9 Y:13.3).

The dungeon seems to be a mixture of the Underworld and content like Bozja and Eureka. On the one hand, there are no restrictions on the composition of the group. You can go in with 4 tanks or 3 healers and a DD.

On the other hand, there are special commands that are exclusive to the dungeon. They’re called “Flip Commands” and have effects normally reserved for other jobs. This includes healing and reviving fellow players. You can put together two different sets with up to 5 commands.

The curious undercity of Sil’dih

The Curious Undercity is a harder version of the Unsteady Vault. It is designed for 4 players who have to form a group of 1x tank, 1x healer and 2x DDs. Depending on the composition of the group and the commands, there is a bonus for the players on their damage.

How to unlock the quest:

• Contract NPC: Osmon
• locality: Old Sharlayan (X:11.9 Y:13.3)
• item level: 610
• Requirements: A level 90 combat or mage job. Completed the quest “A Key to the Past”.
• Exchange of loot: Trisassant in Old Sharlayan (X:11.9 Y:13.3)

The revival in the content is limited. Each contestant gains access to the Revive II command, which can only be used once and then reactivates after a certain amount of time. All other revive effects are ineffective.

The Curious Undercity of Sil’dih (Epic)

Players looking for a special challenge will find it in the epic version of the Undercity. It can only be entered by an existing group of players, and the tank healer DD rules apply here as well.

How to unlock the quest:

• Contract NPC: Osmon
• locality: Old Sharlayan (X:11.9 Y:13.3)
• item level: 610
• Requirements: A level 90 combat or mage job. Complete the curious undercity of Sil’dih.
• Exchange of loot: Trisassant in Old Sharlayan (X:11.9 Y:13.3)

Basically, the same rules apply here as in the normal version, but with the difference that no unsteady commands can be used here. Death is punished more severely here.

• There is no revival
• Dead characters cannot return to the beginning of the dungeon and stand up
• A group wipe resets the dungeon
• If a character disconnects or loses connection to the game during content, it is also considered a death.

If the party fails to complete the dungeon within a certain amount of time, the enemies in it will receive a boost. The damage you deal is greatly increased and the damage you take is reduced.

Miscellaneous

• Added new furniture from the design contest.
• A new emote has been added.
• A new outfit has been added
• New mounts have been added
• New companions have been added
• New fashion accessories have been added
• Increased the power of transcending in Pandæmonium – Asphodelos (Epic) to 15%.
• Players targeted by the Paladin PvP command “Guardian” do not have the effect “If the target interacts with an object, the command has no effect.” when interacting with an object in their possession.
• New crafting recipes have been added
• New gathering points have been added and new items can be found at old gathering points
• New fishing spots have been added and new fish can be caught at old fishing spots.
• Elegeia Fishing Spot name changed to Ea Domicile
• The Well of Regrets and Dome of Ea fishing spots in Ultima Thule have been lowered from level 90 to level 84. The yellowed Ophiotaur Hide Treasure Map can no longer be found there.
• New achievements and titles have been added.
• New decorations have been added to the Adventurer’s Passport and Portrait.
• If the home world has not been visited for a long time after a world transfer or data center trip, a recommendation to return to the home world will be displayed.
• New trophies have been added. (Only in the PlayStation®5 version)
• Added new background music and sound effects.

How do you like the patch? Are you going to start today right after the end of the maintenance or do you have “never play on patch day”? Tell us in the comments.

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