Tomorrow morning, Final Fantasy XIV players will be able to start moving through Stormblood, exploring new areas, leveling the new jobs, clearing new quests, and so forth. As a result, the enormous patch notes for the expansion are now here, and reading through all of them will take a while. Even when you include the fact that the simply massive number of new items added into the game means that you won’t be sitting through that list.
Stormblood is adding the new class start quests for the Samurai and Red Mage jobs to the city of Ul’dah. So if you’re logged out there, you get a head start. As usual, players must progress through previous story missions to access the new 4.0 content, so get grinding folks. A lot of big changes are coming to FF 14, far too many to summarize here, so check out the patch notes. Big class skill changes and the removal of attribute points have simplified the jobs system in the game overall. So if you’ve been scared about Final Fantasy XIV being too difficult, it just got easier than ever to get into.
Here are the details of the start quest itself for Stormblood:
- Disciple of War or Magic level 60
- The Rising Stones (X:6.0 Y:5.9)
- Alphinaud
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate.”
4.0 brings massive changes to the in-game world with the edition of new field areas, as well a revamp of the Aetheryte system and Tomestones. Now, all Tomestones can be exchanged for a single general purpose one.
New job quests have also been added for the various other disciplines in the game, here’s a rundown.
Paladin
Tournament of the Century
- Paladin level 60
- Ul’dah – Steps of Thal (X:10.8 Y:11.1)
- Jenlyns
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “This Little Sword of Mine.”
Warrior
Curious Gorge Meets His Match
- Warrior level 60
- Eastern La Noscea (X:30.6 Y:22.9)
- Curious Gorge
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “And My Axe.”
Dark Knight
In Memories We Walked
- Dark Knight level 60
- Foundation (X:13.3 Y:12.0)
- Sidurgu
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “Absolution.”
Monk
A Fistful of Resolve
- Monk level 60
- Ul’dah – Steps of Thal (X:10.6 Y:13.1)
- Erik
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “Appetite for Destruction.”
Dragoon
Friends Through Eternity
- Dragoon level 60
- Coerthas Central Highlands (X:25.8, Y:28.3)
- Alberic
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “Dragoon’s Fate.”
Ninja
Search for the Stolen Scroll
- Ninja level 60
- Eastern La Noscea (X:20.8 Y:26.6)
- Oboro
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “In Her Defense.”
Bard
Three’s a Company
- Bard level 60
- South Shroud (X:21.8 Y:21.3)
- Jehantel
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “The Ballad of Oblivion.”
Machinist
The Machinists’ Choice
- Machinist level 60
- Foundation (X:8.1 Y:10.1)
- Stephanivien
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “Rise of the Machinists.”
Black Mage
Shades of Shatotto
- Black Mage level 60
- Ul’dah – Steps of Thal (X:12.9 Y:13.5)
- Lalai
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “The Defiant Ones.”
Summoner
A Book with Bite
- Summoner level 60
- Old Gridania (X:10.9 Y:6.3)
- Y’mhitra
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “A Flare for the Dramatic.”
White Mage
Unease in East End
- White Mage level 60
- South Shroud (X:18.6 Y:27.1)
- Raya-O-Senna
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “Hands of Healing.”
Scholar
The Vanishing Act
- Scholar level 60
- Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks (X:11.1 Y:6.2)
- Alka Zolka
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “Forward, the Royal Marines.”
Astrologian
East Meets West
- Astrologian level 60
- The Pillars (X:15.2 Y:10.0)
- Jannequinard
- Players must first complete the main scenario quest “The Far Edge of Fate” and the quest “The Hands of Fate.”