Final Fantasy 14 Reveals Preliminary 7.3 Update Patch Notes

Beginning on August 5, the MMORPG “Final Fantasy 14” is set to release Patch 7.3, titled “The Promise of Tomorrow.” According to the preliminary notes for this update, the final act of the “Dawntrail” expansion will unfold over a series of ten quests. Additionally, players can expect various aesthetic enhancements to become available starting from next week.

In the upcoming 7.3 update for Final Fantasy 14, the Dawntrail expansion story will reach its conclusion, providing players with hints about future developments. During the 88th Letter From the Producer LIVE broadcast, the game’s producer and director Naoki Yoshida revealed that the main features of Patch 7.3 would be distributed across multiple updates, with the first one offering the most significant content. The August 5 content update will also introduce the second alliance raid in the Echoes of Vana’diel series, called San d’Oria: The Second Walk, a new Crystalline Conflict PvP map, and the Vault Oneiron treasure dungeon.

As for now, specifics about the central narrative of Patch 7.3 are still under wraps. However, on August 5, Final Fantasy 14 has given us a substantial preview of what’s to come. Based on the Lodestone announcement, the main story of 7.3 will unfold in Solution Nine, commencing with the quest “Targeted Tragedy” and continuing for nine more quests. Players eager to participate in the San d’Oria alliance raid should converse with a Landsguard Messenger in Tuliyollal upon completing Jeuno: The First Walk, to undertake the quest “Dreams of Paradise.

In Patch 7.3, you’ll have more options to customize your character with additional elements such as hairstyles and glamour accessories. These can be obtained through different means, including the Manderville Gold Saucer and the newly introduced Vault Oneiron treasure dungeon. Moreover, a variety of headgear items suitable for Viera and Hrothgar characters will be accessible in this update for the first time.

In the upcoming patch 7.3 for Final Fantasy 14, I, as a gamer, am excited about the revamped textures on several weapons and armor pieces from expansions like Stormblood and Endwalker. My character model will also undergo some changes as part of Dawntrail’s ongoing visual enhancements. Plus, there’s a free Fantasia potion coming to Old Gridania, and if I haven’t claimed the one from Patch 7.2 yet, I have until server maintenance on Monday, August 4, at 9:00 PM Eastern. And here’s some good news for those who missed the last free Fantasia – you can stack them! So, get ready to customize your character with the new updates from Patch 7.2 and 7.3.

Players of Final Fantasy 14 who are eagerly anticipating job balance adjustments will have to hold their horses a bit longer, as these changes will be unveiled in the comprehensive patch notes scheduled for August 4 during server maintenance. We’ll just have to see how players react to Patch 7.3 when it arrives.

Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.3 Preliminary Notes (August 1, 2025)

With much excitement, we’re sharing the early details about Update 7.3─A Glimpse into the Future.

This way, the original meaning remains intact while sounding more conversational and approachable to the reader.

* Additional features will be implemented in future updates:

Upcoming Space Expeditions and Gear Upgrades – New space tools will be available with Patch 7.31.

In the upcoming Patch 7.35, we’re looking forward to introducing Yok Huy Society missions, challenging deep dungeons, and additional sidequests from the Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures.

* Updated August 1, 2025 at 5:30 a.m. (PDT)

Quests

New main scenario quests have been added.

First quest: “Targeted Tragedy”

Chronicles of a New Era (Echoes of Vana’diel) quests have been added.

First quest: “Dreams of Paradise”

Tutorials have been added to quests with certain objectives.

When proceeding through quests with objectives such as transporting special objects or escorting NPCs, a window with supplementary information on the quest objective will now be displayed. This window will display automatically the first time such objectives are encountered. These explanations can be reviewed again at any time by selecting the “?” icon in the Duty List or the link in the chat log.

A Phoenix Down reward has been added to the main scenario quest “Call of the Sea.”

New chapters have been added to New Game+.

The final quest of each chapter must be completed before it can be unlocked.

FATEs

You can acquire new items by trading bicolor gemstones with the Gemstone Trader NPC, Kajeel Ja, located in Tuliyollal.

Treasure Hunt

Gargantuaskin Treasure Maps have been added.

Treasure hunts using Gargantuaskin Treasure Maps are exclusive to the Living Memory. While rewards from the treasure chests unearthed using this map are the same as Br’aaxskin Treasure Maps, only Gargantuaskin Treasure Maps will grant entry to Vault Oneiron.
Rewards for Loboskin Treasure Maps and Br’aaxskin Treasure Maps have been adjusted.
Vault Oneiron has been added.
- Vault Oneiron, a special instance similar to the Cenote Ja Ja Gural, is a new type of treasure dungeon accessed after finding and opening treasure coffers obtained from Gargantuaskin Treasure Maps.
- Upon entering the instance, players will find a hypnoslot machine that must be used to perform an invocation. Doing so will cause three outrunner screens to cycle through images, summoning different creatures to serve as a trial depending on where they stop. There is also a chance the invocation may end with your prompt removal from the vault.
- A treasure chest will appear upon defeating the enemies summoned. Only the player who opened the teleportation portal can access it.
- The duty will end if any of the following conditions are met: Five trials are passed and the duty is completed, the outrunners stop on spaces that remove the party from the duty, or all party members are KO’d.

Grand and Free Companies

New areas, items, and ranks have been added to subaquatic voyages.

Housing

Furnishings from the FFXIV Furnishing Design Contest have been added.

New orchestrion rolls, aquarium fish, and a seed for flowerpots have been added.

The Manderville Gold Saucer

New prizes are available for purchase using MGP.

The following additions have been made to Triple Triad:

New cards have been added.
New NPC opponents for Triple Triad have been added.

The following character voices have been added to Doman mahjong:

Wuk Lamat
Koana
Bakool Ja Ja

After finishing the sidequest titled “Every Little Thing She Does Is Mahjong” and the main story quest “Heavensward,” visit Dibourdier at Gold Saucer (coordinates X:7.1 Y:7.8) to trade MGP points for items that will unlock a specific character’s voice. Characters’ voices added in Patch 7.3 can be accessed by moving forward with the main storyline.

The layout of the Mahjong tab of the Gold Saucer menu has been adjusted.

Miscellaneous

Duty Support has been added for the following duties:

A Realm Reborn

Cutter’s Cry

Dawntrail

The Meso Terminal
???

The following additions and adjustments have been made to Wondrous Tails:

New prizes are available in exchange for Khloe’s Silver Certificate of Commendation.
Timeworn Br’aaxskin Maps will be replaced with Timeworn Gargantuaskin Maps as an available reward for completing 9 duties in a Wondrous Tails journal.
The following duties have been added as objectives for Wondrous Tails:
- The Meso Terminal
- AAC Cruiserweight M1 or M2
- AAC Cruiserweight M3 or M4
- Vault Oneiron
The following raids have been grouped together into raid series categories: Asphodelos, First to Fourth Circles
Wondrous Tails now features a list of applicable duties for each objective.
- A new subcommand, Open Duty or Category, is now available when moving your cursor over objectives in the Wondrous Tails. Furthermore, selecting duties from this list will allow you to proceed directly to the Duty Finder.

A new Faux Hallows trail is now available: The Wreath of Snakes (Unreal)

In the Island Sanctuary interface, a new “Maximize Duration” button is now available within the Granaries window. This button determines the highest number of days that can be explored in each of the two designated areas.

New hairstyle options have been added for Viera and Hrothgar.

Bangs will now be displayed when wearing headgear such as hoods, which previously hid them.

A large number of headgear items will now display when worn by Viera and Hrothgar.

Certain headgear items now allow Viera to toggle the display of their ears.

Select the “Adjust headgear settings.” button below your character preview in the Character or Fitting Room windows, then ensure the option “Show ears through headgear (select gear only).” is checked. * The option “Adjust headgear settings” is only available when playing as a Viera. Otherwise, it will appear as “Manually adjust visor.”

In simpler terms, when you press keys on a clarinet, the time it takes for the music to start playing has become shorter.

New emotes have been added.

Now, you can employ various emotes even when you’re seated on the ground, and we’ve made some adjustments to certain emote animations for a more seamless experience when sitting down.

Battle System

Descriptions of certain actions and status effects have been adjusted.

The following additions and adjustments have been made to Phoenix Down:

Can now be used on players outside of your party.
Can now be used in combat in public areas.
Can now be used in combat while undertaking certain types of duties:
- Instanced Dungeons
- Guildleves
- 4-player Trials
- Treasure Dungeons
- Deep Dungeons
- Field Operations
- Variant Dungeons
  - Any duties with restrictions on Phoenix Downs will now display that information in their Duty Finder description.
    - This restriction does not apply to the guildleve “Solemn Trinity” and the trial “The Great Hunt (Extreme).”
Range has been extended from 5 to 15 yalms.
Cast time has been increased from 5 to 8 seconds.
Now has a recast timer of 360 seconds. Shares a recast timer with other medicine items.
Can now be stacked up to 999.
Can now be purchased from vendors.
An active help window will now appear when obtaining a Phoenix Down for the first time.

A progress bar can now be displayed under the nameplate of certain enemies.

A new main story dungeon (The Meso Terminal) and trial (???) have been added.

Players may enter both The Meso Terminal dungeon and the ensuing trial with Trust or Duty Support NPCs to clear the duty.

1. The likelihood of getting Wings of Eternity from Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden has been boosted. Additionally, you can obtain them by trading 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (coordinates X:8.7 Y:13.5).

2. The chances of receiving Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden have been enhanced. You can also acquire them by exchanging 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

3. The frequency of obtaining Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden has been raised. Furthermore, you can get them by trading 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

4. The probability of winning Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden has been amplified. In addition, you can earn them by trading 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

5. The occurrence of Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden has been upgraded. It is also possible to secure them by trading 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

6. The chances of getting your hands on Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden have been bumped up. Furthermore, you can grab them by exchanging 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

7. The odds of acquiring Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden have been improved. You can also pick them up by trading 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

8. The likelihood of obtaining Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden has been heightened. Moreover, you can obtain them by trading 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

9. The frequency of winning Wings of Eternity in Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden has been boosted. Additionally, you can secure them by exchanging 99 totems with Uah’shepya at Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).

Choose the one that fits your preference and writing style best!

The weekly limit for earning rewards in the Arcadion: Cruiserweight Division has been abolished, but this update doesn’t affect the AAC Cruiserweight M4-acquired Cruiser Holosaber.

The needed quantity of Cruiser Holosabers for obtaining a Universal Tomestone 2.0 has been decreased from 7 to 4.

Players will no longer be rewarded Cracked Novaclusters upon completing Jeuno: The First Walk.

Several adjustments have been made to the Occult Crescent: South Horn per player feedback.

For the arrival of Pilgrim’s Traverse in Update 7.35, the spots where high-rank S and A elite marks appear in Il Mheg have been repositioned.

As an enthusiast, I discovered that to upgrade the gear I bought with Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics, I need two specific items: Evercharged Twine and Evercharged Ester. Here’s a handy tip: You can get these from Ryubool Ja in Tuliyollal by exchanging Sacks of Nuts. Alternatively, if you head to Uah’shepyua in Solution Nine, they’ll trade Ordelle Coins and Montiont Coins for those items as well. Happy hunting!

If a player has not completed any or multiple duties they have signed up for, they are unable to participate in ongoing duties.

This change was implemented to help ensure players can fully enjoy duties they are experiencing for the first time. When registering for a Duty Roulette that includes duties you have yet to complete, you will no longer be matched into in-progress instances for any duties in that roulette.

In situations where all team members are unable to act during “Recollection” or “Recollection (Extreme)”, players will be granted the power of the Echo.

The strength of the Echo granted in AAC Light-heavyweight Tier (Savage) has been increased.

The tasks on Duty Roulette: Expert have been updated. Now, you need an average item level of at least 720 to participate in Duty Roulette: Expert, which is a rise from the previous requirement of 705.

The following additions and adjustments have been made to Duty Roulette: Level Cap Dungeons:

Yuweyawata Field Station, has been added. The required average item level to register has been increased from 670 to 690.

The following adjustments have been made to the instanced dungeon Cutter’s Cry:

The shifting sands that allow players to progress through the dungeon will now appear after defeating a certain number of enemies.
The Myrmidon Princess boss battle has been adjusted.
The Giant Tunnel Worm boss battle has been adjusted.
The Chimera boss battle has been adjusted.

PVP

As a devoted fan, I’m thrilled to share that I can now swap my hard-earned Trophy Crystals for some exciting new additions! Many prizes from past PvP Series are now up for grabs in an exchange system.

Series 8 will end and Series 9 will begin.

A new Crystalline Conflict arena, the Bayside Battleground, has been added.

The Bayside Battleground has been incorporated into the rotation for both casual and ranked battles. This means the arenas you’ll encounter will now include this new battleground.

The Palaistra
The Volcanic Heart
The Clockwork Castletown
The Bayside Battleground
Cloud Nine
The Red Sands
(Cycle repeats)
Available arenas will rotate every 90 minutes (Earth time).

Now, there’s a timer set for when medicine kits appear. The waiting period before you can pick up these kits after they’ve appeared has been shortened.

Players under the effect of Hysteria or Seduced can no longer utilize the arena events:

Cloud Nine – Jump Glyphs
The Clockwork Castletown – Trick Doors
The Red Sands – Shifting Sands
The Bayside Battleground – Jump Glyphs

Players can now register to join casual matches with a party of two players.

In competitive matches, two new levels, named Omega and Ultima, have been incorporated. If a player manages to advance to either Omega or Ultima level before the season ends, they will be rewarded with a frame set and an accomplishment.

Season Fifteen will end and Season Sixteen will begin.

When the season ends, the top 300 ranking players from the North American, European, and Japanese data centers, and the top 100 ranking players from the Oceanian data center will receive vouchers via the moogle delivery service.
Players finishing in the Bronze tier or higher can claim rewards by speaking with the Seasonal Quartermaster at the Wolves’ Den Pier (X:4.9 Y:5.7).
Season Sixteen will be held on the Elemental, Dynamis, Chaos, and Materia data centers.

Items

New items and recipes have been added.

New mounts, minions, and chocobo barding have been added.

New facewear and fashion accessories have been added.

New fish have been added.

Certain items can now be sold, desynthesized, or submitted for expert delivery missions.

Several items now have two dye channels.

In this updated system, both men and women can choose from either the Traditional Eastern Gentleman’s Wardrobe or the Traditional Eastern Lady’s Wardrobe.

When you dissolve illusions (glamours), a message will appear to let you know that it will also erase any applied dyes and your company’s emblems at the same time.

In the Glamour Dresser interface, exiting the Glamour Creation window while utilizing a gamepad will now direct the cursor back to the Glamour Dresser window.

In the drop-down menu for shop windows, a new option has been included that allows you to filter results based on your current occupation or class.

Some additions and adjustments have been made to Dreamfitting with set gear.

Additional information about your search results can now be found at the bottom of the Search Results Window.

New items have been added to gathering points.

In the Heritage Found region, you can now acquire Olden Loboskin Maps and Olden Br’aaxskin Maps at specific botanist collection spots.

Crafted item level 740 equipment can now be exchanged for upgraded item level 750 equipment.

The level cap for desynthesis has been increased from 740 to 750.

Several additions and adjustments have been made to Cosmic Exploration after player feedback.

A mounting animation has been added when boarding mounts.

System

The designs of the player characters have been modified according to suggestions from our community.

Alongside these modifications, players have the chance to acquire a vial of Fantasia from a roaming moogle in Old Gridania at coordinates X:10.7 Y:6.4 during a temporary span.

* This reward will be obtainable until the release of Patch 7.4.

Graphical details for several pieces of gear have been improved.

Chat bubbles have been implemented, allowing messages to be displayed above characters’ heads.

Chat bubble settings, including options to adjust text and background color can be found under the General tab of Log Window settings in the Character Configuration menu.
The display of chat bubbles can be enabled or disabled at any time. Chat bubbles are disabled by default. Chat bubbles will not display when using performance actions, during battle, or during PvP encounters.
Chat bubbles have a fixed width and a character limit. Messages that exceed this limit will be truncated with a trailing ellipsis. The chat bubble format can be set to one or two lines.
Messages consisting solely of a single word or phrase from the auto-translation dictionary will always appear in full on a single line.
There are three chat bubble size settings: normal, large, and maximum. Please note that changing this setting does not affect message character limits.
Different chat modes such as Say, Yell, and Shout have unique chat bubble designs, each with their own settings for text and background color.
Chat bubbles from players who are blacklisted or muted will be hidden, with only a few exceptions. Furthermore, words blocked by the profanity filter will display as ???.

Display range for players and monsters has been increased.

You can choose between Normal, Extended, and Maximum display ranges. The default is Normal, matching the range used prior to Patch 7.3.
This distance can be adjusted under Other Settings in the System Configuration menu (Windows® only).

To avoid overloading our servers, we plan on creating separate versions for Shaaloani, Heritage Found, Living Memory, and Lower Jeuno. Previously introduced divisions of Tuliyollal and Yak T’el that were aimed at reducing congestion in Patch 7.25 will no longer be needed.

With the latest update, Patch 7.3, new milestones and honors have been incorporated. From now on, specific tasks and challenges will contribute to unlocking these achievements. Regrettably, Hells’ Kier (Unreal) will no longer be recognized post-update.

Additional expeditions for discovering new retainers have been introduced. It’s now possible to acquire new items through swift exploration ventures.

New portrait accents have been added.

Several options have been added to Group Pose.

Jog will now be removed when participating in The Slice Is Right and Crystalline Conflict

Jog will now be removed upon gaining the Transporting status effect.

Previously, while the effect of Jog was not active during Transporting, its status icon would still display. This has been addressed, and the icon will now also be removed as intended.

Within the depths of this dungeon, Jog will no longer function when the character is under the influence of the Sprint Penalty status.

Or, more colloquially:
In this deep-down dungeon, Jog won’t work anymore if your character is affected by the Sprint Penalty status effect.

A Glamours button has been added to the window displayed when examining player equipment.

The following adjustments have been made to the Blacklist:

While measures were implemented in Patch 7.2 to make it more difficult to confirm or reference portions of character IDs not normally visible during gameplay, further adjustments have been made in Patch 7.3.
As a result, certain locally stored client data will be reset.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused and ask for your understanding as we introduce these measures.

You can now adjust the transparency of the chat prompt.

The “Automatic” choice is now available for adjusting the Character and Item Count within the Display Limit settings.

All players’ settings will be uniformly switched to “Automatic” upon the release of Patch 7.3. Moreover, “Automatic” will be the new default for the feature.
On Windows and Mac, this setting can be adjusted under Other Settings in the System Configuration Menu.

Additions have been made to the auto-translation dictionary.

The auto-complete dictionaries for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Xbox Series X|S have been expanded or updated.

New Trophies (PS5) and Achievements (Xbox Series X/S) have been added.

New music, sound effects, and voices have been added.

The message shown after a character uses a Fantasia phial but forgets to take off their gear before trying to change their looks has now been revised.

The following additions and adjustments have been made to the launcher:

New backgrounds have been added.
The newly added backgrounds are unlocked after completing the main scenario quest “Endwalker.”
A link to the official FINAL FANTASY XIV Bluesky account has been added.
The location of the temporary folder for patch downloads has been changed. (Windows® and Mac)

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