FFXIV 6.55 Patch Notes - Final Fantasy XIV Guide - IGN (2024)

The 6.55 Patch for Final Fantasy XIV has arrived, bringing with it new quests, items, a new trial, and the end of the Endwalker patch cycle.

This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of the 6.55 Patch for FFXIV, including a link to the full Patch Notes.

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Main Scenario Quests

New main scenario quests have been added:

Side Story Quests

Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures

Manderville Weapons Quests

Tataru's Grand Endeavor

Island Sanctuary

New Tribal Alliance Quests

Housing

• New furnishings have been added
• Furnishings from the FFXIV Furnishing Design Contest have been added
• New orchestrion rolls have been added

The Manderville Gold Saucer

• New prizes are available for purchase using MGP
• New Triple Triad cards have been added

Miscellaneous

• Players will now receive a pop-up message when an island sanctuary construction or renovation is completed
• Thaleia has been added as an objective in Wondrous Tails
• New emotes have been added

Battle System

A new trial has been added:

Requirements

• The drop rate for the Lynx of Abyssal Grief Flute has been increased
• The drop rate for the Lynx of Fallen Shadow Flute has been further increased
  • They can also be purchased in exchange for totems from Nesvaaz in Radz-at-Han (X:10.6 Y:10.0)
• The Gilded Araya has been added to Duty Roulette: Trials
• The Gilded Araya has been added to Duty Roulette: Mentor

PvP

The following adjustments have been made to PvP actions:

Paladin

Monk

Ninja

Reaper

Bard

Dancer

Black Mage

White Mage

Frontline

Job damage outputs and limit gauge fill rates have received the following adjustments:

• Gunbreaker and Astrologian damage modifiers have been adjusted from 0% to -5%
• Dragoon and Samurai damage modifiers have been adjusted from 0% to -10%
• Dark Knight and Summoner damage modifiers have been adjusted from -10% to -15%
• A +15 second modifier has been applied to the limit gauge fill rate for Dark Knight, Gunbreaker, and Summoner

Fields of Glory (Shatter) has received the following changes:

• The number of large icebound tomeliths active at once has been increased from 1 to 2
• The number of small icebound tomeliths active at once has been increased from 5 to 15
• The time before the first small icebound tomelith activates has been increased from 5 to 420 seconds
• The time for small icebound tomeliths to reactivate has been increased from 5 to 420 seconds
• The data awarded for destroying large icebound tomeliths has been reduced from 250 to 200
• The time for large icebound tomeliths to respawn has been reduced from 120 to 60 seconds
• The time for small icebound tomeliths to respawn has been increased from 60 to 360 seconds
• The maximum HP of large icebound tomeliths has been reduced from 4,000,000 to 3,000,000
• The maximum HP of small icebound tomeliths has been reduced from 400,000 to 300,000
• The data awarded for knocking out a rival player has been reduced from 10 to 5

Items

• New Items have been added
• New recipes have been added
• New big fish have been added
• New mounts have been added

• New chocobo barding has been added
• A new fashion accessory has been added

System

Multiple instances of Old Sharlayan are being implemented to prevent server congestion coinciding with the release of 6.55.

• New achievements and titles have been added
• The following text commands have been added

• Additions have been made to the auto-translation dictionary
• Additions have been made to the PS4/PS5 auto-complete dictionary
• New trophies have been added to PS5
• New music, sound effects, and voices have been added

Resolved Issues

• An issue during the main scenario quest "Growing Light" wherein a portion of cutscene graphics did not display correctly has been fixed
• An issue during the alliance raid Thaleia wherein the Dropsy status effect would not expire under certain circ*mstances has been fixed
• An issue during the second boss battle of Another Aloalo Island wherein incapacitated players who are revived at certain points in the battle are incorrectly marked with an icon over their heads has been fixed
• An issue in the new Crystalline Conflict arena, the Red Sands, wherein the camera would function incorrectly within close proximity of certain objects, has been fixed
• An issue in the new Crystalline Conflict arena, the Red Sands, wherein line of sight for certain objects was set incorrectly, has been fixed
• An issue wherein the graphical effects of the reaper's arm Exquisite Avatar's Scythe would not display correctly has been fixed
• An issue with the wall-mounted portrait of The Traders wherein a mark on Nald'thal's face was positioned incorrectly has been fixed
• An issue with the Cloud Nine framer's kit wherein the acquired frames would not display correctly has been fixed
• An issue with the Glamour Dresser wherein opening the Armoire while editing a plate would cause the resulting window to appear in the wrong position has been fixed
• Other minor text issues have been fixed

Full Patch Notes

If you wish to read the Patch Notes in full, you can do so via the official Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone 6.55 Patch Notes blog post.