Gameplay Updates (Patch 7.1/7.11)

New MSQ + Dungeon ( Yuweyawata Field Station )
New Extreme Trial: The Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden
New Unreal trial: The Jade Stoa (Byakko)
New Alliance Raid series: Echoes of Vana’diel (FFXI crossover) Part 1 - Jeuno: The First Walk
New Ultimate raid: Futures Rewritten (Eden); will come in patch 7.11, 2 weeks after 7.1 launch
New Allied Society quests: Pelupelu (for combat jobs)
New Game+ support for 7.0 (MSQ, Job Quests, and Role Quests)
Doman Mahjong update: voiced reaction and commentary from Scion opponents will be added
Adjustment for all Ultimate raids: party must be comprised of 8 unique jobs for passive LB generation to occur

Gameplay Updates (Patch 7.15/7.16)
New Custom Deliveries: Nitowikwe in Shaaloani
First part of Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures
Additional Wachumeqimeqi quests (will serve as a capstone for this storyline)
Additional Role Quests (completion of all 7.0 Role Quests required to unlock) (7.16)

Chaotic Alliance Raid

New type of battle content being added one week after patch 7.15
A more difficult form of 24-player content (difficulty is approximately between Extreme and Savage)
First installment will be the Cloud of Darkness from the Crystal Tower raids series (depending on player feedback, there may be more Chaotic raids in future updates)
Appears to involve a single boss battle, no trash mobs
Alliance party makeup will be: 2 Tanks, 2 Healers, 4 DPS (requires 1 more Tank per alliance than normal alliance raids)
Preformed alliances may run Chaotic raid(s) with a total of 12-24 players. Difficulty and rewards will remain the same regardless of # of players (difficulty is balanced around 24 players)
Rewards: ilvl 730 gear, hairstyles, minions, and 2 different mounts (one of which appears to be an actual dark cloud that you fly around in menacingly, lol), as well as tokens that can be exchanged for rewards (no weekly limit on rewards)
Bonus Rewards system: additional tokens will be awarded proportional to the number of players new to the duty; there will also be a Limited Time Bonus, which is a randomly occurring bonus period of several hours during which drop rates are improved/more tokens are awarded

PvP Updates

Extensive updates to PvP action execution and hit detection; for example, players will be able to better react to certain opponent actions while the action animation is in progress
New PvP actions for every job except Viper and Pictomancer (since they were just added); some actions will be removed as well. Some jobs will feel quite different in PvP.
Significant balance adjustments
Certain limit breaks will receive adjustments, such as to gauge time
Improvements for Red Sands and Cloud Nine Crystalline Conflict arenas
Balance adjustments for Frontline and Rival Wings modes: damage dealt, damage taken, Limit Gauge charge time, and machina functionality (further major updates for Frontlines are planned for 7.2)
PvP Series 7 begins; this will include a new rewards track, you MUST earn all the Series 6 rewards you want prior to the servers going down for 7.1 launch
Crystalline Conflict Ranked Match changes: 1) starting with Season 12 in patch 7.1, rankings will be determined per region rather than per data center; 2) ranked matches will be held in one DC per region (Season 12: Gaia (JP), Chaos (EU), Primal (NA), Materia (OCE)), players may register for matches from one of the designated DCs; 3) only the best performing character in your account will be listed in the rankings; 4) In all regions except for Oceania, because rankings are being consolidated to one DC per region, the number of placements for rewards will be increased (2nd place: 2-100; 3rd place: 101-300)

Duty Support Updates

Duty Support for non-MSQ dungeons will start to be added
First non-MSQ dungeon added to the system will be Halatali in 7.1

Hall of the Novice Updates

Training for specific combat mechanics will be added, covering mechanics such as targets, stack/spread markers, tank placement, tethers, towers, and more
Detailed descriptions of various mechanics will be available
New training can be unlocked at level 49
Three rounds of training
Training for combat rotations may be added in future updates

Outfit Glamours

A new way to store glamour gear in the Glamour Dresser in sets (outfits) as opposed to as individual objects
Outifts can be used in glamour plates or projected onto gear
This system will primarily support level 1 glamour gear to start with
Player must possess ENTIRE set of gear in order to store those pieces as an outfit glamour
Previously set dyes will be removed when you store gear as part of an outfit; dye must be reapplied afterwards

Group Pose Updates

Added support for Fisher’s fishing animations
Adjusted camera controls to remain screen-oriented rather than rotate based on roll angle

Housing Updates

Players will now be able to select a different interior design for their estate
New interior designs will be added for use in this system, in addition to the default interiors already seen in-game
Housing items that have already been placed in the estate will be stored while you change the interior design
Coming in a future patch: the ability to change the interior size of your estate (will cost a lot of gil)

UI and Graphical Updates

Duty List can now display up to 10 quests at a time
Added feature to show character tilting while turning, similar to mounts (can be enabled or disabled in settings)
Starting with patch 7.1, character-related feedback on the graphics update will be addressed. Because of this, an additional free vial of Phantasia will be made available from the same NPC as before (redeemable ONLY during 7.1 patch sequence).

Upcoming Schedule

November 12: 7.1 launch
November 26: 7.11 launch (Futures Rewritten Ultimate)
December 17: 7.15 launch (new Custom Deliveries NPC, Hildibrand, Wachumeqimeqi additional quests)
December 24: Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic)
January 21: 7.16 launch (additional role quests)