Please be sure to MUTE YOUR CHATS or leave your chats/ls.
Suggested muting includes shout, yell, say, fc, all LS, CWLS, novice net, and any discords to avoid spoilers (image below).
Here’s a small FAQ for people!
What should I focus on?
- Whatever you want! (Probably MSQ though)
Will there be new hunt currencies? If so, what?
- We don’t know. In theory yes, but only time will tell.
- There should be DWN exclusive variants of cracked clusters and stella clusters for DoW/DoM materias 11 and 12.
- Hopefully tacos are the new hunt currency
Will I be able to use my nuts for anything new?
- Probably not. Keep buying those rings to turn into your grand company.
- There is a possibility that they add the ability to buy aetheryte tickets with nuts in the new expansion, but we don’t know currently.
Will there be a new hunt quest to unlock new hunt bills?
Most likely! We have no reason to believe they are deviating from the current pattern.
When can I unlock the new hunt board/bills?
- You can unlock the Hunt board gradually as you go through the story in tiers.
- Elite hunts are considered “end game” content though, meaning you won’t be able to unlock them until finishing base msq.
How many hunts will be in the new zones?
There should be 2 A Ranks and 1 S rank per zone, with 6 PvE zones. Typically with new expansions SE implements 3 instances of each new zone to help ease congestion. That means we are looking at 36 A Ranks for Dawntrail at launch!
- 2 B ranks per zone as usual.
- S ranks are a little different and will be explained in more detail below.
Old trains
Will old trains still be run?
It depends on a number of factors including, but not limited to: how strong we are at level 100 with gear, changes to what you can buy with old currencies, and other unforseen changes.
SB trains
- If nuts still do not give aetheryte tickets, SB trains may still exist. Depending on how easy these are killed at new level cap, these trains may turn local only.
- If nuts do change to give aetheryte tickets, then SB trains will likely phase out and be more like current ARR/HW trains.
SHB/EW trains
- These trains will likely be less frequent but continue to be run as long as hunt achievements are specifically tied to them.
- SHB/EW will give the exact same currencies and tome counts.
- Conductors will likely only choose to run one train or the other and not both. Which train is chosen will likely be up to conductor preference unless it is decided to alternate which is run for the achievements.
Dawntrains
When will we start running Dawntrail trains?
- When we are ready! Focus on enjoying the story first!
- When someone is through MSQ and they feel ready to run a train then one will be ran. And not a minute before!
- This does not mean they will be back to usual schedule right away though! We very well may have 1 train on day 3 and none until week 2. It all depends on conductor and when they are ready to return.
How many A Ranks will there be?
36!
How many new expac trains are run per day and why:
- When new expansion drops and player count increases, the time it takes to teleport also greatly increases. During EW launch, the game would only allow ~ 80 players into an instance initially. Then slowly let in 30 players every 30 seconds afterwards. This means vibes are long and necessary! Please be patient!
- Because there are so many marks and vibes are long, that means train times run long as well. New expansion trains tend to take 45 minutes – 1.5 hours depending on turnout. Hunt deaths are also super spread out and take a long time to get scouted.
- With more marks and trains taking longer, conductors burn out quicker please be sure to let the hunt team know you appreciate them.