Kupo kupo, it’s finally here! The June version update has arrived in Final Fantasy XI, encouraging all moogle housekeepers to leave their duties behind and celebrate on the streets instead. OK, so there wasn’t really a mass security breach in Vana’diel, but players just have loads of new content to explore that they probably won’t be going home in awhile to check if the houses are being kept in order.
Foremost among these new features is the raising of the job level cap from 75 to 80, the first time the game has done so in a long time. The long-term plan is to gradually raise the level cap up to 99–a nod to the series’ console roots–over several version updates this year. Players hoping to gain these five additional levels ASAP should make a dash for the Ru’Lude Gardens and finish the new limit break quest “New Worlds Await.”
Today’s version update also activates the rest of the Wings of the Goddess nation quests which, according to Square Enix, are set to “reach their climactic conclusions.” And if these are still not enough to fill those long gaming hours, then maybe the new trial sequences for relic and mythic weapons will prove a worthy diversion.
To top it all off, battle-hungry adventurers can either explore the fabled Walk of Echoes area (the first part of which has been opened to level 70+) or prove their might via the Vision of Abyssea battle add-on. Powerful monsters roam both forbidden realms and would should be great testing grounds for the dozens of new job abilities, traits and spells packed with the June update.