FFXIV: Everything We Know About Island Sanctuary – Patch 6.2
Posted on July 1, 2022 by Aywren
We’ve just seen the end to the first Live Letter dedicated to the Patch 6.2. Named “Buried Memories,” it will be released sometime late August. We’ve also finally heard the first bits about Island Sanctuary, a topic that I’ve been looking forward to quite a bit!
A number of folks have been hoping that the sanctuary might be an introduction to a form of instanced housing, especially given the troubles we’ve been seeing with the housing shortage as of late. So far, they’ve revealed about what I expected the Island Sanctuary to be. However, they did tease that more details were coming in the future.
Now, before folks get disappointed in the lack of instanced housing, I never once believed that Island Sanctuary would release with something that large in the forefront. Long-time FFXIV players will tell you how a feature starts out small, and eventually builds up to something greater over time. We’ve seen it happen over and over again – waiting usually pays off. So just because there’s nothing to do with housing NOW doesn’t mean that there won’t ever be.
It also could be that the team is testing the waters with this sort of system to see the response they get before dumping a lot more time and resources into it. They do that a lot, also.
That being said, Island Sanctuary as it’s being described still is a wonderful idea that I know I’m going to enjoy. So let’s get on with what we’ve learned!
They're teasing us...
Here’s a few more tidbits of random information that I caught that I thought would be of interest.
New Tomestones and the ability to request repairs from others, even in dungeons. (Just don’t ask me because I never carry any of that material on me even though I should. I’ll probably start doing so.)
An evolution and change to the adventurer plate system. As I thought, we’ll be able to update the search comments from the plate. Do note that we’ll be losing all saved portraits when the new patch drops!
And finally, more space in the glamour dresser! Woooo!
What were your thoughts on the information from the Live Letter? I didn’t get into much of the battle-type changes here, but we’re going to see a lot of interesting things come 6.2!