Final Fantasy XIVs Crossroads patch brings new story, raid content, and quality-of-life November 12 [Video]

Today saw another Live Letter broadcast from Final Fantasy XIV, which was once again all about the MMORPG’s first post-Dawntrail content update, Crossroads, along with a release date for the first portion of the patch: Tuesday, November 12th.

The stream provided some looks at Patch 7.1’s expected features such as the first set of new main story quests, Yuweyawata Field Station dungeon, and several pieces of raid content from the first Echoes of Vana’diel alliance raid tier to the next extreme, ultimate, and unreal trials as well as the chaotic version of the Cloud of Darkness fight.

There will also be a host of PvP-specific updates that change damage in Frontline and Rival Wings, adjust a pair of Crystalline Conflict maps, and shift Crystalline Conflict rankings to be per region rather than per set of servers; ranked matches will also be held in one data center per region.

It also covered several smaller content …