All Raids in FFXIV Evercold

Evercold will introduce a new raid series, Alliance raid series, and Ultimate raids, with more difficulties of each for all types of players.

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Both Raid series in Evercold will be collaborations with long-standing franchises. The 8-player raid will be a collaboration with Final Fantasy VII titled "Beyond the Lifestream." The title art features two prominent characters from the game, Cloud Strife and Sephiroth. Alongside the Normal and Savage difficulties, a new difficulty in between will be released called Fierce.

The first wing of the raid, titled "Fated Collision", will be released in Patch 8.01, likely two weeks after the official launch of the expansion. Two weeks later is the release of the Savage difficulty in Patch 8.05, and one week later the new Fierce difficulty will release.

The Alliance Raid collaboration is with another famous non-Square Enix IP: Evangelion. Evangelion, Ghosts of Desire is the Alliance Raid series in Evercold, with famous names from both Square Enix and Gainax coming together to create one of the most anticipated raids in FFXIV history.

In addition, Alliance Raids will be changed starting with Evercold. They will be split into two wings per release, with the first duty encompassing the first two bosses and the second duty having the final two bosses. This will decrease the time needed for Alliance Raids and allow players targeting specific items to queue for the duty they want instead of having to queue for every boss.

Alongside the Alliance Raid's base difficulty, a new 8-player difficulty for Alliance Raids will be released. Savage Alliance Raids are difficult encounters based on the Alliance Raid bosses. The new difficulty will feature two encounters, each balanced at the level of a third-floor Savage raid fight.

At least one new Ultimate Raid has been announced for Evercold, but no details have been released as of yet.