Forked Tower Fixes Incoming: FFXIV Emergency Maintenance Tonight

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Final Fantasy XIV is undergoing emergency maintenance across all servers in less than 24 hours! Here’s what’s changing in Forked Tower, and why it matters for your group. The emergency maintenance will run from July 2nd at 23:00 to July 3rd at 03:00 PDT.

If you haven’t heard from the last Live Letter, the developers behind Final Fantasy XIV (not FFXIV Mobile!) addressed players’ issues and feedback on Occult Crescent‘s entry requirements for the Forked Tower raid. Needless to say, many players were not happy: you had to get lucky with the correct instance, right weather, and asking sure your full group could queue together. Talk about messy!

Thankfully, there’s always a silver lining! In their most recent news, FFXIV plans to add the following Forked Tower changes:

  1. Players can enter an Occult Crescent instance with a preformed alliance of up to 48 players
  2. Auroral Mirages will generate sooner after the Occult Crescent instance has loaded
  3. Cipher Offering UI Improvements
  4. Delay Auroral Mirage generation until after an active Critical Encounter has ended
  5. Timed Exclusive Access to the preformed alliance’s Occult Crescent instance post-joining

Notably, only the first two changes will go live during this emergency maintenance.

This will hopefully help any still-active groups get their clears soon before Patch 7.3 releases in August. The emergency maintenance is not expected to delay the existing content schedule.

The remaining three changes will be added with Patch 7.3. If you’re still looking for things to do before the new patch arrives, why not check out our recommendations on IcyVeins?