Before Final Fantasy 14 gets its hotly anticipated new expansion Evercold, Square Enix has one final update in store with fresh Dawntrail content: Patch 7.56.
Patch 7.56 is set to arrive next Tuesday on September 8, bringing the series of Patch 7.5x updates to a close – and, of course, Dawntrail’s bigger post-launch content.
Harboring the limited Beastmaster job, new main scenario quests, and much, much more, it’s one heck of a release ahead of Evercold… a release that might just lead into the upcoming expansion itself with the introduction of a strikingly familiar pink-haired Miqo’te.
If you’ve seen the Evercold trailer, then you likely recognize Visna, the mysterious cat girl with icy eyes and a freckled face – something we don’t even get to truly apply to our own Warriors of Light (yet, anyway).
Interestingly enough, Square Enix just updated its official media webpage for Patch 7.5, including Patch 7.56, of course, with new screenshots… and Visna herself appears in one of them, implying she’ll be in-game before Evercold.
Not only that, but she seems to be donning a crossbow of sorts on her back – and, you know, that’s pretty eye-catching, seeing as there are two new jobs coming in Evercold and we only know about the tank class so far: the Bastion.
Could the DPS underway be a crossbow wielder or something in that vein? Well, the image is certainly proving enough to spur all kinds of theories online.
Just take a look at Reddit, for one.
7.5 site updated for upcoming patch (Beastmaster/MSQ Part 2)
from r/ffxiv
In response to a fan noting their surprise at “the Miqo’te NPC from the Evercold trailer” seemingly being introduced in Patch 7.56 and asking “she definitely can’t be the new job, right,” another explains that she might just be.
“You can actually spy a crossbow on her back,” they write. “So it might actually be the new job.” Further down, somebody else points out that Visna is holding a “wand” of sorts, too.
They suggest “the job will have crossbow and wand offhand and you carve runes with the wand which then grant either weaknesses/special attacks that either the crossbow or your bird can attack.”
The “bird” they reference here likely stems from the popular theory that the new DPS class is a falconer of some flavor – but who knows? It’s all just speculation for now, but it is intriguing to see the girl in Patch 7.56 screencaps… and her “weapon,” if that’s what it is.
We’ll learn more next week, come Patch 7.56 and its shenanigans. There is the Beastmaster job to look forward to as well as more questing and the like, so it’s not all mystery.