Patch 5.3

Patch 5.3

"Reflections in Crystal"

Expansion

Shadowbringers

Release Date

11 Aug 2020

Promo Page

Link

Patch Notes

5.3, 5.31, 5.35

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Introduction

Patch 5.3: Reflections in Crystal is the third major content update introduced for Shadowbringers.

Notable Features, Additions, and Changes

New Content

• Main Story: Reflections in Crystal (12 quests)
• Alliance Raid: The Puppets' Bunker, the second chapter of the YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse story and raid series
• Dungeon: The Heroes' Gauntlet
• Trials: The Seat of Sacrifice, The Seat of Sacrifice (Extreme)
• Chronicles of a New Era: The Sorrow of Werlyt - chapter two
  • Quest & single-player duty: Sleep Now in Sapphire
• Save the Queen: Blades of Gunnhildr: Second chapter (5.35)
  • Resistance Weapons upgrades
  • Exploratory Mission: The Bozjan Southern Front
    • Castrum Lacus Litore
• Faux Hollows: The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Unreal)
• Custom Deliveries: Ehll Tou
• Ishgardian Restoration: Commercial District (5.31)
• Beast Tribe Quests and Reputation: Dwarves

System Changes and Additions

• Crafting Collectables overhauled:
  •   Collectable Synthesis removed.
  • Collectable items are now totally separate from non-collectable items. All crafted collectables for Rowena are now prefixed Rarefied. The new recipes are in a separate place in the Crafting Log.
  • Rorwena's collectable lists are now static and do not rotate.

• Trial Synthesis - Allows the player to do a "dry run" of crafting an item without actually crafting it or consuming materials.

• A Realm Reborn main story quest pruning and overhaul
  • As part of this pruning, all Poetics now gear comes augmented, and pre-Shadowbringers augment items and tokens have been retired to reduce inventory bloat.
• New Game+: A Realm Reborn and Seventh Astral Era main story campaign, and class quests
• Mounts can now fly in A Realm Reborn zones after players complete The Ultimate Weapon.

Miscellaneous

• Sundry Splendors: Easy-to-find vendors located in major cities, exchanging tomestones and scrips for rewards
• Orchestrion: Search function added
• Watching the intro video to an expansion from the title screen will change the title screen to that expansion.
• Heavensward expansion as baseline added to all accounts
• Free trial: Heavensward expansion added, level cap increased to 60, full access to the entire Palace of the Dead, through level 200

Note: Not all content listed here will launch on the same day. This article is about the 5.3x season as a whole.