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Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.58 Brings Same-Region Matchmaking to North America and Europe

OFFICIAL Written by GPN · Nov 11, 2026, 6:00 AM ET · Final Fantasy XIV · Gaming

Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 7.58 is live, and its biggest change is under the hood. Same-region matchmaking has now been expanded to the North American and European data centers, so every player on the same physical data center is eligible for matchmaking and party recruitment regardless of which World they call home.

Matchmaking

The wider matching pool covers all logical data centers on the same physical data center. Ranked Crystalline Conflict matches can now also be joined from any World within a player's physical data center.

Crystalline Conflict

Season 21 has ended and Season 22 has begun. Players start the new season five risers lower than where they finished Season 21, while those who finished in the Omega or Ultima tiers begin in the Crystal tier with 100 Crystal Credits. Tier rewards for Season 21 must be claimed before the end of Season 22.

Battle System

The Crucible of the Unbroken gets a round of adjustments, and the Unmaking (Extreme) moves from the Raid Finder to the Duty Finder. The drop rate for Wings of Nihility in the duty has been increased, and the wings can also be bought for 99 Totems of Naught. The Echo granted in AAC Heavyweight Tier (Savage) has been strengthened to 17 percent, raising maximum HP, damage dealt and healing potency. Weekly restrictions have been removed on Heavy Holoblades from AAC Heavyweight M4 and on Mad Harlequin's Totems in Dancing Mad (Ultimate).

Fixes

Trust system NPC avatars now earn more experience, and the patch fixes a run of issues including familiar sorting in the Crucible Team Composition window and a gamepad cursor problem in the loot window.

Facts gathered from

• FINAL FANTASY XIV Lodestone

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