2.16 - 2.2 information

Release Dates:
Patch 2.16 will be released on 22 February 2014.
A Realm Reborn PS4 Beta will start on 22 February 2014.
Patch 2.2 known as Through the Maelstrom will be released on 14 April 2014.
FFXIV OST with 119 songs including Patch 2.1 with 6 hours 40 minutes of music. Preorder includes Wind-up Bahamut
Official FFXIV Strategy Guide (including Patch 2.1) on sale 22 February 2014.
Lightning Strikes Event again from 4 February 2014 - 22 February 2014
Valentines Day Event starts 4 February 2014
Princess Day in development

New Features (Combined Summary):
1) Leviathan (Hard + Extreme Mode) - 8 man trial against new Primal Leviathan, takes places on a square boat out in the middle of the sea. Leviathan chocobo barding. No Leviathan-Egi available for summoners at this time. New Primal to follow every major content patch release from now on.
2) Halatali (Hard Mode) - 4 man hard mode of dungeon already in game.
3) Brayflox Longstop (Hard Mode) - 4 man hard mode of dungeon already in game.
4) Thornmarch (Extreme) - 8 man extreme mode trial against Good King Moggle Mog XIII.
5) Binding Coil of Bahamut Turn 6, Turn 7, Turn 8 and Turn 9 - Non of these will be equivalent to Turn 3. They will all be full on dungeons with monsters and bosses. These will be the hardest content available in Patch 2.2.
6) Ruins of Amdapor - New 4 man dungeon. Will be hardest 4 man dungeon available in game once released.
7) New allagan tomestone higher rank than Philosophy and Mythology, yet to be named. Used to be higher item level gear than currently available in game.
New higher level crafts.
9) Vanity system known as Glamour System, available through crafting, no details on how it works yet.
10) New Fishing Challenges.
11) Chimera and Hydra Added to Duty Finder for quest line A Relic Reborn
12) Market Board Updates - Wish List and better researching facilities to allow faster looking up of commonly used items.
13) Drake Mount colour change (Amalj'aa Rank 4 reward)
14) Binding Coil of Bahamut Turns 1-5 added to Duty Finder, weekly lock out removed.
15) New Hildibrand Missions
16) Kobold and Sahagin Beast Tribe Quests added
17) Small Houses will be increased in size to include a basement, doubling it's current size.
18) PS4 Collector's Edition rewards - Fat Chocobo and Wind-up Moogle. These will be made available to all Collector Edition registered users upon release of the Playstation 4 version.
19) When raining, characters will appear visually drenched and effected by the weather.
20) While taking screenshots, players will automatically face the camera directly. Other players will be unaware that a player has taken a screenshot in that moment as the face movement will only happen on the players client and not effect their in game character appearance to others.
21) Map Markers
22) Ground Markers for combat strategy
23) Fishing While Sitting
24) Ability to summon random minions or random mounts
25) Party Finder notifications
26) Party Invite decline feature - currently you need to just wait for party invite to expire for it to end.

Patch 2.16 is set to include:

- Summoning Bell in Revenant’s Toll
- New Features for the Market Boards (Wish List feature, and adjustments on the filters)
- Ability to summon minions and mounts at random
- Dhorme Chimera and Hydra being added to the Duty Finder
- Gear sets will automatically substitute main arm when item is not available
- Cooldown timer for timeworn maps to be displayed or adjusted (not clarified)
- Crafting stats will affect quick synthesis success rate
- Gear dying preview feature
- Notification feature for Party Finder
- Mog Letter history
- New achievement rewards
- New feature to reselect focus targets (i.e. Primals after they disappear for certain attacks)
- Map marker feature
- More action icons for macros
- New command to have character look towards the Camera
- Characters will appear wet during rainy weather
- Potential targets will have a glowing outline when hovering the mouse over them

And currently the patch for 2.2 include:

- Leviathan Primal Battle (Hard and Extreme Modes)
- The Amdapor Township Dungeon
- The Binding Coil of Bahamut Extension
- Thornmarch Extreme Mode
- Brayflox’s Longstop Hard Mode
- Halatali Hard Mode
- New Daily Beast Tribe Quests (Kobold and Sahagin)
- New Hildibrand storyline
- New Allagan Tomestone types
- Glamours Vanity System named Mirage Prism
- New advanced crafting recipes
- New fishing challenges
- New Aesthetician hairstyles