The following update will be released to the live servers on December 16th:
[Levelling]
Level cap will be raised to 75.
Level cap quest for 71-75 will be added
[Skills/Abilities/Spells/Traits]
Sneak attack has been changed - characters must be DIRECTLY behind the enemy in order for it to work.
Knockback by certain skills will be changed
Resist job traits will be altered (resist silence, resist slow, etc)
Killer (Plant Killer, etc) job traits will be modified
Circle (Arcane Circle, etc) job abilities will be modified
Cure V will be restricted to WHM only
[Quests]
Quests for gaining new weapon skills will be added
The Chocobo riding quest and required level will be lowered to level 15 - however characters below level 20 will have significantly shorter riding time (don't expect to be able to go Bastok-Jeuno on one under 20)
[Equipment/Synthesis/Items]
New items will be available from avatar battles
Synthesis cap will be raised to 100
New recipies will be added
New items will be available for logging and mining
Prices for meal items will be adjusted
Tree saplings are now harvestable from tree cuttings
[Mog House/Auction]
Some furniture will expand capacity of your mog safe
Changes will be made to auction house categories
[Monsters]
New notorious monsters will be added
[Conquest]
New areas and target monsters will be added to the expeditionary force system
Rank 9 conquest items will be added
[Dungeons]
Treasure Chest reappearance will now happen at random intervals
Monsters will be rearranged in level 50-70 areas
[System]
The camera position will be lowered to eye level for sitting characters (/sit)
Camers angles and zoom will no longer reset after changing areas or logging out - it will be saved by the system
Auto-translate will now change the sise of the window to accomodate larger words
Auto-translate words will be clearly marked in dialogue
A new option for the number of sound effects to be played at teh same time will be added
[Other Notes]
Limbo areas (each country's undercity dungeon) have been delayed - they will be added next update. Each "limbo" dungeon is extremely high level (70+) and is only accessible to those who have met requirements to enter it. In order to survive limbo areas, alliances of more than 18 characters will have to be created.
No further level cap raises will be planned, but high-quality hard-to-get level 75 equipment will be added to the game to further character development.