The same place they went after coil; other powerful monsters/evil stuff/ancient stuff
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True, but Zodiark is pretty much the Dark Hydaelyn. To create a credible threat after him would require us to leave the planet.
"As I mentioned during my 19th LIVE letter, we’re planning to break up the spectacular conclusion of the current story into three updates."
This could be interpreted several way. Either a three part patch, or a two part patch and an expansion launch event.
Zodiark is technically just another Primal, 2.0 is meant to conclude the Primal threat storyline, so it's likely the Ascians/Zodiark will be dealt with by the end. They could always return though, I kind of get the feeling that Lahabrea is making his own plans...
That said, I doubt the Mystery Trial will be anything significant to the story, considering it is in 2.5 not 2.51+ where the story concludes... I find it far more likely it will be another Ultima Ballad style fight, perhaps with Gaius van Baelsar and his team of utter weaklings.
East, then to the past, then west, if Final Fantasy XI is anything to go off. Who's to say Zodiark is even the only dark god? They've got plenty they can do given XIVs fanservice nature.
The mystery trial is Odin, I believe.
There is a decent chance that this "Mystery Trial" will be Gilgamesh Extreme. Since Greg is still hanging around, and is obviously unhappy at us for defeating him way back in the first case, he'll probably send us a challenge to face him at his full power (IE, all 8 arms) at some point during or after the Hildibrand questline.
At least, that's my hope anyway. And I also hope he drops joke weapons, like Excalipoor, or Nragarok!
I believe that's exactly what Yoshida said; they wont be the focus anymore, though Alexander is a thing now, so as usual I'm getting mixed messages from the guy...
I could actually see the Mystery Trial being Zodiark, since all the pieces for us defeating the Ascians are already in place save one, and I'm thinking the 2.51 story content is marking the return of Nidhogg, with "The Battle for Ishgard" being the dragons first assault, which we help repel resulting in Ishgard welcoming us in come 3.0. So 2.5 could resolve the Ascians storyline with 2.51 setting up the expansion. I'd still put my money on Ultima Ballad 2.0, though.
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I was under the impression "Urth's Fount" and "Revenge of Gilgamesh" were self explanatory.