The Black Shroud will be redone says Yoshi-P

This makes me VERY excited! I hope they burn Gridania to the ground and I want to participate. ^^

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Originally Posted by Laughlyn

ohmy for the love of God, do NOT change Coerthas please!
It's one the most beautiful places in the game.

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This.

Coerthas is perfectly designed as-is, it cannot be bettered (at least, not through the regular sense of something being redesigned).

tBS, however, can be redesigned and will undoubted look better regardless of changes made.

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Originally Posted by Zahak

I do agree that The Black Shroud is the most hideous but I hope they go ahead and change Thanalan and La Noscea (spelling) too. They can do a lot better :)

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Thanalan isn't that bad. And by that I mean that at least there is some difference in the areas. But yeah La Noscea is nothing but Konschtat Highlands minus the windmills and Tremor Ram

I think the areas with Black Brush and Drybone are a bit dull but the rest of Thanalan has its unique areas and scenery. Still, I can live with that, and I can live with the repetition in La Noscea and Coerthas. If they're going to do anything I rather they just change Shroud and spend the rest of the time on new zones.

All the outer areas need adjustments really, I don't feel that immersed in them at all...

Saying that Im not wanting FFXI regions merged into one and updated... that's not what I'm hoping for.. more uniqueness and quirkyness... like those odd towers in Thanalan.

Really, I think they need to make all the regions more interesting, not just one specific one. Yeah, Mor Dhona is pretty cool, but even that gets boring after a while. We need more landmarks, more things that stand out and catch your eye. And not just a couple per region. We need an environment that gets players interested in the lore.

The only thing I'd liked to see changed is climbing implemented so we can go up to places we can't now and explore up there.

Stop trying so hard to be different! Take the good things you learned from FFXI and bring it to FFXIV. I am the last saying we need a FFXI-2 but why trying to invent the wheel if you had 10 years to learn from FFXI?

1: Delete Gridannia
2: Look at The Sanctuary of Zi'tah
3: Make the Maze like layout "bigger" with wider paths and big open areas.

I can see that they tried to make it look like Zi'tah but they totally missed the atmosphere that the original has.

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Originally Posted by Laughlyn

ohmy for the love of God, do NOT change Coerthas please!
It's one the most beautiful places in the game.

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^THIS.
So. Much.

I like the look of La Nosca and Thanalan. It looks very natural and could be "real" scenery. So I don't think they'd have to change much if anything with them.

I also agree to not change Coerthas.

Gridania though I'm very glad they will redo. I didn't have a huge problem with it, but it is pretty much: Clearing > River > Cloverleaf (the ramps going to upper level). That wouldn't be all that horrible if it wasn't for the fact that it's always the same clearing, river or ramp.

I like the suggestion of making a Sanctuary of Zi'Tah-like map. That was always one of my favorite places to go in FFXI.