Spoiler!! So the new msq

It feels like they opted to resolve the lion's share of Garlemald's plot in the role quest finale as Alphinaud and Alisaie even remark about it in the aftermath.

I think anything that draws us there in the future will likely just be breadcrumbs pertaining either to the current story or the build-up to 7.x.

ZZzzzzZZZZzzzZZZzzzz

What a boring story ! And we are already back with the scions? Their disbanding was as fake as their death. It's not a newfound adventure, it's "follow Yshtola like a little dog so she can see Rugnar again".
I'm so tired being their lackey.
And where's the battle content? I though we were going on an adventure !?
And why locking the alliance raid story behind such a chore?

Pffftt.

I figured the Void was our next destination, just didn't realize it would be thrown at us so soon. Thought 6.1 was to be just a moment to destress after the Final Days but instead it's starting up immediately although I was happy to see Golbez and the 4 Elemental Fiends will be the antagonists this time around. Then we have Zenos' RPR avatar that is most likely the Azem fragment from the 13th wandering about and most likely will be our ally at some point during our adventure.

I haven't done the 24 man yet but the dungeon was fine, albeit very easy. My friend was on his SGE,while the rest of the party was a GNB, SAM and myself as a MNK. My friend died on both the 2nd and 3rd boss at around 60% but we were able to clear without him on both fights. Sad how little a healer is needed in dungeons anymore.

To me it seems like the story is working towards the Trial series everyone had wanted. Whether all 3 stories presented so far (Golbez and Fiends, Exploring the Void, and saving Azdaja) connect to the next expansion is debatable.

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Originally Posted by Arkfrost

Why can't they though? The 4 Eureka zones are each just as large as any other overworld zone. Bozja and Zadnor are just slightly smaller. The Diadem is as big as 4 expansion sized maps. So there's no reason they "cannot" add new outdoor exploration areas. They simply just did not, and stuck to their usual pattern, but there's nothing preventing them from doing it.

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None of these are the same as what I was talking about, they have completely different rules and are instanced content, not regular areas. But mentioning them brings up a good point I missed when I wrote "trials and dungeons" - they could give us another "Field Operation" that takes place on the 13th, and that would be pretty cool! None of the others came in x.1 anyway, so it could definitely still fit with their established content patterns.

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Originally Posted by SamsaraTrickstar

Spoilers don't read if you don't want my new wind cutting spoilers.

So the story go to the void now. I really like it. Looks like the next big bad guy is chaos?
What you think ? Like it ? Hate it? Where you think they take the story to.

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It's 100% Golbez. And I'm FAIRLY sure that's going to be the next trial series, not the MSQ. The MSQ is going to be Zenos' Reaper Avatar who I BELIEVE is who was shown briefly at the end of the story.

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Originally Posted by SamsaraTrickstar

Spoilers don't read if you don't want my new wind cutting spoilers.

So the story go to the void now. I really like it. Looks like the next big bad guy is chaos?
What you think ? Like it ? Hate it? Where you think they take the story to.

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The next baddy actually looks more like Golbez. The horned helmet with the glowing mono-eye gives it away. The four fiends look like they're in, though. >w>

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

Don't like that our party is still the Scions. I want more new, original characters.

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Meanwhile I was already upset to party only half of them. I want to keep my friends.

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Originally Posted by SamsaraTrickstar

Spoilers don't read if you don't want my new wind cutting spoilers.

So the story go to the void now. I really like it. Looks like the next big bad guy is chaos?
What you think ? Like it ? Hate it? Where you think they take the story to.

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Nope, that's Golbez and his Four Fiends

I'm intrigued to hit up the void. I'm happy that with as much Vrtra did for us, we can help him heal a very old hurt.

The void by FF lore connects the entire FF franchise, this does open the door to basically everything. One of FF's "easter eggs" is that most of the Gilgameshs you encounter in any FF game ist the one that fell into the void in FF5.

"Unlike other recurring characters, like Cid and Biggs and Wedge, it is heavily implied that the different characters named Gilgamesh encountered in different Final Fantasy games are the same person, using the power of the Rift to travel to different worlds. While this is plausible for some incarnations, there is no clear continuity to which incarnations of Gilgamesh are the same and how they relate to the others, as some Final Fantasy games give Gilgamesh a detailed backstory that may be at odds with his other appearances. In spin-off games, Gilgamesh is almost always representing Final Fantasy V unlike other recurring characters, whose different incarnations usually represent their own respective games."

This means if SE wants to abuse the rift travel, we could end up in almost any FF game, and while that sounds kind of neat this could be really weird ... i don't want to be a side character while cloud fights sephirot ... i want a story i did not see before.

There's also a problem with Golbez hes is not an antagonist but a mind controlled puppet in FF4, i suspect this will be explained later on however. The 4 lords may be our 3 extra non msq trials, because ... SE loves to stick to what they always did. Have one be a dungeon boss like Genbu and the rest be full scale trials.

Or they will be the MSQ trials/Dungeons bosses for a while. Considering its technically 5 bosses, i think the Golbez story line is here to stay for a while, unless they throw them under the bus and kill them all off real fast in solo duties.