FC airship crafting. Is it coming in 2.55 (2.5 part B) ?

FC building airships has been mentioned quite a few months ago, iirc before even expansion stuff (new areas, beast tribes, jobs, ...) was ever mentioned.

However, we've not heard anything else after that.


I found this info online, about Patch 2.5 part B:

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* FC Airship Building (??)
** FC DoH Workshop to be added.
** Players with a FC House will be able to set up this workshop within their basement. (MMORPG.com; 10/24/2014)
*** Classified as "large scale" content. (MMORPG.com; 08/23/2014)
*** Can build airships with FC.
*** Can build other "large" items with FC.
*** One of the first items you will be able to build with your FC will be the Aetherial Wheel. (MMORPG.com; 10/24/2014)
*** Process of building items will occur in a magically miniaturized machine, then magnify to it's full size once you bring it out into the field.
*** Will require lots of manpower and time to complete. (Secrets of Eorzea; 07/18/2014)
*** Boating and engine must be crafted. (Secrets of Eorzea; 07/18/2014)
*** Airship will have a captain, and other roles to steer the ship. (Secrets of Eorzea; 07/18/2014)
*** Airship experience will be different from flying around on map. (Secrets of Eorzea; 07/18/2014)
*** Some content will only be accessible by airships.
*** Airship content will be expanded upon with patches.

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source: http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/122723



Is the FC airship crafting coming before expansion (2.5 part B) or only on expansion (3.0) or even after that (3.1+) ?

Any dev response with "Yes it's coming before Expansion" or "No it's not coming before" would be really appreciated.

Thank you!

In my opinion it won't be coming until the expansion. It seems like much to large of a content update for them to ship with 2.5b. Since the promotional value they gain from an addition like this is so large, It would make more sense to me if they made it a large selling point of the xpac.

They could add it in 2.5B, but I doubt it will include airships. From what we've seen you can use it to customize the roof of the estate, they also mention the Aetherial Wheel as the first thing you can build, which I assume means upgrading it to Grade 2 and so on since we already have an Aetherial Wheel.

That could be in 2.5B, and I hope it will be because the Aetherial Wheel is kind of worthless without Grade 2 wheels...

Considering we won't be able to fly until the expansion, doesn't make much sense for us to be building airships before then.