Xelphatol is a dungeon

I guess this means it's not going to be a full region in the next expansion at all....

How so....there no way of knowing that yet. Even if you have all the lore background atm.

Im torn. For one, they did the same with Mhach region surrounding the city itself, so those regions are discarded. On the other hand, maybe it means we are not going to Gyr Abania and Ala Mhigo next expansion.

So yeah, we lost a lore-rich potentially full region with this dungeon for the most probably place the expansion is going, but i guess maybe still there is a chance to head to Meracydia instead.

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

Im torn. For one, they did the same with Mhach region surrounding the city itself, so those regions are discarded. On the other hand, maybe it means we are not going to Gyr Abania and Ala Mhigo next expansion.

So yeah, we lost a lore-rich potentially full region with this dungeon for the most probably place the expansion is going, but i guess maybe still there is a chance to head to Meracydia instead.

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actually it's point into ala miggho directly, remember the dungeon for reach the trial of shiva, it can work like this. make the area of xelphatol soo much dangerous that is not different than a dungeon for cross it.

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

Im torn. For one, they did the same with Mhach region surrounding the city itself, so those regions are discarded. On the other hand, maybe it means we are not going to Gyr Abania and Ala Mhigo next expansion.

So yeah, we lost a lore-rich potentially full region with this dungeon for the most probably place the expansion is going, but i guess maybe still there is a chance to head to Meracydia instead.

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That still not true, we can still go to Ala Mhigo, we have to at some point. It is a town and one we will have to help save at some point too. All this tell us is that we "maybe" get too push in to the next region and see what t "can" look like befor we even get to go there, in the EXP. Yes it a big maybe.. But it not that far off all the same.

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

actually it's point into ala miggho directly, remember the dungeon for reach the trial of shiva, it can work like this. make the area of xelphatol soo much dangerous that is not different than a dungeon for cross it.

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I have a feeling its similar to Snowcloak which is a shame. I hate how so many regions are turning into instance condensed dungeons/raids. Even turing Coerthas Eastern Lowlands into a PVP zone was a lame idea.

well i think you overestimate how many area we have access
so far (from yoshida) we do have maybe 70% of eorzea who is the smallest continent in the world of ff14 :x
then i can understand that they want to deliver more area and finish eorzea for finally move away from it and really start to explore the world

I'm also dissapointed an entire area being scrapped and made into a small dungeon to get rid of it. Maybe we are not going Ala Mhigo after all in 4.0. Or maybe we do just without Xelphatol as a zone we can explore.

So in the future when we inevitably get expansions to the Xelphatol dungeon like Xelphatol HM and "the Lost City" of Xelphatol, Xelphatol Keep, and "the Weeping City" of Xelphatol, are we still going to complain about the lack of size and lore?

This just seems like some very short sighted knee jerking.

Idk, I'm excited the next dungeon is Xelph. Means we're very likely getting Ala Mhigo and surrounding region in 4.0 and most likely pushing into the empire in 5.0.