Bit of a selfish ask, Do you think 6.0 zones will return to the high fantasy of HW's?

Maybe it's personal preference but I loved the ultra high fantasy of HW zones and would like to see future zones of a similar nature (floating islands, ruined castles, large spires, etc.)

I don't mind to be honest. I love all areas and I don't care of the style as long as they are consistent with the expansion storyline. I love to be surprised. And also I don't think it's selfish to ask something like that. :-)

Personally, I'd prefer the painting-esque landscapes of ARR. Especially now that the dev team has proven that they can make flying work even in smaller, less giant hall-esque maps.

It's just amazing how detailed everything is in La Noscea, the Shroud and Thanalan. Everywhere you look there's something worth screencapping.

I personally would prefer a more fantastical otherworldly looking areas than standard earth like areas. There are only so many deserts and forests you can create to stand out. I like Mor Dhona, Azyz Lla, Churning Mists and even the Lakeland due to the purple tree landscape that looks unique.

I would love more tradionally high fantasy areas but with were we might be going in 6.0 IDK if that's gonna happen.

If we end up going to the internal parts of Garlean Empire I hope they lean into the Roman influences even more. If all we do is explore more of the provinces they one of those could certainly be more high fantasy-esq.

Honestly, as long as it looks pretty I don't mind what kind of aesthetic they go with.

Terncliff and Gangos are two faint glimpses we've gotten of the region and both are quite picturesque.

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Originally Posted by Kiurai

Maybe it's personal preference but I loved the ultra high fantasy of HW zones and would like to see future zones of a similar nature (floating islands, ruined castles, large spires, etc.)

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Nothing like the Gothic Spaceship that flys around the floating islands, or the flying sci-fi fortress and prison filled with robots, or the ruined Steam Punk City filled with Mecha Worshiping Goblins, with a 40k Titan sitting in the lake. All High Fantasy. Yup Yup. Or that Dravanians aka Dragons are interplanetary Aliens, driven to Eorzea by a long lost interstellar war.

I would love to see more regions of Othard, especially the area between Doma and Dalmasca (Nagxia), and also more of eastern Ilsabard.
And more green areas that aren't like Rak'tika. It's nice, but I'd like to see a brighter forest.

Other than that, now that we can fly in ARR zones, I would really love to see better textures for the areas we couldn't see before we could fly. I know it's probably not that easy to make, but it could look so great!
Because the ARR areas weren't designed with flying in mind they look more full of life than some of the newer areas. But it's such a pity that the graphics outside of them are so bad, and the low resolution tiles of the ground.

One thing I do not like about current overworld design is the amount of floating finial style decorations. Sure it might have something to do with the calamity leaving behind weird scars and such but to me it just seems like someone designed landscape and had the personal opinion it looked too boring or something and decided we need to see floating chunks of rocks flying around or spinning in place real slow like to "spice" it up. A few places wouldn't bother me so much but stormblood areas bugged me the absolute most with this as well as a few hw maps. Places like Azys Lla I could understand but churning mists was kind if overboard. Just my "personal" knit pick.

I believe we should be returning to HW starting the next patch most likely. However, we will be making our way to the Garlond empire in 6.0 and controlling regions. We don't know how big it is so they can make it as big if not bigger than currently known Eorzea technically. The empire controls regions from the west to the far east. Ultimately we might find ourselves in the southern island of Merc... I forget what it's called lol. There was an Allagan war there and where there is war, there are artifacts and clues for something. I'm guessing though that would be for patch 7.0+ since we'll need to know how to defeat what attempted to end the Ascians in the beginning. But going back to nearer patches, Hythlodaeus is an interesting character and I don't think his story is over just yet.

Fandaniel is crazy and one of the few ascians left (we don't know exactly who's still alive but can go with an assumption). He wanted to start the arena or whatever he said at the end of the last patch and Ascians has the power to move nations as well as mind control people / dragons / other things. We did nothing yet to prevent the calamity so technically the calamity is still on schedule. Will there be civil war? Will the Dragons be mind controlled? There are many questions yet to be answered but I believe that we are heading to ishgard for a moment at least based on how things are unfolding.