What is... The Battle of Isharg?

Title Typo!!! Supposed to be Ishgard

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Before the Fall - Part 2 is still coming and people seem to have forgotten about it. As per the Screenshot it will contain more main scenario quests and will also have the Battle of Ishgard. What that battle will entail, I'm not entirely sure but I remember the final days of 1.0 where all hell broke loose. Yoshi-P said the end of 2.0 will be on the same scale as the end of 1.0 and when comparing it to 1.0 I can imagine Eorzea being overrun by Dragons. If you werent there for the end of 1.0 I'll post some screenshots. See if you recognize some of the places. It was such an exciting time and player created events ended up in the in-game lore. I squeed when I saw reference to "The Great Gobbue Wall" not to mention the endless waves of forces we fought in Carteneau. I was there for those with my 1.0 Chr. There was also the praying at the shrines that earned you a unique set of earrings(?), Atomos terrorizing areas, and Garlean airships patrolling the skies. It was an experience and a half! I seem to recall reading somewhere that there might be some setup at the end of 2.0 to make the FC Summoning thing make sense within the lore of the realm.

Gobbue Wall
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Infected Aetherite camps overrun by mobs.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...14b688d22bb6ad

These guys should't be here....
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Neither should these guys...
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...0a&oe=558433B5

Here's me snapping a shot of the airships
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I still think there will be some really fun end of the patch content coming. If this patch was big enough to have a Part 2 to it instead of just 2.55 we are in for some fun. There is still nothing released about this and the button on the official Before the Fall website is still greyed out, instead they are diverting attention to the Heavensward stuff. I'm looking forward to it since it should be coming near the end of the month!

Does anyone else have any ideas, information, or theories as to what the Battle of Ishgard is? I also find it interesting it is called the "Battle of" and not the "Battle for". Is this intentional or translation differences? Hope SE will shed a little light on it soon!

Potentially a Prologue to Heavensward that won't be needed to complete in order to do expansion but rather a nice tease/incentive for getting content done to get a little bit of added story for those who have completed all of the 2.0 Scenario.

Yeah, my best guess is that it's a teaser event that will lead up to the expansion. Only to be experienced by those playing at the time.

Perhaps a dungeon in Ishgard fighting dragons, all so SE can say "This is what is coming.... stay tuned in Heavensward."

A constant FATE having us defend Ishgard from attacking Dragon hordes along side whole contingents of Doman Au Ra refugee fighters led by Yugiri and the Scions?

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Originally Posted by MageBlack

End of v1 awesomeness.

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This is what I'm hoping for.

I'm actually kinda surprised there has been no mention of P2.5 Part 2 aside from the pic in the OP

It is the final part of 2.X Main Scenario where the WoL will defend Ishgard against the Dragon army.

The 2.5 Trailer showed parts of the Battle of Ishgard Main Scenario. You'll see Lady Ice Heart and a certain Black Armored Elezen Dragoon character (If you played Dragoon Job Quest you'll know who he is) in that part of the trailer.

This all leads to the Coup d'etat in Ul'dah where Teledji finally makes his move to take over Ul'dah and a Traitor among the Crystal Brave is revealed. The trailer seem to hint that he may succeed with the Coup and force the WoL into hiding.

Probably has to do with they did/will do to this dragon which they hung the corpse in Snowcloak where Lady Iceheart and her heretics can see
http://i.imgur.com/9Oen4qP.png

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Originally Posted by MageBlack

I'm actually kinda surprised there has been no mention of P2.5 Part 2 aside from the pic in the OP

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most likely gonna be at the next live letter since that falls around a week b4 patch will come so i assume some info will come then :3

I'm curious about this myself, i can see it being some form of large FATE which will happen over time.

Im hoping for some mass FATE where we fend off dragons!

Perhaps they will open up the gates of judgement and its a FATE that takes part on the bridge?

I just hope I'll be able to participate in it... I'm lvl 50 and have done a lot of the main story (almost unlocked all the HM dungeons too), but they added so much more to the main quests after the base game I don't see myself being able to finish it in time!

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Originally Posted by Elmeron

I just hope I'll be able to participate in it... I'm lvl 50 and have done a lot of the main story (almost unlocked all the HM dungeons too), but they added so much more to the main quests after the base game I don't see myself being able to finish it in time!

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Considering the expansion won't be released until June the 19th (early access), you'll have much more than enough time to catch up with the main scenario.

Maybe it's this, will be last Trial for 2.x like we fight White Raven in 1.x?

http://i.imgur.com/ZpcBJTY.jpg

The Japanese word that's translated to "battle" there lost some meaning in translation. 防衛戰 means defensive battle and was used in the Japanese name of "Hamlet Defense" (if my memory serves me right). At least I find that interesting.

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Originally Posted by Gwaeron

The Japanese word that's translated to "battle" there lost some meaning in translation. 防衛戰 means defensive battle and was used in the Japanese name of "Hamlet Defense" (if my memory serves me right). At least I find that interesting.

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Now THAT is something to take note of. Thanks!

im really worried about Sir Aymerick turning out to be a bad guy.

Spoilerz

I'm pretty sure thats Aymeric with the evil grin and blood spatter on his face with the shadow of an ascian on the Before the Fall banner

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Originally Posted by KaedrianLiang

im really worried about Sir Aymerick turning out to be a bad guy.

Spoilerz

I'm pretty sure thats Aymeric with the evil grin and blood spatter on his face with the shadow of an ascian on the Before the Fall banner

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Have you seen that picture of Aymericks deputy woman/lady where it shows her with a "third eye"? (Last time I checked on pure blooded Garleans like Cid Garlond have a third eye)

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Originally Posted by Gwaeron

The Japanese word that's translated to "battle" there lost some meaning in translation. 防衛戰 means defensive battle and was used in the Japanese name of "Hamlet Defense" (if my memory serves me right). At least I find that interesting.

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All this really means is the event will have us in one place fending off an attack rather than instigating the attack ourselves.
Which is really the only practical way to handle a "battle" in an MMO anyway unless new mechanics are specifically created. Think about how many FATEs and leves we have that are basically us defending one piece of ground against something.

i hope is a main scenario instead of a fate ._.

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

i hope is a main scenario instead of a fate ._.

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i doubt its a fate think its gonna be more praetorium type main scenario dungeon

You sure its truely dead?

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Originally Posted by godwin

You sure its truely dead?

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Good point! - We thought Midgardsormr was dead!

I'm hoping for a nice server wide fate for the last week before the expansion and a nice cap off event for the last day and maybe hours of 2.0 like they did in 1.0.
the final cutscene after the servers when down was pretty damn moving and fitting way to close out that chapter of the game.

Well shit is going to go down in ul dah. Once that part is done we will proceed to coerthas fend off an asician again and then come face to face with iceheart. And finally all will end with a climatic dragon battle. Instanced of course.

Or have it like the end of 1.0 when mobs were everywhere but have Coethas full of dragons, fates with dragons, and the last fate NM with Fafnir