The Peaks sure didn't get much love in this expansion.

You visit it a couple times for the leveling MSQ (I don\\'t think you ever go back post-70), a couple Job quests and the occasional hunt and that\\'s about it. No primals, no additional duties, nothing new (as far as I can tell) since release. Meanwhile Yanxia and The Ruby Sea get dungeons, msq additions and primals out the whazoo. It\\'s like the devs forgot the Zone existed, which is a shame because it has a nice aesthetic (especially around Ala Ghanna).

I suppose in the end it doesn\\'t matter all that much since even unlocking content doesn\\'t require you to spend all that much time there, I just thought it was interesting.

I thought the Peaks were far more interesting than the Fringes aesthetically, so it's sad that nothing really got added to it.

Ala Mhigo definitely suffered a lot from the split focus, though The Lochs probably ended off worse than The Peaks. It feels like the sixth zone is always the one that suffers from being barren, though Azys Lla was probably worse in that regard.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

Ala Mhigo definitely suffered a lot from the split focus, though The Lochs probably ended off worse than The Peaks. It feels like the sixth zone is always the one that suffers from being barren, though Azys Lla was probably worse in that regard.

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I rank the Lochs a bit above The Peaks because even though it's not new content, Ixion keeps people coming back and you do visit it a few times in the post-70 msq. Also The Burn is there.

I'm still waiting for some of the more unique areas in some of the zones to payoff... The Peaks, The Lochs, Dravanian Forelands especially. For example, that area in the Northeast of the Forelands only accessible with flight that leads to what appears to be a large stone door... where does that go? Will we ever find out?

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I rank the Lochs a bit above The Peaks because even though it's not new content, Ixion keeps people coming back and you do visit it a few times in the post-70 msq. Also The Burn is there.

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The Burn is in Othard, just past Doma. Are you thinking of the Ghimlyt Dark?

They were way to focused on the little Japan areas. I mean I know they wanted to pay homage to their own art and history and that is great, but it really should have had its own expac. The war of Ala Mhigo was a long time coming and could have been something incredible if they would not have insisted on making it all about Doma.

Everything, including Doma, suffered for the split story. But Ala Mhigo really got the shaft.

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For example, that area in the Northeast of the Forelands only accessible with flight that leads to what appears to be a large stone door... where does that go? Will we ever find out?

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There are so many places in this game that feel like SOMETHING should be there and then naaaaaaw.

Gyr Abania has a ton of them. Heres this spooky cave entrance and... nothing! Heres this creepy building and... nothing.

Here... nothing.

MMO experience tells me there should be stuff here. 14 tells me its just a giant cave they put there and didnt bother with after that.

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There are so many places in this game that feel like SOMETHING should be there and then naaaaaaw.

Gyr Abania has a ton of them. Heres this spooky cave entrance and... nothing! Heres this creepy building and... nothing.

Here... nothing.

MMO experience tells me there should be stuff here. 14 tells me its just a giant cave they put there and didnt bother with after that.

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They started doing this because when they had ideas for things to add in ARR, and to an extent HW, they didn't have anywhere for it to go that made any sense.

So they started dropping interesting little things all over the map with no specific intentions, so that if a cool idea sprung to mind, they had somewhere ready to put it.

I still want to know more about that ship myself. I've flown past it too many times in gathering not to wonder what may be lurking there.

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I still want to know more about that ship myself. I've flown past it too many times in gathering not to wonder what may be lurking there.

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I have a sneaking suspicion that if we ever go to the moon, it'll probably be via that ship. The fact that it looks otherworldly and hasn't been used yet is kind of a flag of future use...assuming SE takes and USES that flag.

Aesthetically, The Peaks received a lot of love. It's my favorite SB zone to be in for the visuals and the music. When hunts and gathering/fishing have me go there I am one happy camper.

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I still want to know more about that ship myself. I've flown past it too many times in gathering not to wonder what may be lurking there.

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It's in sightseeing log and was explained a little further by dev Koji. A sharlayan guy used teleportion magicks on that vessel to save people from the flood calamity of 6th umbral, but his math was a bit off and it ended up sending them to the Peaks rather than his intended destination :)

I'm honestly surprised we did literally nothing with that boat. It was mentioned once and never acknowledged again in any way, shape or form. (maybe a sightseeing spot? don't remember)

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I'm honestly surprised we did literally nothing with that boat. It was mentioned once and never acknowledged again in any way, shape or form. (maybe a sightseeing spot? don't remember)

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It does have a sightseeing vista, yes.

My hope is that the boat ends up being a dungeon in 5.x.

The peaks were probably going to be home to the quiqirn beast tribe quests sadly namazu became popular so quiqirn were left alone. The boat may have a dungeon tied to it in the future but it would probably have something to do with ast/rdm/whm/blm or the calamity of water

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The peaks were probably going to be home to the quiqirn beast tribe quests sadly namazu became popular so quiqirn were left alone. The boat may have a dungeon tied to it in the future but it would probably have something to do with ast/rdm/whm/blm or the calamity of water

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Or Sharlayan, since it is more tied to Sharlayan history then any of the branches of magic, except maybe AST.

The ship *has* to be some kind of future dungeon/trial/plot point. It's too big and out-of-place (very unusual design) to just be there for a minor detail not even covered in the game itself.

The temple of Schism is another spot that seems like a plot point in waiting. Rather ominous, and yet the only thing it got used for was a brief stop on the wild dodo chase that was the Stormblood DRG questline (with random cameo by Erik from the MNK quests).

That boat is, for all intents and purposes, FF14's version of Noah's Ark.
Even including it's location: the Ark is said to lie on a mountain in Turkey, exactly where Ala Mhigo sits on the similar world map.

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The ship *has* to be some kind of future dungeon/trial/plot point. It's too big and out-of-place (very unusual design) to just be there for a minor detail not even covered in the game itself.

The temple of Schism is another spot that seems like a plot point in waiting. Rather ominous, and yet the only thing it got used for was a brief stop on the wild dodo chase that was the Stormblood DRG questline (with random cameo by Erik from the MNK quests).

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Schism is an important part of the monk job quest for what it's worth, but you never really have to go inside.