I'm glad Meracydia isn't in 8.0 *SPOILERS*

When I heard Meracydia wasn't going to be in 8.0 I breathed a sigh of relief.

Dragon's might be an iconic representation of the fantasy genre, but it's gotten to be a point where we almost don't see a single expansion without them being featured somewhere (with some extents being extreme and others being lesser).

At a glance, here's how often we've dragons on our screen (often pivital characters in a story):
ARR - Binding Coils of Bahamut, Bahamut Trial, Keeper of the Lake, Crystal Tower
Heavenward - Heavily and centrally used throughout
Stormblood - Shinryu, Omega Raid, Wyverns + Drakes appearing in zones
Shadowbringers - Rarely used, but dragonkin representation is shown in Lakeland, Ill Meg, Kholusia and the trial mount rewards
Endwalker - Frequent again in the MSQ (Vrtra, Azdaja etc) and in Ultima Thule
Dawntrail - None from memory

It's pretty clear we've explored dragons extensively but the idea of any future expansions heavily featuring them makes me bored beyond relief. They've been given the spotlight enough.

What do you think? Do you like dragons and want to see more? I am just a dragon racist?

Off the top of my head, in DT Vrtra and a bunch of dragons make an appearance to defend Tuliyollal from S9's army. Other than that, I don't really remember dragons being around for Dawntrail.


When well-written, dragons are often my favorite characters in the game. I don't think there's anything wrong with them being featured if they're well thought out. I think having a break from them and letting the writers clean up some of the messes from DT's MSQ and hopefully jump into a more polished storyline is great for us.


I feel the same way about the Allagans tbh, somehow everything is always due to them so I'm glad we're not going to Allagan Ruins part 23542378: Electric Boogaloo anytime soon LOL


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Sure, we had a couple of dragons, but not a dragon expansion. Even Heavensward was more focused on just two or so dragons and mainly about the people of Ishgard.

But saying that we explored dragons "extensively" just because we met some or had a couple in the other extensions, would be the same as saying that WoW explored dragons extensively after Cataclysm. And then came Dragonflight.

Im more glad that they arent tackling Meracydia, because of the current talent level of the writing staff.
I think it would be severely lackinh, and a waste of a great location.

Besides, Meracydia is a lot more than just dragons. But with the current staff? Instead of the people hinted by Sophia, Sephiroth and Zurvan. We would probably get recoloured beast tribes. The Banu Banu, Zahagin, Boblins and Doogles

I'd love more dragon stuff, but it's one of those things where they'd need a different angle than the ones they've used so far for the dragons. I mean, if there are dragons there that view it as a dragonsong war against the extinct allagans it's not gonna work.

We've also been to multiple simple settlements of dragons such as Dravania and the Churning Mists, arguably Azys Lla given they caught so many of them and experimented on them there, and Ultima Thule. And then we had an example of a peaceful dragon co-existing with humans in Thavnair. So they'd need a new idea.

Land of the dragon maids.

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Originally Posted by avraymk

I am a dragon racist.

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Originally Posted by Astronema

Land of the dragon maids.

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Yoshi P ain't having that!

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the shard we may go to may be a world of dragons... or more like dragonlike creatures.
its not impossible

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Originally Posted by Asari5

the shard we may go to may be a world of dragons... or more like dragonlike creatures.
its not impossible

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Please, can we give the whole another shard thing a break for one expansion?

Not sure I would say I'm relieved as such - I, personally, err toward hoping we explore more of the source rather than visiting another shard.

However, it did seem a little too coincidental that circumstances kept taking us to locations on Emet-Selch's 'list' of places he suggested we visit.

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I WILL report you for this slander.

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Sure, we had a couple of dragons, but not a dragon expansion. Even Heavensward was more focused on just two or so dragons and mainly about the people of Ishgard.

But saying that we explored dragons "extensively" just because we met some or had a couple in the other extensions, would be the same as saying that WoW explored dragons extensively after Cataclysm. And then came Dragonflight.

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The volume is much higher than you allude. They were a significant theme in Heavensward, especially in the post 3.0 patches.

Constantly being featured in across most expansions (but not limited to):
Open World
Dungeons
MSQ
Trials
Raids

But i am a dragon racist.

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I feel the same way about the Allagans tbh, somehow everything is always due to them so I'm glad we're not going to Allagan Ruins part 23542378: Electric Boogaloo anytime soon LOL

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When Endwalker launched its Deep Dungeon, I kept asking myself... did we need yet another Crystal Tower/Allagan themed storyline to back it up?

If they wanted a high tech setting for that DD, they already had a pretty good case in Garlemald. Underground of the Babil Tower, or another abandoned undergound facility. It would be a great chance to even explore the origins of the Black Rose, which seemed to be a huge plot point in Stormblood, but unfortunately dealt with off screen.

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When Endwalker launched its Deep Dungeon, I kept asking myself... did we need yet another Crystal Tower/Allagan themed storyline to back it up?

If they wanted a high tech setting for that DD, they already had a pretty good case in Garlemald. Underground of the Babil Tower, or another abandoned undergound facility. It would be a great chance to even explore the origins of the Black Rose, which seemed to be a huge plot point in Stormblood, but unfortunately dealt with off screen.

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I completely forgot about the Black Rose storyline (which speaks to your implication of the missed oppurtunity for them to expand on this story arc).

Meracydia feels like a panic button now that Viera have hats (kind of).

There's plenty of unexplored land even around Eorzea to go to, but the promise of a land of dragons sure is a pretty carrot to string players along.

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However, it did seem a little too coincidental that circumstances kept taking us to locations on Emet-Selch's 'list' of places he suggested we visit.

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I'm sorry but that was bleeding obvious to me all the way back in 6.0 when it first happened. If you didn't think that was going to happen, I don't know what to tell you.

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I'm sorry but that was bleeding obvious to me all the way back in 6.0 when it first happened. If you didn't think that was going to happen, I don't know what to tell you.

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I'm not saying that I didn't think it would happen. I'm saying that it was too coincidental that we've been 'pushed' toward those locations rather than doing what Estinien did (in DT) where he literally boarded a ship saying "I think I'll head to the West this time".

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Originally Posted by Astronema

Land of the dragon maids.

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Sorry, you will enjoy your live twins aesthetics in s9!

So by how things are going, I guess we'll never get Meracidya. Bummer.