Thread: Zanarkand.

So with the 8.0 coming up, do you guys think it's a perfect moment for them to use Zanarkand in the next expansion? We that Meracydia will not be in the upcoming expansion, and it's highly possible that we might go further to Ilsabard and the Near East. It's also the chance that we might go look for Blindfront, which could be the perfect location for that to be Zanarkand.

What do you guys think?

There is a high chance we are getting a Tank and a pRange next expantion. The only job/class/weapontype that comes to my mind that is missing in the pRange role is a blitzball(er). If Blitzballer is the next pRange there is pretty much no reason to not pair it with a FF10 themed expantion. BUT I doubt we are getting FF10 regions. Only references like the one in Shadowbringer (FF8) and Dawntrail (FF9).

We sorta kinda already had Zanarkand. Twice--in the Tempest and Living Memory. Dawntrail was as much FFX as it was FFIX, the FFX references were just a smidge more subtle (Macalania Woods aside). I suppose they could make a much more overt Zanarkand.

If the next expansion is basically a rehash of FF10's story with us traveling to Zanarkand and dealing with Sin then I've lost all hope for FF14's creativity team.

Referencing past games or bringing back a group of bosses for side content is fine, but they should never just reuse a previous game's storyline for the MSQ plot. Post-Endwalker and the second half of Dawntrail to 7.3 left no room for surprises. I shouldn't be able to predict the future locations and trials several patches in advanced simply based on how closely the story is following a previous game.

haven't summoners suffered enough?!

...we calling mighty fur beetle to destroy the rest of their kit now? QQ

Zanarkand is just another version of amurot; which is also dead ends, and lunar subterrane, and Alexandria

While zanarakand works flawlessly in 10 it bumps up way to close to threads already rehashed to death in 14. Honestly they need to leave 10 alone at the moment

Can we just get an original story without having to piggyback off of older Final Fantasy stories?

just make the game a souls like ez win worked with strangers paradise

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Originally Posted by Garruss

Can we just get an original story without having to piggyback off of older Final Fantasy stories?

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i kinda doubt they are able to do that tbh

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Originally Posted by Asari5

i kinda doubt they are able to do that tbh

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They can add a different twist to Zanarkand. Like it can be the resting place of the Au Ra Khan that went to Bifrost. It even can be another enter point to the aetherial sea. Keep the connection of souls.

Along with Blitzballer as the next pRanged class, I hope they give Summoner three new summons. I'm tired of Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda. Give us Ramuh, Leviathan, Odin.

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Originally Posted by Korrcen

Along with Blitzballer as the next pRanged class, I hope they give Summoner three new summons. I'm tired of Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda. Give us Ramuh, Leviathan, Odin.

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That's the way SMN should have been done. I liked the idea of the new direction they went with it, and I say that as someone who has played SMN for 12 years, but it feels empty until the later levels and they should have given us a 2nd rotation instead of Solar Bahamut, which nobody likes.

Also I hope to Yevon we get Blitzballer as the pranged. A class that has dynamic-looking animations, was a debuffer in its original series and can enforce a buffer/debuffer identity among pranged like how healers have a regen/shielder identity, and nostalgia bait? It's the whole package.

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Originally Posted by Pimsan20

It's also the chance that we might go look for Blindfront, which could be the perfect location for that to be Zanarkand.

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The area around the Blindfrost is an empty frozen tundra that's sparsely populated by Xaela hunters surviving on the edge of a knife. There's no known ports or cities and a frozen sea doesn't fit Zanarkand anyway.

There's not really anything there that could support a whole expansion and 6 zones of interesting and varied content and locations that could also hold the interest of the playerbase at large. The Unpromised is likely Emet-Selch's "treasure's of the Blindfrost" since that's about where a past Khan who pillaged Ilsabard brought back his spoils before being killed, but that feels more like prime V&C content that something worthy of a whole expansion. People really took "Winterer" literally and I don't think the answer to that is going to be quite that. And I'd much rather the next expansion clear the cloud cover that's obscuring the middle of the map of the world rather than hopping to some other Shard or to a forgotten corner of the revealed world that no one cares about.

If Zanarkand were ever brought into the game I expect it would be a location within Meracydia to tie into Sephirot's worshippers likely being some version of the Guado race. I expect Blindfrost will eventually be visited only in a single dungeon instance like was done with Xelphatol and The Burn.

as others have said, we had zanarkand twice already. the good news is that they also rehashed FFIV twice in a row, so i don't think that will matter LOL

Also didn't Yoshida deny Blitzball recently as a minigame?

I personally would find very weird to add a Blitzballer job without an actual Blitzball minigame somewhere.

I assume we'll be world jumping again all things considered, but personally want something original, pretty tired of the all these other FF tie ins/inspirations...

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Originally Posted by Hanayumi

I assume we'll be world jumping again all things considered, but personally want something original, pretty tired of the all these other FF tie ins/inspirations...

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With Dawntrail essentially being Stormblood 2.0, you may be onto something there.