8.0/Blindfrost glam

So with the gear restrictions being removed in 7.4 for glam. And the hints we have of going to Blindfrost. What would be your winter glam to travel towards north of Othard?

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Originally Posted by Pimsan20

So with the gear restrictions being removed in 7.4 for glam. And the hints we have of going to Blindfrost. What would be your winter glam to travel towards north of Othard?

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If we do ended up going there, probably the EW garlean gear as they're the closest to proper winter outfit (that doesn't look off used in combat).

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Originally Posted by Kozh

If we do ended up going there, probably the EW garlean gear as they're the closest to proper winter outfit (that doesn't look off used in combat).

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Funny that you mention it. I just made a Garlean winter glam not long ago! Mix it with other type to match it for my character, my alt is wearing a Darbar glam.

Probably the cosmosuit, it has great regulated internal temperature and carefully monitored vitals.

But more seriously I honestly don't know.

I remember going to camp Broken glass in my dancer outfit that was the 2 b bottoms and a small top big boots lol It looked so out of out place :D

I will go for something more weather appropriate if it is cold like I am hoping ^O^

Can I ask where these hints are for where we're going? I mea,n I know we are not going to Meracydia

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Originally Posted by Garruss

Can I ask where these hints are for where we're going? I mea,n I know we are not going to Meracydia

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People are assuming Blindfrost because of the “winterer” thing… which usually means going somewhere warm to wait out the winter, but could also be metaphorical in that this “group” could have been waiting out the end of the Hydaelyn/Zodiark saga.

I just hope its cold I am so over anything tropical or summery lol

Blindfrost feels like a reach and what we know about that region is that it’s empty tundra with scattered nomad Xaela-ish people and no cities, which doesn’t feel like enough content to fill a whole expansion. I’d wait until we learn more before you start going crazy into glam farming.

If I had to put my money anywhere, I’d probably say Corvos since we’ve had a lot more hints to there beyond YouTuber crazy corkboard theories. We’re getting a Corvos storybook VC dungeon in the next patch too. At least that place would be more interesting and actually uncover stuff on the map.

Maybe it's gonna be all over the place again, because the devs do not learn.

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Blindfrost feels like a reach and what we know about that region is that it’s empty tundra with scattered nomad Xaela-ish people and no cities, which doesn’t feel like enough content to fill a whole expansion.

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Idk, we didn't know much about tural/new world yet we get dawntrail. With enough imagination blindfrost could be interesting. Heck, knowing nothing about that region means they can go crazy with it.

Personally I don't really care if we go there or corvos, so long it's not meracydia
/shrug

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Originally Posted by Kozh

Idk, we didn't know much about tural/new world yet we get dawntrail. With enough imagination blindfrost could be interesting. Heck, knowing nothing about that region means they can go crazy with it.

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Before Dawntrail we had Mamool Ja NPCs hanging around and a dungeon devoted to them, multiple items referencing the New World, and the whole BLU questline since the job itself originates there so there was a lot of potential.

For Blindfrost we just have 1 line in-game that tells us there’s treasure there and a few lines of nearby areas in the encyclopedia that describe how bleak and empty it is. The treasure dungeon we know is near there is prime VC content but I can’t see it carrying a whole expansion on its own that solely keeps us in North Othard.

While the devs could just retcon all that and put stuff there, I’d much rather they instead put an expansion in a place we actually have context for, that finally clears cloud cover on the map over Ilsabard, and could provide a nice spread of varied landscapes for the zones.

I don't know, we already have so many big coats in the game. I'm not sure I want more winter inspired glam, unless we got a new coat silhouette out of it. Long cloaks that float in the wind would be awesome, like from the Heavensward trailer, but I don't think it's really possible with the games engine.

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Before Dawntrail we had Mamool Ja NPCs hanging around and a dungeon devoted to them, multiple items referencing the New World, and the whole BLU questline since the job itself originates there so there was a lot of potential.

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Potential that get kinda ignored in DT anyway except for a reference or two, especially BLU questline lol

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Originally Posted by Kozh

Potential that get kinda ignored in DT anyway except for a reference or two, especially BLU questline lol

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I'm an atheist for Blue Magic. BLU doesn't exist.

While I don't think Blindfrost will be the main focus of 8.0, I do think, and hope we explore the rest of Ilsabard then. I hope we get a lot of fantasy dieselpunk inspired stuff.

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Originally Posted by mallleable

While I don't think Blindfrost will be the main focus of 8.0, I do think, and hope we explore the rest of Ilsabard then. I hope we get a lot of fantasy dieselpunk inspired stuff.

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Same. I've been wanting an ilsabard expansion for years now. Plus the last time they mentioned it, thancred said there's been fighting amongst the colonies liberated from garlean. That's a good potential for nuanced conflict (so long it's not written by whoever responsible for DT)

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Originally Posted by Luluna

I just hope its cold I am so over anything tropical or summery lol

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Same! I don't care where we go, just please let it be cold.... Out of everywhere we have been, only three places have been snowy/winter landscapes. Versus desert/arid landscapes of which we have like nine? And the rest are just forests or tropical. I want more proper cold climates! Garlemald and Coerthas isn't enough, especially since Coerthas is designed to be a landscape 'that used to be temperate and only recently became super cold' so it doesn't really fill the niche that well in my opinion.

Tural was so painfully underutilized in Dawntrail as the story so fully went in on Alexandria's (admittedly more interesting) storyline.

God, I want a new hub city that's got the vibrancy of Tulliyolol or Radz-at-Han with a thick layer of snow. Both Ishgard and (what's left of) Garlemald were brutalist in their building design. Sharlayan was much prettier but also very stark with the white and teal marble architecture. I'm hoping for a Nordic inspired nation for when we go to Blindfrost. Elaborate wood carvings, colorful runestones, highly patterned fabrics, lots of jewelry.

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Originally Posted by RedLolly

Tural was so painfully underutilized in Dawntrail as the story so fully went in on Alexandria's (admittedly more interesting) storyline.

God, I want a new hub city that's got the vibrancy of Tulliyolol or Radz-at-Han with a thick layer of snow. Both Ishgard and (what's left of) Garlemald were brutalist in their building design. Sharlayan was much prettier but also very stark with the white and teal marble architecture. I'm hoping for a Nordic inspired nation for when we go to Blindfrost. Elaborate wood carvings, colorful runestones, highly patterned fabrics, lots of jewelry.

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I would love that (nordic inspired). Or maybe instead of nordic, since blindfrost is more eastern-ish (iirc?), it's more native Siberian - ainu inspired.

Fat Chocobo Head
Emperor's New Tunic
2B Leggings

J/k, but I'd just wear whatever my character has on, so probably the butler's attire

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Before Dawntrail we had Mamool Ja NPCs hanging around and a dungeon devoted to them, multiple items referencing the New World, and the whole BLU questline since the job itself originates there so there was a lot of potential.

For Blindfrost we just have 1 line in-game that tells us there’s treasure there and a few lines of nearby areas in the encyclopedia that describe how bleak and empty it is. The treasure dungeon we know is near there is prime VC content but I can’t see it carrying a whole expansion on its own that solely keeps us in North Othard.

While the devs could just retcon all that and put stuff there, I’d much rather they instead put an expansion in a place we actually have context for, that finally clears cloud cover on the map over Ilsabard, and could provide a nice spread of varied landscapes for the zones.

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Don't doom yet.

For Dawntrail we were promised native America and cowboys, and we still ended up with shard travel and cyberpunk.

Endwalker, we were told it'd be about Sharlayan and Zodiark, and we ended up playing catch with baby Hydaelyn and having a friendly duel while standing on the literal outer edge of the universe.

8.0 could be in Agartha for all we know.

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Originally Posted by Luluna

I just hope its cold I am so over anything tropical or summery lol

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Same! I want mostly snowy and icy zones.

As long as it isn't summery or desert.

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Originally Posted by Shinku_Tachi

Same! I want mostly snowy and icy zones.

As long as it isn't summery or desert.

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Antartica expansion where we were hired to protect some sharlayan researchers who's there to study penguins.

(Obviously a joke but unironically I would like this. An expansion where we are truly an adventurer and we fight monsters instead of villains)

Winter glam you ask?

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Originally Posted by Kozh

I would love that (nordic inspired). Or maybe instead of nordic, since blindfrost is more eastern-ish (iirc?), it's more native Siberian - ainu inspired.

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OOooooh, that would be gorgeous, too!

I just want pops of color and detail between patches of white snow. Our cold towns are grey, black, and then white. Please.

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Originally Posted by RedLolly

OOooooh, that would be gorgeous, too!

I just want pops of color and detail between patches of white snow. Our cold towns are grey, black, and then white. Please.

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OMG! Yes! There has to be some poppin' colors in the mix.

We got enough brown and greys and overall blandness in games during the PS360 era (7th gen) to last me a lifetime, lol.

The other reason Blindfrost is being brought up is because we've been ticking things off Emet's list

"Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Othard's north?"

To the OP, if sticking to non-silliness like a bikini, then I would use Garlean gear.

To answer the op, I'm going to finally get use out of that cute glam I made using the Wintertide coat and fuzzy baret.