The Last Word – Storm over Gridania

[Arcell]

I'm curious about the deaspected crystals mentioned in the second paragraph. A type of crystal called Deaspected Crystal with the following description:

This translucent crystal seems to have been completely drained of its elemental aspect.

and a quest item call "Unaspected Crystal"(dunno if this one is already in a quest or not) were found in the dats after the 1.17 patch. I don't know if what is described in "The last word" is already implemented and just need to be activate or if we'll have to wait for a future patch but it seem it'll come soon.

Those were part of a story quest, though I won't say which or for what reason for the sake of spoilers. It was not one of the last ones however.

[Sigmakan]

I'm intersted to see if this actual translates into something in-game. I'd be a bit disappointed if it was just lore and not a hint of things to come.

My guess is that they'll redo East Forest a bit since that area is very very mazy and have the 'end-game' dungeon stem from somehwere in that area.

[Arcell]

Does anyone happen to know where they originally said they were going to do something with the Black Shroud zone? I remember seeing it a while ago but I can't seem to find it anymore.

[Peregrine]

With all the deaspected crystals in grid and it being so close to the empire, do you think we could just sell the real estate to the beastmen and get the heck out of dodge? No? Ugh, FINE. Freaking gridania...you are the weakest link!

[Chrees]

Does anyone happen to know where they originally said they were going to do something with the Black Shroud zone? I remember seeing it a while ago but I can't seem to find it anymore.

I believe you're talking about this post by Yoshi-P on the Japanese forums.

[Arcell]

Ah true, can we get a slightly better translation on that than Google translate? lol. I remember there was one floating around a while ago. Thanks for the link though.

[Sojiro]

Oh wow, sounds like we're on the brink of something big, I can not wait! ^^ Here is to hoping we see a judge-like gunblade wielding garlean blowing the hell up out of things (like the pre-release trailer)

[Xmbei]

I believe you're talking about this post by Yoshi-P on the Japanese forums.

That post is talking about map collisions. Which they have kind of already fixed, such as some of those high steps can now be stepped over not detoured around. There was no mention of gridania in that post....

[Cairdeas]

That post is talking about map collisions. Which they have kind of already fixed, such as some of those high steps can now be stepped over not detoured around. There was no mention of gridania in that post....

They mentioned short term fixes and a major refurbishment of the entire zone. The short term fixes are in.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I think anyone expecting huge changes to the zones apperance is going to be left dissapointed. I think FF XIV's world is the most boring, bland and depressing place i have ever seen in a game. It is a pathetic and lazy copy paste job. Making the enviroments look better would really help improve the game, i just can't see it happening. Future zones will be better for sure but they arent going to change existing zones. Don't build your hopes up, you will only be dissapointed.