New area speculation for 1st expansion

[gothikka]

how do you guys think they will handle the garlean fortresses that currently exist in the next expansion? It is weird that they are all still there in the open world with imperials still protecting them even tho one of them has been blown to smithereens...

I dont see how they could change it due to the fact that they are main story missions for new players, they cant really get rid of them, can they?

I was kinda thinking those imperial forces could just be "scattered remnants" or something like that.

As for the Garlean fortresses, I really don't think EVERY one of them have been hit. Go to Coerthas Central Highlands, and go to where Monument Tower is when the weather is "clear".
To the west of there, you can see what looks like it might be a castrum there. This castrum looks VERY similar to the one by Cape Westwind. So I'm willing to bet that there are more castrums out there in the areas that have yet to be opened up.

[EdwinLi]

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He is talking about Ala Mhigo which is now the last Garlean Stronghold in Eorzea. The Garleans have turned Ala Mhigo into a Garlean Fortress after they took control of the place.

I'm thinking something like...
First expansion: Ishgard + rest of Coerthas - Help the fight against the Dravanian Horde and the reappearance of the Coerthas Primals.
Second expansion: Sharlayan + Dravania - Help Ishgard end the Dravanian Horde attacks once and for all, freeing them up to helping with the Empire, and restore Sharlayan to its former glory.
Third expansion: Ala Mhigo + Gyr Abania - With Ishgard and Sharlayan in the Eorzean Alliance, we finally will have the firepower to take back Ala Mhigo.
Xelphatol and Paglth'an could be released in some major patches (they don't have large cities, and are more like Mor Dhona, so they should be quicker and easier to make, in theory at least, and would inject some freshness between the expansions) between first and second, and second and third, meaning that we'll have the whole of Eorzea by the third expansion.

I only see this as possible if SE plans to keep FF14 story in Eorzea for about 6 years (2 years is planned per expansion). However, due to the scale of Expansion's Main Storyline we probably will see all three of these areas in 1st expansion and have 2nd expansion move into the Garlean Empire and Far East in the Northern Continent. Eventually 3rd expansion will have us move into a new Continent where we will meet new Primals, Elder Primals, City-States, Allies, and Antagonists.

The Allagans did first encounter Primals on another continent after all which means there is still much more out there than just Eorzea.

[Sove92]

He is talking about Ala Mhigo which is now the last Garlean Stronghold in Eorzea. The Garleans have turned Ala Mhigo into a Garlean Fortress after they took control of the place

The fortress he is talking about is not Ala Mhigo, Ala Mhigo is in a completely different direction. This fortress seems to be in Coerthas Western Highlands.

[Muzy]

The fortress he is talking about is not Ala Mhigo, Ala Mhigo is in a completely different direction. This fortress seems to be in Coerthas Western Highlands.

And that fortress is indeed Garlean, just go talk to the NPC's inside Monument Tower.

[Norna]

(2 years is planned per expansion).

Ah, I didn't know that (I thought it would be 1-2 expansions per year, at least during the early hype, and the maybe 1 every other or third year, until the next Final Fantasy Online). In that case, we need Eorzea to be fully revealed in the first expansion. I just hope it wont feel rushed or too sparse of quests/minigames/whatevers if that's the case.

By the way, does anyone think it possible that we'll get Ishgard+Coerthas in a major patch, instead? Coerthas was in 1.XX and they've teased Ishgard for at least just as long, so it would be a nice gesture.

[EdwinLi]

By the way, does anyone think it possible that we'll get Ishgard+Coerthas in a major patch, instead? Coerthas was in 1.XX and they've teased Ishgard for at least just as long, so it would be a nice gesture.

Well lucky for us the amount of content for Major Updates are still quite big to fill the 2.5 month gap between each Major Update so there is always room for contents like new areas.

However, I doubt we will see new areas unless there is a lore reason in Main Storyline for X.X patch to include a new area due to how content in this game is very lore connected for their release. We already have access to the gate into Ishgard in Coerthas but it remains closed for now.

We may see new areas of Coerthas for Major Updates if they plan to expand more into the Primal Shiva and her Beast Tribes the Giants during Major Updates so they can have 2.X patch set the stage for the opening of Ishgard's gates in 1st Expansion and Shiva's Primal fight.