New area speculation for 1st expansion

[Tupsi]

You mean that huge mass of nothing that had absolutely nothing? I don't really miss it.

Kind of like Coerthas now that has absolutely no use outside a few FATEs and trash quests other than to be an obligatory snow area? It was a huge mass but it served purpose since a lot of areas were actually exp camps (so there wasn't 'mass of nothing') and considering the redesign of the land it wouldn't have been the exact same and you know that.

Hell even Behemoth's Dominion serves no purpose 99% of the time. As for Castrums, as per the..uh..."story". we went in and pretty much toppled them so they won't ever really change em (too much work for the bare minimum approach to ARR they've taken) but they won't ever serve a purpose since one of them holds the entrance to Binding Coil, which could have been a pretty awesome open world dungeon.

[CrowBlader]

All or most of Coerthas is most likely gonna be accessible by 2.4 since that'll most likely be when shiva is gonna be released seeing as how Yoshi said they're gonna be a adding a primal every patch.

[Dhex]

Sharlayan - pls

Ala Mhigo - pls pls

Ishgard - pls pls pls

Radz-at-Han - omg pls

[Cabalabob]

I'm expecting us to have to infiltrate the imperial city in the next expansion, it's a classic FF thing, it was done in 2, 6 and 12, so I'm thinking that general area will come up.

[EdwinLi]

I'm expecting us to have to infiltrate the imperial city in the next expansion, it's a classic FF thing, it was done in 2, 6 and 12, so I'm thinking that general area will come up.

I was think we sneak in to the Imperial City FF7 style which means we get in by a train. After all the Place is practically a fortress from the outside just like Ala Mhigo.

All or most of Coerthas is most likely gonna be accessible by 2.4 since that'll most likely be when shiva is gonna be released seeing as how Yoshi said they're gonna be a adding a primal every patch.

I was thinking more that they simply release 1 new area being the place where we will find the Aether Crystal to enter Shiva's domain and help the Giant beast Tribe faction for our dailies. Unless they want to release a bunch of lvl 50 areas as they progress into Shiva's fight we will probably see only 1 new area for Shiva and her beast tribe. Unless they will require us to go through a second new area first before we can enter the new area where Shiva's Aether Crystal and her beast tribe base is located.

[Empressia]

Well i dun play FFXI so anyone would be so kind to describe how LARGE and how MUCH the world map added in each FFXI expansion?

[Tupsi]

Well i dun play FFXI so anyone would be so kind to describe how LARGE and how MUCH the world map added in each FFXI expansion?

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Or...d_Zilart_Areas

Since we're talking about Vanilla > First Expansion here. Aside this however, 2nd: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Promathia_Areas, 3rd: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Aht_Urhgan_Areas. 4th: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Wi..._Goddess_Areas (This was a time travelish expansion though), 5th is still in progress.

The areas are fairly large some small/battlefield areas and so on. The world map in XI was split between lands, i.e Middle Lands (Vanilla, Zilart, Chains of Promathia), Near Eastern lands (Treasures of Aht Urhgan), Western Lands (Seeker's of Adoulin) and the Crystal War Era (Middle lands in the past during the great war.)

[EdwinLi]

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ya there were quite a large amount of areas introduced in FFXI expansions and plenty of new class to play as with about 3 or 2 new classes per expansion.

However, this is quite common for any MMO expansions.

With FF14 classes who knows what kind of Jobs we will get with maybe 3 or 2 new classes per expansion since each class will get 2 Jobs each by standard.

Not to mention the possibility of a new class/job introduced through a Major Update as well which would expand the FF14 list of classes and Jobs even more.

This means FF14 can have a much larger roster of Jobs than FF11 since class like the Gunblade Class Guild is located in the Garlean Empire which is why we will not get the Gunblade class until we are in or near the Garlean Empire.

[Enkidoh]

I'm expecting us to have to infiltrate the imperial city in the next expansion, it's a classic FF thing, it was done in 2, 6 and 12, so I'm thinking that general area will come up.

To be honest, I don't see this happening any time soon, as there is absolutely zero need to narrative wise. The invasion of Eorzea is stopped, the Imperial court is imploding, and all Eorzea has wanted ever since the initial invasion of Ala Mhigo is to be left alone. Besides, it was mentioned even in 1.0, that the Empire are actually not even the real threat to Eorzea (and all of Hydaelyn for that matter), in actual fact it's

the Ascians and Zodiark, and to a lesser extent, the Primals,

who are the true danger to everyone and everything on Hydaelyn, which should have been apparent during Operation Archon.

Really the closest we'll see to something like that is the eventual liberation of Ala Mhigo, but even that I don't see happening for a long time. There still plenty of things happening within Eorzea at the moment to keep the attention of the Warriors of Light. So it's clear the Empire is going to be more or less left alone for the time being at least, while matters of more greater importance occur within Eorzea.

[myahele]

Wow I feel sorry for people in Coerthas. Not only is howling eye there, and the fact they have to deal with dragons on a daily basis NOW they have shiva to deal with as well!?