Ideas for Ala Mhigo (4.0 Expansion Pack)

[Brightshadow]

So, as we know Square Enix has already started work on the fourth expansion and the most likely destination is Ala Mhigo since its still early in development I think we should share our ideas with the developers so please share .

Here are some ideas I had:

1.) New Regions
A.) Gyn Abania (2 Areas) (1 City State)
Terrain: Grassy Plains/Timberlands
-(Area One) In the center of Gyn Abania is a huge Grassy Plain similar to coerthas 1.0 or the calm lands from FFX. Its a huge piece of land that connects to the timberlands, and the garlean empire which is restricted by mountains and a giant iron gate.
-(Area Two) The timberlands are a open space similar to the grassy plains but with trees and plant life all around. this land connects to Xelphtol which is a mountain range of canyons and such, and the black shroud which has portions of the timberland burnt down.

B.) Xelphatol (2 Area)
Terrain: Mountain, Canyons, Grassy Slopes with some snow
-(Area One) Very narrow spaces around the zone similar tahrongi canyon, attohwa chasm from FF11, near the Gridania entrance there is some plant life similar to Fort Karugo-Narugo; however very limited plant life. (Connected to Ala Mhigo, and Gridania)
-(Area Two) Very similar to Grauberg from FFXI requires 3.0 expansion to enter Ishgard. (Connected to Ishgard and Area one)

C.) Paglth'an (1 Area)
Terrain: Wasteland/Desert
-Somewhat similar to Thanalan but with wastelands, and more desert features.
-Connected to Thanalan

D.) O'Ghomoro (1 Area)
Terrain: Volcano/Burning Slopes
-Very similar to ff11 ifrit's cauldron and mount zhayolm.
-Connected to Noscea

2.) New Jobs
A.) Red Mage (Role: DPS Caster)
-Uses gunblades
-Has stance (toggle) to switch between frontline and range
-Uses 4 elements (Fire,Ice,Wind,Water)
-Has a "cure" and some utility spells like refresh,haste,temper.

B.) Samurai (Role: DPS Melee)
-uses "casted" melee attacks like brd and mch but very powerful. Little to no party utility so one of the top if not the best DPS most of the utility is to protect against attacks like third eye from FFXI, or to increase their own dps.

3.) New Features
-Campaign: A world conquest system similar to the one used in FFXI; however, campaign only happen in one area every hour, and if too little people show up npc take their place. Campaigns are region battles where the garleans battle against the city-states for control of that region. Depending on the participation of the players the grand company that does the most contribution gets control of the region, if the garleans win multiple times they get control of the region making the zone more dangerous for players by adding garleans soldiers around the zone. and preventing certain nearby villages and special npcs from selling region specific items. (The city-state that owns the region gets special discounts from certain npcs, and special items from their grand company npcs.) (Region control tallies take place every Tuesday)
-All the zones of eorzea participates in Campaign and its a key feature of the push into the liberation of Ala Mhigo. Campaigns are like special fates that take place in the villages/camps in areas. And they have the fate icon but with a different color (perhaps orange?) since these are a worldwide feature they appear in the world-map and messages are given to players even hour when they begin. (Please add a filter)

3.) Liberation of Ala Mhigo
Unlike the 2.5 ending that had us fight against a dragon in the bridge of Ishgard, I think that the final push of to free Ala Mhigo should require the (4.0) expansion pack and it should feature 3 separate main story scenario raids which has us fight the garlean army within the timberlands, grassy plains, and Ala Mhigo. Of course with this change revamp the Main Scenario roulette(Category) to make it worthwhile. In these 3 main story scenarios you would get a small preview of the areas, but mostly cutscenes to not show you the whole zone in the roulettes.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I think we should a choice to help the Ala'Mighan or not.

After dealing with all the whiny Ala'Mighan npcs I don't want to help them. Specifically the one that spits in our face in Lil' Ahmigo.

[ChazNatlo]

I think we should a choice to help the Ala'Mighan or not.

After dealing with all the whiny Ala'Mighan npcs I don't want to help them. Specifically the one that spits in our face in Lil' Ahmigo.

Hopefully if they toss us into the Garlean conflict, they'll give us NPCs to actually like and want to help liberate their nation. Kindof like with Ishgard. Did we have anyone beyond Haurchefant to like from there as notable NPCs in 2.0?

[Gilraen]

I also think we should avoid nicking names and references wholesale from XI. I mean, it's not like a volcano zone wouldn't be fun, but no... just no. Not O'ghomoro. Ala Mihgo is enough of a reference.

[SchalaZeal]

mean, it's not like a volcano zone wouldn't be fun, but no... just no. Not O'ghomoro.

Except that region already exists. Where do you think Kobolds came from?

http://chrysaliswiki.com/area-ghomoro

[myahele]

Since this expansion brought forth Sky exploration, perhaps with Ala Mhigo will have sea exploration?

Anyways, since Estinien ended up being quite important to the story, it would be interesting if the Widargelt (MNK trainer) ends up playing an important role as well. Who knows, he might very well end up being the prince of Ala Mhigo that was hidden away at a monk temple and he's about the right age + the sole survivor (that we know of) of Sect of Light monks

[Calypsx]

Two dps jobs at once? I would be really bummed out... At least go with a dps/healer combo or dps/tank.

[h0tNstilettos]

4th expansion? You meant to say 2nd. Heavensward is the 1st expansion. ARR was not an expansion. ARR was a remake of FFXIV after the original failed. However, they simply decided to have the story connected and used names of various things from original, which is why ARR was labeled as 2.X.

As for content of next expansion, SE said long while ago that with the first expansion they either wanted to do flying or swimming, and whichever one they didn't do they would try to implement in a later expansion. This means we should be getting swimming in either the 2nd or 3rd expansion I would expect, unless they changed their minds on swimming.

[Gaiussenpai]

I hope thye go a different route and the Garleans in Ala Mhigo aren't so bad.


I mean if they did it for Ishgard's story line so far and made it no ones the bad guy why can't we see some good from them.

[Gilraen]

Except that region already exists. Where do you think Kobolds came from?

http://chrysaliswiki.com/area-ghomoro

I thought the name was familiar. I stand corrected. Still, those other names sound alot like XI zones and... still begs the question why O'ghomoro when Ala Mihgo is on the other side of Eorzea? I have no problems with a volcano zone, but at least make sense with it.