Quote Originally Posted by Dualblade View Post
Did they say they had to give up a new Primal fight for ThordanEX? This is the first time I'm hearing that (and its not like they had to do that for Ultima's Bane)

Throw in Nabrialas to surprise us that its a bit more then just a straight up harder version of the fight and I'm in for Ascian EX.
We've had a new primal every patch since 2.0, and with 3.1 we didn't get one. I think it's safe to assume that this mechanically complex fight took the development time out of those, but regardless Yoshida did mention that this was replacement for the EX fight, or rather is the EX fight of this patch, and future EX fights won't be like this.

Yoshida: We've said this before, but the battle was intended to sit between the normal and savage versions of Alexander Gordias. This one in particular was designed as a challenge for players who are working on the third area of savage to give them another near-term goal and prevent them from getting bored by giving them a new Knight weapon which they can use to keep pushing in the third part of savage. So, based on that, this is kind of a unique difficulty. For the next extreme primal we'll probably scale back the level of difficult