4.0 Expansion

[Reinha]

I think they were planning HW to only reach patch 3.4 but I have no source. Nope it's 3.5 after all. In any case I find 1½ years to be a comfortable time frame for an expansion. 2 years is too long and 1 year would be a little rushed and we would likely end up with less content. 3.3 is coming in late spring / early summer and 3.4 will probably be early autumn with the current pace. My guess is that we're getting an expansion just in time for Christmas for extra sales. Leaving it for after the holidays would be a big loss. Expac next spring is my new guess.

I am completely oblivious to any FF lore from previous games but I hope we get an ocean region and a volcanic region. I would also love a rainforest area with huge trees and weird plants. Melee healers and melee dps with some long range casts would be fun. More hybrid play of some kind without breaking the trinity. Perhaps a class with two stances like AST that could swap between melee dps and ranged dps.

EDIT. What I mean by melee healer is not necessarily a healer that melees to heal or heals in melee range, but perhaps a job without access to Cleric Stance that has their own dps stance (Swaps MND and STR?) and melee attacks. They would solo things with physical skills and during dungeons and raids their healing would be hindered in the dps stance just like it is with Cleric Stance. So they would have to carefully pick the times to contribute to damage and move to melee range.