3.4 speculation

[Khalithar]

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I don't think she was talking about their lore. She was referring to a specific set of bosses from FFXI, they were extremely powerful enemies that were one of each of the playable races in addition to being a combination of two of the job classes with their associated ultimate abilities and powerful spells. There was a story quest where you had to defeat them and from there you were presented with two options, you could fight each one alone in a single party fight or do an extremely difficult (at the time) version of the fight that required the maximum number of people in an alliance where you took on all five of them at once.

The fight was extremely difficult initially, it required very high dps, very high healing, and you had to pull them just right. Even pulling them wrong was an instant game over in some cases, the Hume and the Elvaan were especially deadly. The Hume could one shot your entire group instantly whenever his AI decided to activate one of his ultimates and the Elvaan had an attack that did damage based on her HP that ignored all defenses (instant one shot to absolutely anyone she used it on with no way around it) in addition to being able to heal herself and the rest of the ark angels back to full HP once during the fight depending on when she decided to use the heal along with making herself immune to physical damage once per fight. Yuella was saying there might be a similar option available in this game where we take on the Warriors of Darkness one at a time and that there will be an Extreme mode trial where we take on all five at once.

I don't agree with that, I believe we will have a full party trial where we take on all of them at once, one tank for the pld, one tank for the warrior with a possible tank swap, then dps have to burn the whm while the healers heal through the damage the blm and brd deal. My prediction for the fight is that it will be what's called a "council fight," you have to down them one a a time and each time you kill one the others heal back to full and may or may not get stronger (it's a pretty common raid mechanic in a lot of games). My speculation is the kill order will be whm -> blm -> brd -> warrior -> pld. Alisaie will come to us telling the WoD's are working with the Ascians and have to be stopped from doing what they're doing and then we'll either skirmish against the WoD's and drive them back where they'll swear to not go so easy on us next time or we'll have the fight I predicted above.

We'll definitely get the next chapter in the warring triad, probably the demon next.

Also, with their plans on adding more GC stuff in the next patch, I have a feeling some of the MSQ might be GC related. Ishgard is more or less fine as is which leaves the only remaining enemies as the WoD's and the Ascians. We're already contending with the Empire in the warring triad storyline, I highly doubt we'll face them in the MSQ while that's going on, otherwise it would just be rather redundant.