Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

[Nalien]

I am interested to know what exactly is going on in Ala Mhigo now that Gaius and his crew are no longer there. Is there a new Van ruling, for example.

Unless they decide to scrap the whole "#th Legate = Final Fantasy # references!" thing, I really hope the XIIth Legate has taken over charge of Ala Mhigo... XII style antagonists? Villains that might actually have some depth?! Sign. Me. Up.

[DamianFatale]

I'm ready for Ala Mhigo. It's time to kick some Garelan butt.

[ADVSS]

Honestly I'd like to see more Cid's and Lucia's than just straight up doom music background, fire shots to kill beast tribe standing near main character and or dragon kick to their face and some sort of sephiroth like quote involving ridding the planet of some sort of cancer and ill be back, warrior of light, after ganking this important item/friend from you and somehow managing to escape(again)

[Khalithar]

Looking at the dungeon previews and I actually laughed, "Garuda!? Again!?" The ixali just won't stay down.

[RobinMalvin]

So I guess the new story will have us trying to stop Garuda's summoning and fail at that (again, for billion times), but WoD crew will just jump in and cage her, after that we'll face them maybe as trial or instanced battle.

A little disappointed we're not going to Xelphatol for some progress to Ala Mhigo. 3.5 maybe

[Khalithar]

So I guess the new story will have us trying to stop Garuda's summoning and fail at that (again, for billion times), but WoD crew will just jump in and cage her, after that we'll face them maybe as trial or instanced battle.

We'll defeat Garuda in the dungeon, then she'll suddenly reappear and cast Aerial Blast and knock us down. Then the Warriors of Darkness will show up and laugh at us like we're eating salad with a dessert fork, then she'll try and Aerial Blast the WoD and the Roe Pld will block it with the power of his incredibly manly beard, then the Derplander will smash her to the ground with his axe, and the Lalafell Whm will then beat Garuda to the death with her staff while Alphinaud and the WoL stare in horror at the brutality they are witnessing.

[Moomba33]

I'm hoping we don't fight Garuda yet again.
Maybe we'll actually stop the summoning or come just in time to see the WoD group killing her like with Ravana.

[Theodric]

Honestly I'd like to see more Cid's and Lucia's than just straight up doom music background, fire shots to kill beast tribe standing near main character and or dragon kick to their face and some sort of sephiroth like quote involving ridding the planet of some sort of cancer and ill be back, warrior of light, after ganking this important item/friend from you and somehow managing to escape(again)

Eh, I think we need more Garleans like Drace, General Leo and Gabranth. We don't need more defectors - we need Garleans who are loyal to their homeland and people whilst still being fairly sympathetic. Neither Cid or Lucia give much insight into their homeland or former culture anyway.

As I've said in the past, though, 3.0 was a huge improvement over 2.0 so hopefully 4.0 will be an even bigger improvement and will actually start showing us more depth where the antagonists are concerned. Perhaps 3.4 will be the start of that - especially since we're due some insight into what, exactly, Elidibus, the WoD and the Garleans are doing.

FF7 and FF12 were brilliant in that regard since a lot of scenes gave insight into what the antagonists were doing, planning, made them seem competent and even added depth and reasons to sympathise with them at times. In 3.0 I feel that it was a missed opportunity not to flesh out the likes of Thordan and Varis much more - both had very little screen-time despite being major players in the overall story.

[ADVSS]

Eh, I think we need more Garleans like Drace, General Leo and Gabranth. We don't need more defectors - we need Garleans who are loyal to their homeland and people whilst still being fairly sympathetic. Neither Cid or Lucia give much insight into their homeland or former culture anyway..

<3 General Leo R.I.P. enjoyed all 10 seconds of playing you as a character T_T

[Cilia]

From the depths of Hell to this forum once more...

I killed the time playing God Eater: Resurrection and God Eater 2: Rage Burst. And now nobody's going to talk to me because I got banished... and senpai will never notice me... ah well.

Anyway, guess I was wrong about Gubal being the "patch" dungeon, but that's what I get for relying on intuition instead of evidence.

Seems all we're getting before patch day (unless a trailer comes out) is a couple images - one with a "Mask" and the other the already-seen pic of the WoDs squaring off against us in a ring of fire. And vagueness.

Not gonna comment on the Garleans because it's been beat to death already.