Gyr Abania - The Poorest Designed Country in XIV

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- Monks are apparently still around in smaller numbers, but have almost no part in the story at all. Did they even matter to Ala Mhigo? They built it up from 2.0 onward, and even announced it as the main job of Stormblood, but I’m not seeing it. Unlike Dragoon, there seems to be no correlation to them.

Have you played the Monk questline? They were prettymuch entirely wiped out by the mad king prior to the fall of Ala Mhigo. The Lv60-70 quests involve your tutor trying to revive the order.

- No Ala Mhigan primals/trials past 4.0. We are overdo for more content of that type in the area.

Apparently the Qiqirn were supposed to be a beast tribe. I don't know why they changed it, or if there's any chance of still getting them in 4.5.

- You can’t enter most of the buildings in any of the zones. No one even bothers to walk around, or hang out there. There’s no immersion, or incentive to. Ala Ghiri is one of the first towns we liberate, but there’s nothing there that ever draws us back to stay, or even visit again. Ala Gannha has beautiful cliff side houses, but we can’t even go inside a few of them. The Ala Mhigan residential area is mostly closed off. All I can do is stand outside.

The exact same argument can be had for Namai or Isari or any of the towns we visit in Othard, too. Or Falcon's Nest or Camp Cloudtop or the Sharlayan ruins in the Hinterlands that have no residents left to lock us out.

(Honestly it's always seemed strange to me that most RPGs let you freely wander in and out of houses. Public buildings, fine. But not walking into people's homes and rummaging through their stuff for potions and money.)