Will 4.5 be the last patch for SB?

[Kuroka]

why? pyros is 4.4, the last isntallment will be 4.5(.55555)

[Amaeth]

Okay then... if there is a 4th installment of Eureka I can totally see 4.6 becoming a thing.

The last 2 Eureka's (including Pyros) have been released on X.X5 patches - i'd assume the last one would be on 4.55, as part of their spacing the content out they're trying this xpac, as previously the .55 patch has added little other than a bit of story to setup the next xpac and making everything getable with tomestones to gear everyone up. With that in mind, I wouldn't be suprised if they tweaked xp rates in Eureka or whatever when .55 comes out to get people trying it while waiting.

[Xau]

A 3rd Ultimate fight is a possibility as well...

yoshida said on a interview on the past what there might not be a third ultimate
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._bad_news_for/

――ちなみに、現在は奇数パッチごとに"絶"が追加されていますが、今後もその間隔でリリースしていくのでしょうか？
Interviewer: At the moment, we are getting an ultimate fight "every odd patch", but is this going to continue in the future?

吉田：もともとは、“奇数パッチで毎回"絶"を”と思っていたのですが、コミュニティの反応では「2パッチに1回はキツすぎる」という感想が多かったので、1つの拡張パッケージに2回ぐらいでいいのかなと考えをあらためました。なので、ここで一旦お休みかなと思っています。
Yoshida: We were originally planning to have an ultimate fight for each "odd numbered patch", but after observing the reactions from the community, there were a lot of opinions saying "Having an ultimate fight every 2 patches is too rough", so we changed our minds and thought 2 ultimate fights per expansion might be better, so i think the ultimate series will be on hiatus for now.

[Rowde]

yoshida said on a interview on the past what there might not be a third ultimate
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._bad_news_for/

ahhhh... I didn't see that article before.

Okay then to revise what's on the table...

Return to Ivalice Part 3

Four Lords: Seiryu (and possibly Kohryu)

Eureka Part 4

United SB Beast Tribe Story/Quests

MSQ wrap-up and tie-in to 5.0


Still seems bloated for a single number patch to me, but I suppose it can all fit into their formula.
If Ultimate is removed, then I guess they could throw in TWO dungeons in 4.5, one for Four Lords and one for MSQ, and that would let them tidy up both storylines. Perhaps the second dungeon, which I would assume to be the MSQ related one, could even be delayed to 4.55 so it works better for the tie-in to 5.0 storyline.

[Fawkes]

Okay then... if there is a 4th installment of Eureka I can totally see 4.6 becoming a thing.

EDIT:
And ugh... I just got finished reading that full blog post and it looks like the Logos system is going to murder my inventory space...
The tradeoff is that I'll be able to extract some dank Mnemes!

I think they'll avoid going to 4.6 as they have in the past for whatever reason. So we'll just get something like 4.5, 4.51, 4.55, 4.56a, 4.56b, 4.57.

And I really hope those mnemes act like currency and don't clog up our inventories...

[Xau]

Still seems bloated for a single number patch to me

that stuff sounds normal amount of stuff on a single patch

the united beast tribe quest is just a bit of text and maibe a instance battle and probably some new items to buy from the vendors of each tribe, which is not that much

24 man raid, 1 trial and msq are more of the standar stuff what always happens(and on the case of 24 man raid is always on even patches)

then there is eureka, what is not gonna be on 4.5, but on 4.55, wich gives them more time to work on it

[Nezerius]

Both were actually split 3 ways with the middle patch not having story. It was 2.5, 2.52 and 2.55, and 3.5, 3.55 and 3.56 respectively.

They were split in two halves in the sense that both .5 and .55 patches contained MSQ content, when the other .55 patches don't.

ahhhh... I didn't see that article before.

Okay then to revise what's on the table...

Return to Ivalice Part 3

Four Lords: Seiryu (and possibly Kohryu)

Eureka Part 4

United SB Beast Tribe Story/Quests

MSQ wrap-up and tie-in to 5.0


Still seems bloated for a single number patch to me, but I suppose it can all fit into their formula.
If Ultimate is removed, then I guess they could throw in TWO dungeons in 4.5, one for Four Lords and one for MSQ, and that would let them tidy up both storylines. Perhaps the second dungeon, which I would assume to be the MSQ related one, could even be delayed to 4.55 so it works better for the tie-in to 5.0 storyline.

Alliance raid, Seiryu trial, MSQ content in 4.5.
Eureka, Kohryu trial, MSQ content in 4.55

Beast tribe stuff in either. Doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary to me. In fact, they wouldn't really have all that much for a 4.6 patch.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I'm almost convinced that Seiryu will be a personal trial or dungeon boss, and Kohryu will be the 8-man. I really don't expect them to give us 8 trials/trial sets/trial mounts when we had 7 in HW. Other than that, I agree that Ivalice #3, MSQ, 1-3 dungeons (MSQ, Seiryu(?), HM(?)), United tribes, and Eureka #4 all make sense for a single patch, especially a last patch of the cycle. After all, 4.3 had Heaven on High, Anemos, UWU, Swallow's Compass, Tsukuyomi, and Namazu.

[Aster_E]

Still seems bloated for a single number patch to me, but I suppose it can all fit into their formula.
If Ultimate is removed, then I guess they could throw in TWO dungeons in 4.5, one for Four Lords and one for MSQ, and that would let them tidy up both storylines. Perhaps the second dungeon, which I would assume to be the MSQ related one, could even be delayed to 4.55 so it works better for the tie-in to 5.0 storyline.

You say bloated, but it looks almost normal to me, considering the amount of content we used to get per patch back when we used to get three dungeons per, and no Diadem-esque anything. All that's missing is an amusing trial tied to the Hildebrand story, really. *Stares at Yojimbo*

[RitsukoSonoda]

So current expectations I have past what has been shown for 4.5 so far.

Seiryu and possibly kohryu from the lords quest line. implementation of this is up to question since genbu was actually a duty boss
3rd installment of ivalice
A primal battle with Amaterasu, that would be the 3rd of the big 3 in Japanese mythology as we have already had Tsukiyomi and Susano-o
Closure of the hildebrand quest line
ATM I don't have expectations of an eureka zone after pyros but it is possible given that eureka itself was delayed which is probably the main cause of the relics being a bit behind other content in regards to ilvl currently.
There is currently only 2 duties in the current expert roulette so we should be due 1 more at this tier. Given the ilvl of the gear in the current tier we could easily have 1 more tier of tomestones after this.