Will 4.5 be the last patch for SB?

[InkstainedGwyn]

A primal battle with Amaterasu, that would be the 3rd of the big 3 in Japanese mythology

I highly doubt we're going to get another non-4 lords trial. We might, they could always surprise me, but what we have with Tsuku matches so far with HW, where Nidhogg was the final MSQ trial, halfway through post 3.0, and the rest of it was the Warring Triad. I do agree Amaterasu would be nice - she is the third to Susano-o & Tsukuyomi, as you say (what I wouldn't give to see primals for Izanagi and Izanami!) but that puts us at 8 trials at the very least since there's no way they'd make Kohryu, the "big bad" that was held by the Four Lords, a personal trial or a dungeon boss. (Now that I think about it, since we succeeded with Genbu, Byakko, and Suzaku, it's quite possible that Seiryu will be a "no-go" and not even come down to a fight, which would be why we had to fight Kohryu, else we would have succeeded in taming their ara-mitama but failed in the final mission, which would be a bummer. Plus, it would get Seiryu "out of the way".)

They've also said they're "done" with Doma in the MSQ (although it will remain in the form of Hien & Yugiri, ofc, just not be focused on it.) I think it would be very odd to have Amaterasu as a primal when we're dealing with Gyr Abania, plus I can't really imagine how she would fit in with the current predicament the scions are in.

I'd be happy to be surprised, I'm a massive geek when it comes down to eastern mythology, but I really can't see it fitting in.

[ToniRomo]

I hope so. SB has been a dud. They invested too much in Eureka. I hope it doesn't get drawn out even more.

[Derio]

SB IMO is the worst expansion. Eureka is worst than diadem. And HoH isn’t impressive. Only good part is MSQ which I hope that is the only thing that 4.55 brings

[Lastelli]

I highly doubt we're going to get another non-4 lords trial.

I really hope they're planning a yojimbo trail with an interesting and challenging extreme mode. I don't think it's asking too much considering the general lack of content the game is going through.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I really hope they're planning a yojimbo trail with an interesting and challenging extreme mode. I don't think it's asking too much considering the general lack of content the game is going through.

I could see that, but I don't expect there to be an extreme version. If anything it's going to be in the Hildibrand storyline, a la Greg. They didn't give us one in the HW Hildi, did they? I don't remember if we even had to fight those Knights, and if we did it wasn't group. So it'd be nice if they brought that back. But as for a "primal"/extreme, I highly doubt it.

[Nezerius]

I really hope they're planning a yojimbo trail with an interesting and challenging extreme mode. I don't think it's asking too much considering the general lack of content the game is going through.

Yojimbo is going to be the trial at Fan Fest, so we'd be lucky if we even get a proper trial for him.

Chances are they'll just randomly drop him into the last Ivalice raid, as a mini-boss.

[Iscah]

Actually if Yojimbo is already planned as an "outside of normal schedule" trial, doesn't that make it more likely that the place it would get "randomly dropped into" would be the Hildibrand plotline that could do with a trial but wouldn't normally be given one?

[HyoMinPark]

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

Sadly, this is not a possibility. Developers already confirmed that there would be no third Ultimate fight in Stormblood. Which is why a lot of raiders are clearing Alphascape once or twice for the clears and then unsubscribing until the next expansion, because there’s nothing to put the gear from it to use.

[Nezerius]

Actually if Yojimbo is already planned as an "outside of normal schedule" trial, doesn't that make it more likely that the place it would get "randomly dropped into" would be the Hildibrand plotline that could do with a trial but wouldn't normally be given one?

Not really, just look at the previous fan fest trial. Proto-Ultima had it's own trial area, somewhere in Azys Lla, during fan fest. Then they added it to the live servers, and they simply dropped it into Dun Scaith, replacing the Succubus mini-boss.

[Vidu]

I could see that, but I don't expect there to be an extreme version. If anything it's going to be in the Hildibrand storyline, a la Greg. They didn't give us one in the HW Hildi, did they? I don't remember if we even had to fight those Knights, and if we did it wasn't group. So it'd be nice if they brought that back. But as for a "primal"/extreme, I highly doubt it.

Sadly, we didnt get any Hilli-trials after the last battle with Greg - apparently because people were to upset that they were "forced" to do the Hilli-quests to re-unloch their trials-roulette. And instead of changing how the roulettes work they just took the trials out of the Hilli-questline.

...I cant remember if we ever had to fight anyone during the HW-questline now - it might very well be that it was purely narrative.