The Future Expansion; What is the possibility?

[MelodyCrystel]

We've already been to Dalmasca for an entire 24-person raid series and now the relic quest, which is based around fighting the bad guy controlling Dalmasca.

Literally three big dungeons and a limited beach is for you the same as having a few expansion-areas one can freely explore, yes? :<

[Jirah]

Thavnair please! It’s only South of ilsabard and a lot of our comrades have already been there like Estenin, Thancred, Gias, Rowena, F’lhaminn and im sure I’m missing some

Now that Dancer is a thing now would be a fun time to go to their place of origin being the city state of Radz-at-Hanz

We still haven’t been to the Sharlyan mother Land aka Old Sharlyan. Or the rest of Koshu only barley scratching Hingashi, denying Hein proposal of a alliance. If Kugane looked great imagine how ridiculous the city state of Bukyo looks like.

Also the Dalmascan provinces are mostly unknown

[FrightfulNight]

Garlemald feels off though, it's a big mess now but I don't really see us actually going there. What we are already doing is more limiting what's going on around that unstable situation with Werlyt and Bozja, perhaps liberating other people. But we don't have anything to do in Illsabard properly. Unless we get some request from the Populares to join forces or something...

That's usually where the X.4, X.5 and X.55 patches come in though, from the way both SB and ShB were set up it looks like they were leading up to the finale of the Zodiark story ark and it will probably see us in Islabard, for some new issue set up in those patches, finishing most of the long running plot points such as not only dealing with Garlemald but also putting a stop to the Ascians plan, and defeating Zodiark. Queue new plot points perhaps dealing with the New World, and possibly a Mayan calendar esque prophecy dealing with the return of the sound that caused Amaurot to fall.

[Loki]

I would like to visit some Nordic/viking style landscapes and have some housing / gears / hairstyles from the same theme ^^

Ho and more character customization too!!!!

[Tracewood]

I want to see the Garlemald saga conclude and just show us what the heck Zenos is up to going forward, I think after a few expansions 6.0 is a good time to jump in there and put it to bed. Us going to the First shard was a convenient distraction to prevent a calamity and put down "hopefully" the last remaining Ascian.

If Dissidia is anything to go by, they're heavily propping him as the defacto villain, a more psycho fight hungry version of Sephiroth. I could be wrong, maybe Zenos is a red herring for the real mastermind.

[MikkoAkure]

Literally three big dungeons and a limited beach is for you the same as having a few expansion-areas one can freely explore, yes? :<

Don't get me wrong, Ivalice is my thing and I wouldn't ever leave Dalmasca if it was a future expansion. It just doesn't make any sense according to the narrative. 3 of the cities we have seen so far (Rabanastre, Bozja, Valnain) are in various degrees of being ruined and the big bad guy of the area is the main bad guy of an existing quest line where he will (probably) meet his doom.

If Ilsabard is a future expansion, I would hope that at least the Dalmascan Westersands shows up, but Ilsabard is a huge place and the Westersands are in Othard so who knows..

[Gerel]

6.0, I feel, is going to be the "final act" of the storyline we've been pursuing since 1.0, with the war against Garlemald finally coming to an end and the dispute between Hydaelyn and Zodiark finally resolved. Where does that leave us? Well. A lot of places.

I'd like to go and explore the oft-mentioned Thavnair and Old Sharlayan, the New World, Merycadia... and I'd like it with a fresh perspective that isn't necessarily bogged down by the above. A return of sorts to the "adventuring" component of everything, where it's not necessarily a do-or-die battle against the Ultimate Something. There are plenty of old evils and villains that aren't Ascian, after all, and you never know who could pop up to fill the power vacuum. It'd just be a nice palette cleanser from after the universe-saving shenanigans we're usually apart of (and that I still adore anyway).

[BasicBlake]

Thavnair please! It’s only South of ilsabard and a lot of our comrades have already been there like Estenin, Thancred, Gias, Rowena, F’lhaminn and im sure I’m missing some

Now that Dancer is a thing now would be a fun time to go to their place of origin being the city state of Radz-at-Hanz

We still haven’t been to the Sharlyan mother Land aka Old Sharlyan. Or the rest of Koshu only barley scratching Hingashi, denying Hein proposal of a alliance. If Kugane looked great imagine how ridiculous the city state of Bukyo looks like.

Also the Dalmascan provinces are mostly unknown

I have always hoped that we end up making a two pronged attack on Garlemald from different sides, and you choose which path you want to go first akin to how ShB started. One side from radz at han and the other from Othard. I love the lore and flavor of both places so much it would just be awesome to see more of Othard and any of Thavnair.

[KageTokage]

Garlemald feels off though, it's a big mess now but I don't really see us actually going there. What we are already doing is more limiting what's going on around that unstable situation with Werlyt and Bozja, perhaps liberating other people. But we don't have anything to do in Illsabard properly. Unless we get some request from the Populares to join forces or something...

It's probable that someone is going to come out on top in the power struggle that's happening in the capital sooner then later, and I think it's likely that they're going to issue a swift retaliatory strike against Eorzea and its allies after what the general populace of Garlemald perceived as a surgical strike against their rulership (Assuming they don't wise up and figure out Zenos was the real culprit).

Their research is also starting to go off into very dangerous territory that's making them an even bigger threat to everyone then before (Themselves included). The artificial primals involved in the Weapon project seem like something that could snowball into a potentially Calamity-inducing problem if Ascian foolery gets involved.

[Deceptus]

Pretty sure we're going into Garland