is the diadem being removed in ishgard housing update?

[eldraisjacob]

heard some people discussing the diadem was going to be removed in the 5.4 update with ishgard housing?

Could I get a proof statement if this is true or not?

[Coletergeist]

Is it true that Ishgard housing is coming out that soon? Don't get my hopes up man T^T

[Frizze]

I havent seen any announcements on either front. There should be a live letter in 2-3 weeks that will have actual info on the upcoming patch.

[DarkMasamune]

I think they might find another lore reason to keep the Diadem, imo. It's a good way to level DoL and I guess some people enjoy it, it would be strange to just totally delete it.

[Jojoya]

Diadem will definitely be needed in 5.4x as a source of materials for the new recipes that will be added for the Restoration and most likely another set of Expert achievements.

There's also no indication that SE plans to remove the existing Expert and Skyward Point achievements any time in the near future so Diadem will continue to be needed for farming the mats for those.

I expect Diadem to remain at least through the end of this expansion so players have a chance to complete all those achievements. I'm not going to speculate about what they might have planned for it next expansion.

We also don't know that we'll be getting Ishgard housing in 5.4. SE has said nothing to that effect. All we know is that the final stage of the Restoration will be added in 5.4x. I think it's more likely to be added in 5.5 (especially since they've already told us the pandemic obstructed their plans to add more servers for additional housing).

[Shadygrove]

They have said nothing about either Ishgard housing or the Diadem.

.... There should be a live letter in 2-3 weeks that will have actual info on the upcoming patch.

[MistakeNot]

We also don't know that we'll be getting Ishgard housing in 5.4. SE has said nothing to that effect. All we know is that the final stage of the Restoration will be added in 5.4x. I think it's more likely to be added in 5.5 (especially since they've already told us the pandemic obstructed their plans to add more servers for additional housing).

We don't even know for sure that we will be getting Ishgard housing at all, though at this stage I would be quite surprised if we didn't get it.
Personally I don't expect us to get Ishgard housing until 6.0. They wouldn't want to add it until they are sure all servers have finished all stages of the Ishgard restoration anyway.

[Canadane]

So far there is no information on player housing in Ishgard.
Nothing has confirmed that it's coming, so don't get your hopes up.

[tdb]

Looking at the map of the Firmament, we're maybe halfway through the restoration. 13 housing plots have been completed, and I think we're currently working on the apartment building on my server. It looks like the current phase ends right after that. It would be very strange for the rest to just be completed between patches without help from players, so I expect there to be at least one more restoration phase, likely two and possibly even three. Which means no Ishgard housing in 5.4. Depending on how the remaining work is paced, it might be coming as late as 6.0.

As for the Diadem, I doubt it will be removed. Storywise the Firmament is only the first region of Ishgard to be restored, so they could easily keep all the related gathering and crafting content and just say the efforts are going towards restoring other areas we don't happen to have access to.

[Tlamila]

There's still a ranking season in 5.4, and Yoshi said it's the last one. I honestly expect the housing to come in 5.5 since the restoration will be over before that. But no clue if the whole crafting/gathering thing will go away with the restoration or if they'll find a way to keep it, they said nothing on the topic.