Revelations from the Announcement Showcase

[WhiteArchmage]

How scary you think they may make Anima boss fight?

At the very least I expect to get sucked into the floor and fight her lower half. If anything, I'm pretty sure it'll be dark and twisted again.
Also fully expect her to get pulled up by a hook during her summoning, that was SUCH a freakishly scary scene in FFX.

[EdwinLi]

At the very least I expect to get sucked into the floor and fight her lower half. If anything, I'm pretty sure it'll be dark and twisted again.
Also fully expect her to get pulled up by a hook during her summoning, that was SUCH a freakishly scary scene in FFX.

Just pray this Anima does not end up being just like the Anima in Brave Exvius which was not 1 Anima but hundreds sealed below.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iXdmJl8lhk

now that will be a nightmare to fight or may lead to the world's doom no matter what WoL does.

After all they have released Pandaemonium on to the world.

[Iscah]

So while they didn't say much about the new 24-man, they did say it's an FF14-specific story that ties into one of the big unresolved pieces of Eorzean lore.

That has to be Silvertear, right?

I think so, but I'm not sure where we could be going to investigate it.

[JeanneOrnitier]

So we're definitely going to see the clouds over Ilsabard on the map be removed, hopefully showing us not only the new zones but also locations for Bozja, Werlyt, and other places we've only heard about.
If you look in the bottom right corner of the screen when the trailer is showing the map, you can see that the clouds over Dalmasca are already gone. I bet the longer version of the trailer in May will show the ones over Ilsabard being swept away.

[RyuDragnier]

I think so, but I'm not sure where we could be going to investigate it.

I would assume INTO the hole in Silvertear. I think Middy would be more than willing to let us know what was down there since his reason for protecting it may be gone after 6.0's completion.

[JeanneOrnitier]

I know Yoshi-P said the Thavnairian Matanga are friendly but I wonder if they'll have unique dialogue for Au Ra players.

[Lord_Umbra]

The 1.0 CGI Trailer did show WoL is a Gladiator in the start of his journey at the end. When WoL grabbed his bags and left with his 2 companions, we can see his Gladiator sword used in the box art which suggest WoL switched from Gladiator class to Archer class sometime after that scene. A little detail I think a lot of people missed due to how the Archer class became the iconic class for WoL image in 1.0 due to the combat sequence.



However, considering it was a Echo vision event, WoL most likely was only a Archer class during that scene due to how the person he is seeing the Echo vision from was a Archer him or herself.

The Archer job was probably chosen due to how the 1.0 CGI trailer made WoL being a Archer in the beginning iconic since that was his chosen combat style during the combat sequence of 1.0 CGI trailer.

Whilst he does have that stuff I feel like it's not canon/ we don't see him use it because the Roe would become the PLD & Derp would become WAR so didn't have to BRDs, the Rising event in past has also shown all the CGI trailer jobs/classes of us/derplander & Paladin was not one of them. ShB CG shows him as his Archer as cycles through his jobs none which were GLA/PLD.

[KageTokage]

I know Yoshi-P said the Thavnairian Matanga are friendly but I wonder if they'll have unique dialogue for Au Ra players.

I think most of the lorebook stuff about the Matanga was written with the foreign Othard clans in mind, not the native Thavnairian ones, so I doubt the latter have any feelings in particular about any of the races.

[Alleo]

I am a bit disappointed that someone like Zenos might be our endboss...I really hope that they do a bit more with him otherwise he is just boring. (At the same time they once said that he existed as one of those pure evil unlikeable characters so I doubt we will get more...)

I loved that the twins finally got a spot in a CGI trailer even if the english Alisaie seemingly was way more aggressive towards her brother than the japanese version. Its nice that the WoL is a paladin even though I still wished that he would finally turn towards the magic jobs too. I did love the symbolics with the WoL walking in something that look like Ancient gear towards the sun. I wonder if that means that maybe we get more information on Azem?

Them stating that Light and Darkness is not good or bad is funny when we get a picture with Hydaelyn and Zodiark where the latter definitely does not look like a nice guy. And since a lot of the Darkness users especially the Ascians have done some really horrible stuff in the name of Zodiark I kinda wonder if that holds true...If he has tempered them why does he not stop them from doing that? I really hope that they make a good story on why Zodiark should not be seen as a bad guy..maybe he is not able to do something and we find that out? Also if none of them are good or bad then that also means that Hydealyn is definitely not evil either.

I also wonder how they will do the final days. Will they only destroy new zones?

Since the story arc will end in 6.0 I hope that this does not make it feel rushed. We do have to uncover quite a bit of stuff, have to travel to new regions and so on which will all need some reasons to be here and will have to finally deal with Zodiark. Quite much especially if the 6.1 starts completely new. I also feel a bit bad for all of those that wanted to go to Garlemald. I never liked the look of the city much but I know that it will suck for all of those that wanted to see it in its glory only to have it destroyed by someone like Zenos...

[Rannie]

I don't recall WoL being a Gladiator at the start of 1.0, although that was a long time ago so correct me if I'm wrong. He was an Archer in the trailer/opening for 1.0. That's why he started as an Archer in the Shadowbringers trailer. His job changes cycled through the original, ARR and the expansions.

It was actually hard to figure out from the starter movie as the WoL was the never shown with a weapon until he had the echo vision which showed him playing as an Archer. Once the vision was over though and the elezen, miqote and he were leaving it showed him picking up his bag and the only visible weapon was a broad sword.

Otherwise, I'm actually very hyped for this new expansion and for what will be for the new storyline after. As well as my free ps5 version... i....need to buy a 4k tv now excuse me while I go look for one...