What/Who will be the 6.0 expansion final boss? And what about the raid bosses?

[SecretIsland]

I'm guessing that we're going to fight the Lunar bosses in the raid and the final boss would be Fandaniel or Zodiark. As for the 6.0 MSQ, my guess is Lunar Dragon/Bahamut or something else.

[SecretIsland]

^This, although given the obvious FFIV parallels with EW I'm expecting Fandangle to be unceremoniously disposed of as aether for Zodiark as a sacrifice, which Zenos then assimilates into, and becomes a bizzare callback to Zeromous/Zemus in FFIV (I would be very disappointed if SE doesn't go for an easy pun and call his 'assimilated' form something like 'Zenus', 'Zenomous' or 'Zenoark' ).

But yeah it's definetely clear SE are planning for a Zenos/Zodiark combination to be the final boss. The after credits stinger scene way back at the end of SHB's 5.0 story made that pretty clear.

Ugh, this would put me off greatly. I really don't like Zenos as a villain and for Zodiark to be tainted with Zenos would be most upsetting.

[SecretIsland]

Why would it be a let down? If anything it’d have more payoff in the end with us being Azem and finally getting to meet and draw upon Zodiark whereas Hydaelyn has been shady for awhile no and it wouldn’t be surprising for her to end up being evil and or taken over by zenos

Because Zenos is one of the most cliche and uninteresting villains in FF14. Even Lahabrea had more personality and backstory than Zenos.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Because Zenos is one of the most cliche and uninteresting villains in FF14. Even Lahabrea had more personality and backstory than Zenos.

That’s why i’d rather him take over Hydaelyn, someone who’s pretty boring and dull like him over Zodiark who has potential lol.

[wereotter]

You aware they said they trying to be orginal this time right.
Also Anima and towns are basically going to be ff10 themed tbh

I'm not so certain that the expansion is going to be FFX themed. Remember we just had the WOL turn from Dark Knight to Paladin, he's traveling with the healer and DPS caster jobs, we're getting the lunar whale mount, and we're going to the moon... that's all pretty strong allusions to FFIV. So if I had to guess, I could see a situation wherein there's some combination of Zodiark and Xenos becoming Zeromus.

That said, many of the expansions take elements from multiple games as reference. Stormblood had some strong FFVI vibes with Castrum Abania being a reference to the Magitek Research Facility. And the story of stopping the flood of light being similar to the backstory in FFIII. They do this without the final big baddie actually being from the game the expansion references, so there's no way to really tell based off the clues we have so far except to say that it definitely WONT be Anima as the final boss.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I'm not so certain that the expansion is going to be FFX themed. Remember we just had the WOL turn from Dark Knight to Paladin, he's traveling with the healer and DPS caster jobs, we're getting the lunar whale mount, and we're going to the moon... that's all pretty strong allusions to FFIV. So if I had to guess, I could see a situation wherein there's some combination of Zodiark and Xenos becoming Zeromus.

That said, many of the expansions take elements from multiple games as reference. Stormblood had some strong FFVI vibes with Castrum Abania being a reference to the Magitek Research Facility. And the story of stopping the flood of light being similar to the backstory in FFV. They do this without the final big baddie actually being from the game the expansion references, so there's no way to really tell based off the clues we have so far except to say that it definitely WONT be Anima as the final boss.

I doubt they’d go with something so obvious. Yoshi P said in an interview he wanted to subvert expectations, he knows the playerbase isn’t dumb and expects zenos to take over zodiark and for us to assume zeromus will be a part of it. I personally expect there to be a twist and he actually goes after hydaelyn instead while the WoL(WoD) goes after Zodiark. It would be an interesting contrast going from drk to paladin (dark to light) but ending up switching to the dark primal instead of the obvious light one.

[Raltar]

Zeromus will be the final boss. It will be Zodiark and Zenos combined.

[linayar]

Why would it be a let down?

Because the WoL has always been working with Hydaelyn.

If anything it’d have more payoff in the end with us being Azem and finally getting to meet and draw upon Zodiark whereas Hydaelyn has been shady for awhile no and it wouldn’t be surprising for her to end up being evil and or taken over by zenos

The WoL is not Azem, and Azem had no dealing with Zodiark as far as I know, so there is no set up there for a payoff.

Also, if Zenos knows about the WoL's connection with Hydaelyn, then he would not choose to go after Hydaelyn as he wants to fight the WoL at their best.

[AnotherPerson]

It's goanna be Rowena. With all the power she has from us collecting tomestones over many expansions, she has obtained too much power over the economy and ancient knowledge. As the ShB Relics hinted, the first ones to go will be the Crafter and Artisans, replaced by Allagan Nodes to do their craftsmanship in Mor Dhona. The craftsmans all over the world will rebel from the lack of scrips since Rowena will only accept HQ goods in bulk and Rowena will have to take measures into her own hands at that point.

I'm only half joking btw. I can see this happen in a sidequest storyline though, where the assistants get drunk off of allagan power.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Because the WoL has always been working with Hydaelyn.

The WoL is not Azem, and Azem had no dealing with Zodiark as far as I know, so there is no set up there for a payoff.

Also, if Zenos knows about the WoL's connection with Hydaelyn, then he would not choose to go after Hydaelyn as he wants to fight the WoL at their best.

....what? WoL is Azem. And we know there is a connection between us and zodiark all the way back in ARR when he gave us a brief echo vision of him. Also with everything we’ve learned recently and with the shady stuff it seems hydaelyn is a part of, Azem(WoL) seems to be taking the remembrance of the ancients over Hydaelyn.Hell, just look at the Endwalkers trailer where it has WoL as an Elidibus stand-in on the moon.