Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Boblawblah]

Hey.

Welcome to FFXIV where 80% are just stuff pulled from past FF games.

Im just hoping they go with the Ivalice raid route and properly integrate FFXI into the world of FFXIV unlike Nier.

There's a way to pull influence from previous games without alienating everyone who hasn't played said game. Having another "love letter to 'x' game" usually just means fans love it and those that have never played it are left wondering what the big deal is.

[Calysto]

Oh, good. More content peeled from other games that means nothing unless you've played it.

At least players here are happy, I guess? But I've less interest in Vana'diel than I do IV and Golbez, and that's saying something - and after previous crossovers, I don't exactly have much faith in their ability to make it particularly interesting outside the lens of nostalgia goggles, either. Oh, well.

To be fair, XIV already use like 80% of XI assets. If you see a new enemy in the overworld for any expansion, it's likely just a reskin from a XI monster

[Fawkes]

They should really make Vana'diel one of the reflections.

I guess they don't have to follow what they already did for FFXI crossovers, but I feel like they've already established FFXI as an alternate dimension.

[Eisi]

That's the big question in my mind right now as well. The two XI crossover events already established that travel between the universes is canonically possible and was even referenced in XI, and we have a character from there currently stranded on the Source. So will we be traveling somehow TO XI's Vana'diel or will be getting a XIV version similar to how they retooled Ivalice, the answers can't come soon enough.

edit: and they've already said the shards aren't other FF worlds so hopefully they don't backpedal on that.

Hey, what if it's both a FFXIV version of Vana'diel that happens to live on another shard?

[VentVanitas]

if you guys will allow me to go full insane speculation mode, the wind up Mithra minion suggests that Miqo'te evolved from them, and considering the series is named "Echoes of Vana'diel" it makes me believe that not only would XIV have its own version of Vana'diel a la Ivalice, but it's also possible that we could be travelling to the past for the raids, too.

[Kranel_San]

I guess they don't have to follow what they already did for FFXI crossovers, but I feel like they've already established FFXI as an alternate dimension.

Y'sthola would like to know her location.

(Yes, I know she's back to FFXI)

[Silverquick]

if you guys will allow me to go full insane speculation mode, the wind up Mithra minion suggests that Miqo'te evolved from them, and considering the series is named "Echoes of Vana'diel" it makes me believe that not only would XIV have its own version of Vana'diel a la Ivalice, but it's also possible that we could be travelling to the past for the raids, too.

Lol I have never seen those before, but that is hilarious.

They even used the actual word "scorpion harness" in there. Lol those and Subligars.

[LioJen]

There is only one correct opinion here.

[Asari5]

i just want the gameplay/mechanics to be engaging... but i guess we can already say thsts too much to ask for

[Silverquick]

There is only one correct opinion here.

Lol and that's only half the joke,

The Scorpion Harness (Subligar being the same) were also common newbie mistakes when you came into the game. You'd be going something like...

"Scorpion Harness? Oh that sounds bad az, lets try that one."
"WTF? Why am I in bondage gear?"

There were a ton of other armors you could wear with similar or better stats, so the only people that wore them were generally only newbies that didn't know any better or people playing a Mithra for the view.
Hence the.... "She wears a traditional scorpion harness rendered in painstaking - and pointless - detail by her Sharlayan creator."

That's the hilarious part.