Where do we go from here? DT Story and beyond

[Andevom]

I don't like the cup thing with shard travel. It trivializes what before was such a difficult, rare feat, that even impressed Emet Selch when G'raha could do it - and that took him years and a lot of effort to be successful at. Now in less than 2 years we've been to 3 more different shards, have parts of it in the Source and have something that potentially gives us free access to others.

I wish we'd ignore everything about Dawntrail and do as Emet said at the end of EW: let's only explore Etheirys for a while. I'd love an expansion focused on Meracydia, about dragons and allagans. We don't need all the Scions with us at all times, but I still want them there! In a Meracydia expansion, the obvious companions would be Estinien and G'raha because of what they know (and also because we still have 3 promises to keep to G'raha that the game completely ignored after 6.0). We could maybe take Krile as well, because it could be a Students of Baldesion thing and we'd get to finally learn what they're doing and how they work, and give her the development we expected from her in Dawntrail and never got. She got a backstory, but never CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. I want to see her research things, show us what she loved and what she is passionate about.

I feel it's a given the Allagans are gonna get the focus at some point.

But I'm not that enthused about it. I like that we only get bits and pieces of their history, and they're something we explore through stumbling across their handiwork. It ruins the magic if it goes further than that.

[chizLemons]

I feel it's a given the Allagans are gonna get the focus at some point.

But I'm not that enthused about it. I like that we only get bits and pieces of their history, and they're something we explore through stumbling across their handiwork. It ruins the magic if it goes further than that.

But couldn't that be said about anything that we learn more about, though? Why is learning more about the Allagans any different than learning more about the Ascians, for example? Did it ruin the "magic" to you?
Even with an entire expansion focused on them, I don't even think we'd learn everything there is to learn anyway. Their influence and empire was huge and lasted very long. If we also compare it to the ascians again, even today as much as we learned about them during ShB and EW, there's still a lot that's not been explained and we don't know about.

[Andevom]

But couldn't that be said about anything that we learn more about, though? Why is learning more about the Allagans any different than learning more about the Ascians, for example? Did it ruin the "magic" to you?
Even with an entire expansion focused on them, I don't even think we'd learn everything there is to learn anyway. Their influence and empire was huge and lasted very long. If we also compare it to the ascians again, even today as much as we learned about them during ShB and EW, there's still a lot that's not been explained and we don't know about.

The Ascians are a perfect example of this. Wasn't a fan of the whole Elpis section of Endwalker and Pandemonium. It did ruin some of the magic for me, and I don't feel exploring it that deeply was necessary.