Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[CidHeiral]

The next raid starts in San d'Oria!!! That's my favorite city in FFXI and where I started way back in the day. I'm STOKED! Can't wait to have the bagpipes blasting out of my orchestrion! lmao

Is anyone able to do a more thorough translation of the FFXI raid section of the live letter? The translation discord seems to have skipped most of what they were saying.

[SeriousPan]

I wonder how they're going to make Sandy work for this raid and which zones they'll travel to. I'm excited either way but I wasn't expecting them to do one of the cities again to start off. I guess this means one of the great nations has to miss out and I have a suspicion that it'll be Bastok.

[Andevom]

I wonder how they're going to make Sandy work for this raid and which zones they'll travel to. I'm excited either way but I wasn't expecting them to do one of the cities again to start off. I guess this means one of the great nations has to miss out and I have a suspicion that it'll be Bastok.

I imagine Ronfaure will be involved, especially since SE loves the music for that zone.

[Infindox]

I know next to nothing about XI, but I liked that you could explore around that one city area a bit. I hope they have a similar area for this one.

[Fawkes]

The blue zone looks more like Beaucedine Glacier to me, but the spire looks more like Delkfutt's Tower than one of the Pso'Xja towers so maybe it's supposed to be Qufim.

[Kisshu]

Beaucedine Glacier does have Fei'Yin which is a structure similar to Delkfutt, but the tower is gone.

The sneak peak of one enemy did show the younger Zilart brother, and we fight him in Delkfutt. So might be that one, and Qufim does have the aurora at times.

[fulminating]

I enjoyed the first walk, hopefully this lives up to the standard set and they don’t pull a thalia/euphrosyne.
Odds on AV? Fafnir is already a precedent for eurekan entities reappearing. Maybe the fights will be something like Zilart bros/ultima/AV/[serket/lord of onzozo/tonberries]? Could be cool to visit the temple of uggalephi or labyrinth in the XIV graphics. Hoping to get another nostalgia town too, personally would have rather had windy, but sandy is a nice place too. If the scheming holodeck lizard brings us more holiday snaps I’ll probably laugh but enjoy seeing what was deemed worth sharing.

It’s looking like tavnazia the final/third walk is a reasonable expectation? Slightly surprised since the boyahda tree was zilart as were the AAs. Even prishe is chains, really shadowlord was the only base fight included. Maybe we’ll wrap up zilart early and more right into chains, leaving maybe wings or rhapsody for third walk? Kind of difficult to include Odin/Alexander/Bahamut with how established in the xiv continuity they are, maybe Fenrir?

[Fawkes]

With one of the fights probably taking place in San d'Oria maybe it'll be like Warchief Vatgit or something. Or maybe Prishe's Elvaan NPC pal will get transformed like she did and it'll be a unique fight against him.

[Raikai]

I wonder what are going to be the armor sets this time. I also know nothing of XI, so IDK if dropping where the raid takes place could give up the reference.

[fulminating]

Could be a dynamis nm too - although we had dynamis mobs into prishe for jeuno so maybe that’s more an indication of enhanced npc.