Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
They're not realistically gonna go back to ARR and combine maps, especially with how this would mess with S rank conditions.

You could argue that Occult is an "open world dungeon".

The new deep dungeon will be the open area of Il Mheg, exploring the old ruins. It will actually be outside.
They absolutely could merge the old ARR zones but the resources needed to do that are the same as making brand new zones as that is what they would have to do when merging the old zones. They make new ones and delete the old. I don’t think anybody wants to give up an expansion for an ARR clean up.