8.0 - 100% Confirmed.

[TaleraRistain]

the 6.x post patches set up for a new shard not meracydia, and with us getting the shard merger this expansion and the current direction of this post expansion it also pointing us to a new shard.

That may be part of the wider arc but it's not like right this second we know how to work the Key. We could go to Meracydia either just to continue Emet's list or as part of the path to learning how to work the Key and gain the ability to go to new shards.

[Musashidon]

That may be part of the wider arc but it's not like right this second we know how to work the Key. We could go to Meracydia either just to continue Emet's list or as part of the path to learning how to work the Key and gain the ability to go to new shards.

we both know in 2 patches y'shtola will know how it works. plus we dont *need* the key to go to new shards we need the key to merge them, i wont say its impossible to have a meracydia expansion but nothing besides something said during endwalker to go off of when we have had 2 post content expansions hinting at shard travel makes more sense.