Quote Originally Posted by Musashidon View Post
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.
If I remember my lore correctly, there is a massive void gate in Mericydia and with the key to stabilize it, could be used to go to all of the shards. Going to the continent down under is also supported by the fact that quite a few developers went there for R&D, taking lots of photos several years ago.

I expect the first half of 8.0 goes down to Mericydia and the second part to the 13th to stabilize it like the 1st. After that, future expansions take place on the remaining shards until they all collapse sometime in 10.0.