8.0/Blindfrost glam

[Kozh]

Blindfrost feels like a reach and what we know about that region is that it’s empty tundra with scattered nomad Xaela-ish people and no cities, which doesn’t feel like enough content to fill a whole expansion.

Idk, we didn't know much about tural/new world yet we get dawntrail. With enough imagination blindfrost could be interesting. Heck, knowing nothing about that region means they can go crazy with it.

Personally I don't really care if we go there or corvos, so long it's not meracydia
/shrug

[MikkoAkure]

Idk, we didn't know much about tural/new world yet we get dawntrail. With enough imagination blindfrost could be interesting. Heck, knowing nothing about that region means they can go crazy with it.

Before Dawntrail we had Mamool Ja NPCs hanging around and a dungeon devoted to them, multiple items referencing the New World, and the whole BLU questline since the job itself originates there so there was a lot of potential.

For Blindfrost we just have 1 line in-game that tells us there’s treasure there and a few lines of nearby areas in the encyclopedia that describe how bleak and empty it is. The treasure dungeon we know is near there is prime VC content but I can’t see it carrying a whole expansion on its own that solely keeps us in North Othard.

While the devs could just retcon all that and put stuff there, I’d much rather they instead put an expansion in a place we actually have context for, that finally clears cloud cover on the map over Ilsabard, and could provide a nice spread of varied landscapes for the zones.

[Wasselin]

I don't know, we already have so many big coats in the game. I'm not sure I want more winter inspired glam, unless we got a new coat silhouette out of it. Long cloaks that float in the wind would be awesome, like from the Heavensward trailer, but I don't think it's really possible with the games engine.

[Kozh]

Before Dawntrail we had Mamool Ja NPCs hanging around and a dungeon devoted to them, multiple items referencing the New World, and the whole BLU questline since the job itself originates there so there was a lot of potential.

Potential that get kinda ignored in DT anyway except for a reference or two, especially BLU questline lol

[Brandr]

Potential that get kinda ignored in DT anyway except for a reference or two, especially BLU questline lol

I'm an atheist for Blue Magic. BLU doesn't exist.

[mallleable]

While I don't think Blindfrost will be the main focus of 8.0, I do think, and hope we explore the rest of Ilsabard then. I hope we get a lot of fantasy dieselpunk inspired stuff.

[Kozh]

While I don't think Blindfrost will be the main focus of 8.0, I do think, and hope we explore the rest of Ilsabard then. I hope we get a lot of fantasy dieselpunk inspired stuff.

Same. I've been wanting an ilsabard expansion for years now. Plus the last time they mentioned it, thancred said there's been fighting amongst the colonies liberated from garlean. That's a good potential for nuanced conflict (so long it's not written by whoever responsible for DT)

[maidgil]

I just hope its cold I am so over anything tropical or summery lol

Same! I don't care where we go, just please let it be cold.... Out of everywhere we have been, only three places have been snowy/winter landscapes. Versus desert/arid landscapes of which we have like nine? And the rest are just forests or tropical. I want more proper cold climates! Garlemald and Coerthas isn't enough, especially since Coerthas is designed to be a landscape 'that used to be temperate and only recently became super cold' so it doesn't really fill the niche that well in my opinion.

[RedLolly]

Tural was so painfully underutilized in Dawntrail as the story so fully went in on Alexandria's (admittedly more interesting) storyline.

God, I want a new hub city that's got the vibrancy of Tulliyolol or Radz-at-Han with a thick layer of snow. Both Ishgard and (what's left of) Garlemald were brutalist in their building design. Sharlayan was much prettier but also very stark with the white and teal marble architecture. I'm hoping for a Nordic inspired nation for when we go to Blindfrost. Elaborate wood carvings, colorful runestones, highly patterned fabrics, lots of jewelry.

[Kozh]

Tural was so painfully underutilized in Dawntrail as the story so fully went in on Alexandria's (admittedly more interesting) storyline.

God, I want a new hub city that's got the vibrancy of Tulliyolol or Radz-at-Han with a thick layer of snow. Both Ishgard and (what's left of) Garlemald were brutalist in their building design. Sharlayan was much prettier but also very stark with the white and teal marble architecture. I'm hoping for a Nordic inspired nation for when we go to Blindfrost. Elaborate wood carvings, colorful runestones, highly patterned fabrics, lots of jewelry.

I would love that (nordic inspired). Or maybe instead of nordic, since blindfrost is more eastern-ish (iirc?), it's more native Siberian - ainu inspired.