Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
And yet she's being sent to open world. The whole reason they're doing instance fights after you claim them on open world is easier to manage for quests. So I'm still waiting to see where he confirmed he's no longer planning to remove the current form of fights due to storyline related reasons.
It sounds like he is removing the story related primal fights, not the hard mode ones. My guess is once you interact with Garuda, you get sent to the instanced battlefield that we fight in right now, just adjusted to 2.0's engine.