So i just walked outside uldah...

[Elexia]

Why exactly would you expect radical landscape changes happen *before* dalamud hits exactly?

Some people and lack of the most basic semblance of logic..

There's that crutch again. Have you ever played a FF game besides XIV? I'm guessing no. Landscape changes can happen by the mere presence of Dalamud. FFIX for example, the mist covered the world simply because of the Iifa tree roots being present, it didn't require wide spread growth until they needed an excuse to cut down on disk data and block off the other locations on the final disk.

I find it kind of ironic you want to bring in logic to a fantasy then fail to remember, assuming you actually have played a FF game before that a lot of illogical shit happens all the time, you know, like the planet using spiritual energy to try to prevent a meteor from hitting it? Yeah that saved the Dinosaurs irl, right?

well, i mean, it could also, y'know, mean that, i dunno, that maybe, the PDFs were referring to... uhhh...

the map redesign??

Sadly, this was stated to happen by the final patch (1.23), it was suppose to really allude to the map redesign even before Dalamud hits, if not..they really screwed up on the wording lol.