Thread: 2.55 ► 3.0

This thread will probably contain spoilers as a forewarning.

So as the titles leads on, this thread is about speculation on what we might expect/want/wish from the transition from 2.55 into the 3.0 story arc.

I personally hope something similar, albeit not as grand-scale and world altering, as 1.0 into 2.0 was to happen to the world. In fact if you were around when that first transition took place there was at the end a unique weather effect and the soundtrack was an echo'd version of the original intro song (I think it still plays the song in 2.0's intro), you can hear what it sounded like if you look up 1.0 end of days on youtube...but anyway, something like that would be cool, we know the Dragon's are "singing their song" so I think it would be cool if they did something similar where we hear some echo'd version of what they are singing, with the occasional dragon flying overhead in the zones (as they are gathering).

Special FATES would be icing on the cake but honestly I would be happy to see some visual/hear some audible goodies if you will. So what are your speculations/wants/wishes for this transition?

Except that the special events SE ran that were connected with the transition from 1.0 to ARR was deliberate because it was a literal end of the world - ARR completely replaced 1.0 and thus the events leading to the Calamity were a fun way to send the original game off 'with a bang'.

Heavensward on the other hand, is just an expansion pack - it extends the current world and content, but doesn't replace it. Heavensward's storyline will pick up from where 2.55's story will end - it doesn't replace it. Hence, no need for huge 'world ending' events. Everything currently available in ARR will still be available after Heavensward launches.

Also the way the storyline has long stated, that Ishgard is closed off and inaccessible. Thus they're not going to have server-wide events stating "the gates of Ishgard are now open yaddayaddayadda" - any events connected to it will almost definitely require the main scenario to be completed up to 2.55 (SE even stated this in the most recent Letter From the Producer - that to access Heavensward areas and content requires the entire 2.0 storyline to be completed first - all the way up to the yet to come 2.55 story.).

There will most likely be special events celebrating the launch of Heavensward, just not the sort of thing you're hoping for (most likely more low-key affairs where you get a special item, like the Rising which celebrated ARR's first year of service). Face it, the Seventh Umbral Era events of 1.0 are gone forever - we'll never see anything of it's like again.

I didn't say there needed to be 'world ending' events. But we know that there are a mass of dragons hearing a 'song' and they are gathering...why wouldn't we be able to see them grouping up, or hear their song we have been 'blessed' by Midgardsomr. And I know its an expansion, however the only continuation of story will likely by the Ascian Arc, every thing else will probably conclude in the coming patch; leaving us open for the Ishgard Arc.

Guild Wars does these kinds of world events once in a while and the world doesn't completely change but if it serves as an incentive to log on and see the spectacle and participate in events that lead up to the next new story arc. Its not unheard of and XIV was not the first and only MMO to do something like this (on the scale of 1.0 to 2.0 yes) but the general idea of it is not too new.