Thread: 3.1 MSQ Reaction [SPOILERS]

Originally Posted by VargasVermillion

I have my doubts we'd be taking back Ala Mhigo, I still think it's too obvious. If they aren't going to be very ambitious with the plot then yeah, we'll just take back Ala Mhigo but it would be interesting if they have something else in store.

We know of the refugees wanted to take back alamihgo, but it has been at least a generation.

What if the people there don't want to go back to eorzea? Or see themselves as a nation in the middle of a new war they never wanted?

Originally Posted by VargasVermillion

I have my doubts we'd be taking back Ala Mhigo, I still think it's too obvious. If they aren't going to be very ambitious with the plot then yeah, we'll just take back Ala Mhigo but it would be interesting if they have something else in store.

Be sure we wil go there, but you right is too obious. That might indicate that the retake of the city will not be the big theme of the next expansion.

There is still Omega weapon ... perhaps Ilberd will luck out and manage to take hold of it? Use that to then destroy the remaining forces of Garlean-Controlled Ala Mhigo?

Originally Posted by myahele

There is still Omega weapon ... perhaps Ilberd will luck out and manage to take hold of it? Use that to then destroy the remaining forces of Garlean-Controlled Ala Mhigo?

This could be true, but he could also loose control of it and do more damage than he intended.

Honestly it doesn't matter to me if we go to Ala Mhingo for the next expansion. Though the place I really want to visit is the garlean empire. I imagine a city build with all kinds of Magitech and instead of an Atheryte system they have some like a teleporter system where you talk to an attendant and you pop next to another one in the part of the city you wanted. Also things like elevators and such. Can't you tell I love robotic stuff? XD

I think one way or another Garlemald will move to being a central threat soon. We have been having continued build up towards another attempt by them to take Eorzea. I cant see them dragging that out forever. It would be very suprising if such a conflict doesn't take place in 4.0 and Ala Mhigo is the obvious battleground for it as its effectively the Garlean's staging area in Eorzea.

Even if Ala Mhigo isn't next for some reason, there is very little chance we will go to Garlemald before liberating Ala Mhigo, as well as right now Garlemald is probably too well defended. If in the next xpac we deal a crushing blow to their forces (like taking down multiple Legates and the like), we might be able to invad Garlemald, with the xpac after it being going to Ala Mhigo where the final battle against the Garlean Empire would take place (as whoever powerful was left would have flee'd to it basically)

But basically at best I see Ala Mhigo being 4.0, and Garlemald being either 5.0, MAYBE 6.0.

To me, Ala Mhigo (Gyr Abania) seems like Ishgard (Abalathia's Spine) and Sharlayan (Dravania) - backstory given to a region before that region is in the game specifically so there's an excuse both why you can't go there now and why you should go there later. I don't imagine that either we'd skip it or that it would be the cliche liberation.

My personal preference at this given moment would be that our involvement just completely tears that nation apart. Cities at landbridges between realms usually have a long history of conflict. Driving out the core Imperial structure would create a power vacuum into which would be drawn Garlean loyalists, Kingdom loyalists, reformists, Fists of Rhalgr, upstarts... I'd love it to be a city like Whitegate - full of interesting characters and factions and perpetually in conflict for the rest of the game.

We've seen as much Garlean military as we have Allagan remnants, though, so unless we're in for more than cermet and magitek and bleak black fortresses, I don't really care to see the homeland, lol. The throne room didn't look much different than a castrum. Unless we forge some truce and have an excuse to see a unique culture going back farther than their military industrial revolution, I'd rather they just collapsed off screen like the previous Emperor and let us go about our business somewhere like Thavnair or Othard or, hells, even the New World.