Ascian Prime EX

[CyrilLucifer]

Alright, makes sense. Though now I'm wondering what the next primal will be. We've covered quite a few of the major ones already, and Ravana has also show they have a willingness to make ones that would specifially be for FFXIV. Outside of the Warring Triad there doesn't seem to be many Primals to go with right now (unless they do start going with the Ivalice line.)

Even Ravana was pretty similar to a FFXI Naraka family, with the armored humanoid, 4-armed stance changes and whatnot.

[Colorful]

Alright, makes sense. Though now I'm wondering what the next primal will be. We've covered quite a few of the major ones already, and Ravana has also show they have a willingness to make ones that would specifially be for FFXIV. Outside of the Warring Triad there doesn't seem to be many Primals to go with right now (unless they do start going with the Ivalice line.)

Ravana and Bismarck have been my favourite primals so far, so the more "original" (I know Ravana and Bismarck aren't 100% original), would be better than ones based on other FF games. As for potential primals, I'd really like to see an Anima primal, especially if it plays part in the new Anima weapons. Otherwise they don't need to be primals, Omega weapon and one of the Warriors of Darkness could be viable choices.

Actually Yoshida said that the original King Thordan battle included about 70% of the existing mechanics in the EX. But he thought it would be too hard for people to beat so he toned it down ALOT so people doing the main storyline could complete it. This is from that interview btw.

Also, have a strong feeling all of their time definitely went into Diadem and Lord Of Verminion. Considering the size of its section of the patch notes.

If not for the EX fight there would have been a rather large outrage of less content, and they would have made a new one and reallocated resources from elsewhere. Instead they made ThordanEX in its place, so we didn't get a new primal due to it. But regardless, the Ascian Prime was from a MSQ dungeon, meaning there is no hard mode so they'd have to start from scratch, giving us no new trial. I don't think the encounter team worked on Lords of Verminion either.

[Fevelle]

Alright, makes sense. Though now I'm wondering what the next primal will be. We've covered quite a few of the major ones already, and Ravana has also show they have a willingness to make ones that would specifially be for FFXIV. Outside of the Warring Triad there doesn't seem to be many Primals to go with right now (unless they do start going with the Ivalice line.)

I'd like to see Crusader from FFVI as an Ala Mhigan primal. It would be great!

[Toguro]

We've had a new primal every patch since 2.0, and with 3.1 we didn't get one. I think it's safe to assume that this mechanically complex fight took the development time out of those, but regardless Yoshida did mention that this was replacement for the EX fight, or rather is the EX fight of this patch, and future EX fights won't be like this.

Actually Yoshida said that the original King Thordan battle included about 70% of the existing mechanics in the EX. But he thought it would be too hard for people to beat so he toned it down ALOT so people doing the main storyline could complete it. This is from that interview btw.

Also, have a strong feeling all of their time definitely went into Diadem and Lord Of Verminion. Considering the size of its section of the patch notes.

[ruskie]

Yes please. But make the dungeon itself be a small light or maybe even a full party raid as well.

[Ryel]

I'd also take The Minstrel's Ballad: Gaius' Conquest please

I would have been all over this, I've always felt that Gaius never got his proper due D:

[Maero]

But we are already more powerful then then Ascian's
But it could be fun