What ever happened to the Roaming primals?

[KyahAlmasy]

Didn't we see Ifrit in Thanalan being fought by a large group of people in the original Benchmark for ARR, but then never heard anything more about it? I'm terrible with keeping up with updates, but has there been any word on this? Or was the concept dropped completely.

[Whiteroom]

I think Yoshi may have commented on this recently. Something about thinking it might not fit with new players yet. I'm not 100% though and on my phone so don't take my word on it. He may have mentioned that it was still in the cards though.


Would love to see it, and stronger than S ranks by a long shot though.

[Exodus-E]

They once stated that it was still being considered, but they had to find a way to give it a story justification first.
Other than that, we got nothing on it thus far (just like the Egi glamour system; although, that one is the most "likely" one to come out first).

[Kaisha]

There was a giant turtle in Central Shroud as well in that benchmark. I wouldn't take anything in there with a grain of salt.

[Colorful]

It went the way of Egi glamours, the addon API, sieges on Ishgard, and many other features it seems.

[KyahAlmasy]

It went the way of Egi glamours, the addon API, sieges on Ishgard, and many other features it seems.

What bothers me about that, is that they used it so heavily when they were promoting ARR, to even incorporate it into the benchmark. Feels like they were intentionally false advertising on that front, which is sort of a slap in the face to their playerbase.

[Spawnie]

id love to see somethin like that lol espiecally wanna see doomtrain in thanalan using the train tracks xD

[PArcher]

What bothers me about that, is that they used it so heavily when they were promoting ARR, to even incorporate it into the benchmark. Feels like they were intentionally false advertising on that front, which is sort of a slap in the face to their playerbase.

Look at the HW benchmark. No 8-man fight against Nidhogg and adds (yet), but when we encounter Bismark...we don't get eaten, as it is implied there.

And ts no "slap in the face"; plans change, things that seem like amazing ideas become a nightmare to implement properly, if it can be made to work at all.

[Galactimus]

Benchmark =/= Game Trailer

[Jeykama]

Look at the HW benchmark. No 8-man fight against Nidhogg and adds (yet), but when we encounter Bismark...we don't get eaten, as it is implied there.

Never broke the island during Bismarck huh!

But yeah it's just a benchmark, it's there to test your computer with in-game assets while being entertaining. Taking events in there as "future content" is making some huge and unjustified assumptions.