Thread: Where do we go from here? (3.4+ Speculation)

How cute, you actually think nidhogg is gone for good. He's bound to come back at some point in some shape or form.

Originally Posted by Maero

And the Warriors of Dark...they are not Primal Slayers like us, we hold true power :P

Actually... yeah, they ARE Primal Slayers like us. The very first cutscene introducing them to the Warrior of Light shows them defeating Ravana, and then challenging us.

Originally Posted by FyrmurlFloerasksyn

How cute, you actually think nidhogg is gone for good. He's bound to come back at some point in some shape or form.

What do you mean? We totally threw his nigh-indestructible thousands-of-years-old eyes off a bridge. Off a bridge, I tell you! There's no way they could have survived that!

*Snicker* Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face.

Here's to hoping for an aht urghan styled expansion with MORE SERVER SIDE events and content. Would like to see a city that is under seige since they didnt do it with heavensward. Just a fun "defend the city" styled event that occurs every day or two that would be FC alliance friendly.

Doesn't have to be sea like everyone is expecting. Could be the opposite, like a desertands or something with duststorms, twisters, quicksand pits, small lakes with whirlpools. Lots of room for idea generation. I just don't know how they could take the story to a sea based content atm unless they randomly introduce another character and story related problem? Nothing points towards the sea right now that I can think of?

Originally Posted by Snugglebutt

I cannot imagine SE would think it would be a good idea to have introduced the ability to use flying mounts in 3.0+ then going back to forcing players to stay on the ground for a majority of 4.0+.

Oh, I can totally imagine it. Pretty sure I remember the WoW devs complaining that allowing players to fly had painted themselves into a corner when it came to developing new areas. It wouldn't surprise me if the Squeenix devs were feeling the same way. The Heavensward zones were huge, to accommodate flight, and they might not feel up to creating yet another slew of enormous zones.

If they decide it's too much of an issue to allow players to fly in the new zones, there's PLENTY of ways they could explain it away, such as claiming that the Heavensward areas were special due to the high concentrations of Wind aether, wind currents provided by the mountainous terrain, etc, etc.

After all, we can't fly in the ARR areas. With the next expansion, it's up to the devs to decide whether ARR is to be the "exception", or Heavensward is...

Personally, I DO think we'll be able to fly in the new areas. But it's certainly not beyond imagining to speculate that we might not.

Originally Posted by Khalithar

3.4 is also going to be adding new GC ranks to the game so I hope there is some main story for that to since ishgard is more or less fine. As far as the other main story stuff goes, I have a feeling it will be us and the scions teaming with Alisaie and going after the Warriors of Darkness and the Ascians once again. It's my hypothesis that Alisaie will tell us what she learned, we'll go investigate a lead, and it will ramp up from there.

Although I'm glad that they're FINALLY adding new GC ranks, I'm also sad that it's taken them this long (over three years) to add them.

Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Oh, I can totally imagine it. Pretty sure I remember the WoW devs complaining that allowing players to fly had painted themselves into a corner when it came to developing new areas. It wouldn't surprise me if the Squeenix devs were feeling the same way. The Heavensward zones were huge, to accommodate flight, and they might not feel up to creating yet another slew of enormous zones.

If they decide it's too much of an issue to allow players to fly in the new zones, there's PLENTY of ways they could explain it away, such as claiming that the Heavensward areas were special due to the high concentrations of Wind aether, wind currents provided by the mountainous terrain, etc, etc.

After all, we can't fly in the ARR areas. With the next expansion, it's up to the devs to decide whether ARR is to be the "exception", or Heavensward is...

Personally, I DO think we'll be able to fly in the new areas. But it's certainly not beyond imagining to speculate that we might not.

With how flying was shown in Heavensward, the wind aether argument is a legit lore reasoning. I don't really care if we can fly or not, so long as they do it right and stick to it.

To the Gates into Ala Mhigo zone!