Thread: Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

Originally Posted by myahele

This look like a desert area, could this be somewhere in Thanalan or possibly where Yda and Papalymo (and the Masks) are hiding?


Xelphaltol being a dungeon was surprising, I wonder if this is what the Masks were planning? Afterall, Xelphaltol borders Gyr Abania/ Ala Mhigo.

This trial (solo or with people) will be in Black Shroud, I think.
It would be nice if in Xelphatol we could have a hint for the possible return of Garuda ^^ (for a savage mode)

Originally Posted by Nalien

I just noticed...



That Ixali has two pistols...

Machinist 4.0 or Pirate/Corsair --> Ixali sky pirate

I think Wondrous Tails is the next Mogpost Quest in some way, involving lore + mini-games + rewards.
On the different images we can see Ifrit or Ramuh. Maybe we will learn more about them ?

Originally Posted by Ceasaria

I think Wondrous Tails is the next Mogpost Quest in some way, involving lore + mini-games + rewards.
On the different images we can see Ifrit or Ramuh. Maybe we will learn more about them ?

I'm hoping it's a justification to do old content... I've long since been suggesting something along the lines of having Coil/2.x Primals drop items that get you into a new instance to make the old content more relevant. Seems the ideal way to add the Primal minions, fight Ifrit (EX), get access to a fight against some Ixali for Lore/etc., maybe a wind-up Ifrit... Obviously that hasn't happened, but it was just one possible way to add new relevance to old content... Having that adorable little kitten send me off to fight Ifrit and Ramuh, for whatever reason, can achieve the same thing. I actually find low manning old content more entertaining than the current content, honestly...

Can see some tomestones and Allagan pieces (yay more Gil, just what I need...), not sure if they're the new tomestones or not, but Thancreds crotch whatever they're censoring might be the more interesting reward...

I'm still mulling over a lot of the new information, though I'm still not feeling all that confident in the future-prediction game this patch cycle. Time itself seems to play into the reflected worlds a bit more than it seemed like at first. Perhaps its entwined with the possibility that the Warriors of Darkness are from one of the other reflections (perhaps the one that was but recently destroyed in the Seventh Umbral Calamity). Though it doesn't seem like the worlds can be too similar; Unukalhai's world seemed to be on a different track entirely ... unless he's very old and we no longer have records of when our world diverged from a similar path. Still, I get the sense that some of these hints about time aren't just nods to us currently dealing with Alexander.

The name of the patch is ominous as well. Soul Surrender...

Don't tell me we've already forgotten...

Originally Posted by Ascian Prime

Come, mortals! Render up your souls, that Lord Zodiark might be reborn!

Hmmm...

It'd be lame to all-out carbon-copy Promathia, right? So what's on the table...

Originally Posted by Nalien

This in particular fans my theory that the planet/Hydaelyn is just a really big Primal...

How literally and specifically do you mean "primal"? Many living things are aetherial and crystalline within. Sprites have crystals at their cores. People and animals can develop internal crystals if their aether gets funky (and then they get a snurble probiscis in the spine). The world could have a crystalline core without being the manifestation of belief or the resurrected shade of a former being. Granted, one of the main reasons I hold out hope for Hydaelyn is that faith in Altana was rewarded; it feels wrong to give up on Her. But one game is not another.

Gubal instead of Snowcloak. Well that was a Curveball.

But yay we get another Beastmen Dungeon, (Pharos Sirius HM, Nevereap and now Xelphatol)

Was "Soul Sacrifice" taken or something? Oh, wait...

As for Gumball, my guess is that if any HW dungeons are going to get hard modes, now is their last chance. 4.0 can't add content requiring 3.0, because MMO expansions have to be able to run with just the base game. What this also means is that underutilized zones like Azys Lla may very well stay that way and can't factor into the plot after 3.X.

The Triad story better be impressive.

Originally Posted by Fenral

As for Gumball, my guess is that if any dungeons are going to get hard modes, now is their last chance. 4.0 can't add content requiring 3.0, because MMO expansions have to be able to run with just the base game.

FIFY :P

Jokes aside, Didn't WoW lump their xpacs into the base game when the new one comes out? I cna see something similar happening here. Theother possibility beingthatthere will be some aspects that will be gated behind 3.0 (particularity flight)