Revelations from Fan Festival 2016 Tokyo

[Anonymoose]

Omega is a high-end raid.

Red Mage is a new job, utilizing both melee rapier strikes and ranged magicks (with an action that switches positioning). While little further information exists, the feathered cap is back, and that's what matters.

The next job hint is Spider-Man. If you'd researched potential samurai / Marvel overlap recently (knowing Yoshida's pattern and what job people suspect is coming) you would have found the Google hits dominated primarily by two entities: Silver Samurai (a bit obvious) and (drum-roll, please) Samurai Spider-Man. Let's also not forget that director Sam Raimi's name is ominously similar to the word samurai ... especially when rendered in katakana. Case closed ... or red herring?

Swimming and diving will reveal underwater areas, complete with NPCs, gathering, and an entirely new beast tribe.

The Ananta are the beast tribe that the Allagans abused to create the Lamia. They are extremely adept at magicks and gemcraft and are currently oppressed by the Garlean Empire off the coasts of Ala Mhigo. They offer their worship to Lakshmi, the Lady of Bliss.

Syldra are confirmed to be a species capable of being used as mounts.

The new alliance raid will see us return to ... WAIT, WHAT!?

High-pitched shrieks of joy aside ... HOW!? Dalmasca (and perhaps Rabanastre) have been name-dropped in the past. Is Ivalice perhaps more of a regional title in Final Fantasy XIV? It's been drilled into us over and over that THE Ivalice is completely unconnected to Hydaelyn.

Take a look at the symbols around the sword in the Ivalice Alliance logo: the zodiac - including Ophiuchus at the top. These symbols from Ivalice (via the Scions of Light & Darkness and the Lucavi) have long played into the Ascian and Zodiark themes. The final zodiac stone even came from a man named Elidibus. Will we see this trend continue, or have we finally reached the fork in the road?