On a scale of 1 - 10, how happy are you so far with Stormblood news?

[Malzian]

Because no discussion should ever be one-sided...

8 - I'm really excited for the possibilities coming in the new expansion. I think there is a lot to look forward to and the fact that they stuck to 2 jobs in order to focus more on the systems shows that they're really thinking about how they create their content. It also means that these jobs will likely be better balanced than DRK, MCH and AST were at HW launch. There is a lot I could talk about, but without dragging on too much, I'm excited but also keeping my expectations reasonable.

[ADVSS]

5 - I think the jobs will be cool, hope the story is even more engaging than hw, but I know after that, its going to be the same end game tome grind.

[BHGlobbd]

10 - everything about the announcements excited me, especially Samurai

[ShinMetsu]

10! Super hyped for it!

I don't know why so many people think Othard will take something away from the Ala Mhigo part.
From what they showed about Ala Mhigo i was afraid Stormblood was going to be a really small expansion, but now it feels like it's going to be rather large!

Also a huge samurai/eastern culture fanboy, so they couldn't have announced better stuff at Frankfurt!
I've also mained tank for a long time and i will probably stay Tank as main, but i still wanted Sam to be a DPS because that just feels right to me.
Totally on one page with yoshi-p there

[Belhi]

Overall? Probably a 7. Doma was a real curve ball for me and honestly at the moment I am hungry for more details cause the picture of what to expect feels incomplete for me. If I have any disappointments it is primarily the Jobs since I don't really play dps roles much outside questing and with so many people trying to lvl them I think it will be overcrowded trying to join in with the surge of dps levelling.

Really I need more details. I feel we currently have some good looks but we are lacking the meat of the info.

I don't know why so many people think Othard will take something away from the Ala Mhigo part.
From what they showed about Ala Mhigo i was afraid Stormblood was going to be a really small expansion, but now it feels like it's going to be rather large!

Probably because its hard to connect Ala Mhigo to Doma conceptually and we have seen a lot more of Doma than Ala Mhigo. They have only actually shown us one zone in Doma and it looks to be the starting one with Rhalgr's Reach in it. Ala Mhigo's story has been building since literally 1.0 so there is a fear it might get glossed over, particularly after the anticlimax to the 2.55 events that we got in HW.

It doesn't help that the character art they showed at the end showed at least 4 characters who were clearly Doman and only 2 we are sure are related to Ala Mhigo.

They have said it will be 50%/50% but the way they have presented information makes it look skewed towards Doma.

[Arutan]

6, I'm eager to try the RDM and see the new raid, but I think something is missing. I still wish they would do 2 raids instead of 1, WoW has so many raid for one expansion, I envy them. Here we can just do the same raid every week until 2 patch later for 4 more bosses, whereas WoW has many raids of 5-6 or more bosses each.

[ShinMetsu]

6, I'm eager to try the RDM and see the new raid, but I think something is missing. I still wish they would do 2 raids instead of 1, WoW has so many raid for one expansion, I envy them. Here we can just do the same raid every week until 2 patch later for 4 more bosses, whereas WoW has many raids of 5-6 or more bosses each.

They have mentioned the possibility of adding a real Savage mode in the past, like Second Coil Savage, on top of what we currently have.
And they brought it up again in FanFest's Q&A.
"Content is too easy, can you make it more difficult?"
"Maybe people who beat the last turn of raiding content will get access to something new, but don't complain if it's too hard"

Can't tell if it's just a single additional fight or a savaged version of the whole raid.
However, there's hope for something to be added at least!

Probably because its hard to connect Ala Mhigo to Doma conceptually and we have seen a lot more of Doma than Ala Mhigo. They have only actually shown us one zone in Doma and it looks to be the starting one with Rhalgr's Reach in it. Ala Mhigo's story has been building since literally 1.0 so there is a fear it might get glossed over, particularly after the anticlimax to the 2.55 events that we got in HW.

It doesn't help that the character art they showed at the end showed at least 4 characters who were clearly Doman and only 2 we are sure are related to Ala Mhigo.

They have said it will be 50%/50% but the way they have presented information makes it look skewed towards Doma.

Well.. Ala Mhigo is tiiinyy on the map, i don't see why people would be so excited and expect that much out of it :|

[Raiye]

5
i main monk so i really excited when the first fanfest for stormblood and alamigo
but i feel like the tsuth is the dev. team hate monk and alamogo.
so now i'm a little sad about it.

i know maybe a lot of the people dont like alamigo and dont welcom monk in raids.
so the dev. team make this kind of decision.but i still really sad about it

[Anarnee]

9 - I think that honestly the second fan fest had the best hype, but what we did get in the last one, I am soooo excited for.

Do I want more than what info we got? Yes! but that doesn't mean I'm disappointed ^^

Can't wait to go to two amazing city-states.

[Belhi]

Well.. Ala Mhigo is tiiinyy on the map, i don't see why people would be so excited and expect that much out of it :|

Ala Mhigo was one of the core city states of Eorzea and was at one point strong enough to take on an alliance of all the others. It's also a major part of the ongoing story and the very core of Yda and Raubahn's stories. More to the point, they promised that Ala Mhigo would have a deep story in the expansion at the first fan fest.

That is why.

Doma is a distant background thing. Honestly currently I think visiting there will be interesting and it looks beautiful but narratively it holds far less interest to me than Ala Mhigo. The only significance it has is that Yugiri is from it.