POSSIBLE PRIMAL

[Silvykins]

As many of you know they will most likely release at least 2 or 3 more primals this expansion all leading towards the next expansion. Now with many actual primals of the past still not revealed yet. The current release of zones gives me an idea of what 1 of them could be.

As we all know a lot of the zones this expansion are desert based hence the middle eastern look and if you look at all the primals that haven't been used from the past you'd realize golem is on that list and is a desert primal. I think its not gonna happen unless I'm totally reading the future, but if you think about it for most of the zones having a large area of sand wouldn't golem under a different name be the perfect choice?

ps: for those of you who might think golem is a different name for the earlier titan its not they are two separate primals.

[Legion88]

Golem is no summon or qualified as "primal".

Golem is a type of enemy, you can encounter in different places all over Eorzea and in several dungeons as enemies or bosses.

[Amariel34]

I swear someone said that the whole "7th floor" deal that one Rising event (or whatever floor it was) hinted at Doomtrain being worked on. Which I hope is true, cause I want to see Doomtrain so bad. He was one of my favorite summons. I'd also love to see Hades, but I'm not sure how they would work that in. Also Anima from FFX.

[Rymm]

Primals are tied to beast tribes, not the types of zones they spawn in. Of the candidates we have for possible beast tribe factions in this xpac, only the Vira live in an arid map and we have already seen their primal. If we do get a new one it will likely be tied to the Namazu (fish) or Lupin (wolves,) neither of which would make a sense to have a golem primal. The only possible way we would get one in SB is if SE slaps on an entirely new beast tribe out of the blue who have some tie to rocks.

Even then, as Legion said, golems are a type of mob, not a primal.

[WellFooled]

Even then, as Legion said, golems are a type of mob, not a primal.

Like so many summons in Final Fantasy history, Golem could refer to either, but Golem has been a summon in the past.

[Rymm]

Like so many summons in Final Fantasy history, Golem could refer to either, but Golem has been a summon in the past.

Hm, never play VI, so I hadn't seen that.

Still, it doesn't change the fact that Eorzea is already chock-full of non-primal golems and it would make no sense whatsoever for them to be included as both when all the other primals are unique from all other bosses and mobs in FF14. It also doesn't address the first part of my post that primals in FF14 are based on beast tribes, not types of zones.

[Enkidoh]

If Heavensward is anything to go by, no (HW only had two Primals added with the initial storyline, no more were added in any patch after, and we had technically three Primals with SB already). And as others have mentioned, Golem is an enemy type not a Primal here (just because it was a summon in the past does not mean it will be a Primal, as there have been quite a few past summons... that have shown up in FFXIV as just regular enemies or even just npcs and not Primals - Diabolos, Cait Sith, Ark, Gilgamesh, Chuchilian, Ultima, Yojimbo to name a few).

And Anima will never be a summon as it's a minion you get for completing the anima weapon questline (not to mention a term used to describe the body's tolerance for teleporting), so that's out too I'm afraid.

[WellFooled]

Hm, never play VI, so I hadn't seen that.

Still, it doesn't change the fact that Eorzea is already chock-full of non-primal golems and it would make no sense whatsoever for them to be included as both when all the other primals are unique from all other bosses and mobs in FF14. It also doesn't address the first part of my post that primals in FF14 are based on beast tribes, not types of zones.

I don't think it's terribly likely we'll get a Golem Primal in FFXIV, because of all the reasons mentioned in the thread already, but if we can have two completely different bosses named Halicarnassus I don't think the name already being used is what will hold it back. The distinction would just be between The Golem and a golem.

[Anienai]

Doom Train
Yojimbo
Absolute Virtue

[Black_Wing]

If Heavensward is anything to go by, no (HW only had two Primals added with the initial storyline, no more were added in any patch after, and we had technically three Primals with SB already). And as others have mentioned, Golem is an enemy type not a Primal here (just because it was a summon in the past does not mean it will be a Primal, as there have been quite a few past summons... that have shown up in FFXIV as just regular enemies or even just npcs and not Primals - Diabolos, Cait Sith, Ark, Gilgamesh, Chuchilian, Ultima, Yojimbo to name a few).

And Anima will never be a summon as it's a minion you get for completing the anima weapon questline (not to mention a term used to describe the body's tolerance for teleporting), so that's out too I'm afraid.

Heavensward had 6 Primals. Bismark, Ravana, KoTR, and then the warring triad with Sephirot, Sophia, and Zurvan.