5.0 Raid Eden NPC: Gaia

[EdwinLi]

Eden is the name of this upcoming Raid for 5.0.

So what do you think may happen in this raid and what does Gaia's role may play through this storyline?

[Rocl]

We'll finally get the Spirits Within content we've been clamoring for in our Final Fantasy themepark MMO.

[Guiballad]

She's designed by Nomura so mostly she's there to make us envy her glam

But i guess she might be the "key" character to connect us to the plot like Alpha was in Omega

[MrThinker]

Slightly off-topic, but people who played the media tour build and went through Lakeland said that just off the explorable map was an island that sort of looked like a living being. What do you all reckon the possibility of this being 'Eden' is?

[Cled-cat]

Anyone else hoping she could be hinting at Geomancer? The name means Earth, the hammer is a weapon type we don’t have (but god we want it) and the WHM changes away from elemental spells leaves an opening for a nature-magic class to swoop in at some point... It’s definitely a long shot, but the thought of having a hammer wielding Geomancer class would be awesome.

[Enkidoh]

Disregard the choice of Gaia's weapon as meaning anything deeper: Nomura is reported to have given her a hammer simply because it looked cool without realizing there is no actual hammer-using class in the game. So it's not a hint at a new upcoming class or anything, but just Nomura's usual flair (as is her black attire: I see Nomura is indulging his usual tastes in character design again ).

Of course nothing is stopping Yoshi adding a new hammer class in the future but I don't think it would be likely (also GEO in FFXIV's lore are just CNJs with a different name, so they'd use wooden staves/wands not metal hammers).

[KageTokage]

Slightly off-topic, but people who played the media tour build and went through Lakeland said that just off the explorable map was an island that sort of looked like a living being. What do you all reckon the possibility of this being 'Eden' is?

Would have to see an actual picture of it to have much of an opinion personally.

[RenewalXVII]

Disregard the choice of Gaia's weapon as meaning anything deeper: Nomura is reported to have given her a hammer simply because it looked cool without realizing there is no actual hammer-using class in the game. So it's not a hint at a new upcoming class or anything, but just Nomura's usual flair (as is her black attire: I see Nomura is indulging his usual tastes in character design again ).

Of course nothing is stopping Yoshi adding a new hammer class in the future but I don't think it would be likely (also GEO in FFXIV's lore are just CNJs with a different name, so they'd use wooden staves/wands not metal hammers).

We're honestly more likely to see gunhammers for a job before regular hammers, especially since the gunblades we've gotten aren't actually Garlean, whereas the gunhammer very distinctly is.

[Bright-Flower]

Maybe, or they throw a couple gunhammer skins into the warrior weapon pool. Though I do wonder what they WOULD do for a garlean job.

Are they interested in adding a fifth tank at all? I imagine it wouldn't be until at least 7.0 if they do. Garlean gunblades are different from Gunbreaker gunblades but I'm not sure they would add a second gunblade job. Mechanist isn't garlean but it covers the machine aspect really well now so I don't see them adding a garlean engineer type job.

[JeanneOrnitier]

I liked an idea I read a week or two ago about Eden being bringing the different elemental-aspected aethers back into the First and the raid bosses being the Four Fiends from FF1.