Thread: The sixth zone in 5.0

The only thing I want from the final zone is something akin to what we got in azys lla - No aethercurrent hunting.

More realistically, I hope its a zone that brings us to the front door of Garlimald(Aldinard?) Goodbye Eorzia, were gonna be invading Magitek ,Facilities! Total throwback to FF6 pre Warring Triad Kefka shenanigans, And in 6.0 - World of Ruin, When Garlimald gets fried by their own Doomsday Device. Well I can dream anyway.

Originally Posted by Eloah

At the same time though, you kinda want your final skill and job gear before you confront the final hurdle.

In the current system, yes. But it's not a terrible thing if they take away the requirement by making it that nobody can be expected to have done the job quest before clearing the game - especially if they either give us a different way of acquiring "initial Lv80" armour, so all that we're missing is the skill, and have the boss difficulty be set with that expectation.

Having just gotten an alt through Stormblood, I didn't like having to stop what I was doing in the Lochs with the buildup to the assault on Ala Mhigo to play an unrelated storyline, just so I could have slightly stronger armour and not be "that person who couldn't be bothered doing their job quest before they queued for the Lv70 dungeon".

Doing it in your "free time" after the credits, and not right as the main story heads to its climax, would be much better for story pacing.

My guess is that "The Empty" isn't as empty as all that; and that there's enough there to count as the final zone. Which is traditionally (Azys Lla, the Lochs) pretty empty anyway.
My other guess would be the First's version of Sharlayan; which is close enough to Norvandt to possibly still be there. And probably none of it sank into the ocean to somehow become Eureka too.

We already know that the sixth zone is going to be in the same region as the first five zones due to datamining. Which means that it will be in Norvrant. The ID "names" of all the zones include what region of the game they are in as part of the name. So all the Othard zones have one letter in their ID name, all the Gyr Abania zones have a different letter in their ID name, etc.

The datamining community has known for a while (since 4.5 at least) that there was going to be six ShB zones, and two town zones and that all them were going to be in the same region. Which just so happened to be indicated by "N" in the ID name. At the time, the datamining community didn't know what "N" was a reference to, but now we do.

If I had to take a guess... the first five zones and the two towns we do know of all correspond to regions in 2.0. And we also know that those are the regions that have yet to be overtaken by the Flood of Light. I would not be surprised if the 6th zone was another region we have already visited that had been overtaken by the Flood of Light. IE: the 6th zone will be filled with nothing but the white landscape and crawling with Sin Eaters.

That's pretty interesting, Obsidian. So it IS definitely on Norvrandt. Then again, Azys Lla is technically part of the Abalathia region, but in truth floating above Twelve knows where. We could potentially visit the moon of the First. I mean when we saw Arbert and Elidibus on the Moon it wasn't explicitly stated that it was our moon. If the moon is also split that is. We aren't really sure how this split works. The cosmology is a bit messy.

Originally Posted by Balipu

That's pretty interesting, Obsidian. So it IS definitely on Norvrandt. Then again, Azys Lla is technically part of the Abalathia region, but in truth floating above Twelve knows where. We could potentially visit the moon of the First. I mean when we saw Arbert and Elidibus on the Moon it wasn't explicitly stated that it was our moon. If the moon is also split that is. We aren't really sure how this split works. The cosmology is a bit messy.

if it is we better get there by way of lunar whale or ill be sad

I'm not ruling out the possibility that there are only five zones. But assuming we get a sixth, I'm guessing it may be some sort of light overrun area. Almost like the world of darkness but light themed, where we ultimately confront the final boss of 5.0 to restore balance to the First. That said i wouldn't be too disappointed if we did only get five zones if they make full use of each of the zones.

In Stormblood by the time we got to the Lochs it really felt like the msq was in a rush to get to the end, and not a lot of interest happened in 3.0 in Azys Lla either until we got to the dungeon/trial at the end.