So regarding the Future Weapon Battles (Future Patches)

[Kaliesto]

So Sapphire Weapon was name dropped, so does this mean we're also getting Emerald, Diamond, and possibly Jade Weapon?

I know Jade Weapon is a bit of a stretch since it was from Before Crisis, but it would be a cool twist.

[Enla]

I'm not too sure about Jade but Emerald and Diamond are very possible given the color coordination going on with the Au'ra group where we have one green one, one blue one, and two white haired individuals. SE is practically beating us other the head with which ones are going to be featured - though they could pull a fast one and switch out Emerald for Jade or combine the two for one fight ala what happened with this tier's Eden's Gate's second encounter.

[ShariusTC]

We have 3 ex left for this xpac, so they might give us jade, diamon and emerald, and also get saphire being one shot (again) by some lame cannon for a meme, poor saphire

[Fynlar]

I wouldn't expect more than 2 other fights (one of which will clearly be Sapphire)

3.x had three "side trials" of Sephirot, Sophia, and Zurvan
4.x had Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryu

SE loves their patterns and all.

[Kaiserdrache]

Unless we get a double battle again, it will be maximum only 3 more weapons that we will see that are most likely next as mentioned Sapphire Weapon , Emerald Weapon and Diamond Weapon, exactly like before the 4 animal spirit bosses - one, that was just a dungeon boss, no trial battle


I see Jade Weapon becoming rather a dungeon boss as part of the story questline

[ShariusTC]

I wouldn't expect more than 2 other fights (one of which will clearly be Sapphire)

3.x had three "side trials" of Sephirot, Sophia, and Zurvan
4.x had Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryu

SE loves their patterns and all.

4x also had tsukuyomi as a trial that tie with msq, but since these weapons pretty much relate with msq already so they might just merge them together for 4th weapon

[VenKitsune]

We're only going to be getting Sapphire and Emerald (Or Jade), Nothing else. The 5.5 trial will be story related, or maybe it'd be 5.4 and 5.5 would be the final weapon, we'll see - That's how its always been. Heavensward we had The warring triad, Thordan and Nidhogg. Stormblood we had Shinryu, Suzaku, Byakko and seriyu, and Tsukiomi. Shadowbringers will be Hades, Ruby weapon, Sapphire weapon, Emerald/Jade weapon, and one other story related fight. calling it now.

[DevilsDontFly]

I wouldn't expect more than 2 other fights (one of which will clearly be Sapphire)

3.x had three "side trials" of Sephirot, Sophia, and Zurvan
4.x had Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryu

SE loves their patterns and all.

They might do what they did with the previous expansions, though.
Originally, it's Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryu and Genbu. But Genbu was the last boss of a dungeon.

I also recall that you had a solo duty in order to progress through the Warring Triad questline either before or after fighting Sephiroth.
I'm assmuming it's going to be the same thing with the weapons. Ruby, Emerald and Diamond being main trials while Jade potentially being in a solo duty, side dungeon or something else among those lines.

[VenKitsune]

They might do what they did with the previous expansions, though.
Originally, it's Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryu and Genbu. But Genbu was the last boss of a dungeon.

I also recall that you had a solo duty in order to progress through the Warring Triad questline either before or after fighting Sephiroth.
I'm assmuming it's going to be the same thing with the weapons. Ruby, Emerald and Diamond being main trials while Jade potentially being in a solo duty, side dungeon or something else among those lines.

Genbu was only a dungeon boss because that dungeon was required to unlock the others. We've already unlocked ruby weapon, that boat has sailed, because this expansion all of the dungeons we're getting are MSQ based, which means this wont be happening.
A solo instance might be a possibility but i HIGHLY doubt it - Ultima is one of the few fights in the game that the WoL didn't canonically fight solo, and so we can assume Ruby wasn't either considering Gaiuses claims that it was just as powerful, if not more so than Ultima was, so naturally the WoL would bring along help, so it wouldn't make sense for one of the weapons to be a solo instance.

[DevilsDontFly]

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I meant more in the sense of: Setting aside FFXIV, you had Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryu and Genbu. So if they planned only three trials, their way of including all four was through making one of em part of a dungeon that ties the story/characters together, as it would be weird to have only Byakko, Suzaku and Seiryu with no mention of Genbu.