Thread: Predictions for 5.3?

I think it wasmore like "Tribe quests will be done by lakeland" and "Dwarves are attacked by YoHRa". A correlation, but not a causation.

My guess is that the Lakeland Dwarves will be a third faction, possibly retconned in Qitari style

Been a while, but I s'pose that's what happens when Rona destroys the status quo of civilization forever! (I've beat Persona 5: Royal, Borderlands 3 (twice over), Super Mario World (four times over), Tomba!, and done about as much as there is to do in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (got bored with it; never managed to recruit Raymond.)

Ahem. Enough complaining.

MSQ looks as hype and epic as one could hope for the ending of the first major story arc. Elidibert somehow summoning Light-infused people (or copies thereof) to attack, raising phantom Amaurot from the seafloor, trying to kill Exarch G'raha, and what looks like a final showdown at the summit of the Crystal Tower. Get hype!

Sorrow of Werlyt is now Eozean Gundam vs. Garlean Evangelion. Closeups strongly suggest van Hydrus' combat data being loaded into Sapphire Weapon, as expected. (As awesome as this is, I question the sanity of the Imperials at this point - we've already defeated the Imperial commanders they're using the combat data of, so why do they think this is gonna help?)

Still little context for the YoRHa raid, but we do see Tomra being carpet bombed by Flight Units.

So, the big question: Will Exarch G'raha survive?
My money is on: probably. Following proper story structure, there will be an inciting incident from Elidibert, rising action as we fight off his forces, a climactic battle at the summit of the Crystal Tower, and denouement as the Scions say their goodbyes and return to the Source. If Exarch G'raha is killed they won't have the opportunity for that denouement, so whatever happens I'm betting on him surviving at least until the end of the MSQ arc. (The lines about us forgetting people we've helped feel oddly meta to me...)

Interview with Yoshi-P on GameSpot says to brush up on Heavensward for 6.0, so no Garlemald yet - it's lookin' more like Meracydia or Sharlayan.

Aaaand yeah, no Deep Dungeon this expansion - instead there's the Southern [Something] Front for the Save the Queen quest, which scales with level and stuff.

Stay frosty!

Catching up with the last few pages, I guess that's how they're going to kill two birds with one stone and make us fight Elidibus and G'raha simultaneously in a limit-one-per-patch raid encounter. Elidibus possesses G'raha, who will remember at the worst possible moment that basically all of his tech was given to Allag in order to make better puppets for the Ascians. Oops.

Basically the entire trailer is screaming "Look! The Exarch is going to die!" which can only mean that he will actually survive in some capacity. With his final line in the trailer, I think we can finally be reasonably sure that the Exarch has finished readying his Source-side insurance policy. I wonder if his lines about forgetting may fit into a greater context about his Source self not having the memories of the Exarch. (I hope that's the worst of the damage, anyway).

Still waiting on our Scions: The Next Generation expac where Krile and Unukalhai actually get to do stuff, and a younger, stupider G'raha (excuse me, "Raha") would round out the group nicely. Not to mention all the stuff Allag did in Meracydia, like trapping the Triad and Tiamat, who's still just hangin' over in the Underutilized Floating Outpost...

Originally Posted by Fenral

Still waiting on our Scions: The Next Generation expac where Krile and Unukalhai actually get to do stuff, and a younger, stupider G'raha (excuse me, "Raha") would round out the group nicely.

It would be an expansion of Krile dragging everyone, and I would live for it.

That would be an interesting dynamic though. Krile is a Conjurer, Unukalhai is either a Thaumaturge or a Black Mage, G'raha was an Archer on the Source but also can be a Paladin, White Mage or Black Mage as the Exarch. Assuming he does get reawakened on the Source, I wonder if he'll go back to being an Archer, or swap jobs to fit a more balanced group dynamic?

On the other hand though, considering Unukalhai is knowing a pawn of Elidibus just like Ardbert and his group, I'm curious how that will play out. It invites that fraction of a possibility that a new expansion could take place on the Thirteenth as we attempt to turn back the Void. (I personally would prefer to see Meracydia, of course, and I think hopping to another world again would come too soon and leave us disconnected with what's going on in Eorzea.)

Originally Posted by Archwizard

On the other hand though, considering Unukalhai is knowing a pawn of Elidibus just like Ardbert and his group, I'm curious how that will play out. It invites that fraction of a possibility that a new expansion could take place on the Thirteenth as we attempt to turn back the Void. (I personally would prefer to see Meracydia, of course, and I think hopping to another world again would come too soon and leave us disconnected with what's going on in Eorzea.)

We've already been to the Thirteenth once before, it's the World of Darkness, so there is very little there and populated entirelly by Voidsent, certainly not enough to base an entire expansion around even if there was another "restore the elemental balance" thing like Eden.

The First at least has some of it's original landscape intact, the Thirteenth is completely lost as the Void, so it would take a hell of a lot more than just summoning mock-Primals to restore that, probably more than what anyone or anything would be capable of - not even the Ascians themselves seemed to know how to solve that particular problem, or if they did, they weren't showing it.

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

not even the Ascians themselves seemed to know how to solve that particular problem, or if they did, they weren't showing it.

Not entirely true. The Shadowkeeper was somehow convinced by the Ascians that the Flood could be used to turn back the Void, at least enough to trigger a Rejoining. Not to mention that if the Void was completely irredeemable from the Ascian's perspective, their plan would already have been permanently halted by Igeyorhm. It seems reasonable they thought it could be fixed, they just hadn't completed their plans to do so, just like we interrupted their plans with the First.

Originally Posted by Archwizard

It seems reasonable they thought it could be fixed, they just hadn't completed their plans to do so, just like we interrupted their plans with the First.

Yes it would. But until the lore comes out and says "It can be fixed", I'm on the side of "It can't be fixed".

I hope they don't do an expansion solely on the Void. Hopping to other Shards to save them multiple times gets boring.

(Also still angry no one ever considered dealing with WoD's overflowing Light by shipping it off to the Void, balancing out some darkness there.)