Thread: Predictions for 5.3?

Originally Posted by Anonymoose

Would it? I harbor some hesitation to have that kind of faith.

There was a day Ysayle tried to put an icicle through our chest "for Hydaelyn".
There was a day Midgardsormr tried to put a spike through our chest "for Hydaelyn".
Gods save us from half the people who think they're doing the gods' work.

Which is potentially why he won't be the end boss for 5.3 - especially if he is the original Elidibus.

Originally Posted by Draginhikari

The problem here is the Flood of Light wouldn't do anything for Elidibus at the moment because without Black Rose there is no pending calamity that we are aware of to allow a Rejoining to take place. That would be counterproductive for Elidibus to do to say the least. My guess goes back to his speech about wanting to 'keep us mired in the first', it seems to be an action more to disrupt our progress specifically. But how he intends to do so? That's still a hard thing to determine, as he basically creating a bunch of people with hero complexes.

My theory he intends to mislead these heroes against us somehow, maybe by creating an illusion of some kind of threat, though I must say trying to pin anything on the "Warrior of Darkness" normally would be difficult. Then again, get enough people who think they're doing the right thing and I wouldn't be surprised on what they could do.

At the same time, who's to say he's not working on the Source in parallel? I find it hard to believe that a meticulous planner like him would truly leave Zenos as a "wildcard", not to mention any other number of avenues he could be keeping an eye on, both within the Empire and outside it.

That said, for now it does seem like the focus is dealing with the primary obstacle to his plans, but I am sure he's more than adept at multitasking.

Originally Posted by Rannie

I'm honestly believing that the Elidibus that we are dealing with is Zodiark, just from the way he worded how we could see him as. I mean he straight up tells our character and the scions that he is there to fulfill the will of the convocation and that if we wanted to think of him as another Ascian then we could. (Not the exact quote from when we confronted him in Rak Tika but pretty much the gist of it). So yeah I think that would be a revelation sometime in the future.

He's almost inviting them to underestimate him.

Originally Posted by Mimilu

Don't they usually show off the new jobs a little later in the expansion?
They showed RDM in 3.4 and SAM in 3.56.
I can't remember if they ever showed GNB or DNC off during the SB MSQ...

Not per sé.

Gunblades (or at least the Garlean version, which isn't the same model as the ones used by GNB) have been in the game since day one.

The Stormblood intro FMV led to rampant speculation that Lyse was a dancer, to the point that a joke about it is made with her Wind-up minion.

To my memory though there was no hint or showcasing of either Job being introduced in Shadowbringers during Stormblood.

Originally Posted by Mimilu

Don't they usually show off the new jobs a little later in the expansion?
They showed RDM in 3.4 and SAM in 3.56.
I can't remember if they ever showed GNB or DNC off during the SB MSQ...

Yugiri was a race preview in 2.55 (she was a female Miqo'te model with a different tail prior to that), Alisaie hinted at RDM in 3.4 (she use Gladiator actions while also casting a few spells), Gosetsu was a job preview in 3.56 and Fran was a racial preview during 4.5.

I wonder if the Exarch getting framed as a villain would be enough to settle the "stay in the Crystarium / go back to the Source with the Scions" debate in our favor? It at least seems more immediately plausible than the myriad diabolus ex machina one can't help but expect from a G'raha Tia story arc.