Where do you wanna go when this is all over?

[Daniolaut]

Just because there are a ton of new players, doesnt mean FFXIV will now be able to magically retain them all. FFXIV has an absolutely horrible retention rate. Which is why they rely so heavily on the Mogstation, and 7 years later are still Reborn-ing A Realm Reborn, and revamping classes/jobs every other expansion. (Even after driving that home with facts, I know someone is going to disagree with me.)

But all that aside, I would like to go to a place where the open world mobs are strong and fight back. All of Eorzea and The first, the mobs just wait to die. They dont fight back. So I would like to go to a place where they give good EXP, and have a will to live, to me that would be very exciting. Or just anyplace that is engaging and thrilling, instead of trivial and empty.

[TeraRamis]

Title somewhat sais it all.

We know that they are wrapping up the ascians story line eventually. I think according to reddit 6.0 maybe 7.0. So with its wrapped up and us level 99/100 and them not pulling a wow and doing 110+, we will continue to get gear and ilvl (I am thinking FF 11).

But assume they don't stop with the expansions. I mean why would they? What new story lines would you like to see? Where could we go? To the moon and back? Or maybe more on "earth", distant lands never before seen, old familiar places from long ago. Maybe we could continue to explore ivalice, in less of a raid form. Technically they put in our world. We could explore other shards.

What would you like to do when the last ascian is dead and the credits roll? Where would you like to go?

EVE Online.

[Katie_Kitty]

After zodiark/hydaelyn, we're going to go on a quest to discover and destroy the thing that threatened the ancients to begin with. In the process, we're going to learn more details about the life of Azem and what she was doing prior to the sundering and we'll probably get some more powerups in the process. It'll turn out that Fandaniel is possessed by that thing but we won't learn that until after we resolve the hydaelyn/zodiark/ arc when we discover that the thing was using Fandaniel to manipulate Zenos into doing its bidding.

That's my completely baseless speculation anyway.

[SavishSalacious]

After zodiark/hydaelyn, we're going to go on a quest to discover and destroy the thing that threatened the ancients to begin with. In the process, we're going to learn more details about the life of Azem and what she was doing prior to the sundering and we'll probably get some more powerups in the process. It'll turn out that Fandaniel is possessed by that thing but we won't learn that until after we resolve the hydaelyn/zodiark/ arc when we discover that the thing was using Fandaniel to manipulate Zenos into doing its bidding.

That's my completely baseless speculation anyway.

Every one: That could be cool
Some Dev: Shiiiiiiiittttt ..... They figured it out.

[DamianFatale]

This is basically what Heavensward did, even though the Ascians were still involved with that. But the initial cause of the conflict was humans being humans (or more specifically, elezen.) Thordan only turned to Ascian involvement because he wanted to keep the secret and eventually wipe them out. Basically what Gaius and Varis wanted to do.

But the actual story of the Dragonsong War was pretty self-contained and focused on the story of the people of Ishgard, the Dravanians, and their struggles. And it's considered the best, or second best, expansion out of them all.

Terncliff! I want to go to Terncliff.