Thread: *SPOILERS* So, what's next in 6.1 and beyond?

Personally I feel like 6.1-6.5 will be tying up some hanging story threads (i.e. what's next for Garlemald, the current state of the Eorzean city states/Thavnair/Eastern Alliance, etc) along with setting up the next story thread.

My money is on either Mercydia or New World. Both have been teased for a while and both came up in Emet's to-do list. On that note, they may turn one of the smaller items on that list (the sunken city or treasure islands perhaps?) into a mini-arc for 6.1-6.5.

Edit: On another hanging thread note - Azdaja's silence may become its own plot point.

Historically, Final Fantasy games cap out at level 99, not 100.

I don't think we're going to be getting Mericydia or New World until 7.0 so whatever set up is going to have to be something that ties those two continents together.

Some other things that we might be doing:

* Post war Garlemald cleanup (I guess Lucia is in charge now, unless we get more Gaius)
* More explorations of Dynamis
* The search for new life and new civilizations - as we found, not every civilization was completely dead; many of them simply had reached such a point of stagnation that they wished to die. Was Omega really the last of the Omicrons? Space colonization in general, too.

My guess is Merycidia and the "state of affairs" over there. If I had to wager a guess, I would say some faction from there is most likely going to be the new outside threat Eorzea faces. Think about it. Ages ago they got curb stomped by Allag, they have resentment over what Allag did to their continent. Allag was centered in Eorzea with primarily an Elezen population. Merycidia is mostly Hyur, Miqo, and various beast tribes we've never seen, along with some dragons of Baha/Tia's brood who could still also be showing affects of tempering. LOTS of opportunity to explore the racism that exists in the FF lore that only slightly gets touched upon, usually, or worked out very quickly.

I'd love to see a political and social expac, much like Heavensward again, but centered around this people and culture who basically have stewed in their anger at Eorzea for thousands of years. Maybe they send agents to try and politically destabilize our alliances here, and then 7.0 we go there to repay the favor.

14 for a long time has made this huge emphasis on togetherness and working out differences, I'd love to see a situation where we CAN'T do that. Where it's an actual aggressor that can't be reasoned with by the 'Power of Anime'(TM). Merycidia could be all that and more. A foe that no matter how hard we try and what we do over there, they are going to be determined to be a threat to us and ours, to Eorzea.

Plus so much room for lore expansion there!

The plan is to continue having full expansions for the next 10 years. We are essentially starting fresh with a "Season 2" in 7.0, that will be setup throughout 6.1-6.5. Yoship as far as I'm aware previously said that he didn't like capping off levelling at 100, so it is likely to go beyond that unless they plan to do a level squish later on.

I agree that for the time being they should steer clear of too many nebulous supernatural elements and instead focus on laying the groundwork in a Heavensward-like expansion where our new main cast and villains are introduced. 7.0 is not the time to go planet hopping again or to have a "void" expansion. Stuff like that should mark the end of a story arc, not the beginning of one.

Wont need anything else once we get a farm!

considering how unlikely it is to get a new zone mid expansion, msq would be about garlemald, while the raid seires would be about elpis.
if we get any kind of eureka zone, id say corvos, given how often its namedropped. with graha joining the students of baldesion, it would tie in nicely.