Garlean Outposts (Spoilers)

[Denishia]

If it wasn't for the ARR Hunting Logs needing the various Garlean legionaries to complete both Grand Company, Job, and Daily Hunting Log fills, I would love for the post 2.0 names of all those mobs to change over to "Former XIV ___" or "Rogue ____", as to reflect their status. The hunting log is the only reason they linger and why I doubt those locations will ever be instanced out. And why for Shadowbringers and a lesser extent Endwalker it was very obvious how there were no Sin Eater open world mobs or Fates, only a few A/S Ranks, and the rest in instanced events and dungeons as to avoid that ARR time bubble mistake.

[Cleretic]

If it wasn't for the ARR Hunting Logs needing the various Garlean legionaries to complete both Grand Company, Job, and Daily Hunting Log fills, I would love for the post 2.0 names of all those mobs to change over to "Former XIV ___" or "Rogue ____", as to reflect their status. The hunting log is the only reason they linger and why I doubt those locations will ever be instanced out. And why for Shadowbringers and a lesser extent Endwalker it was very obvious how there were no Sin Eater open world mobs or Fates, only a few A/S Ranks, and the rest in instanced events and dungeons as to avoid that ARR time bubble mistake.

Well, remember that for players still in ARR (there's a lot of those, the game's got a healthy influx of new players), they aren't rogue or former XIVth Legion soldiers, they're current XIVth Legion soldiers. I don't know what FFXIV's phasing tech is generally capable of, but to do this properly you'd have to specifically change the names of these mobs only for people who've gotten past a certain point of the content, and I'm not sure it's capable of that.

[Denishia]

Exactly. They can change skyboxes, but not swap out names. Which ideally would happen sometime in the 2.X or right after 4.0 as an enhancement of a storytelling beat, but instead needs the slightly awkward write around for the enforced gameplay time bubble. And because of those hunting logs and FATEs, the mobs always have to be there. SB has this problem to a much smaller extent - fewer open world Garlean mobs- and they try to change the appearance of the most prominent castrum installation in the Overworld map.