Quote Originally Posted by Denishia View Post
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.
That’s actually part of the problem I had with SB. It’s supposed to be a war epic, but ARR before it had a much stronger Garlean threat because all of the Garlean bases there are always filled with Garlean world mobs. At the end of 4.0, you’re supposed to be pushing a front in a giant war against a super powerful military, but only ever see Garleans in instances or 2-3 spawned by stepping in a ring for a quest. Otherwise the map is just filled with other random stuff and it doesn’t feel like anything is actually happening.

Then compare that to the two Bozja zones, Ghimlyt Dark, and even Northern Thanalan and the main story zones of SB just feel empty and flat with no real Garlean threat or presence.

The XIVth legion never went away and can’t exactly leave without mass-surrender, so their continued presence has a point and doesn’t break any lore or anything. They could even use it as a future storyline where an officer left behind in the XIVth refuses to believe in Garlemald’s surrender and continues to fight. But I feel like something more than what we got in regards to Garlean presence, along with better pacing and less focus concentrated on a whole other continent would have made SB a little better.