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[SannaR]

Yeah you might be right. As the ending of Stormblood and the shifting into Shadowbringers ends with the Tsukiyomi fight which is just a trial. As the Burn is part of the ramp up going into Shadowbringers. Still a little bitter at the bait and switch and how watching that first fan fest to me took out the whaaaaat the heck is going on type of feeling they probably were going for when we had our almost died while having our meeting with the Exarch in the rift situation. I highly doubt many were expecting us to be aimed at going to the first. I was ready to have Stormblood 2.0 but this time with more grey scale while trying to figure out what was happening with the Scions. I think you can tell how adverse the devs were to wanting to deal with a Garlean centered expansion. Since they had us aimed at dealing with them at the end of Ghimlyt Dark while making people ponder what was going on with those that had been affected by the "calling" only to sweep us away to the first. Then go and destroy it off screen so that by the time we finally reach there it's in ruins and turns into a humanitarian mission. Only to be sort of touched on again in the role quest capstone and so far ignored by the MSQ yet again.

[RukoBoshi]

Gonna throw in my two gil and say that I doubt it would be Ultima Thule considering how these dungeons are meant to level alternate classes and unless I'm mistaken PoTD and HoH didn't require getting to the lategame and were located in relatively early-level zones. I feel like it's more likely to be in Labyrinthos for that reason (though hot take - personally I've had enough of Sharlayan for now). As much as I would love Elpis, especially considering how there's an area on the map that looks like it would be suitable for a deep dungeon, I think it's also too late in the game to work. Having it be in Garlemald would be interesting (somehow I neglected to consider it as a possibility), I'd love to explore a lab and learn more about the awful experiments they conducted. I think Thavnair could be ruled out because the Uznair Canals are already there.

Garlemald would be the more interesting option simply because of how little there is going on there.
Aside from the final role quest, there's no significant content there right now compared to Sharlayan, Elpis or Thavnair.

Something with the tower of babil could be nice, i like it's aesthetic and it's not going anywhere, better give it some use.

[KageTokage]

Labyrinthos has the very conspicuously unused Meryall Pasturponics facility in the NE corner of the map, which could potentially be deep/variant dungeon material if it's where the gleaners store all of live wildlife specimens.

I also really would like to get to explore the magitek facility under the Tower of Babil at some point.

[Iscah]

I think Garlemald is more logical than Labyrinthos as the location of a facility-turned-deep-dungeon. The dungeon setting requires basically everything to break free from its cages and roam the halls, which seems more likely to happen in an abandoned military facility than the heart of Sharlayan with the gleaners hard at work.

The natural story hook would be that the Eorzeans discovered this facility – maybe scientific/bioweapons, maybe magitek construction factory, maybe a bit of both – and it needs to be cleared out before the threats escape into the city and threaten the survivors.

Also, a game-structure level, Garlemald is equivalent to the Ruby Sea as the third zone visited and location of the level X3 dungeon.

[Wyssahtyn]

personally i think it's probably going to be thavnairian

[Tsiron]

Holding out hope we get more side content with the Void Quests crew (and Ryne and Gaia too, considering Unukalhai's updated 6.2 dialogue)... though the original Void Quests released in 5.4, so it might be a while yet if there's a pattern they're planning to adhere to...?

[SannaR]

From the LLP

Well looks like Zero gets to meet the twins.

[JeanneOrnitier]

The MSQ preview screenshot is the twins in Garlemald, and the dungeon seems to be there too. I'm glad we're finally getting more Garlean content.

[JeanneOrnitier]

The new deep dungeon is in Eureka??

OH! I bet it's the Eureka under Crystal Tower mentioned in ARR.

[Iscah]

The new deep dungeon is in Eureka??

OH! I bet it's the Eureka under Crystal Tower mentioned in ARR.

Yeah, I think so.

Called Eureka Orthos, definitely looks Allagan. The original Eureka in FF3 is effectively a boss rush in the basement of the Crystal Tower while the dungeon Syrcus Tower is climbing the spire, and FFXIV's Syrcus Tower is an amalgamation of those two dungeons.

I don't think it was mentioned as being under the tower in ARR but was definitely brought up in Eureka (along with, at the time, the first reference to G'raha since ARR) when Krile was talking about the story they were referencing when they gave the island that name.

I would guess that we'll be in the Source tower opening up the equivalent to the door we go through in the Twinning to enter the basement levels.