Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[DrForester]

Few items on my wishlist to see with this storyline....

1. The Playonline Dolphin theme as an orchestrion
2. Shantto returns (preferably playing a large role)
3. Lots of great gear from FFXI like the Dalmatica, Salvage armor sets and the Noble's Tunic


Also something I would absolutely love is if the Dawntrail relic weapon line introduces Naja. Her and Rowena would make a great team.

[Schwarzwind]

Personally I feel kind of neutral towards the Echoes of Vana'diel Alliance Raid right now because I never played FFXI and do not know too much of that game's story or lore.
Hopefully they implement it better than the Nier Raid into the world of FFXIV.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Wonder if this will include notable NPC's from FFXI as well like...

Zied
Lyon
Prishe
Shantotto
Maat...

[Calysto]

From the name Echoes of Vana'diel, It could be likely to involve Atomos and maybe Kupofried.
If that is the case, the "main cast" would probably be caith sith and Lilisette.

In the XI main characters, we kinda have 3 "travelers" : Shantoto, Lilisette and Iroha ; those are likely candidates. Another case could be made for Lion and Prishe.
Thus Aphmau and Arciela are less likely to be involved.

For the gear rewards, Abjurations are likely, so are Salvage.
XI best gears was JSE, but it's unlikely since the jobs don't match exactly between the games.
Another I would like are RSE but like JSE they don't exactly match the current XIV races.

For mount/minions, we still don't have hume/galka minions ; we also don't any of the sea critters, so there's that option.

For songs, probably Vana'diel march and Memoro de la stono.
It's unlikely but I'd like Heavens tower and Pso'xja. (Movalpolos too but we'll probably get this one with the tribal quests)

[Iscah]

Ohhh it's crafted, that's why.

Go to the marketboard, try on everything in the list. It's the best way for finding loads of glamours.

[Lufir]

I'd be surprised if Castle Zvahl and the Shadow lord are not in one of the raids, as well as some reference to Dynamis areas. I hope they stick to Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Aht Urghan locales though because those were peak XI days. Wings of the Goddess was okay but that's when XI started falling off.

[RitsukoSonoda]

From the name Echoes of Vana'diel, It could be likely to involve Atomos and maybe Kupofried.
If that is the case, the "main cast" would probably be caith sith and Lilisette.

In the XI main characters, we kinda have 3 "travelers" : Shantoto, Lilisette and Iroha ; those are likely candidates. Another case could be made for Lion and Prishe.
Thus Aphmau and Arciela are less likely to be involved.

For the gear rewards, Abjurations are likely, so are Salvage.
XI best gears was JSE, but it's unlikely since the jobs don't match exactly between the games.
Another I would like are RSE but like JSE they don't exactly match the current XIV races.

For mount/minions, we still don't have hume/galka minions ; we also don't any of the sea critters, so there's that option.

For songs, probably Vana'diel march and Memoro de la stono.
It's unlikely but I'd like Heavens tower and Pso'xja. (Movalpolos too but we'll probably get this one with the tribal quests)

Given it's an alliance raid we'll likely get things that can cover a role like the abjuration gear. IMO I would have preferred a crossover with FFXI to be an exploratory zone quest line simply because that would have given room for a lot more crossover content like the JSE/RSE, possibly relic throwbacks, and glamour costumes for the various noteworthy NPCs. It would have also allowed more of the game's noteworthy enemies to appear as well.

[Fawkes]

IMO I would have preferred a crossover with FFXI to be an exploratory zone quest line simply because that would have given room for a lot more crossover content like the JSE/RSE, possibly relic throwbacks, and glamour costumes for the various noteworthy NPCs. It would have also allowed more of the game's noteworthy enemies to appear as well.

I'm hoping they'll do more than the usual amount for an alliance raid, but yeah, it's tough to think of a way for me to get an Opaline Dress out of this. Or RSE, or AF gear. Or the Selbina music.

I should probably set my expectations lower just so I don't get overhyped for it. Like the first raid we're going to get leather armor, scale mail, and robes with windshear hats, and the final boss will be the dark dragon and seeker.

[RitsukoSonoda]

I'm hoping they'll do more than the usual amount for an alliance raid, but yeah, it's tough to think of a way for me to get an Opaline Dress out of this. Or RSE, or AF gear. Or the Selbina music.

I should probably set my expectations lower just so I don't get overhyped for it. Like the first raid we're going to get leather armor, scale mail, and robes with windshear hats, and the final boss will be the dark dragon and seeker.

Wonder if this alliance raid will feature FFXI beastmen races. Orcs, Yagudo, Quadav and draw inspiration from Dynamis ending in a battle against the Shadowlord.

[SeverianLyonesse]

That and XI has some things you fight in it that would need some explanations. Such as how in XI their Cloud of Darkness was practically the Endsinger but instead of singing a song of Oblivion and destroying all the planets it just took the Galactus route. Or how at the end of Seekers you fight and kill Hades. I stopped playing after Rhapsodies ended so I'm not knowledgeable on the most recent story that was added. I am with you in the please integrate this into XIV the same way Ivalice was and for it to make sense as to how or why we're fighting whomever or whatever we'll be fighting. As I've said before there's a lot of story beats from XI that XIV has also done in its own way that I'm having a hard time thinking of something. At the moment it feels more like it'd be something closer to what we got with Omega during the Sigma and Delta scape parts. Which was a mixed bag of success in being a positive response.

While I think there are definitely more important bosses to feature like the Shadow Lord, Eald'narche/Kam'Lanaut, Promathia, Lilith...this design is just so freaking cool. I would not mind Cloud of Darkness Part 3 at all.