Thread: An 7.2-7.5 Speculation

I don't know about speculation though i did spot some familiar landmarks in the trailer for 7.2 of the occult cresant assuming they weren't the originals. The pyramid from weeping city of mhach and what looks like moss covered towers from the floating city of nym. Don't know why they are there much less in the same place.

As for 7.2 and beyond if i were to speculate to be quite honest we could have by now gone to the "unlost world" supposed ninth shard use a bunch of electrope and create a massive amount water aether i believe to counter act the massive lightning aether on the ninth and send everyone home.

I also wish they would stop beating around the bush with these shades of the thirteenth. From the ninth floor of pandemonium's boss, to Zorral ja becoming a voidsent with all those souls, to now with arcadian, and solution nine's soul use. it is just everywhere. Stop teasing us.

Originally Posted by Grimr

I don't know about speculation though i did spot some familiar landmarks in the trailer for 7.2 of the occult cresant assuming they weren't the originals. The pyramid from weeping city of mhach and what looks like moss covered towers from the floating city of nym. Don't know why they are there much less in the same place.

As for 7.2 and beyond if i were to speculate to be quite honest we could have by now gone to the "unlost world" supposed ninth shard use a bunch of electrope and create a massive amount water aether i believe to counter act the massive lightning aether on the ninth and send everyone home.

I also wish they would stop beating around the bush with these shades of the thirteenth. From the ninth floor of pandemonium's boss, to Zorral ja becoming a voidsent with all those souls, to now with arcadian, and solution nine's soul use. it is just everywhere. Stop teasing us.

Calyx knows he’s from Reflection 9, and seems integral to creating “Solution 9.” If he knows his Reflection’s numerical designation, then he knows the others - which could mean he’s got a Solution 1, Solution 4, Solution 8, Solution 11, and possibly a Solution 13. Whether he’s put them into play yet is another question…

I bring this up, because it’s possible all the void related stuff is connected to a bigger story arc where souls are being shifted from their Reflections to the Source by Calyx. And it sure would be helpful if he could use Azem’s power to call others from across dimensions/shards - on a massive, industrialized scale.

Originally Posted by Cleretic

Solution Nine is named that because it's on the ninth floor. This was literally the very first thing we were told when we entered Solution Nine.

Given that, actually went to 'Solution Eleven' in the base expansion--it's where we beat the snot out of Zoraal Ja--and know that 'Solution Twelve' and onward does not exist, because the twelfth floor was an organizational code name for the portal to the Ninth above the 'throne room'.

We've also been to the eighth floor in literally this patch, it was where one of the Arcadion raids took place.

I think I’m in the “wait and see” department on this one still. We and the citizens have been lied to quite a bit by Preservation so far. Feels odd that the 9th Reflection and Solution 9 wouldn’t have more than a happenstance connection. But it’s possible. Disappointing if so. But possible.

Originally Posted by Gember

With Heritage Found going through a 30 year time skip, (Alexander manipulates time.) and dealing with the Kingdom of Alexandria, which the whole kingdom was the primal in FF9. (Eidolon in FF9's terminology.) Do you think we will have a lore correlated with the lv60 raid series? Or is this just all electrope, and Alexander will have no references to this at all?

I feel it could fit into the MSQ, but I also think it could not work, so I wanted to know what you all think about the return of Alexander? Even if its just a slight mention of it?

I imagine it'd be really cool for IX fans to see Alexander envelop the castle, even in a flashback — but I don't actually think they'll make an intentional connection to the raids. I really hope they do, though!

The recreation of the castle in Living Memory is in an area called Proto-Alexandria, which is the naming convention for a tier of the normal raid gear. A few things in Yesterland have names that seem to draw from German, like a lot of Alexander's adds. Enigmatic maiden vs. Enigma Codex... Many souls, one heart, Alexandria vs. True Heart... A lot of Alexander's interior looks like a golden city... Big robot being that cannot continue to exist without draining the world(s) of aether sentences itself to death by Warrior of Light... Swords with wings... Fun with dimensions, spacetime, gravity...

Things I noticed only because I was looking for them, I know, but things that are keeping my copium tank full LOL. Also, this is totally just pareidolia on my part, but the dark blue piece on the back of Sphene's dress is shaped exactly like Cruise Chaser from a top-down view... Which is interesting but almost definitely nothing.

7.2 site updated with 3 of the fighters we’ll be facing in the raid series. Any speculation on what the fourth fight could be?

Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

7.2 site updated with 3 of the fighters we’ll be facing in the raid series. Any speculation on what the fourth fight could be?

The rafflesia fighter, the one with the green tentacley design that jumps on the wall, is the one that's missing from the lineup.

...if, in fact, the rafflesia fighter is the fourth Arcadion boss in the first place; I suspect that they cut the MSQ and Arcadion together partly for deliberate disorientation, so it'd be entirely unsurprising to me if we've gotten that completely wrong somehow.

The blonde cat boy confuses me. In the scene he's in with Brute Bomber he isn't shown with a regulator on. Which made me suspect that he might be a black regulator wearer. Yet in his introduction splash screen he is shown with a regular white one. He also looks to have a Fenrir model as his beast form. I would have to look at the trailer again as he is in them in a few spots outside of the fight and I want to say he is missing a regulator in every shot of him. Which could also mean that he just fights with one and for whatever reason doesn't normally wear one. Unless they are hiding his black one on purpose.