Thread: 8.0 and World

I allready wonders:
The dragon continent is supposed to be around the same place, as australia is in or world. And F14 take inspiration of the same areas of or world.
But, what has Australia to give, aside of thousands of the deadliest animals ever.

Originally Posted by Keichi

I allready wonders:
The dragon continent is supposed to be around the same place, as australia is in or world. And F14 take inspiration of the same areas of or world.
But, what has Australia to give, aside of thousands of the deadliest animals ever.

Meracydia has some Australian fauna but most signs are pointing it to be more like Africa.

From what little we know of it, there are references to Ancient Egypt, it's the original home of hippos, and there are references to Ethiopian, Congolese, and West African culture as well.

Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Meracydia has some Australian fauna but most signs are pointing it to be more like Africa.

From what little we know of it, there are references to Ancient Egypt, it's the original home of hippos, and there are references to Ethiopian, Congolese, and West African culture as well.

Speaking as an Australian, there is an angle to essentially doing a 'pre-colonization Australia/Africa' mashup, the cultures, climates and histories are close enough to have some viable parallels for storytelling purposes. (Also, hippos are an Australian animal in spirit, they've got the right vibe of 'the hell kinda landscape made THAT'.)

If you really wanted to dig into real-life culture to link some things, there's also a fun hook there in the form of the Gosford Glyphs. Which are a hoax in real life, but hey, so was El Dorado.

To be honest, Id rather have a proper "garlemald" Expansion, dealing with the Nagxia, Hingashi and Dalmasca following the collapse of the empire. It would give them space to really build towards the next expansion, without it being a massive jump.

In terms of Scions, i think we should take less scions and perhaps Yshtola, Thancred and Urianger should be benched for a while. With krile, Graha, and the others joining but not all at the same time.

Id love for them to bring other characters like Jullus, Nabriales nd others into a journey with WOL so we can buiild out the WOL trvaelling Companions.

The Blindfrost is still a place we need to explore, and if 8.0 will have a tank, Viking from FFIII could be that tank. Of course, the south and Meracydia will eventually be here, but I'm actually more interested in seeing the North. The areas of frost and ice, in the areas surrounding Garlemald as an 8.0 expansion. We haven't had an "ice" expansion yet, and now would be a good time to do it, with talks about the 5th Calamity, which was the ice apocalypse.

Isnt the maraudor/warrior practicly or viking?
They comes from the north. Their class armor looks like viking (sometimes). They are practicly berserk. Who are usually connected to the vikings.
A hammer/mace using class is missing. But it feels that viking are allready covered up.

And, i dont want to go to the north. Its cold. It was cold in heavensward and in Galemald^^

Originally Posted by Keichi

Isnt the maraudor/warrior practicly or viking?
They comes from the north. Their class armor looks like viking (sometimes). They are practicly berserk. Who are usually connected to the vikings.
A hammer/mace using class is missing. But it feels that viking are allready covered up.

And, i dont want to go to the north. Its cold. It was cold in heavensward and in Galemald^^

Viking and Warrior are kinda both part of a weird lineage, in that Viking was sorta the proto-Berserker in III, and XIV's Warrior is essentially 'Berserker but we can't actually do Berserk so we need to dial it back'.

I'd personally call Viking a 'scraping the barrel' job choice, honestly; there's not much interesting you can make of it conceptually and mechanically outside of 'give it hammers', and we've already got a hammer user in this game people are WAY more interested in. Like, if that's the best nostalgia pull you can reach, go original for the next tank instead. (Or just don't make a new tank and instead focus on making the existing ones not obsolete the entire rest of a light party, I'd probably prefer that.)

Originally Posted by Dastan

We haven't had an "ice" expansion yet, and now would be a good time to do it, with talks about the 5th Calamity, which was the ice apocalypse.

Heavensward? The whole color scheme was blue and silver, the first zone and the main city everyone spent time in are covered in ice and snow, the login screen had snow.

Blindfrost just isn’t compelling to me and I don’t think it can carry anything beyond a V&C dungeon about that Khagan’s treasure. It’s a frozen wasteland that’s sparsely populated by Xaela, there’s no notion that a city even exists up there, and I feel like it would just be a retread of Azim Steppe but colder. I’d also prefer an expansion that actually clears away the cloud cover and gives us more information about Ilsabard and eventually Meracydia.

Vikings would be Aerslaent in the other side of the world from Blindfrost. I think that kind of eats into warrior’s berserker image anyhow.

I still think Meracydia is going to be the finale of FFXIV. As in, the series finale. There are so many story hooks that we've gotten that are all linked to that region, and the joke the Australia and Africa, to a certain extent, is just Earth (Extreme) and everyone and everything is over level 150 and that's the normal feels too good to use asap.

Conversely, the devs may choose to close out all of that to move on the new things sooner than later.

I hope the 9th isn't just more FFIX at home if we do go to explore it.

Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Heavensward? The whole color scheme was blue and silver, the first zone and the main city everyone spent time in are covered in ice and snow, the login screen had snow.

Blindfrost just isn’t compelling to me and I don’t think it can carry anything beyond a V&C dungeon about that Khagan’s treasure. It’s a frozen wasteland that’s sparsely populated by Xaela, there’s no notion that a city even exists up there, and I feel like it would just be a retread of Azim Steppe but colder. I’d also prefer an expansion that actually clears away the cloud cover and gives us more information about Ilsabard and eventually Meracydia.

Vikings would be Aerslaent in the other side of the world from Blindfrost. I think that kind of eats into warrior’s berserker image anyhow.

Viking might be our great hammer job. It IS a classic, if rare, job in some older games, but it's the most tank of tank jobs in that's it's main gimmick is drawing attacks in FFIII, but they're also tricksters with some thief-like skills and lightning magic in their Tactics version. The relic would absolutely be Mjolnir.

Oh my god that's our next tank.