Garlemald resoration/rebuilding

[Pimsan20]

So i'm sure like everyone else here want to see a Garlemald lifestyle content. Where we help the Garleans to either rebuild Garlemald or go to The Clockwork City of Goug. Since the Clockwork City is linked to the Garleans and might be their true ancestral homeland. So i can see using Goug as the next part of the lifestyle content to help the Garlean people and get a housing area in Goug.

[Arrius]

They wouldn't accept any help from the outside.

The Garleans are too proud people to have someone interfere with their way of life. They'd rather starve than accept some food from someone, and only a few are amiable towards the outside.
They want it to fix this all on their own, and right now at best get assist from the sidelines via trading deals and nothing else.

They ushered in the fall of their own nation, and sure as hell want to pick themselves up with no hand extended to them.

[Jeeqbit]

I want restoration for a lot of areas: Yanxia, Lakeland, Garlemald, Heritage Found, the list goes on. It's all left as perpetual rubble and it's sad that years later it's still like that. Obviously, it should only clean up the rubble for those of us that have progressed far enough.

Restoring Doman Enclave felt like restoring a tiny percentage of the mess that Yanxia is and didn't feel good because of it. Even if the enemies continue to roam, seeing a building surrounding them purely on certain players' end that progressed enough would be fine.

[Enkidoh]

As Arrius said, the Garleans are too proud for their own good and are wary of accepting all but the most basic assistance from the Eorzean Alliance, and so certainly would not want that riffraff dictating how they rebuild.

Not to mention most of the capital's population is now either dead, still tempered by Anima (although the Islabardian Contingent quickly cures any tempered Garleans they find), or turned into Blasphemies when the Final Days arrived in Garlemald, with only a handful of civilian and military survivors led by Julus and the remnants of the First Legion, and the rest is scattered across Hydaelyn wary about the reports they've heard about what happened in the capital as fake news or disinformation. They simply would spurn any offers by Eorzea to help them rebuild.

They will rebuild, but on their own terms, by their own hand.

There is also a technical reason, which is why the Ishgardian Restoration and the restoration of the Doman Enclave both only featured instanced areas with the 'main' zones remaining ruined. As it is just too technically demanding to be able to phase the appearence of the whole zone to reflect differing points of completion for those who haven't reached that point in the story. It's an 'all or nothing' approach.

So Garlemald will still remain lying in state in it's black ashen shroud, and Ishgard will retain the damage inflicted by the Dravanian Horde. It's pragmatic for SE to do so.

[Pimsan20]

As Arrius said, the Garleans are too proud for their own good and are wary of accepting all but the most basic assistance from the Eorzean Alliance, and so certainly would not want that riffraff dictating how they rebuild.

Not to mention most of the capital's population is now either dead, still tempered by Anima (although the Islabardian Contingent quickly cures any tempered Garleans they find), or turned into Blasphemies when the Final Days arrived in Garlemald, with only a handful of civilian and military survivors led by Julus and the remnants of the First Legion, and the rest is scattered across Hydaelyn wary about the reports they've heard about what happened in the capital as fake news or disinformation. They simply would spurn any offers by Eorzea to help them rebuild.

They will rebuild, but on their own terms, by their own hand.

There is also a technical reason, which is why the Ishgardian Restoration and the restoration of the Doman Enclave both only featured instanced areas with the 'main' zones remaining ruined. As it is just too technically demanding to be able to phase the appearence of the whole zone to reflect differing points of completion for those who haven't reached that point in the story. It's an 'all or nothing' approach.

So Garlemald will still remain lying in state in it's black ashen shroud, and Ishgard will retain the damage inflicted by the Dravanian Horde. It's pragmatic for SE to do so.

Then what for lifestyle content do you and Arrius think we might get in 8.0?

[Velthice]

One of my biggest gripes with the story was Garlemald getting sacked off camera. That said I don't think you could rebuild it, cause it's not something you can just paint over and instance the appearance of like Living Memory. The geometry would be too different. It would have to be a separate new zone.

I would like to see more of Ilsabard though. Surely it can't remain shrouded in clouds on the world map forever, right? ...Right?

[Aniise]

Garlemald didn't get the ending it deserved. But I kinda think, it's too late to go back there now.
While I would love another restoration zone I don't know how I'd feel about Garlemald being it...
The ship has already sailed. :/

[Espon]

There's more to Garlemald than what we've seen. Apparently there's far more north of the zone.

However, as mentioned, the Garleans are too proud to except outside help. This is a group of people that were shunned by the other races due to the inability to manipulate aether and forced to live in a cold wasteland. They made do with what they had to build Garlemald, and they'll do it again.

[HyperiusUltima]

At most I'm hoping in 7.4 they actually touch base with the Garleans again because literally even if they were considered the 'big bad' for a while, I think it's worth denoting that we didn't get much for Garlemald in Endwalker at all aside from a peek into their political system in post-patch. The Northern Reaches are of course still a place to go, but I'm not sure how we'd even get there.

[PercibelTheren]

I was honestly expecting it to be the crafter/gatherer content for Dawntrail. It would have made perfect sense. We have Alisae and Alphinaud there! But instead, we got an asset flip of the moon, I guess.