Thread: 8.0 speculation

Originally Posted by Cleretic

... [P]erhaps there's something going on with some echoes to what happened earlier in Dawntrail, so they call us to go 'hey we've got a mid-grade Zoraal Ja situation going on here, might need some help getting on top of this'. Which leads to the notion of an expansion that's largely focused around helping and securing a post-occupation Ilsabard, which is the 8.0 that I think seems the most likely and could be quite interesting, albeit not the one I want (mostly because it's not Meracydia).

Originally Posted by Zero-ELEC

Ah, there we go, the Letter from the Producer LIVE official English translation recap thingy came out and confirms that the Clyteum is Garlean, which I feel was only in doubt due to the uncertainty of the translation of what Yoshida said.

Well, that kills that idea. Having said that, I don't think we're doing an Ilsabard expansion; one of the points of Endwalker was seemingly to fill in the gaps of the known world, and thus far issues with former provincial territories have been limited to "help a former Legatus save the territory he once conquered" (e.g. Werlyt). Considering post-6.0 has been nothing but dealing with reflections that serve as adaptations of previous series entries, it would be a strange pivot to make at this point. Not saying that's not happening, but the storyline trend doesn't support it.

I guess we'll figure out why we're going to Garlemald in about a month. Stay tuned, I guess.

Originally Posted by Pimsan20

Going to change the subject away from garlemald. I’m really curious on what the next alliance raid will be in 8.0. There is a lot we can go through. But personally I think a dragon quest alliance raid based of the first trilogy would be a good pick for it.

Originally Posted by Voidmage

I could really do without another Raid story that you need to have played the origin games to understand the story. FFXI raid is fun but the story is only references right now with an Explanation NPC for those who haven't played it only...

We don't have any idea where 8.0 itself is headed yet; there's absolutely no way to know or even really guess what the Alliance raid will be. Trends towards "abridged adaptation of previous entry" (III - Crystal Tower; Tactics / XII - Return to Ivalice; VIII - Eden; XI - Echoes of Vana'diel), with some original content (Shadow of Mhach / Myths of the Realm) and second-party content (YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse). No way to say what things will be, but it's more likely than not not going to be something like Dragon Quest.

The XI raids have little to nothing to do with XI itself; they're basically just a hodgepodge of "Hey, remember these cool fights / characters?" for nostalgic players of that game. Not surprising, given as XI is one of those old-school MMOs that doesn't feature a compulsory, linear, cinematic MSQ. You don't need to understand anything from that game to understand it's plotline; just that Gulool Ja Ja is... pretty much the exact opposite of his XIV incarnation and Sareel Ja wants him to take his alter ego's place to usher in an age of Mamool Ja dominance (with himself as the true ruler behind the scenes, of course).