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Have you started the Crystal Tower questline yet, Dezzy? It's a pretty decent storyline, it might be hard to get through Labyrinth of the Ancients these days though, due to Syrcus Tower being the in thing, lol. It's definately worth doing though, you see what happens to Cid and the others post-2.0 there's also a surprise appearance.

Fighting Fenrir should be good, quite interested in the story behind Snowcloak too.

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I've been trying to do Labyrinth but the queue times are so long even for a healer. I want to unlock Syrcus Tower pretty badly.

I've finished the story yesterday, this whole business with 'Iceheart' and Ishgard is quite interesting.

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Definately, I'm wondering if Ishgard is going to be the final dungeon in A Realm Reborn, fighting off Dragoons, to try and take down the tempered Arch Bishop and the Ascians, it'd be a heck of a finale, I think perhaps Eorzea has been lead to believe the Dragons are in the wrong in the Ishgard-Dravanian conflict too, I wouldn't be surprised if there's more to it than Ishgard lets on. The Crystal Braves storyline looks quite interesting too, I wonder where they're headed with that storyline?

Probably the best way to do Labyrinth is to ask your FC to do it with you, they probably wont mind, seeing as you get 200 myth tomestones from it now. Syrcus is a lot more fun than Labyrinth.

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I think Ishgard will eventually become an explorable city stata like Limsa, Ul'Dah and Gridania. I do like the idea of having to conquer it as a dungeon before it becomes explorable though.

I just did Labyrinth. Utter Chaos.

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Yeah, I do remember Yoshida said we'd see Ishgard sooner than we think, so it being a dungeon makes sense, it will eventually be a city though.

Yeah, Labyrinth run throughs can get messy, I think they're planning to make it playable with less people.

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A new boss fight has been revealed

Spoiler:

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A few more pics of Shiva, Ultros and Typhon. Don't tease the Octopus, kids!







Hildibrand

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So the final coil has been revealed, BIG spoilers ahead for possibly the finale storyline

Spoiler:

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Youtube video

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Is this the new Emperor of Garlemald?


Also, big announcements coming tommorow!

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We'll get a release date I think, I'm thinking the patch will be released at the very end of October.

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Yeah, it's looking like it. I think we get to hear something about the expansion tommorow too!

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I reckon if that's the case we'll see what Yugiri looks like this patch since her race is likely going to be included in an expansion.

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Ah yeah, would make sense too, since it coincides with the Rogue/Ninja places opening up.

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Not long now!

Also, there's an Odin trial at Fanfest! I hope this gets added to the game itself eventually!

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Yoshida is so awesome, best Japanese developer imo

Youtube video

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There was a CG trailer, which I'm sure will be revealed soonish

New areas:
The Dravanian Forelands (foresty/mountainy)
Areas beyond Coerthas
Can see them on current Eorzea map kind of
Multiple Floating landmasses in the Sea of Clouds (not on map)
A lot of focus on the mountains
Specifically mentions FF6 as an influence
Dravania and other beast tribes (new ones?!) have their domains
Chocobo forest!

Also, level cap will be raised for all jobs, there will be new jobs, dungeons, raids and lots more :3

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Youtube video

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I read about it earlier, hate the level cap increasing but love everything else I've seen so far.

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The level cap increase will bring new skills and stuff though, plus with the world doubling in size, it makes sense.

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Pics of 'The Dravanian Forelands' one of the big new zones







Chocobo Forest





Ishgard itself (Reminds me a lot of Lindblum from IX)













Dravania artwork



Town in the Forelands

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So, this file was on Soken's (music composer) laptop, which was on stage

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Originally Posted by Chewy

The level cap increase will bring new skills and stuff though, plus with the world doubling in size, it makes sense.

I disagree, skills could be learned from job quests if they wanted to add more and the Ilvl system offers progression. Increasing the level cap is just another way to extend the game artificially.

I saw the pictures earlier and thought they looked good, Ishgard looks massive but I do hope Dravania is a bit more interesting visually then what we've seen.

Samurai's a bit of a predictable class, I can't say I'm too excited for it. The game really needs more magic and ranged classes, I'd welcome something like a Gunner far more then another melee dps when we already have three. Then again I could see it potentially being a tank class which could be interesting.

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Yoshi-P just confirmed Dark Knight job

Also, the atma stage of the relic will be nerfed in 2.4

I think raising the level cap allows for a feeling of progression, it'd be a bit strange if you didn't grow in power between the Praetorium and storming Dravania.

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Originally Posted by Chewy

Yoshi-P just confirmed Dark Knight job

Also, the atma stage of the relic will be nerfed in 2.4

I'm guessing it'll be a Tank job for Dragoons. I've noticed that they've said new JOBS, not classes so I think we're finally going to get branching jobs for all the classes like they promised at the start. I hope they're like the Arcanist branch in which the different jobs fulfill different roles. They could really play around with the capabilities of each class, imagine a DPS Conjurer class (Geomancer? elementalist?) or a Thaumaturge Healer (which I'd imagine as a vampiric styled job that drains health from enemies and gives it to allies). It's an exciting prospect and I can't wait until the London event to find out more.

I've not tried doing an Atma yet, I've seen people in my FC rip their hair out over it so I haven't bothered yet.