Well that's the thing. When we defeat Garlemald. That's it. They're done. Then we can move onto Zodiark. Maybe. Ivallice is the new 24 man. I doubt it's The New World though. Allag conquered everywhere except there. So I can't wait to see what that place is like. I can see us going there after Garlemald is gone. But there's still Othard. And I just don't see how we're going to go about going to Issalbard then Othard. It wouldn't make sense. Unless the Garleans stand down after Garlemald is taken by us.

We shall see. Can't wait for Garlemald. I'm ready to see their architecture. We're supposed to get a little bit of that in Stormblood though.

Supposedly not. They said bases like the Castrum and Praetorium are just that. Bases. Their cities and stuff look much different.

Oh yeah. I forgot. South of The Black Shroud and east of Thanalan there's a rather large area we've never been to either. In fact, if you cut it and slapped it on top of Gyr Abania... It's bigger. So not sure if we'll ever deal with that. But, I just wanted to point it out. Gyr Abania is nothing but mountains. And Ala Mhigo of course. So I'm not sure what other zones we'll be getting. But that area by Thanalan is bigger, so it'd be nice to explore.

That's Pagl'than. Knowing Yoshi he'll just get lazy and turn all of it into a 20-minute dungeon like he did with Xelphatol.

We may still have the possibility of going to Xelphatol in Stormblood maybe. They have to use some surrounding areas like they did in Heavensward.

Did you guys remember to celebrate the Year of The COCK in Eorzea?!

NEW STORMBLOOD TRAILER:



WE'RE GOING TO DOMA!
-A whole new continent Othard has opened up
-Garlamald teased unclouded in the trailer, it will be in the 5.0 Expansion

New areas outside Eorzea include:
-Kugane, a port town on the island chain of the nation of Hingashi, a country with a strict isolationist policy. Kugane is the only town open to trade with foreign nations. Violent acts are forbidden inside the walls of Kugane; Ironically then, Kugane is the town shown in the new Stormblood trailer where the SAM blows away a group of Garlean troops.

The continent of Othard:
-The Ruby Sea (similar to The Jade Sea outside Eorzea), lots of pirates here.
-Yanxia, the region home of Doma, controlled by Garlamald.
-The Azim Steppe, Will be the first "Expansive Plains" type area in FFXIV (Gee Yoshi, you're really trying to pretend 1.0 Coerthas didn't exist....), these are the plains where the Nomadic Au Ra tribes live, expect to interact with these tribes frequently.

Samurai is a DPS
-SAM will be available at level 50
-Can unlock it before 2.1 so right after completing The Ultimate Weapon quest presumably.
-Can glamour different Hilts and sheaths for your weapon.
-One handed melee weapon, will tentatively use Striking Gear.

Other stuff:
-We'll be liberating both Ala Mhigo and Doma.
-New Beast Tribe the Kojin, who are tortoise like with large protective shells; also a new primal for them Susano, Lord of The Revel.
-Fourth Residential Area: Shirogane, Far Eastern Housing District.
-Nobuo Uematsu invited at Fanfest; new updated theme for the trailer. New song with Susan Calloway is called "Revolutions".

Ans here is a VERY nice image of the updated world map:



Here's what Encyclopedia Eorzea has to say on Othard:



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I heard about that, I think it's really cool. My brother actually got me into FFXIV and although he's one of those people that jumps on something every other week, I've been a continuous subscriber since April of 2014.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/18f5ec1117033baa6574e9428acd375129aa498e

>Only five points away from getting Trident of The Overlord
>Been farming Gubal Hard and Xelphatol for Lore Tomes for weeks now
>Fucking Gook Yoshi-P nerfs the amount of Lore needed to buy Umbrite

I'm going to fucking blow my brains out.

Proto-Ultima was a huge disappointment.

Patch 3.56 next Tuesday, and ending the Heavensward Main Scenario.

Screenshots:



Yoshi-P also mentioned we'd be getting a walkthrough trailer of the new areas sometime in the near future, the only reason they didn't have it ready at PAX was because some of their assets weren't ready yet.

STORMBLOOD BENCHMARK RELEASED

Last Live Letter before the expansion will be May 20th. The LL will go over details on job changes and the combat adjustments.

New Benchmark can be downloaded now and shows off parts of Gyr Abania, Doma, and Kugane. Also shows off Red Mage, Samurai, new job abilities and one of the new Primals Susanoo.