Where The Maws Should Go Next???

How about opening Grauberg, vunkerl inlet, fort karugo-narugo. Idk if i missed the memo of why those areas are still locked but it still boggles my mind that grauberg and vunkerl inlet have now been used in 2 expansion/add-ons but are locked in the present/our dimension. I don't know to what extent of content they could add within them, it doesnt have to come along with a huge add-on just add some mobs and NMs and go with it.

I think its about time for another city of some sort. Something fresh and new not just what we have constantly reskined. We've had the past, the present and an alternate dimension, i think its time to leave what we have alone.

always thought the idea of like a moogle city would be cool, or keeping to tradition of FF games where are all the wild chocobos?! Chocobo forest! mithra homelands etc etc etc.

There's actually a Chocobo homeland, it's in the chocobo racing missions. There's a queen of the chocobos and stuff. Not sure where that's actually located.

You keep your weird chocobo-breeding schemes out of SE's plans Nini D:<

I'm actually pretty sure Grauberg/Vunkerl/Karugo-narugo are parts of Kons/La Theine/Tahrongi, but were destroyed or something during the war. They're on the same spots on the map iirc. So I dunno.

Take a pick.

Almost all of the single player FF's seem to have a much higher tech lvl than FFXI, so I don't think it's a terrible idea, or out of continuity.

I also agree with Niniann, if aht urhgan is the near east...where is the far east? and if they werent gonna do a "far east" why not just call it "The East" instead of "near"

They're not. If you go to the Skyrend up in Grauberg, you can actually see the Crag of Dem far off in the distance. This puts it roughly east and above where the Gusgen Mines spread out (since most of the sprawl just goes north.) My guess is that the various entrances were collapsed/destroyed during the war.

Where is this map from, I keep seeing it pop up...

Final Fantasy Wikia
Vana'diel is the world of Final Fantasy XI, and it is unique in that a great portion of it is entirely inaccessible to its playerbase and is only mentioned in passing during the script dialogue of particular quests and missions or on in-game item descriptions. Upon its 2002 beta and release, Vana'diel consisted entirely of two major continents, dubbed the Middle Lands: Quon to the west and Mindartia to the east. Quon houses the Kingdom of San d'Oria and Republic of Bastok, while Mindartia holds in its southernmost region the Federation of Windurst. Spanning the Bastore Sea at the world's center is the politically neutral Grand Duchy of Jeuno, which served as the central hub of the game for a number of years. Across the eastern sea of Mindartia is Aradjiah, a new continent released in the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion in 2006. Only the western portion of Aradjiah (also called the "Near East") is currently accessible to players, and lays home to the Empire of Aht Urhgan.

Prior to this though, in the Chains of Promathia storyline, the character Tenzen is said to hail from the Far East, the eastern portion of Aradjiah where apparently Phoenix once resided. The jobs of Monk, Samurai, and Ninja originally hail from this region. Additionally, both the Shikaree Sisters and Naja Salaheem hail from the Mithran homeland, the continent of Olzhirya somewhere south of Mindartia and Quon. Most of Olzhirya is occupied by the Gha Naboh Matriarchate where even male Mithra exist. The islands of Tsahya and likely Zhwa are also assumed part of Olzhirya, as they appear on item descriptions as islands "far to the south". Rhazowa is the frosted home to the Orcish Empire and the origin of the Gigas - a continent north of even the coldest regions of the Middle Lands. Far to the west of Quon resides Ulbuka, likely origin to the Elvaan race in their home city Aldiaine. Ulbuka is also the origin of most totem-pole furnishings and the Bison Jacket armor set that resembles real-world Native American leather garbs.

It is understanding this unviewable, grand structure that one will come to realize that Vana'diel, in some loose respect, alludes to the basic cultural geography and historical development of the real world. Regrettably, this late in the game's lifespan, it is extremely unlikely that the Far East of Aradjiah, Olzhirya, Rhazowa, or Ulbuka will ever become explorable to players.

Where is this map from, I keep seeing it pop up...

Judging by what FFXI given us in the past 3 years, it will involve a place in another dimension (likely with Void in its name), a recycled zone populated by Moogles, or both.

Look at the stupid ever-rising scale of threats Vana'diel has already faced. It went from preventing the possibility of another horrible war consuming the land (fairly believable, even for fantasy) to slaying gods to extra-dimensional-time-paradoxing-reality-shattering-bullcrap.

I mean, how do you top that? What threat can feel fresh even after what's happened so far? At this point, we've gone full retard. There's no going back to reasonable stories anymore. We've reached... the Final Fantasy.

LMFAO!!