I'm torn, personally. Ishgard was so interesting to me because it wasn't necessarily a pleasant place. We knew as far back as before we stepped through the gates that something wasn't quite right about the place but it feels like a wasted opportunity to me to just wrap up everything into a nice little package where there's peace with the dragons and the rich and poor live side by side in harmony.
I hope there's more to do it than that but it's likely that 3.4 and 3.5 will take us away from Ishgard itself now that the battle against Nidhogg is concluded.
It's a shame that the Inquisition isn't likely to be a major part of Ishgard anymore - I liked the 'grit' that sort of thing provided since I don't want fantasy nations to succumb to revolving around modern day interpretations of morality and the story can't be as deep as it could be if the antagonists are pushed into the 'evil' category and the protagonists are shown as 'good' at every turn.
Still, overall 3.3 was decent enough I suppose. I did walk away a little underwhelmed by the lack of any major deaths, though. I dislike it when nameless generic soldiers are the only real casualties in a major battle. I'm glad Estinien, survived, though. He feels much more 'Ishgardian' to me than Aymeric does.
I'm also a little concerned that this 'House of Lords' Â and 'House of Commons' will be exploited by certain members of Balmung's community as an excuse to grab a lot of power and influence IC. I won't be getting involved with any of that myself, of course, but much like anyone choosing to avoid interacting with people role-playing major NPC's it can quite easily cut a lot of people out of major player created events.
As far as Ishgard is concerned for my character, though, the new airship routes will make it much easier to travel to and from the city so he'll be encouraging Ishgardians to visit La Noscea.
I hope there's more to do it than that but it's likely that 3.4 and 3.5 will take us away from Ishgard itself now that the battle against Nidhogg is concluded.
It's a shame that the Inquisition isn't likely to be a major part of Ishgard anymore - I liked the 'grit' that sort of thing provided since I don't want fantasy nations to succumb to revolving around modern day interpretations of morality and the story can't be as deep as it could be if the antagonists are pushed into the 'evil' category and the protagonists are shown as 'good' at every turn.
Still, overall 3.3 was decent enough I suppose. I did walk away a little underwhelmed by the lack of any major deaths, though. I dislike it when nameless generic soldiers are the only real casualties in a major battle. I'm glad Estinien, survived, though. He feels much more 'Ishgardian' to me than Aymeric does.
I'm also a little concerned that this 'House of Lords' Â and 'House of Commons' will be exploited by certain members of Balmung's community as an excuse to grab a lot of power and influence IC. I won't be getting involved with any of that myself, of course, but much like anyone choosing to avoid interacting with people role-playing major NPC's it can quite easily cut a lot of people out of major player created events.
As far as Ishgard is concerned for my character, though, the new airship routes will make it much easier to travel to and from the city so he'll be encouraging Ishgardians to visit La Noscea.
