Yep . This . I ' m going to just bank summon tickets this week and not do dailies during a shit banner . <| sep |> Ishgard . They just came from a 1000 years lasting war , their troops are ready and extremely well trained . They might have to adjust a bit from fighting dragons to fighting people , but really . not that hard given that they also had to deal with the heretics . Also Ishgard can pretty much only be entered through air or a bridge . A single . Fucking . Bridge . Which happens to go across a only god knows how deep abyss . Ishgardians , can at any given time shut the entrance over land , leaving only air to enter their mountains . Mind you , these clowns are trained to fight dragons . Highly trained at that . It ' s a bold prediction , but if you can fight flying , fire spitting lizard a few airships won ' t be much more than a minor inconvenience . Also keep in mind , they are the only state in an alliance with the remaining dragons . If they convince the dragons , that any other state plans on murdering their kin , they have probably the single best ally Eorzea has to offer . Now , who would be fighting Ishgard tho . Gridania is by far the weakest aggressor for anyone . They ' re the weakest state on the war department and if they make a single wrong move , their own protectors the elementals will bring havoc over Gridania . They ' ss be either taken over by Ul ' dah or do kinda the swiss thing and piss noone off . Limsa has a pretty impressive army . However , Limsa is so centered around their naval forces Which is pretty fucking useless in an Eorzean war , given that they are kinda the only state with a navy that you can easily shut them down . Also their main city is basically a bunch of houses in the ocean . Limsa alone , without the lands on the main land of Eorzea can ' t even produce sufficient amounts of food for the people . Also keep in mind that cutting off an islands connections to ressources from main land is extremely easy . This would leave Ul ' dah as only actual threat to Ishgard . A primarily land focused army , with insane amounts of ressources . However , Ul ' dah is doomed from the very second a war could come up . Ul ' dah is kinda the definition of corropution . The head of the state would go crazy and everyone would start one cloakdagger move after the other . I wouldn ' t even be surprised of the Sultana and Raubahn are the only people in all of Ul ' dah that would not switch sides for money . In the end , no matter how much land Ul ' dah could conquer , Ishgard can shut the doors and wait until Ul ' dah ruined itself .