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[Enkidoh]

We'll there's gates in Gridania that are unused, like I think one is the White Wolf Gate. Open these up. Seen as All the areas around Gridania are the shroud areas and already open maybe one of the gates can lead under Gridania and maybe be a vast underground dungeon type area, not instanced, and I suppose these can lead anywhere.

Gridania's White Wolf Gate is actually already accessible, you just have to complete a quick and easy quest from one of the guards near the aetheryte at level 29 - it just allows you access through it from New Gridania to the Central Shroud (specifically the area around Sorrel Haven north of the Matron's Lethe). But you're right that there are some other closed/unused gates in the city at this time (like the one into Lily Hills which was also closed off in 1.0 as well, and the mysterious one next to the LNC's Guild).

The trouble is though, the reason why the only zones around Gridania are forest areas because the city itself is a forest - it's called a 'forest nation' for a reason. And on that note, I hope SE will eventually add the missing portion of the Black Shroud - the West Shroud, that was in 1.0. I'd also like to see the missing sections of Coerthas added as well (like Owl's Nest) and the missing southern half of Mor Dhona. Once these missing areas from 1.0 are restored, then it would be appropriate to add new areas we haven't been to yet.

[Mezolitik]

Once these missing areas from 1.0 are restored, then it would be appropriate to add new areas we haven't been to yet.

I didn't get very far in 1.0, but I remember a dark green alpine area - basically, Coerthas without snow. It lead to a locked gate (Ishgard?), and had deer and stuff as enemies.

What was that one? It might even have been Coerthas.

[Aegis]

I didn't get very far in 1.0, but I remember a dark green alpine area - basically, Coerthas without snow. It lead to a locked gate (Ishgard?), and had deer and stuff as enemies.

What was that one? It might even have been Coerthas.

It was Coerthas, and it had some beautiful scenery when you explored further into it (Riversmeet was a particular highlight for me) a lot of people don't like what was done to the Coerthas zone in V2.