Question for the Devs; will Heavensward include a new STARTER City-State?

[Mishini_Dracoto]

Just to interject, part of OP's desire for answering this questionw as born out of wondering whether to wait or not before creating the character, but I remember being told that it was announced that you needed to have certain classes already levelled in order to unlock DRK. I never read this on anything official so I'm not sure if somebody has a source but, if that's the case, you really want to make your character first, and then swap if you want to play DRK right away. If I'm wrong, then my post is completely invalid.

[Teryaani]

Just to interject, part of OP's desire for answering this questionw as born out of wondering whether to wait or not before creating the character, but I remember being told that it was announced that you needed to have certain classes already levelled in order to unlock DRK. I never read this on anything official so I'm not sure if somebody has a source but, if that's the case, you really want to make your character first, and then swap if you want to play DRK right away. If I'm wrong, then my post is completely invalid.

It makes sense that the new classes would be gated behind something, but I don't think SE has said anything official. They're keeping quiet about it (It's 4ish months out and a lot can change, so I suppose that makes sense). If I were to guess, I'd say a potential player on the fence about starting now or waiting until 3.0 should start now and push a few classes up in level and at least get to Coerthas. I'm guessing they'll handle it like NIN (at least to level 10 with level 10 quest complete), but I could be way off.