Can't Access 3.0 until you complete 2.0-2.55

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

Without completing the main story quests you will be unable to:
Enter ishgaurd
gain accsess to flying mounts (conformed long ago to be a MSQ)
Gain possible accsess to the 3 new classes (machinist guild is located within ishgard but the other 2 locations are unknown)
possibly locked out of Coreathas western highlands and thus Dravania (due to the flying mount mechanic)
enter alexander ((this follows the assumption it is like The bidding coil of bahamut which unlocked after 2.0's MSQ)
Gain accsess to be able to do any side missions that are attached to heavenward from characters relating or with information relating to 'current' events

this sounds like pretty much everything in 3.0. surely there has to be accessible content that has nothing to do with the main-scenario, right? is there ANYTHING a player can do in 3.0 without fully progressing 2.0? please give me a reason to buy HW and continue playing this game ^_^

[Reynhart]

Good luck new players who start at Heavensward launch. You'll be spending a generous amount of time in duty finder queue for old HM primals.

Do you realize Roulettes will still be there ? Or Relics in progress ? Or, god forbid, new relics that ask to do pre-60 dungeons, like the actual ones do for pre-50 ?

this sounds like pretty much everything in 3.0. surely there has to be accessible content that has nothing to do with the main-scenario, right? is there ANYTHING a player can do in 3.0 without fully progressing 2.0? please give me a reason to buy HW and continue playing this game ^_^

What, you say you're purposely avoiding the main scenario as a lvl 50 player even though its required to unlock two Duty roulettes ?

[DracotheDragon]

is there ANYTHING a player can do in 3.0 without fully progressing 2.0? please give me a reason to buy HW and continue playing this game ^_^

Things you can do BEFORE doing any main story quests (past level 20)
be an au ra
and the possibility of 1 of the jobs (if it is in a area that you can get into)
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flying chocobo races?
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uhh... thats about it

the whole point of an expansion is to carry on where the original left off, the end of the original will end with the quest "onto the new dawn" in 2.55, (quest name gained from a reddit translation)
so from that story wise anyone in 2.0 is alienated from ishgaurd while 3.0 players worlds would of changed to fit the new story,

if you chose not to do the mainstory quest you are locking yourself out of all the content in this story driven MMORPG