New Jobs Gated Behind Completion of 2.0 Story?

[ExKage]

The "what if a new player wants to play DRK" comparison is pointless. What if a new player wants to wear the 2nd Coil gear cause it looks cool? Should SE give that also at level one?

I hadn't thought about it this way until I read this. I can see this point. If you say, "well jobs/classes are a core concept of what they're marketing this mmo as" I would argue the same thing about the story and lore of it. Hell they made a big deal about splitting 2.5's Main Story Quest into 2 parts because it was so long (The cutsceeeenes) and it is the push into Heavensward.

[Velhart]

I hadn't thought about it this way until I read this. I can see this point. If you say, "well jobs/classes are a core concept of what they're marketing this mmo as" I would argue the same thing about the story and lore of it. Hell they made a big deal about splitting 2.5's Main Story Quest into 2 parts because it was so long (The cutsceeeenes) and it is the push into Heavensward.

I wouldn't say the 2.5 story was so big it had to be split. More like the devs split it to give something within the 5 month waiting period for the expansion.