Quote Originally Posted by lacrimosaangel View Post
I second this - how ARE they handling the early access for physical pre-orders, seems silly to make us download the entire expansion.

Also, do we need the HW disk in to play or ARR?
From my understanding, we won't need to have any disk in at all. We'll also need to download "patch 3.0" regardless of whether we have Heavenward or not, otherwise people playing as the new classes or as au ra will be invisible to you.