Are these gates expected open in 4.0?

[myahele]

Would be nice, but I somehow doubt it, especially if 4.0 will focus on Ala Mhigo.

3.0 pretty much ignored Ul'dah and the rest of the 2.0 areas, so I won't hold my breath. Instead, they they could end up becoming entrances to trial/dungeons like how The Vault is in Ishgard.

Still, it would be nice to see how Gridanian nobles live

[Morningstar1337]

Would be nice, but I somehow doubt it, especially if 4.0 will focus on Ala Mhigo.

It's not entirely impossible. Isn't there a West Shroud that leads to Xephatol (and Gyr Arbina)?

3.0 pretty much ignored Ul'dah and the rest of the 3.0 areas, so I won't hold my breath. Instead, they they could end up becoming entrances to trial/dungeons lie how The Vault is in Ishgard.

And the Aery, and Pharos Sirius HM is at Limsa (that reminds me, can anyone access the dungeon from the Isle of Umbra?)

Still, it would be nice to see how Gridanian nobles live

Yeah it would be interesting, but if we are to see anything like that. I can bet that it would be a dungeon in the same vein as the Vault.

[Rocl]

It's not entirely impossible. Isn't there a West Shroud that leads to Xephatol (and Gyr Arbina)?

That'd be a little convoluted since Gyr Abania and Xelphatol are to the EAST of the Shroud. The West Shroud, at least in 1.0, led us to Mor Dhona.