Quote Originally Posted by bass9020 View Post
They have already talked about making the next expansion not tied to HW. But with everything HW gave idk how they will handle the features added.
I believe what they will do is have the next expansion take place at the same general time period of HW.

Lore wise there are bound to be periods where things are relatively stable but otherwise lack activity for the WoL, going by them having the player leave Ishgard to go handle things back in Ul'dah and the other city states.

Then in the expansion after that the two storylines will merge.

They will have it setup so that if you go through the next expansion after HW the dialog is different and the scenes different. As well as change HW so that if you go through the other storyline first the dialog and scenes will be slightly different. Both expansions will probably start with the arrival at Ishgard.

When it comes to the major players of the two storylines they will be too busy managing things in their area to be able to go help the WoL in the other area. We will probably get someone to replace Alphinaud as the companion for the non HW storyline.

It will be like those sections of the story where you need to go follow to separate but linked sections of the main story. One example being the two MSQ chains that lead you into Falcon's Nest/Camp Cloudtop at the same time early into HW. In the end both expansions will link into the expansion beyond them.