Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
Do give it a try. Just don't look for a particularly in-depth story, nor a clue as to what really happens next (and why).
That's part of the new design philosophy. Blizzard feels that more players want to play with their friends first, so they rush you through the BfA expansion (where the individual storylines kinda hold together, but not within an overall arc), to get you to the current content. You can be in the latest expansion fairly easily that way.

Up until then, you would go to lvl 1 in the original starting area, and start from there.

Once a new player gets a character to lvl 50, any new characters can start in the original leveling area. Nowadays though, leveling happens so fast that you're in the latest content fairly quickly. It makes FF look like an impossible slog.