Anyone have an idea of the new area...

[nokinator]

Hmmm.. I was under the impression that Ishgard may have been destroyed, but i guess its been 5 years. regardless any new area would be cool.

[Karbine]

Hmmm.. I was under the impression that Ishgard may have been destroyed, but i guess its been 5 years. regardless any new area would be cool.

I remember some rage about it being destroyed when they showed off some concept art of Ishgard ruins and people started freaking out that they never even got to visit it in 1.0 and now its destroyed.

Thankfully Yoshi-P confirmed that it wasn't but he did say opening it up is in the future of ARR down the road, but not anywhere near launch. I'm sorry I don't have the time to pull up source interview but its pretty old. A few months after 2.0 was announced and he was doing interview rounds.

[Gramul]

I remember some rage about it being destroyed when they showed off some concept art of Ishgard ruins and people started freaking out that they never even got to visit it in 1.0 and now its destroyed.

Guilty.
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[Orophin]

Is there going to be new story quests for new areas then? like you pick Gridania as starting place, and get Gridania storyline. How's that gonna work in ARR anyways? we already picked side in 1.0, and we'll start in some specific spot when we log in 1.0 chars. Would there be new story line if you could pick sharlayan as starting place? hmm.

Actually it was said that your nation was dependent on the class you pick. Example, CNJ, LNC, ARC, BTN, LTW, CRP were all shown to be in Gridania in the Alpha, so if you pick any of those classes in the character creator, Gridania will be your starting nation. If they leave Arcanist in LL, then that will be your starting nation. So on and so forth.

Yoshi-P also said that the main storylines for each nation were being redone, so while I expect some of the elements of the previous stories to be there, they might be greatly different in ARR. For 1.0 chars, we'll log in somewhere else than our home nation. (probably something similar to how the Adventuring Party from the End of an Era trailer popped in Coerthas)