Anyone have an idea of the new area...

[KaiserDrill]

@radacci yes the arcanist guild is in LL in 1.0. If you look at lancer/drg, the guild is in Grid yet the dragoon npc is right outside ishgard. Its safe to assume this could be a possibility with summoner.

Consider this, its well known that summoner may not make it into the launch of arr, but may make it with the first major patch. Its very possible this is in part due to the quests being in sharlayan and they are behind on creating the city. This is pure speculation on my part, but not totally impossible.

[Radacci]

well i'm sure they would put the Summoner NPCs somewhere accessible, temporarily, if they plan to have Summoner at release. Or you could talk with someone in shar through linkpearl, cause you cant go there at the moment.
but whatever ^^ we'll see. i hope there's some new maps anyways. there should be since they show off Behemoth, and ice region in opening and all.

[Felis]

There is supposed to be a new area (I assume from the learn more part in http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/about/world/cities). Anyone have an idea of what it could be... I was hoping it would be ishgard but by the reps mentioning Sharlayan I think it might be that area instead. What do you think? Now back to research I go...

Coerthas
Because it is missing on this site.

[Duuude007]

I find it strange making ishgard would take another year, since they finished whole ARR in 2 years...

They mentioned the Gold Saucer happening pre Ishgard... that must be a huge project in itself, lol.

[Ozz]

I have been wondering whether Coerthas will be available at launch

[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.
/10cha

[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)

[Radacci]

oh hmm, seems sucky you might change starting location based on main class; unless you can change starting class when you edit char in ARR.

[hrdndv]

If you go to http://ffxivmaps.com and go down to the Eorzea map, you will see three previously unopened areas shown in red: Sharlavan, Ishgard and Ala Mhigo. This map also shows that most of the continent of Aldenard has never been available.

I understood Yoshi to say there would be a swampy area and such an area must be in southeastern Black Shroud along the Rothlyt Sound. Maybe Theueari will be opened.

[Orophin]

oh hmm, seems sucky you might change starting location based on main class; unless you can change starting class when you edit char in ARR.

I imagine it'll let you pick which class you want to start as during the character creation.

I can't remember if going through the tutorial quests were going to be mandatory for existing characters or not, but even so it was said that after you've completed the tutorial quests that you'll have full reign over the armory, so you can always just pick a class that starts in the home city you want and just change later.