Letter from the Producer XLI

[Velhart]

I'm not sure how betas usually work, but do you think we'll be able to see more of the world than the Black Shroud area for the Beta? Woods make me claustrophobic.

I am kind of scratching my head on that one. It says the "quest paths" will be open for Ul'Dah and Limsa in Phase 3. It doesn't mention in any of the phases if we are bound to the Black Shroud related areas until Phase 3.

I guess we will see. I would guess that in Phase 1 it will be Black Shroud only again, I could be wrong however, and do hope I am wrong, haha.

[Airi_Heartfilia]

I am kind of scratching my head on that one. It says the "quest paths" will be open for Ul'Dah and Limsa in Phase 3. It doesn't mention in any of the phases if we are bound to the Black Shroud related areas until Phase 3.

I guess we will see. I would guess that in Phase 1 it will be Black Shroud only again, I could be wrong however, and do hope I am wrong, haha.

Been curious about this lately myself, though my best guess would be Thanalan and La Noscea might be partly opened as well. At the very least its what I think makes the most sense since its looking like all the classes (except maybe Arcanist) will be available starting from phase 1, especially since they haven't stated otherwise that only certain classes would be available like they did with the alpha.

[Skies]

I am kind of scratching my head on that one. It says the "quest paths" will be open for Ul'Dah and Limsa in Phase 3. It doesn't mention in any of the phases if we are bound to the Black Shroud related areas until Phase 3.

I guess we will see. I would guess that in Phase 1 it will be Black Shroud only again, I could be wrong however, and do hope I am wrong, haha.

My educated guess is that the area will be open, but there won't be any quests there to level on, making the place slightly barren content-wise.