Quote Originally Posted by Ecks007 View Post
New areas would be, going beyond the Steps of Faith or Snowcloak in Coerthas to a new zone/area. Or going beyond that closed gate in Central Thanalan that lies directly south of the Gate of Thal.
I believe the snowcloak gate is the Shiva Instance or something. Steps of Faith goes to ishgarde, again, if you did the last storyline quest in 2.3, you'd know that that's coming really soon, both of them. Yoshida said in a recent live letter, they have things planned 4 years in advanced (Up to Version 4.0 and the second expansion.)