Quote Originally Posted by TheRogueX View Post
Not all of the new zones will be for 50-60 content. See below.



Why not have a new character start in Ishgard during its lockdown, and play out story up until it meets with 3.0? There's nothing that says that a new character starting in Ishgard has to be chronologically linked to 3.0 immediately upon character creation.



Burning Crusade: New races, new cities, NEW LEVELING ZONES... oh, did you forget about that?
Cataclysm: Well, they changed EVERYTHING, but guess what else they added? New races, new cities, NEW LEVELING ZONES. Apparently you forgot about that too.
Mists of Panderia: New race, new city, new leveling zones.

So basically, you're absolutely wrong. 3 of their 5 expansions had new LOW LEVEL zones in which their new races could level up.
Blizzard =/= square enix

lets look at ff11
Rise of Zilart: level cap went from 50 to 75, new zones and areas and endgame content for that level along with several new jobs
Chains of Promathia: some new low level areas, although mainly for the story, only a handful of crazy people went to exp in promyvion;
Aht Uhrgan: whole new continent almost exclusively geared towards level 70+ end game content
Wings of the goddess: honestly this is where things started to get weird, the new allied fronts were nice alternatives to old fashion exp grind but it wasn't exactly for low levels either.

any race can start in any city in this game so you don't need to introduce a new starting city for them here like the elves or the werewolves. Also they've said that whatever Yugiri is will be the next playable race. Pretty sure she didn't come from ishgard. Not to mention that starting in Ishgard COMPLETELY contradicts all the events of the main scenario, Its a safe bet we won't even be able to enter Ishgard till we reach a certain point in the story at which they open their borders and let adventurers in

will there be new lower level areas? maybe. another area of coerthas but i'm not expecting a new starting area, something in the 40s kinda like how coerthas is already, the majority of it will probably be 50+