Quote Originally Posted by Kaurie View Post
To my understanding, it's important to the Dev team to only encourage players to do either 2.x content, or Alex. I think providing reward for Heavensward content outside of Alex goes against their entire design philosophy.
That's not really true, considering HW FATEs, leveling dungeons, Vanu Vanu Beast Tribe quests, HW treasure maps, and level 60 dungeons (for Law) all contribute to the Anima questline during one of the three steps. The only HW contents that don't contribute in some way toward a finished Anima is Great Gubal Library (which honestly seems pretty weird to me, but I suppose that means we'll see it used in a later step). The HW Trials don't contribute much, but I imagine we'll see them used in another step, just like Great Gubal.