How to start Heavensward questline?

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Good luck with that, I tihnk locking the expansion behind the gate of having to complete the entire V2 story with all the dungeons and hard-mode trials is ridiculous, I'm finding it a real slog to have to run through obsolete content as a new player in a game where most ran through it two years ago.

In FFXI the first expansion was gated by having to complete the original story but that contained only a handful of 'dungeons' and all later expacs weren't gated by that at all, it's a shame Yoshi implemented that method here when some of the later content is 'hard core' level group stuff. I regret buying the expansion now as I doubt I'll ever see it. On another character I'm 51 but have little expectation of ever seeing Ishgard.