Thread: Wouldn't Warring Triads also need to be completed for Stormblood access?

If not, you'd have to imagine at some point? I'm referring to the new areas in Stormblood.

You may recall that with a realm reborn all of the trials, quests and most of the dungeons were tied to the MSQ. With Heavensward, they realized that some players want to immediately jump into the trials upon a patch release as opposed to churn through quests. So they separated the trials from the MSQ with the Warring Triad's questline. However, the Warring Triad's questline contains some major MSQ players (Eldibus, Garleans, etc.).

You'd have to imagine that "eventually" Eldibus or one of these other characters is going to either die or turn good. Correct me if I'm wrong, but FFXIV has avoided all (or at least the vast majority) of continuity issues? This would be a big one if you played Warring Triad's after the death of one of the major characters included in Warring Triads.

I think not eventually making Warring Triads, Crystal Towers, Alexander, Coil, etc. mandatory kind of diminishes the story. The list of characters that seemingly can never die is continuing to grow which kind of kills the suspense of future stories (Cid can't die in Stormblood because he's a big part of Crystal tower, etc.).

Thus if SE is so serious about continuity to the point where new players have to pay $25 or churn through all of the MSQ, I think they need to also start including certain side quests as pre-requisites.

Thoughts?