Personally, I would have liked to just have access to the suite of default emotes and the 3 starting city zones as a small little roaming area.

Even in the character creator with the city states as the background it isn't always even half-accurate as to what it is when actually roaming around -- But that has just been my feel and especially noticeable with my Xaela.

I am holding out hope that we will have more customization options with the expansion after Dawntrail.