How would you design a new player start expansion?

[BlisteringFrost]

It would have to be a new shard. Only problem is that would have to be our largest expansion yet because it has to do:

an updated hall of novice
Branching storylines for people who have done the previous story and those who are new.
Complete introduction of existing systems that already exist in the game and roll them out at a not overwhelming pace.


Basically it is better to just improve the current leveling system and jobs to make early game more fun than it is to create a new starting point

Well, no, the problem is our main targets are Primals. And it's because of Hydaelyn's Blessing we can even fight them. It was made very clear you don't fight a Primal without something to make yourself immune to being Tempered. Or without the Echo. Because just simply going into proximity of one immediately tempers you.

And nobody can ever get the echo again after Endwalkers .... Soooo.... There's a massive narrative hole there to have to fill otherwise it won't make sense why new adventurers after that point are able to fight primals. Unless they start calling everything a Turaal Vidraal there's just no way.