I will be getting this to go through the dungeon content.
That said, I get that people like the story in this game, but why force it on people to get to the expansion area. I could not "esc" and "skip cutscene" fast enough while doing the story quests. Knowing that when I come back to the game to play this I will have to suffer through the lvl 50 stuff I did not bother to resub to play through before I can move on is a real bummer.
Really hope they speed up the gearing process so you are not stuck grinding anything to get to the next item level tier to continue on.
Because the story that takes you into Ishgard requires you to finish the story, it wouldnt make sense in any capacity from a lore perspective to just let you in, maybe in the future we won't see a story arc like this for the next expansion but if you follow the story you will know why its required before going into the city.