Returning Player

Howdy, I'm a returning player and I've been playing for a few weeks, I hadn't played since a few months before the Heavensward release. It's been great, I love this game, definitely missed it. So much so that are thru all the story content and just beat the main scenario of Stormblood, skipped a lot of sidequests and dungeons and powered thru. Now that i have arrived, i am overwhelmed. There is just so much content that opened up that I don't know what to do next!

tl;dr

So now that I have beaten SB main scenario, what should my focus be?

you completed stormblood (4.0) msq or the whole msq up to 4.58?

Well it totally, entirely, depends on you, how you continue your story in this game is decided by you, there are plenty of things to do, from doing optional questlines, secondary quests, gathering, crafting, raiding, stuff farming, beast tribes, godl saucer, hunts, achivement hunting, wealth run, housing, entertaining, social, pvp, roleplaying... wow so many

So you may want to try out as many things as possible and then see which one captures your attention and curiosity the most. If you need an introduction for each content, you may simple make a quick research on the web, you are likely going to find some text informations or video presentation, stuff like these.

Welcome back!

If what you just finished was the fight at the Royal Menagerie, then continue the story until you get all the way to the current end point. That way you have the option to jump straight into the new expansion without waiting as soon as it goes live for you. If what you finished was the last bit of dialogue where a mysterious stranger tells you about the danger we are soon to face in Shadowbringers... well, if thats where you are then you have a decision to make. And that decision is what matters most to you. We have roughly a month. Thats enough time to do a lot of content, but maybe not all of it unless you play a lot. So do you emphasize trying out optional dungeons? Do you do one or more of the raid lines to see the story(Alexander, Omega, Shadows of Mhach, Return to Ivalice)? For that matter, had you completed the ARR raids before you left(Coils had a really nice story, Crystal Tower might be involved in the lore for the new expansion)? Are you more the type to work on a few beast tribes? Are you current with the Hildy quests(and do you care)?

Basically, what would be most fun and/or what do you want to accomplish most?