Tales of Adventure - when will these get updated for Endwalker?

Just curious if there is any information out there about level and quest/story jumps to catch up to Endwalker? I have someone that wants to start playing but I don't see any point of them doing a level and story quest grind if there is going to be new potions in the near future

thanks

Most likely when Endwalker releases in 4-5 months, but that's just a guess.

You say what's the point in doing the level/story grind, I say what's the point in jumping in on the last chapter of the story?

(at least, I think I've heard that 6.0 is meant to wrap up many major plot points...)

I would actually advise you to tell your friend to play through the story and level naturally.

They'll be lost when they get to the story in Endwalker. They won't know who is who and what's so bad about the villains we're up against.

Also they'll be at a higher risk of information overload from the skips and their skill at the game will be affected as they've not been introduced to systems and skills systematically as they leveled.

FFXIV to me is more about the journey than it is about what you do at end game.

If your friend is wanting to play with you, I'd suggest making an alt to level alongside them. Choose a class that starts in the same city if not the same class.

If they follow history, the skips will show up at the same time as the expansion. Considering that is 6ish months away, if your friend is interested then just starting normally would be my recommendation as well. You can reach end game in a month or two(less if you grind, longer if you take your time), so theres more then enough time to get there and be experienced and ready to jump into the new content on day one.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

You say what's the point in doing the level/story grind, I say what's the point in jumping in on the last chapter of the story?

(at least, I think I've heard that 6.0 is meant to wrap up many major plot points...)

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End game with friends
Not everyone cares about the story

They make a lot of money with potions so you can be sure they'll be level 80 skips for jobs/story when the xpac releases.

If they care about the story, their first job should be to play through the story because spoilers and less of the story will make sense if you come part way through.

If they don't care about the story, then at least ensure they learn to play their chosen job before they jump into anything high-end. There is a trend of jump potion users who also skip out on learning mechanics and learning how their job plays. Levelling up the normal way offers this benefit because it's gradual and Hall of the Novice doesn't teach you enough, just the basics ready to kick-start you for dungeons at level 15.

Endgame? We don't have a endgame.

But yeah, a boost is a long therm money investment.
Because you buy the boost, play for 3 month and the realize that you don't play in the endcontent for 95% of the time and it gets boring because you don't know what's going on these 95% you always play.

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Originally Posted by ZedxKayn

End game with friends
Not everyone cares about the story

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There's endgame in this game?

In all seriousness, though. FFXIV is heavily story-driven. I would recommend that your friend go through the story normally. It helps with the connection to the game, the characters, everything happening as a whole in FFXIV. For the raid, we're expecting Lahabrea to play a big part in the endgame raid. His part and how it plays into the raid won't matter without doing the story. Other than 4 raid bosses that will get you maybe few weeks of good endgame progression, there won't be much care to the main raid of the xpac. Everything is deeply tied to story in this game, so it's probably best to have them do the story.

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Originally Posted by Iskander

There's endgame in this game?

In all seriousness, though. FFXIV is heavily story-driven. I would recommend that your friend go through the story normally. It helps with the connection to the game, the characters, everything happening as a whole in FFXIV. For the raid, we're expecting Lahabrea to play a big part in the endgame raid. His part and how it plays into the raid won't matter without doing the story. Other than 4 raid bosses that will get you maybe few weeks of good endgame progression, there won't be much care to the main raid of the xpac. Everything is deeply tied to story in this game, so it's probably best to have them do the story.

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No matter how tied it is to the story some people still won't care and I'd only suggest for these to go through the story to learn how to play gradually (but it's still a real slog for stuff that can be learned in much less tedious manner by running instances in order after a boost or looking uo a guide)

Even dismissing the story connections, friend is still going to have to level/grind through the 6.0 story to get to 6.0 endgame. I mean. I guess technically they'd probably be saving some time/money by waiting, rather than joining now and still doing the story/level grind to get to 5.5 endgame.

Probably as people said, it’ll be when 6.0 comes out plus or minus a few patches.

For your friend that wants to skip, I would encourage playing the game through, but I also think no one should say “your fun is wrong”.

So, if he does genuinely feel lost, let him know about the story journal in the inns so he can watch/review as he likes.

Long enough from now, he should just buy the level 70 potions, if he's going to insist on ignoring everything and skipping straight to the endgame. At least 6 months til Endwalker, and it shouldn't take more than a week or two to go from 70 to 80 and be semi-reasonably geared to do stuff with you.

That said, this is the WRONG game for someone who wants to skip the story, or focus exclusively on raiding! I mean, that's fine if its what he wants, but there's enough time til new content, maybe give the actual story a go?

We likely won't see an update to the potions until the beginning of Endwalker, which is somewhere in September or October. We won't know until May, as they'll likely announce the expansion release during Fanfest.

My recommendation, assuming your friend isn't all that interested in story, is to simply get the two jump potions now and grind up to 80. It won't take that long, speaking from experience leveling a raid alt. With New Game+, they also can go back and revisit all the previous story content if they're ever keen on doing so.

That being said, I do suggest stressing to your friend this is very much not a raid focused game. They will run out of things to do very quickly if they're only interested in Savage. At the very least, I'd show off a variety of content to see if it might peak their interest.

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Originally Posted by Seera1024

Also they'll be at a higher risk of information overload from the skips and their skill at the game will be affected as they've not been introduced to systems and skills systematically as they leveled. Once you get to current story, you lose your sprout status. Buying the skips will have them lose their sprout status. That sprout status tells players that this player is new and to be more forgiving of mistakes.

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This is actually incorrect, you keep your sprout status at that point if you have below a certain number of hours, even if you didn't use a skip (IIRC it's 100 hours).

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Originally Posted by Laphicet

This is actually incorrect, you keep your sprout status at that point if you have below a certain number of hours, even if you didn't use a skip (IIRC it's 100 hours).

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Didn't realize that. I've removed the incorrect piece from my original post in case future readers see my reply but not yours.