"new player" icon

[BloodRubyXII]

Honestly I'd keep mine for as long as humanely possible. I feel less shy about making mistakes or asking for help/boss strats because most of the time they see sprout and explain it anyway. I'd be stupid to want to get rid of it when people ride past me and /tell me tips for the area I'm in.

[Rinari]

Honestly I'd keep mine for as long as humanely possible. I feel less shy about making mistakes or asking for help/boss strats because most of the time they see sprout and explain it anyway. I'd be stupid to want to get rid of it when people ride past me and /tell me tips for the area I'm in.

I'm with you!

The only thing keeping my sprout tag is being behind on the MSQ since I'm staying in sync with a friend on that and she doesn't play as much as me. I'll be sad when I lose my sprout symbol. I'll still have so many dungeons left to visit and mechanics to learn, but no cute little symbol to show the other players that I'm new to it all.

[Rongway]

As of 4.0 launch, new adventurer status expires after accumulating 168 hours of /ptime and completion of the 3.56 story quest "The Far Edge of Fate".

[Enkidoh]

The new adventurer status being greatly extended for players was done due to the Novice Network being added to the game - SE tied access to the NN specifically to new adventurer status, so thinking that players would like to make use of this service for as long as possible, the limits of eligibility to be classed as a 'new adventurer' were extended.

Also although you can turn 'off' the sprout icon, that is only temporary, as it resets it back when you log out of the game - it will only disappear for good once the requirements are met (formerly a certain amount of gametime logged/certain level reached, but now it's the completion of the entire ARR/HW storyline up to the final 3.57 story, no doubt due to the addition of the level/story skip items now adding the phenomenon of brand new players at the beginning of SB.).

[Keydah]

Also although you can turn 'off' the sprout icon, that is only temporary, as it resets it back when you log out of the game - it will only disappear for good once the requirements are met

As noted a couple times in the thread, it is not temporary if you actually turn it off with the /nastatus off command.

[gweyowmi]

I had mine go away after i finished the first SB quest.
or was it the 2nd? I remember I spazzed asking why it was still there, then a couple minutes later it went away and i had a system message in chat saying i had proven myself blah blah.

I had a lot of time logged also, way more than needed, I had let my account stay logged on while working on homework during my summer semester classes etc. but over 200 hours i heard is enough.

so the sprout goes away at SB now!

[Keydah]

[above]

It would have gone away upon completion of the final Heavensward quest, The Far Edge of Fate.

It's 168 hours, or 7 days by the measurement of the in-game playtime counter.

EDIT: Obviously both are requirements and I didn't say otherwise, but apparently that wasn't obvious enough.

[worldofneil]

so the sprout goes away at SB now!

It's 168 hours, or 7 days by the measurement of the in-game playtime counter.

You're both right. It's completion of HW AND 168 hours of playtime. One alone isn't enough, both condition have to be met for it to turn off automatically.

[LyraTSG]

I’ve been trying to get the stupid leaf to go away ever since I got past level 30 on my main class/job. Now Im level 50, finished ARR days ago and still couldnmt figure out how to turn it off! Thanks for posting suggestions on here and telling reasons why some still have it lol

[EveK]

Additional reasons to want to keep the status displayed:

1. You get an EXP bonus when your current class is under 20 and you're grouped with a mentor. This works with level sync, so when a dungeon or FATE temporarily reduces your level under 20, you still get the additional bonus that stacks with all the other EXP bonuses.
2. Players with an aetheryte pendulum (obtained via the referral program) can teleport for free to the aetheryte nearest a friend that is currently using the new adventurer status.

In the event the status was removed, manually or automatically, and you still meet the current conditions for it (less than a week of playtime or not yet reached Stormblood main scenario quests), you can turn it back on with /nas.