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    How long has it been since the events of 2.0?

    We’ve gone through 3 expansions and the writers haven’t given us any indication of time passing. I would have hard time believing that all of these events happened within a year.

    Has time passed?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gman1311 View Post
    We’ve gone through 3 expansions and the writers haven’t given us any indication of time passing. I would have hard time believing that all of these events happened within a year.
    Has time passed?
    Don't ask me to find the source of it, but i recall during some fan event (or something similar), Yoshida mentioned something to the effect of the story doesn't operate with a timescale and even though there's seven years of game time, the events just happen back to back after each other and there's no down time in-world between patch and expansion events unless they explicitly say that X time has passed via a narrative drop.
    So basically, the whole game simply moves at the speed of plot.
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    We're currently in a time bubble, so it's anywhere from a month to several years but SE will not acknowledge the passage of time either way. The only time we got definitive proof of time passing was with how long some of the Scion's had been on the First, and with them going back to the Source all those years have basically been reset to zero.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gman1311 View Post
    Has time passed?
    Yes and no. The game exists in a time bubble. Time is still flowing and events are still happening, but the calendar is frozen. That's why the twins are still 16 and the calamity was still "5 years ago" even though 6-7 years worth of events have happened since 2.0.
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    In my head canon, everything up to now has been at least 3 years, one month. If had to break it up:

    All of ARR: six months

    All of HW: 1 year

    All of Stormblood: A year and a half

    -Shb (up to 5.3): 1 month.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne View Post
    Healing DRK is literally... the same since ShB. The reason why people think it's a meme to heal nowadays because DRK receives very little to no buff to their sustainability vs 3 other tanks getting something useful. If you're capable of healing DRK back in ShB (or any tanks), then you'll heal EW DRK just fine.

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    I just want to see the twins get their long overdue growth spurt. Please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gman1311 View Post
    We’ve gone through 3 expansions and the writers haven’t given us any indication of time passing. I would have hard time believing that all of these events happened within a year.

    Has time passed?
    Some time has of course passed, but the developers have intentionally been very vague about just how much time has passed.

    Best guess is that 2-3 years has passed since the start of ARR, but that is a very rough estimate. Could be less. Probably not much more.
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    Use the /playtime command.
    That much time!
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    Some people claim they would get confused if while doing a current content quest it said it was 7 years since the Calamity but then they went back and did an ARR content quest and it said it was 5 years since the Calamity. I don't really see how people get confused on that when every other major MMO out there can effectively tell a story with the passage of time, but here we are. So, because of that, the official lore has us stuck in a time bubble (as mentioned) that's perpetually 5 years since the Calamity.
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    Right this usually comes up a lot in lore forums and the best we got is time bubbles, it really is best not to dwell too much on this point as can cause big lore headaches of trying to fit everything in.

    I tend to go by the twins Alphanaud and Alasiae, until they have undergone the Elezen growth spurt, time cannot have progressed more than 4 years (they are 17 and Elezen growth spurts happen around 21 years old) so long as you abide by that timescale go nuts on your own interpretation, just beware the amount of time you give yourself left because the game is still on going and they still ain't looking to be having a growth spurt anytime soon.
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