I'm about a third of the way through Stormblood now (lv 63) and looking like I might... actually.... get caught up in time for Shadowbringers?
I've never been playing newly released content in an MMO in my life. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing hundreds of people running around doing the same quests as me, or discovering boss strategies together.
Also, if nobody has mentioned it yet, the EU data centre is getting split in two in 9 days time.
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodeston ... f675536bb9From that point on, nobody on one of these lists can play with people on the other list.
For the two weeks following this, all world transfers are free, to save people from getting split up from their friends, and then a week after that, the world visit system launches and you can actually go to other servers in the same data centre.