Heya! The game happens after the events of Endwalker's base story (6.0) so there's a lot of spoilers for lots of events before that point. You'll probably enjoy it more if you catch up first (and besides, FFXIV's story really is incredible)
awesome, thank you for the quick reply! just finished the base story of stormblood earlier today so i've got a ways to go yet, but i'm looking forward to checking this out after i catch up!
