Well technically the ending to Endwalker’s story was 6.0 and the 6.x series was more of a mini-story setting up for things in the future, this is where the finale credits for the expansion happened in Patch 6.55. This small part of the Main Scenario Quest (MSQ) was more of a prologue to the next expansion, Dawntrail, and it was so enjoyable!
While this isn’t necessarily talking about what exactly happens in this patch/part of the MSQ, there’s very minor spoilers and a handful of screenshots from it, so skim on past or wait till y’all have gotten this far before glancing through it. The entirety of it felt shorter than previous finale MSQ’s, I think Shadowbringers’ was a smidgen longer with a long instance to end it, and Stormblood had a really rough instance to end it as well. I could be mistaken as it has been several years since I’ve done Shadowbringers’ and even far longer since Stormblood’s.
Regardless of the length (it’s not really that important, just a side-thought), the amount of stuff that was added into these last few quests of the expansion are so gosh darn full of wonderfulness! Wuk Lamat is officially introduced here hailing from Tural asking for assistance in her homeland for becoming the new ruler, which will presumably unravel as we adventure through Dawntrail.
This was a really, really fun little prologue! The energy, the characters’ interactions, the introduction of Wuk Lamat and showing off her personality all in such a small amount of time made me adore her and get really interested in what the hoobers we’re getting ourselves into during Dawntrail! The instance itself was well done and bumps one up to an absurdly high Item Level that, while it doesn’t make it a full breeze to get through, gives it just the right difficulty and feels like more of an interactive part to the already fun prologue sequence.
It ultimately ends with us agreeing to go over to Tural and all parties present with us beginning preparations to head on out. Thus the finale credits to Endwalker begin. These ending credits were pretty neat too, a lot of fun little scenes and some concept artwork sprinkled throughout.
Post Credits had one more cut scene with parties not-present but are also Westward bound too. Thancred and Urianger’s specifically being one of note that kind of helps mold some of what we’re going to see happen during Dawntrail.
Final little messages come up, and then that was it. I know I’ve said it a few times already, but this was great. I loved every moment of this whole thing. There’s still a lot for us to do between now and Dawntrail, but this all setting the stage for it leading into a whole new land and story was absolutely wonderful! Here’s to many many more adventures ahead, wherever they take us!