Sounds like OP may have been referring to the/a Prologue quest (not the tutorial).

I would hope there would be one, but I think they usually drop those with the 1st dungeon update and I don't recall any of the pc folks mentioning one this time around (or seeing any threads on one).

But with everything going disastrously wrong atm, I can understand why that particular piece of news could get buried in the mix.

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Sounds like OP may have been referring to the/a Prologue quest (not the tutorial).

I would hope there would be one, but I think they usually drop those with the 1st dungeon update and I don't recall any of the pc folks mentioning one this time around (or seeing any threads on one).

But with everything going disastrously wrong atm, I can understand why that particular piece of news could get buried in the mix.

At first I also thought the OP meant the prologue quest, but their reference to new characters suggests they did indeed mean a new turorial quest as was the case before Blackwood gave us a standardized turorial regardless of which chapters a given player happens to have.

So I think the answer to their question is No, there mist likely won't be a new tutorial as was done before Blackwood.

As far as the new prologue, I'm guessing it's going to coincide with a new set of Crown Store offerings, since the quest starter for the prologue always gets added to the Crown Store in addition to there being some NPC in the game who we can talk with to start the prologue quest. And I'm thinking that has usually come after the first dungeon DLC, generally around the time of the big QuakeCon or whatever it's called, although I might be misremembering.

Okay, I was mistaken about QuakeCon, because that's usually in August I think. But the Blackwood Prologue wasn't released until the end of March last year, which was well after the first dungeon DLC was released. I doubt that they would want the prologue quest to potentially interfere or overlap with the quests from the two new dungeons. In terms of the ideal sequence or story order of the quests, it should be first two dungeons, then chapter prologue, then chapter, then second two dungeons, then concluding zone DLC.

Just to clarify, I was referring to the tutorial. It's a convenient way for a new character to activate most of the weapon, armor, and class skill lines in one compact area.