The ending to Stormblood...

I... I really love that the *off screen deus ex machina* guy... I really do! BUT...
I hope they give him a proper role, rather than 911ing.
It was good to see him though... It's... complicated...

I liked the instances but overall it was really short to be held back for its own patch.

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Originally Posted by SuperScotsman

Why does Hien, master samurai, only know 4 abilities and not one of them is a combo action?

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Two reasons:
1. He's not the hero of the story, you are. All the NPCs are shown consistently to not have abilities anywhere near approaching the Warriors of Light, except for the villains.
2. Perhaps more importantly, they're afraid of overwhelming people with a job they haven't played. Did you see how many people complained when they had to play Y'shtola with four abilities just because they had to heal?

It felt like the most non-conclusion conclusion ever. The battle between the allied forces and Garlemald is still at a stalemate. The threat of black rose they've been building for the last few patches is still hanging in the air. Elidibus is still walking around in Zenos's body while the real Zenos is still wandering around picking off nameless fodder.

As a lead-in to Shadowbringers I suppose it worked, but as an ending to Stormblood, it kinda.....didn't.

Ending to ARR gave us a major character death and WoL a d Scions being branded as traitors and villains and having to lay low and escape to a new area to clear our names. Ending of HW gave us a major character death and then Omega VS Shinryu epic anime battle. Ending to SB gave us nothing of any sort except more mystery, no exposition, no conclusion to anyone's story. We still don't know wtf is going on, and we don't even get to see Estinien fight Zenos, it's all offscreen and then talked about in passing.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

Two reasons:
1. He's not the hero of the story, you are. All the NPCs are shown consistently to not have abilities anywhere near approaching the Warriors of Light, except for the villains.
2. Perhaps more importantly, they're afraid of overwhelming people with a job they haven't played. Did you see how many people complained when they had to play Y'shtola with four abilities just because they had to heal?

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1. Whilst valid in theory - not in practice. In Eorzea, a samurai like that would be a liability on the battlefield and nothing more than cannon fodder. This is Hien we're talking about - not some grunt.
2. As you can see from my post count I haven't been a frequenter of these forums so no, I hadn't seen this. But there's a big difference between hand-holding and flat out mollycoddling.

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Originally Posted by SuperScotsman

1. Whilst valid in theory - not in practice. In Eorzea, a samurai like that would be a liability on the battlefield and nothing more than cannon fodder. This is Hien we're talking about - not some grunt.
2. As you can see from my post count I haven't been a frequenter of these forums so no, I hadn't seen this. But there's a big difference between hand-holding and insulting mollycoddling.

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Well it was a lot, and the players are bad!

Welcome to the forums though.

Me: *crying/screaming*
Forums: Meh
>:C well fine!

I liked the thing you get at the end at least.

Honestly I didn't get it sooner that elf sword was -redacted- maybe if I had paid attention earlier. I guess that was an interesting twist

still, lot less closure to current events then I would have liked.

It just confirms for me how Stormblood dragged on uninteresting scenes and completely skipped what could have been more appealing.
This 4.56 MSQ was lukewarm, like Stormblood overall.