Dear devs, thank you so much for letting the WoL speak outside of dialog options!

As I've been playing through 6.3's quests (Euphrosyne, Tataru's Endeavor, MSQ), I've noticed the WoL has (for the most part) ditched the stoic nod in favor of speaking. They regularly answer questions, seem to say "thank you" when accepting items from NPCs, and volunteer information more readily than before. Their mouth is just silently moving when this happens, but even so, it makes our character feel much more like an active, engaged participant in conversations. My WoL is more alive than ever, and I'm loving it! Plus, I can substitute my own in-character dialog whenever he silently talks, which allows for a more immersive experience.

It's also kind of cool that this can be interpreted as character development for the canon WoL. They were once so reserved, stoic, and quiet, but now they've really come out of their shell! Ya love to see it.

EDIT: There seems to be some confusion. ^^; I'm not talking about more diverse dialog options, since those have been here since StB, but the way the WoL's mouth silently moves OUTSIDE of dialog options to indicate they're much more talkative than before, which is a trend that seems to have begun with this latest patch.

I hate my character agreeing to something i dont want them to

IMO we need more Fray like options in the dialogue boxes too... >.>

I personally dislike when they give me options that have the same meaning. Such as "Thank you." and "Thank you!". I might be the minority on that, but my wol might as well not talk at all.

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Originally Posted by Puc

I hate my character agreeing to something i dont want them to

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"Yes Yugiri, I will 100% go along with your assassination plan even though it's logistically the stupidest thing I've heard all expansion and know darn well it's going to end poorly."

"Of course Mikoto, I will 100% go along with your vision and not question any nuance or context behind it. I will simply entrust that everything go well both before and after the vision, and not wonder whether or not the enemy has loaded the area up with explosives prior to us arriving there, or if there's any other traitor in our midst feeding info back to Misija".

Like.

I get that we sometimes have no choice and kind of need to go along with the flow for the sake of the plot, but holy hells.

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Originally Posted by ameliaw

I personally dislike when they give me options that have the same meaning. Such as "Thank you." and "Thank you!". I might be the minority on that, but my wol might as well not talk at all.

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This annoys me to no end. I appreciate they can't have widely conflicting responses because the story is linear but if you're going to offer dialogue choices at least make them have tonal or expressive changes.

I like it, somewhat. Some options are superfluous, but there are others which indicate tone - and that's really cool. As someone who likes reading books, I just love how the way a sentence is punctuated can approach close to direct speech indicators. Sentences with full stops are truncated, curt, and those with exclamation marks sound excited, hyped.

There's also almost always a "..." option. I've never gone for those, but I can bet those who see their WoL as a true silent, stoic person use those choices liberally.

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Originally Posted by Midareyukki

"Yes Yugiri, I will 100% go along with your assassination plan even though it's logistically the stupidest thing I've heard all expansion and know darn well it's going to end poorly.

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This got a good laugh out of me. It's so dang true. Our poor WoLs. The lights are on but nobody's home.

We've been doing various degrees of that for a long time, I'm fairly sure.

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Originally Posted by Puc

I hate my character agreeing to something i dont want them to

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But I love when she gets to be extra snarky about it.

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Originally Posted by JamieRose

But I love when she gets to be extra snarky about it.

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I have really been enjoying the increased inclusion of jokey/snarky lines. Really adds to the vibe that nothing really surprises them anymore.

I agree, I also love the snarky dialogue options.

I think they should go back and add some of the talking animations to older cutscenes, the endless standing still and nodding is so bad in comparison to the more lively version of WoL that actually speaks sometimes even when there's no dialogue options.

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Originally Posted by ThaCa

I think they should go back and add some of the talking animations to older cutscenes, the endless standing still and nodding is so bad in comparison to the more lively version of WoL that actually speaks sometimes even when there's no dialogue options.

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I hope they do, too. I recently replayed ARR with a sprout friend of mine, and the WoL nodding with that empty, vacant expression in response to just about everything is painful to watch these days.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

This got a good laugh out of me. It's so dang true. Our poor WoLs. The lights are on but nobody's home.

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except fray who's in there screaming their head off and smashing their skull against the inside of yours; flailing in fury.

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Originally Posted by ameliaw

I personally dislike when they give me options that have the same meaning. Such as "Thank you." and "Thank you!". I might be the minority on that, but my wol might as well not talk at all.

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The worst offender, in my opinion, was the dialogue choice right before the final boss of 6.0. I didn't want to say either of those things. Avoiding details due to spoilers, but that's one scenario where overall I felt like I was forced to hear, feel, think a very specific way.

Because I gotta be contrary, I wish there was a way to not have my WoL speak. There's a whole subset of Xaela that don't talk because Wacky Xaela Lore, but if you're a Qestir you still have dialogue options and speaking animations.

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Originally Posted by Saraide

I agree, I also love the snarky dialogue options.

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It was a bit better with the cutscenes involving the undersea vault as you had options to throw yshtola under the bus then make fun of her summoning incantation lol.

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Originally Posted by Puc

I hate my character agreeing to something i dont want them to

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Here is my take, but WoL is not my character, your character or anyone's character. He/she is his/her own character. Just that he/she has a blank appearance so that players can input in some customization. His/her thought, his/her feeling, how he/she experiences story events... are all entirely his or her.