Our passive characters and why the 2.55 story fails (BIG SPOILERS) (rant warning)

[Darkshaunz]

My character's main class is a Bard, so it is perhaps "feasible" that she was apprehended because she didn't have her primary weapon handy during the apprehension.

Then there are those of you here in this thread who have main classes like MNK, NIN, WAR, DRG, and magic users. You telling me that your Ninja couldn't have dismembered those four goons? And how about the Warriors? You guys would have made them stain their pants brown just with a good warcry.

Don't even get me started on people that were decked out in full Dreadwyrm gear, that had to suffer the indignity of watching their character tossed to the ground like garbage. You walked out from hell and back, and THIS is the payoff your character gets?

If people here had the choice, I can say with great confidence that most of you would have chosen to stay and fight. Now, you are treated with suspicion and are quite literally, an enemy of the state.

[Nestama]

Then there are those of you here in this thread who have main classes like MNK, NIN, WAR, DRG, and magic users. You telling me that your Ninja couldn't have dismembered those four goons? And how about the Warriors? You guys would have made them stain their pants brown just with a good warcry.

A Black Mage could cast Sleep and make their escape (PLD's Flash to blind, WHM Holy to stun, SMN/SCH Miasma II to disease/heavy, NIN could "teleport ninjutsu" and then hide ability, etc). I'm also really curious as to why our characters couldn't Teleport or cast Return after Papalymo closes the gate. That should "remove us from combat" and allow us to warp.