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[Kedrah]

There would be too much to risk in fighting back.

The Blessing of Light is removed so at the moment your character is no stronger than a good adventurer. That was always your saving grace before, that you were special because you were guarded by the Blessing of Light. It's gone now. You're not "invincible" anymore, nor are you especially powerful anymore.

And since no weapons and violence are allowed in the Chamber of Rule, you had nothing to fight with in the first place. Fighting back would also be, in the enemies' eyes, the "proof" they need that you are indeed guilty. "Look how bloodthirsty the Warrior of Light is, I told you they did it!" It's the last thing your friends want, for you to "prove" that you're guilty.

As important as your character is meant to be, there's just too much at risk in them trying to retaliate.

[Felis]

Don't we have a thread with the same discussion already?

OP want a option window where the player get some answer options.
Have more options to choose is not automatic having the option to fight back.

[kehn]

There would be too much to risk in fighting back.

<sigh> the scions, the group everyone knows you're part of, is fighting. they are not guilty are they? did they worry about looking guilty? did the guards leave you alone after you surrendered and let your friends die? wtf are you talking about? the blessing of light is bs, that shit doesn't matter and is never mentioned in coil the hardest content in the game that also has a storyline. the no weapon thing is just plain stupid, you have it by the end of the cut scene and nothing is said about it in it. I for one main mnk. and if the power of my character is solely on the weapon i use that only servers as further insult from the dev team.

[Kedrah]

<sigh> the scions, the group everyone knows you're part of, is fighting. they are not guilty are they? did they worry about looking guilty? did the guards leave you alone after you surrendered and let your friends die? wtf are you talking about? the blessing of light is bs, that shit doesn't matter and is never mentioned in coil the hardest content in the game that also has a storyline. the no weapon thing is just plain stupid, you have it by the end of the cut scene and nothing is said about it in it. I for one main mnk. and if the power of my character is solely on the weapon i use that only servers as further insult from the dev team.

The Scions have less to risk. You're the Warrior of Light, you have more of an importance than them. So, no, they're not worried about seeming guilty (especially since they intended to sacrifice their lives), but they are probably worried about you seeming guilty. You are essentially a representative of the people of Eorzea, and they are not.

It has been said time and time again that the Blessing of Light was where most of your "specialness" came from. Right now you're just really not that powerful.

People are just mad about their character not being a perfect 100% badass that can escape any situation with no consequences. :\ Sometimes bad things have to happen and there's little to nothing to be done about it.

[Velthice]

If you fought, you'd be slaughtered. The warrior of light is strong, but they can't take an entire army. The rest of the scions aren't nearly as powerful as the warrior of light, so any help they'd provide would be extremely minimal.

[AldoVonAlexandros]

maybe the should have send the entire army against us, to watch something impresive, not 10 npc against us, that was ridiculous (sorry about my english =P)

[Mistoltin]

People are just mad about their character not being a perfect 100% badass that can escape any situation with no consequences. :\ Sometimes bad things have to happen and there's little to nothing to be done about it.

Or people are unhappy that their characters cannot even attempt to attest the situation and attempt to fight back? That could have been a conversation option which then followed with you maybe trying to fight but being forced to run by the Scions, then they could drop a line that of any of them, you are the one who MUST survive.

The fact that such a thing is happening in an MMO is a disgrace. If they didn't want to make a game that adapted to people's characters of differing persuasions and personalities, then they shouldn't have bothered making a fucking MMO, where the backbone is the fact that these are OUR CHARACTERS participating in these events. That's what people are mostly upset about, the fact that even though despite everything our efforts wouldn't matter, we don't even get a chance to attempt anything.

[Gilraen]

Actually, you're still a bad-ass, you're just not Hydaelyn's bad-ass. You're now Midgardsormr's bad-ass. And your bad-assery was never really connected to the Blessing of Light. Bigger spoiler than Heavensward...

...you are a Hydaelynian 'Ascian'. The source of your bad-assery is the Echo. It's what keeps you from actually dieing when you, well, die and keeps primals from tempering you. Avere is the proof, rest his jerk soul. You've died all over the world and in dungeons countless times, like Avere, but unlike Avere you have the ability to retreat to an aetheryte and be restored. This is an ability that predates the crystal farming you did throughout 2.# suggesting the Echo is NOT connected to the Blessing of Light, as evidenced by Minfilia given she didn't do ANYTHING except look pretty in all of 1.# and 2.#. You learn alot about this in the Leviathan arc, unless you were skipping the cutscenes.

[Velthice]

10 is probably enough to be honest. Yea, I can speed pull dungeons all day long with a competent team. By yourself? 10 mobs are gonna cut you down pretty fast.

[Matrinka]

Seeing as only the wandering minstrel can help give us an expanded/embellished telling(I'd laugh till it hurt if that did happen), I just hope they take using player involvement in mind for future content.

This is a cheap shot... but maybe they'll page homage to FFXIII and make us read about what happened in our Journals to fill in the blanks.