Quote Originally Posted by Kinkoz View Post
Our rise to prominence from humble beginnings throughout ARR's original story is a journey of becoming stronger in and of itself, as are the progressive substories of each Class/Job Quest. In addition, we pretty much had to EARN back the Blessing of Light for ourselves throughout Heavensward as well.
I think Alise meant in SB. Yes we got stronger through HW and at the end of it we even were able to defeat Nidhogg. So the defeat of the big bad took a whole expansion and the eye of a dragon. Yet in SB we defeat Zenos and Shinyrue at the very start of the expansion. Yes ingame we leveled up but I am quite sure that we do not have levels in lore, simply because that would mean that a bug in the new zones could easily defeat all the voids in the old 24 man raids because those are <60 and the bug is 70. (As an example)

I would be able to believe the victory against such an enemy way more if we faced them at the end of SB. And I agree with Alise, there was never a true journey to become stronger. I would have liked if we came to the realization that we need to get stronger after Zenos and have us, as the WoL, focus on training. Maybe half of the expansion around training and learning more about the lore at the same time and the other half about freeing Doma. So that we would have the whole other expansion left to take back Ala Mhigo. Yet somehow we were getting way stronger by just helping out. There was simply no true scene where they show us go all out or something.