What happened to SB (story)?

[Remus]

I prefer the HW story compared to SB. I don't like how so many issues was just solved so easily in SB. You save 2 nations with hardly any problems. At least with HW there was some hiccups when it came to ending the war and you didn't even beat Nidhogg until 3.3 was it? HW just feels so much more impactful compared to SB where almost the only thing that went wrong was the resistance camp getting invaded and that's it. Everything else most of the time was just sunshine and rainbows and stopping 2 wars.

The only good part of the story was the Azim steppe but besides that the rest was pretty mediocre compared to HW 3.0. By the end of HW you win but you recognize the loss you had through out your journey getting there and beating Thordan. You could see from just looking at the Ishgard the type of atmosphere it portrays and what impact it has on the expansion.

Sadly, I can't even remember the people that died in SB because they are just that unmemorable in the journey for saving Doma/Ala Mhigo. While HW made you build up relationships with these characters so when they died they had a lasting effect on you because you remember them clearly and you learnt more about this character but they were taken away.

ARR made us feel like the main character. HW made us feel like the main character. SB? Just felt like I was there for the ride and that's it. Yoshi-p even said in a interview the WoL is still the MC of the story in SB but honestly didn't feel like it.

I really hope we go back to dealing with Ascians and learning more about Zodiark. There is so much we don't know that I would love to learn more about it. I hate how they handled the WoD I was hoping the WoD would stick around but SE basically killed them off in a patch while introducing them at the end of the expansion like some huge thing.

I honestly HOPE they go deeper into the Resonant and actually talk about and learn how the Echo actually works (when did we know how to make some kind of echo barrier? Never seen this done). This thing has been there since 1.0 but they have never had a patch where we learn about it because so far so many villains or allies keep giving different descriptions on it.