Quote Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH View Post
Alisaie's been around for four years as well. I take it you never did any endgame content back in 2.X did you? Alisaie was the star of that show, and it was mysteriously better despite Alphinaud being just a hanger on.
Wrong. I've been playing since beta and did Coil as it was released, however that handful of quests doesn't come close to comparing to the time we've spent with Alphinaud, both before and after. Alisiae disappeared from level 15 to level 50, showed up for a single level 50 quest chain and then disappeared again until it was time to swoop in right before the finale of Heavensward and steal everyone's thunder. We barely know her because we've barely interacted with her up until that point, and she hasn't changed a bit from the brat who stormed off on her own at level 15 because all the political talk frustrated her.

On the other hand. her brother was there with us almost the entire way from level 1 to level 60, and actually spent that time growing and changing as a character. Like him or not, he is objectively a different person than he was way back at level 15, which by most metrics makes him the better character.

I will be the first to admit that I disliked him immensely all through ARR, right up until the climax of 2.55. As far as I was concerned, he needed a good spanking and I prayed that when the time came I'd get to be the one to administer it. I even had an absurd pet theory that he was going to turn out to be evil, based on the sketchy vibes I was picking up from the whole Crystal Braves build up! And then 2.55 happened and he got the spanking of a lifetime, just in time for him (along with the PC and Tataru) to start Heavensward at just about rock bottom, which gave him a solid foundation to rebuild himself into a more mature, confident character whose confidence was actually based in reality rather than the foolish assumptions that things would work out that led to the Crystal Brave debacle.


Ultimately, you're free to prefer whoever you want, but you really can't claim Alisaie is a better or better written character when she's got zero presence in the story outside of a single side story arc and 10-15ish MSQ quests out of the hundreds that it took to get from the start of 2.0 to the finale of 3.5.