Stormblood ending was thoroughly disappointing

[ObsidianFire]

The biggest mistake SB made was trying to cram so much story into one expansion. There's way more development of the plot and characters in SB compared to HW so everything feels very... rushed. If it was only Ala Mhigo or only Doma being freed, then we could have spent a lot longer seeing characters develop instead of being told how they develop which is one of the most frequent complaints I see about SB's story.

As for Zenos... I've seen his character archetype often enough in anime/manga that his character arc was incredibly predictable (has a one-sided rivalry with someone, when he's eventually defeated, doesn't know what to do with himself). I was just glad he wasn't alive by the end. He isn't the most original character FFXIV has had, but given that both the main Garlean villains in both ARR and HW were both sane individuals who were more morally grey then totally black and white, I'm okay with that.

[TaiyoShikasu]

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Eh, I see what you mean and the initial part was definitely suffering from having too much going on at once which it seems like they're rectifying with having following patches focus only on one aspect. I believe it was said 4.3 would be the end of the Doma storyline, so in theory that would leave 4.35-4.x to be focused on presumably Ala Mhigo in the build up to 5.0.