*Spoilers* about the scions....

[Xion136]

At this point it is almost comical. That mark on your neck really just signs you up to get beaten down at every corner. Just when I through they would start expanding on the Scions and give them some time in the limelight with the Steppes chapter and Y'shtola, it is right back to princess Peach status 2 quests later.

I mean Urianger had 3 whole lines before he dropped.

Yeah the ending pissed me off too. Y'shtola got the best cutscene in the entire expansion (in my opinion) and then is shoved aside. Again.

Why? Why can't she have the limelight? She was shoved aside in SB, now again shoved aside. Let the woman be the snarky badass Conjurer she is and not end up in the infirmary again...

[Ayer2015]

Yeah the ending pissed me off too. Y'shtola got the best cutscene in the entire expansion (in my opinion) and then is shoved aside. Again.

Why? Why can't she have the limelight? She was shoved aside in SB, now again shoved aside. Let the woman be the snarky badass Conjurer she is and not end up in the infirmary again...

Well, since we cant be put in a coma for obvious reasons, SE needs to use the main auxiliary characters to tell the story..... I thought it was a good patch for the MSQ.... far more interesting than 4.1-4.3

[Wobi]

I’m 99.99% certain that it was the WoD talking to us from the other realm probably via Hydaelen/Minfilia. She would have the power to call the souls of the Scions to the other side, I don’t really see any of them as sidelined but rather called across time/space to deal with the aether issue, while their physical bodies lie here.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

I'm 100% certain that was the Warrior of Darkness (Arbert) reaching out to us; that was totally his voice that I hear. Who else could it possibly be?

[Gun-Cat]

Yeah the ending pissed me off too. Y'shtola got the best cutscene in the entire expansion (in my opinion) and then is shoved aside. Again.

Why? Why can't she have the limelight? She was shoved aside in SB, now again shoved aside. Let the woman be the snarky badass Conjurer she is and not end up in the infirmary again...

I could gush about how amazing these cutscenes are but I fully agree. It is bewildering how poorly the Scions and her in particiular are handled.

Well, since we cant be put in a coma for obvious reasons, SE needs to use the main auxiliary characters to tell the story..... I thought it was a good patch for the MSQ.... far more interesting than 4.1-4.3

Other than being well... us... the WoL is the most boring character in the whole XIV story. I mean they can't help it since apperantly there are not enough resourced to have atleast slightly branching story paths depending upon our decisions. We are more or less a force of nature at this point. Someone we like (signified by a smile and a nod of us) points us into the vague direction of someone evil (here we get a stern expression) and we waddle off to throw ourselves at whatever it is until it drops dead.

[Destati]

Well, since we cant be put in a coma for obvious reasons, SE needs to use the main auxiliary characters to tell the story.....

Given the recent trend of SE making instances where NPCs are playable, I can't help but wonder if those quests were a means to test the waters for a future arc in which we are incapacitated, making it necessary for other characters to take the reins for a while. The MSQs would be made up of a series of instances like Alphinaud's/Y'shtola's (while we'd still be able to do other content outside of it of course). I realize this could be terribly difficult to implement from both a plot and technical standpoint, and I'm certainly not hoping for them to go down this route, but it feels like they're going to try to make these kinds of instances more frequent.

[Iscah]

Interesting thought. I think it could happen but would need to be more of a ‘locked in’ sequence, perhaps with a warning beforehand that it will take a while to complete.

Alternately to break up an extended sequence like that, and give the player an option to take a break /save progress / etc. it could alternate with your character trapped in some other place (another world? inside your mind?) that’s functionally a field area you can log out from. Still not sure they could/would do that though.

More likely it could be used to drive some kind of “two parallel storylines” MSQ where you’re playing as someone else periodically to get an update on what’s happening to them.

[KaivaC]

I'm 100% certain that was the Warrior of Darkness (Arbert) reaching out to us; that was totally his voice that I hear. Who else could it possibly be?

I play primarily with the JP audio, but it didn't sound like Arbert to me, though to be fair, it's been a while since I heard his voice. If it's not the WoD, then I'm thinking it could be Zodiark. It's about time that it starts to enter the picture anyhow, given the revelations that came out from this patch.

[Kallera]

I play primarily with the JP audio, but it didn't sound like Arbert to me, though to be fair, it's been a while since I heard his voice. If it's not the WoD, then I'm thinking it could be Zodiark. It's about time that it starts to enter the picture anyhow, given the revelations that came out from this patch.

I agree, it didn't sound like Arbert, and there are several references to him specifically being among the dead and gone. From the words, the difficulty of the communication, and the fact that it is related to people being spirited out of their bodies, I think its Zodiark.

[Ruinfeild]

If SE's track record with the story so far is anything to go by, I am not that much concerned about any of the major NPC's. I got a feeling that everything will be hunky dory later on down the road and this will be more of an 'inconvenience' rather than something that should have lasting affects. If they actually started axing the characters, I would be more invested (Such as Y'shtola who is already on borrowed time).