Lore Question in regards to the in-universe Dragoon Powers of our Warrior of Light.

[BlitzAceRush]

The main difference between Estinien and the WoL is that Estinien's use of his full power tires him out. We don't know how long he can sustain the effort. The WoL on the other hand has no such clearly defined upper limit as far as the narrative goes.

Both are subjected to cutscene incompetence, though.

Yeah, we see this fatigue during the 5.55 trial, while the feat he performs during it is pretty impressive, he then immediately takes a hit and is down for the count, while the WoL often is asked to do things back to back, like how we gave away large amounts of aether to Aliese and then had to be the last (wo)man standing during the tempering trial.
It's also worth noting that when our Allies like Estinien go all out, it's often a one off show of might, they do it once and rarely are they asked to do it again right after, whereas our WoL on the regular goes from leading front line charges, to taking down weapons, to liberating castrums and soloing primals and the only rest we get in-between is "well you've got time to walk rather than run to your next objective, yay...!"

Edit: Also curse cutscene incompetence, I know other characters suffer from it, but the WoL... I swear the lacus litore end cutscene... I have been mad about a lot of things... but I don't think I will never not be mad about that one... never have I screamed "SHOOT HER!" more times internally than that moment and I was a DRK, I didn't even have a gun, but I can still throw darkness, hell I would have accepted throwing my damn sword at that point... ahem... I know we can't do much because we can be any job and taking future jobs into account that's a lot of animations. But with all the Azem stuff just give me some generic WoL/Azem powers in cutscenes and free me from my lemon status, sorry, rant over.

[Tensaihime]

Can I steal “lemon status?” I’ve harbored a bitter, bitter hatred for suddenly-otome-game-protagonist-level-of-useless cutscene!WoL since ARR.

[thegreatonemal]

Yeah, we see this fatigue during the 5.55 trial, while the feat he performs during it is pretty impressive, he then immediately takes a hit and is down for the count, while the WoL often is asked to do things back to back, like how we gave away large amounts of aether to Aliese and then had to be the last (wo)man standing during the tempering trial.
It's also worth noting that when our Allies like Estinien go all out, it's often a one off show of might, they do it once and rarely are they asked to do it again right after, whereas our WoL on the regular goes from leading front line charges, to taking down weapons, to liberating castrums and soloing primals and the only rest we get in-between is "well you've got time to walk rather than run to your next objective, yay...!"

Edit: Also curse cutscene incompetence, I know other characters suffer from it, but the WoL... I swear the lacus litore end cutscene... I have been mad about a lot of things... but I don't think I will never not be mad about that one... never have I screamed "SHOOT HER!" more times internally than that moment and I was a DRK, I didn't even have a gun, but I can still throw darkness, hell I would have accepted throwing my damn sword at that point... ahem... I know we can't do much because we can be any job and taking future jobs into account that's a lot of animations. But with all the Azem stuff just give me some generic WoL/Azem powers in cutscenes and free me from my lemon status, sorry, rant over.

Which is why none of you should deal with hostages situations ever. We as the players could guess what she did but no one there on the ground knew that she was completely by herself and what she was trying to do. Considering she revealed herself to us and we didn't go find her. They were correctly being cautious.

[BlitzAceRush]

Which is why none of you should deal with hostages situations ever. We as the players could guess what she did but no one there on the ground knew that she was completely by herself and what she was trying to do. Considering she revealed herself to us and we didn't go find her. They were correctly being cautious.

Except our goal was to save Mikoto and after Misija "cleverly" kicked her only hostage nearly 10 feet away from herself when she was only holding save the queen, we should have moved, even on a class without a gap closer or any kind of mobility, the WoL has demonstrated speed and agility of a level high enough to advance towards Mikoto, grab her, send her back towards the resistance and be ready to deal with Misija should she attempt to rush you, draw an actual ranged weapon, or attempt to summon her "hidden" reinforcements. Worse still was later on in the scene, at a more volatile moment someone else does in fact just shoot her and surprise, it works fine, shame we didn't just do anything earlier and save the blades. There's a stark difference between caution and inaction and the WoL falls so far into inaction it's often aggravating, even though I understand the out of character reasoning.
But this is hardly the point of this topic.