It was a slow start. I spent far too much time in cutscene and not playing the game at the beginning, but the dungeons and trials were an absolute highlight.

Past that first trial the tone has no idea where it's going for a while, but it'll find itself again and kick things into the highest point I've seen in the narrative.

This might be my favorite expansion, but that's only because I toughed it through the first half. The second half was amazing to me.