Quote Originally Posted by Rhysati View Post
The pacing is all over the place .... Great...I don't care. ...
Well, I cared personally and I think it was one of hte best arcs of the expansion and the game. Besides the zones being one of the most beautiful ones in the game, the story there that they showed is not only super important because it reveals basically everything...every reason for everything that has happened, the beginning of everything and the reason of our initial plot (shards, Hydaelyn, Zodiark, current races and magic and etc.), but it is also a part that I have wanted to see more about since Shadowbringers revelead us the ancients. I wanted to know more about their life, how powerful they were, their culture and civilizations and more importantly: HOW did was such advanced civilization with creation magicks not able to survive the Final Days and thus: WTF are they and what caused them in the first place? Elpis arc explains all that.

It is not like we WANTED to kill Zodiark. WTF? It was FANDANIEL AND ZENOS that FREED (removed the seal) Zodiark that ruined the balance. Then Fandaniel merges with him to use him. We have no choice but to destroy Zodiark. Hydaelyn (and thus us) wanted to keep the balance to protect the planet.


Only Hermes created the terminator. And neither did he create the terminator side/transform of Meteon and her sisters. Their travel through the universe and those civilizations as well as death souls is what turned her/them into Nihilistic beings and thus also affected Hermes as he was waiting for the results. In the end, Hermes did not take a complete side but deicded that both are possible...the ultimate centrist

Hydaelyn gave them big chunk of the knowledge for the ship. And it was definitely 100% Allagan looking from the inside. Go rewatch the cutscenes from inside the ship. It is definitely Allagan design and also why we needed so many people to gather Allagan relics and materials.

They were definitely stunned by the bunnies. They learn lot of the things last expansion already. They learnt the truth about the ascians (the ancients) and Hydaelyn that was what shook their world view and they were shocked. Even at the beginning of this expansion, when Hydaelyn shows herself on our ship to talk with us, she says some words to you to let you know that you are doing everything out of your own free will and are not tempered by her...since she is a primal too and it is very plausible that you and the scions are the equivalent of primal thralls.

The story is like... executed.
I disagree here completely. It wasn't rushed. The expansion was longer than ShB exactly because it needed to finish the story. It is imo the best expansion so ever, even than ShB which to my taste is overhyped compared to most popular opinions (it has many highs but wasnt all highs as it is portrayed).
Endwalker just did it all from earlier expansion but better and with better quality.