What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[AnaviAnael]

Just finished the role quests and am not happy at all with the fact that they wrapped up a certain NPC's fate behind them. I thought he was going to be a major player going forward for Garlemald. Nope! He's side content.

[OhNooo]

I was always under the impression that a mature story acknowledged varied personal tastes. The developers certainly talk up the differences in perspective but at this point anyone who isn't fully aligned with the Scions is killed off, usually in a very undignified manner that ignores any positive aspects of their being. This isn't the game I enjoyed throughout ARR and HW and it's clearly only going to get worse from here on out.

Which sucks, but it is what it is - WoW went in the exact same direction. I could stick around for the PvE and PvP stuff but...to be honest, there's other options on the market that do both better from my perspective. I was excited about the new PvP mode but I can't queue for it with friends which killed my interest altogether - and I say that as one of the rare players who unironically enjoyed playing Frontlines.

Yeah I’ve noticed a trend of them killing off anyone remotely interesting to me and by the end of 5.0 I was getting close to fed up with it. EW was the final nail in the coffin.

Looks like I’m already done with the content I resubbed for…and it only took a day and a half lol. I was working on The Necromancer title but when you put in so much work just to get to floor 187 and dc, it’s just not worth the time investment. So now I’m out of content til the next patch.

[Theodric]

Yeah I’ve noticed a trend of them killing off anyone remotely interesting to me and by the end of 5.0 I was getting close to fed up with it. EW was the final nail in the coffin.

Looks like I’m already done with the content I resubbed for…and it only took a day and a half lol. I was working on The Necromancer title but when you put in so much work just to get to floor 187 and dc, it’s just not worth the time investment. So now I’m out of content til the next patch.

Mm. If they're not killed off they're hidden away in side content and largely left irrelevant.

Since 6.1 didn't really add anything to justify me sticking around, I'm just going to take a break and play something else. Most of the core features advertised as new aren't going to be added until 6.2 or 6.3 which is a real shame. I do wish I could just skip cutscenes and not think about stuff but much like yourself, I'm sorely lacking for goals to pursue that aren't just a massive time sink or painful grind.

[PawPaw]

Unlikely, at least for me. Unlikely. They’ve shown this patch they’re will to just handwave most stories that don’t involve the writers’ beloved scions. Garlemald’s entire story? Destroyed off screen and the garleans are just taken to the moon. Corvos? Second legion is gone there, died to the final days. Nerva who was built up for most of ShB? Killed off and turned into a blasphemy. 10/10 writing. At least we’ve seen the writing of the new “junior writers”, and have seen it isn’t an improvement from EW.

Wait what? This is something that actually happened? I haven't finished the Role Quests but this isn't a joke? Cause it sounds like a joke...

[KizuyaKatogami]

Wait what? This is something that actually happened? I haven't finished the Role Quests but this isn't a joke? Cause it sounds like a joke...

I wish it was a joke. What’s funny is they couldn’t even give Nerva a unique model. He’s just a reskinned version of the final Amaurot boss.

[aveyond-dreams]

I'm not done playing through the patch but I just wanted to chime in and say, what on earth were they thinking? Their handling of the Garlemald situation in the role quest was little more than another attempt to moralize and hastily wrap up the loose ends they couldn't be bothered to wrap up in the 6.0 MSQ.

Sending them to the moon? Who came up with that idea?

Nerva lacking a character model that they could have easily pieced together from already existing assets? Was the person in charge of this also overseeing the Hrothgar hair project? The lack of care for a figure that the story had been building up over time simply doesn't make sense.

I'll probably post my full thoughts on the patch in another thread, but for now I just need to step away and process what I just witnessed.

[Rulakir]

Does this mean the Solus line is ended?

[aveyond-dreams]

Seemingly yes. The other remaining members of the royal family perished off screen during one of the side quest chains in Garlemald concerning one of their servants. At least we've been spared the embarrassment of a Garlean royal stepping down and accepting a reversion of the country to a republic.

[Skyborne]

Wait what? This is something that actually happened? I haven't finished the Role Quests but this isn't a joke? Cause it sounds like a joke...

Just remarking for the 10/10 sig picture.

Does this mean the Solus line is ended?

They really went out of their way to ensure that all of the fruits of his loins were crushed and destroyed. I just had to laugh at the screenshot I saw of 'Nerva'. Though, honestly, I think the Garleans all just moving to the Moon full-time and becoming the Lunarians: Magitek Edition away from the savages is probably the closest they can get to a happy ending. And away from the marauding claws of the all-consuming Alliance.

[Lauront]

Just remarking for the 10/10 sig picture.



They really went out of their way to ensure that all of the fruits of his loins were crushed and destroyed. I just had to laugh at the screenshot I saw of 'Nerva'. Though, honestly, I think the Garleans all just moving to the Moon full-time and becoming the Lunarians: Magitek Edition away from the savages is probably the closest they can get to a happy ending. And away from the marauding claws of the all-consuming Alliance.

As they look down on Eth- ...erm, Hydaelyn - after all, she kept it turning! - and it looks like the hellscape Final Days 1.0 from the Amaurot dungeon as the Allied States of Alphinaud spread uncontrollably all over the star like a devouring plague. No one will escape the cacophony of Alphirants and the promised Brighter Tomorrow unscathed.