Review of 6.3 Story Content

[Kazhar]

Not only the 2nd Ahm Araeng arc with the Talos but also the 2nd Kholusia arc which also had terrible pacing with yet again more Talos stuff.

Then theres also the Raktika part with the Viis and Yshtooa yet again with another fake death, the stuff with Ill Mheg was also pretty annoying. I legit think people oversell ShB and really only remember and like the last bit with Amarout and Emet-Selch because it was such a big twist that it overshadows (lol) everything the msq in ShB was going for.

If were going to be overly critical of EW then yeah its time to be overly critical of ShB and talk about how almost pointless 90 percent of its story was with the concept of Light Wardens just a reskin of the early ARR beats with Scions and the primals.

People do talk about the pacing of EW but this isn't anywhere close to be a major complaint. (ever heard of Venat and Hermes?) I wouldn't be surprised if, out of the 700+ pages of the lackluster thread, only 20 or less were dedicated to that. More people were annoyed by the fake out deaths, which is indeed a criticism shared with ShB, but the Ultima Thule arc goes above and beyond just Y'shtola dying for 5 minutes, with the entire sequence dedicated to the Scions making long, empty farewell speeches to no one in particular since even they know they're going to come back.
And I would even argue the pacing issues are way more egregious in both cases, so the argument that "ShB did it first" doesn't stand.