Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
What did you expect the WoL to do? He/she already bested Golbez in combat, and spent a great deal of their own aether in doing so. This is confirmed in the MSQ log after the conclusion of the cutscenes when it is stated that Golbez puts up one hell of a fight, but the WoL ultimately wins the clash. Besides, anything the WoL could have done might have risked inadvertently killing Azdaja in the process. If there is a forced incompetence, it's that the WoL didn't kill/finish off Golbez in the first place. That was the condition set by Azdaja when we talk to her above the Dark Throne. The mission objective was the extraction of the great Wyrm, and it resulted in failure. In order for this part of the story to take place, incompetence was key. IOW, we can't win them all.
If this were the first instance of us doing that it may be excusable but I stopped counting how often this has happened at this point. Almost every single antagonist only gets away with whatever they're doing because we turn from immortal god slayer into utter dunce with the reflexes of a dead horse as soon as a cutscene happens.