Quote Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44 View Post
If Endwalker wants to make the entire plot based around hope overcoming despair, they can't give the scions a set of free anti-despair armor that allows them to ignore it completely. What's the point of the scions overcoming something they're nearly immune to?



There should also be new examples of the despair that Endwalker claims that the scions are overcoming. If every major example of despair given is an event that happened in an older expansion, then it is just relying on memberberries to tell your story for you. If nothing that can be classified as true despair is occurring to the scions in Endwalker, then there's nothing for them to overcome.



Time travelling ruins 99% of the stories it touches.
That's the thing though. They aren't anti despair at all imo. They just don't deal with what the average person world most times so in that regard I can see the point made to some degree. Personally the Scions have an advantage imo because they have a solid group with all of each others backs. That alone will make things easier to deal with.

Next again you cannot make the claim that there's nothing to overcome if it didn't happen in EW...come on man. Emets situation didn't happen in EW it happened before ARR and yet he didn't get his real conclusion til EW. Same example Uri and his things with Moen started in ARR yet didn't end until EW. Zenos didn't find his answer to his life until SB despite canonically being around since ARR and didn't see it fully fulfilled til end of EW. You have to understand that things linger. They take time to overcome. Some better at it than others. Even still EW was more about the World itself overcoming Despair, not just the Scions.

Also odd you say Time Travel ruins 99% of games it touches...yet we wouldn't have ARR or anything after...without time travel. Unless you're of the mind that xiv has been ruined since ARR.