Quote Originally Posted by ReynTime View Post
They're not going to.

The WoL gets one-upped by chumps during the main and sidequests all the time. You're as powerful as the story needs you to be. If you try to apply logic to it, it gets worse when you consider the New World is full of Lv90+ creatures.
For most of the expansions it worked tho. Maybe not for the mobs but for the boss progression. In ARR we were a normal adventurer, in HW we lost Hydaelyns gifts cause of Midgardsomr, in Stormblood the whole thing was about how we can't win a war just alone no matter how powerful we are, ShB we got thrown into a new world and pumped full of light until we broke, EW well had the end of the universe and despair itself. So up until EW there was some sort of not so steady threat progression, especially when it came to the story bosses of the expansions.

But i can't really see that in the future, it makes no sense why anything should be more powerful than us by now. Was weird alone that after defeating nidhogg, zodiark etc. now Zeromus which is just dragon+zodiark shard is more powerful than us.

But yeah, maybe it is wrong to try to apply logic to it...