Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[undull1]

Feels absurdly jarring when they try to paint wuk as an underdog while simultaneously having the saviour god warriors of existence in her back pocket just doing her bidding because.....garlemald......a random plot letter.....adventure?

Like one of the most frustrating things for me was when erenville asks if you really for sure want to support wuk. The answers are yes.....or serious yes.....

Not even a snarky/witty response. Is it a minor and inconsequential gripe? Absolutely! But its telling of the lack of respect CBU3 has for it's roleplayers, why even call this game an rpg or a final fantasy game at this point when they've strayed so far from the core appeal they advertised on?

[Naoki34]

I wasn't expecting anything from Dawntrail after the excellent Endwalker.

But this is violent... Why are we on the losing side? I wanted to be on the side of Thancred, Urianger, Estinien. But no, I'm with a potato (but that's okay, Krill, it's okey), the very smooth and uninteresting Alphinaud & Alisae since Endwalker, that was Meh... Whereas I liked them before, as in ShB

But then, we're automatically stuck with the native/barbarian "Princess" (I've got nothing against natives and barbarians, by the way), she knows nothing about life, she's the rough barbarian who thinks about hitting and is afraid of alpacas!
> Her tacos have been trampled and she's hungry... Girl, you had time to order another one of your tacos... before we got to your palace!

Well, I chose the merchant people part, thinking: I might as well start with the worst of the two choices, and I got what I wanted... it bored me so much that I started reading diagonally and skipping the dialogues quickly... I feel like dying...




And then, this new capital here, it's a grandiose city in size, but it's still just a city made from King Size dung... And I wasn't exactly expecting to hear Jazz as an OST when I arrived in a big city that we all know represents South America. I was thinking the whole time that the devs had got the atmosphere wrong, it couldn't be.

I hope the part with Tural's Vanu Vanu will be better...


Ps: Me, I'm living the expansion in travel mode and at my leisure anyway, once the MSQ is finished, we'll just have to wait for the next big patch, so take it easy.

By the way I loved Lyse, she was the good friend who found herself at the head of the resistance, a matter of taste, but my interest lies in an ARR quest where you follow the adventures of a rugged barbarian who never leaves her palace.


Ps": My best memories so far: The sea voyage on a ship and the best hostel room in FFXIV, that view of the open beach, yeah! I'm on vacation! I think.


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I dare to come back after 3 completed Dawntrail zones, about niv 95: And my opinion of Wuk Lamat has changed a lot:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6509426

[LalafellDown]

Reading the dialogue is putting me to sleep. I feel like I’m wasting my time watching the cutscenes. Running around to different spots in the first city is such a waste of time.

[ZephyrMenodora]

She's actually been better behaved than I thought she'd be, and less annoying than anticipated. Still has a few moments but XIV in general has always had some cheesy "comedy" moments.

[Raven2014]

So far not a fan of her. I feel FF14's writers need to take a look as some other series like Tales, Trails, Xeno to get some inspiration on how to write "flawed" character. I understand they want to reserve room for development but that doesn't mean you have to create a flat and pathetic character in the beginning. Even the average shounen is better than this "I gonna have an identity crisis every other cutsceen" crap. The worse thing about this is it has a knock on effect on other characters, especially the twins. It was already bad with Zero but now, it feels like both of them should change their classes into "preachers" because it feels like that's what they do most of the time, and it's getting really old and repetitive. I would comment on the overall writing in general, but that ain't it. Scene/dialogue that doesn't involve the WoL, the twins and Wuk Lamat actually feel ok, but scenes that do usually give me this sense of de javu of "haven't we have this exact same dialogue 100 times before already?"

Then there is the role quests ... I said this before and I'll say this again, FF14's writers can write good stories ... but my god it feels like they only know how to write ONE type of story. I know it's a weird thing to say but ... can we get quests that's purely about the objectives? Not every quests have to turn into a personal identity crisis. Like 10% of the quest text is about the actual objective and the other 90% is always about some personal introspection. Like ... I understand it's considered to be a higher level of writing, but when everything is special than none of them are special.

[ZephyrMenodora]

She is not a great character but she isn’t single handedly ruining the story. The story is just starting too slow. I think I played 3 hours and nothing happened aside from walking around and cutscenes with the weakest cast members of the scions. Honestly a bit bored. I haven’t had any combat even in these hours at all.

Reminds me when I quit in early Stormblood when the story was super dull in the low to mid 60s.

[Raven2014]

The entire setup of all these characters just feels C tier. Wuk aside, I honestly think this is the worst expansion story, at least to the point I have been up too. I pray it gets better later on, around 93ish currently. I have had to take breaks and force myself to play because I have had so little enjoyment with the story so far.

They are all so one dimensional tbh, like they pick one archetype and just crank it to 11.

[Myrany]

She is literally the best new character they have had for a long time. You see actual character growth and she grows into her role as the story goes on. Judging by the majority of responses in this thread though it seem some people decided they were going to dislike her before a single thing happened. Think we all know why.

You know that is what people told me about Alphinaud. He grows and develops you will judge him differently later. Well I am Halfway through Shadowbringers and I still can't stand the kid. Different strokes for different folks.

[LalafellDown]

I thought I was the only one. I had to stop playing after getting the 2 aether current quests in the first zone in Kozama’uka. I couldn’t stomach the slow plot. Go there click that come back click this. For what? The plot has no mystery or meat to keep my attention. I lost it when I had to emote 3 NPCs. Zeros plot was more interesting except for her taking 100 patches to eat food and learn to trust. I feel like they brought the most boring part of zeros plot and pasted onto the beginning of Dawn Trail.

On top of the most boring map design so far and more aether currents I just had to stop playing. I use to take vacation time off for a week for this stuff. The plot had me hooked on the story and lore. I wanted to know more. I’m glad I didn’t for this one.

It seems like after the end of 6.0 the mystery is gone and now it’s just short plots with no flavor. They tried to build you with zero but they focused on the her instead of the villain more.

[xbahax92]

I do think, that Erenville will have much more to the plot than Wuk Lamat. I think, she's just the main "goal" during the trip. Also, quests are a bit padding. It's a very slow start, but then again, there is no need to rush the story. Maybe, it's time to take your time for once and enjoy the small things. Or don't, I guess.