Dawntrail's MSQ story is a disaster and waste of potential. [full spoilers]

[Larirawiel]

The problem, that DT has, is that many parts of the story do not make any sense. And nobody, who has more than one brain cell would act like the protagonists/antagonists do.

First: this "key", which opens the gate to the Golden City and closes the portal after we defeat Zoraal Ja. There is no chance, that Zoraal Ja and his buddys knew, what the key is and how it works. But they stole it(!) and used it to open the gate to the Golden City. Aaaand later, after we defeat Zoraal Ja, Sphene steals it and uses it to flee to the Golden City. So we allowed, that this "key" is stolen from us twice.

Second: the principle how the Golden City works. They steal souls from the living and use them to recreate a materialized version of the Eternals. Buuuut, it is WAY too complicated and risky to achieve it and clearly violates the principle of parsimony. Because since the memories of the Eternals are saved in a computer, they could easily create a completely virtual world in the computer itself. And the funny thing is, it happens in the last dungeon of the expansion. We upload our memories/soul into the computer to overcome the protection systems of this computer system to shut it down. So the creation of a fully virtualized world for the Eternal's memories is possible and the soul theft makes no sense.

But overall, i liked this zone. It works similar to Ultima Thule.

Then there are some minor stupid things like the Hanuhanu quest line. The Hanuhanu did the ritual with the boat for some ... centuries? And nobody of the Hanuhanu knows what it does and observed how the ritual affects the growth of the reed? Even with the sparkles everywhere and the reed growths immediatelly(!) after the ritual? And then there comes Alphinaud and he figures it out after some minutes?

I also did not like it, that our adventure group speaks sooooo loud, that every antagonist hears what we plan. -.-


Yes, i hope the content patches will be better and more interesting.



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