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

[Malthir]

I love all the cope justifications people give for this not being pure trash:

- "We're mentoring Wuk." are we well then we're doing a terrible job because; A: mentors are supposed to have input and teach/coach you on how to do things. B: You're supposed to learn and grow through mentorship, neither of these things occurred.

- "It's a low stakes slow plot, it's building a narrative, it's a fresh start, it's bound to be slower": A: If your idea of low stakes is being pushed into race for leadership of a continent, you're a sociopath. B: It resolves almost every single plot thread it creates and that's being generous calling them plot threads, so it builds functionally nothing. C: It's the recycled plot of previous expansions stretched out and delivered poorly with none of the context involving what made those plotlines work in the first place.

- "We're returning to our roots as an adventurer" A,B and C: We do not adventure, we are dragged along by Wuk on a tour of how awesome I am lol meme, lol oopsie I fell down, aint I so qwerky. We do not adventure, no place do we go to is undiscovered. Even the "golden city" the big draw of adventure, is quite clearly very well known and discovered already. So what are we Adventuring here? We're adventuring by helping Wuk, whom we don't help really, because plot armour mcgee just sails to victory, if we were there or not the story wouldn't have been any different.

- "It's ok to not be the main character" I absolutely agree, we weren't the main character in the HW storyline, or most of the Stb story lines. Basically we were only the main character from SHB on. The rest of the time, we were part of the story, when we acted the story moved, as it should in any video game but we were not always the focus, the focus was always on who's story arc it was, in fact we had very little focus in the plot just all of the agency. What I mean by this is Lady Icehearts story revolves around her, we are the ones doing things and our actions are pushing the plot along but it's about her. This time however we're not even a side character, nor are we pushing the plot along, unless you count run to glowy circle and wait for a cutscene where, Wuk does 90% of the dialogue, all of the action and literally everything else. if you took us and the scions away the story wouldn't have changed. We did nothing but stand aside while Wuk, likely someone Dev's kids character fantasy got slapped into the game to lead the way.