It feels like we keep getting lied to for this expansion by YoshiP.

[Nebelheim]

I'm expecting BLU with an axe. If it's anything more than that, it'll be a present surprise.

After playing some ff11 last night on beastmaster I don't have high hopes it will be anything like ff11 beastmaster and just a reskinned ff14 blue mage with either a axe and shield or an axe.

[Nebelheim]

For the first part, in the interview with Yoshi-P that you linked, he literally says they're looking to diversify jobs a bit more in "Patch 7.2 and beyond." We're in Patch 7.05 as of this morning. I don't see the "lie" yet...

For the second part, Krile definitely played an active role in the MSQ. She was part of the team the entire journey and was one of the two main "side-stories" alongside Erenville. It may not have been to the level you either wanted or had come to expect in your head, but it doesn't change that she was an active part of the story.

Krile hardly played an active role in the 2nd half when they heavily advertised she was going to get heavy focus in dawntrail alongside g'raha throughout the story. All we got was a few snippets of her saying things and a few small scenes with her parents and a tiny bit of her origins and that was it then she was sidelined for wuk lamat because she had to insert herself in kriles important scenes.

[Daralii]

Krile hardly played an active role in the 2nd half when they heavily advertised she was going to get heave focus in dawntrail alongside g'raha throughout the story. All we got was a few snippets of her saying things and a few small scenes with her parents and a tiny bit of her origins and that was it then she was sidelined for wuk lamat because she had to insert herself in kriles important scenes.

Krile was truly one of the characters of the MSQ.

[Nebelheim]

Krile was truly one of the characters of the MSQ.

I feel krile still should have got more importance in the story then what she got but instead we got wuk lamat as the main character of the expansion and getting 60% of the overall dialog.

[chizLemons]

Krile was truly one of the characters of the MSQ.

It's funny looking at this and then the Dawntrail official poster.
Krile has not a lot more lines than G'raha, who isn't in the poster, but Urianger and Thancred are!

"Oh but they're focusing on the candidates of the Rite!" ...yet Bakool Ja Ja also isn't there.

And after playing through the story, I kinda feel Sphene feels out of place there, too.

[Oizen]

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Yoshida is the Todd Howard of Square Enix

[Diabolika]

Not that I think he was doing a great job before, but I really think he started delegating his FFXIV duties a lot more in the past few years. He's the big boss and he's the face, but a lot of what he says feel like internal miscommunications.

He isn't even watching what the job design team is doing to his precious BLM anymore it seems.

[Jeeqbit]

What? No it wasn't. We met Wuk Lamat in 6.55 (leg reveal in 6.5)

Right, and she said in 6.55 we would be going to help her win a contest against several candidates, one of whom wanted to wage war. That made it... pretty clear it was all about helping her win and that we would be spending much of the expansion doing that one thing.

They also had us search a library to find out about a beast called Valigarmanda and she mentioned the contest would involve this legendary beast (beside it being in the promotional material as a boss). All of this indicated, that this contest we're helping Wuk Lamat with would be the lion's share of the expansion.

[chizLemons]

Right, and she said in 6.55 we would be going to help her win a contest against several candidates, one of whom wanted to wage war. That made it... pretty clear it was all about helping her win and that we would be spending much of the expansion doing that one thing.

They also had us search a library to find out about a beast called Valigarmanda and she mentioned the contest would involve this legendary beast (beside it being in the promotional material as a boss). All of this indicated, that this contest we're helping Wuk Lamat with would be the lion's share of the expansion.

So the only thing that made it clear prior to the expansion for you was the patch content, regardless of everything that was said during the media tours, fanfests, keynotes, liveletters and interviews about Dawntrail, which we whad been anticipating way before 6.55.
Still, even if we just consider the patch, it made it clear that she was the motivation for us to go to Tural, yes. We could also safely assume we would be helping her with that for the first half, even...but no, it doesn't make it clear it's going to be all about her, nor that she would take the spotlight for ALL of it, especially because we also had parts of Krie finding the letter with the earring, meaning she was also interested in what was going there and was going to be involved - which also implies that she would play an important role, and that was confirmed by YoshiP saying she was going to have an active role.

Funny thing about the Valigarmanda also was that we only had to fight it because Bakool Ja Ja did a thing, but there was no way she would assume before that it would take a part on the contest.

Also, during that patch, we had that talk with G'raha about us deciding if we wanted to go or not, and we even get to answer being unsure about supporting her or not wanting to get involved in politics, which if we think more about it, wouldn't that imply that the WoL would be able to have mixed feelings about the whole thing in the beginning, or at least a more neutral stance? When we get there, however, we get absolutely no say in the matter and it's all about blindly supporting her, no questions asked.

Considering how little she was mentioned during all of the media before the expansion, the trailers, the interviews, even her size in the official poster and how quickly we meet her before the launch...I wouldn't say it was pretty clear at all.

[Fhaerron]

With the recent Viper knee-jerk change, it has occurred to me that YoshiP seems to keep lying to us.

Have you been living under a rock all these years? He's been lying since the very beginning.
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