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

[Bananarama]

It would be funny if EX3 came out and the whole fight revolved around Poochie, with mechanics including but not limited to:

*Players cannot directly attack the boss, as they must instead rely on Wuk's attacks to damage the boss. Instead the boss is just a bunch of looping adds phases where players must kill the adds to prevent them from getting in Wuk's way until she kills the boss herself

*Wuk Lamat has a health bar and if it drops to 0 the raid instantly wipes; players must take turns blocking tethers that attack Wuk and healers must expend consistent GCDs on Wuk to keep her alive

*Players are afflicted with a permanent crippling 99% damage down debuff, the only way to get rid of it is by standing right next to Wuk Lamat at all times

*When Wuk deals 50% of the boss's HP, a 2 minute cutscene plays where Wuk talks to Sphene, reminiscing about how much she learned about Alexandria's culture from her and wishing they can still have peace so she can introduce tacos to Alexandria

*At several intervals a message appears saying "Put your trust in Wuk Lamat!" requiring all 8 players to use the /cheer emote on Wuk to make her do a tank Limit Break, if one player fails to cheer Wuk the party wipes from the next attack

Please look forward to it.

I'd unsub and delete my 13 year old character on the spot.

[Colt47]

I've mostly concluded from this that those games that ascribe to the live service mindset do not really know how to make a good downtime period in a game. I don't think anyone was really expecting jumping into saving the world against another major threat nor were they expecting to have their character literally roped into the mess that is the main story of the expansion. Freaking Godfrey in Elden Ring was more impressive than all the characters in this entire expansion, and he expressed the most important aspects of himself in a single fight with our tarnished. World lore was just amazingly good.

[Puremallace]

The worst part was, Krile got done dirty with that ending for her origins. They never said why they did what they did. It is implied which is normally fine but if you were Krile, it would be the first question out of your mouth even if you knew the answer because you'd need to hear it from them directly to truly understand why they did that and how it made them feel.

They clearly said the evil organization wanted to use Kriles echo for bad purposes. More than likely Kriles echo would allow them to locate other reflections to drain their Aether to keep the Endless alive.

I was more interested in how Lalas traveled to a shard that gets taken over by Lightening in the 2nd calamity but they were forced out in the 5th Calamity of Ice. They literally time traveled and ended up causing the 2nd umbral Calamity lol

They created a massive paradox and noone cares.

[Shibi]

It would be funny if EX3 came out and the whole fight revolved around Poochie, with mechanics including but not limited to:

*Players cannot directly attack the boss, as they must instead rely on Wuk's attacks to damage the boss. Instead the boss is just a bunch of looping adds phases where players must kill the adds to prevent them from getting in Wuk's way until she kills the boss herself

*Wuk Lamat has a health bar and if it drops to 0 the raid instantly wipes; players must take turns blocking tethers that attack Wuk and healers must expend consistent GCDs on Wuk to keep her alive

*Players are afflicted with a permanent crippling 99% damage down debuff, the only way to get rid of it is by standing right next to Wuk Lamat at all times

*When Wuk deals 50% of the boss's HP, a 2 minute cutscene plays where Wuk talks to Sphene, reminiscing about how much she learned about Alexandria's culture from her and wishing they can still have peace so she can introduce tacos to Alexandria

*At several intervals a message appears saying "Put your trust in Wuk Lamat!" requiring all 8 players to use the /cheer emote on Wuk to make her do a tank Limit Break, if one player fails to cheer Wuk the party wipes from the next attack

Please look forward to it.

As I pick myself up from the floor (thank you for the laugh)

[gumas]

It would be funny if EX3 came out and the whole fight revolved around Poochie, with mechanics including but not limited to:

*Players cannot directly attack the boss, as they must instead rely on Wuk's attacks to damage the boss. Instead the boss is just a bunch of looping adds phases where players must kill the adds to prevent them from getting in Wuk's way until she kills the boss herself

*Wuk Lamat has a health bar and if it drops to 0 the raid instantly wipes; players must take turns blocking tethers that attack Wuk and healers must expend consistent GCDs on Wuk to keep her alive

*Players are afflicted with a permanent crippling 99% damage down debuff, the only way to get rid of it is by standing right next to Wuk Lamat at all times

*When Wuk deals 50% of the boss's HP, a 2 minute cutscene plays where Wuk talks to Sphene, reminiscing about how much she learned about Alexandria's culture from her and wishing they can still have peace so she can introduce tacos to Alexandria

*At several intervals a message appears saying "Put your trust in Wuk Lamat!" requiring all 8 players to use the /cheer emote on Wuk to make her do a tank Limit Break, if one player fails to cheer Wuk the party wipes from the next attack

Please look forward to it.

you forgot the next step

"speak with wuk lamat" quest sign

[Zaniel]

And I can't stress enough how much I hope this key McGuffin somehow breaks before it warps the plot completely.

OMG I cannot agree with this enough. I am horrified by the idea that this writing team may somehow break the idea of Azem because they have no idea of FF14's lore.

[Kozh]

Ketenramm tells her offscreen, was this deemed not important enough to show??

This is why I also personally have problem with us immediately go to shaaloani after the ceremony, even though gulool ja ja told us that he will tell the story about the gate and also of Galuf's involvement after we make Wuk the dawnservant. Surely the WoL can wait for a few days in Tulliyolal until we hear about it from gulool jaja himself, then either try to open the gate or continue our adventure in Shaaloani. Sure we get the echo after Gulool jaja is slain, but that means we don't have screen time with Krile.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate that area and it's a bit of breath room from Wuk, but in the end it's all about her again as we spend most of our time there retrieving Namikka's bracelet.

[Savagelf]

I don't hate a lot character I like few people don't like I like lyse, tataru the ruler of ulduh Renia Venet. I kind think they under use Sphene and they concept reincarnation you could have Sphene wander around while we fight ai Sphene and you won't know it. Install a child as ruler is mistake that Alexander did. The warriors of light is reborn seat hold of Azem. Every tv shows and movies is doing Mary Sue it been so much that people play FFXIV have issues with people are tire of it. What I want them to do is start nerf remove Wuk Lamar for the last fight remove for show us the armor she service no point there. If SE is feel really adventurous make her a villain or make less important. Make Sphene a child reincarnation was a way give Wuk Lamar some comfort.

[ReynTime]

The silliest thing about the Sphene emotional drama is that her mind was completely artificial. Otis was one of the first people digitized, and he saw her dead well before that, so she's a replica of how she was perceived of by others. She's arguably less "real" than the phantom Hythlodaeus, but she's the one in particular we're supposed to feel sorry for.

Endwalker writing forces our WoL to mourn over a magitek armor in the Praetorium. Feeling sorry for a less interesting Cortana is par on course for "us".

[Plumerian_Ariadust]

Endwalker writing forces our WoL to mourn over a magitek armor in the Praetorium. Feeling sorry for a less interesting Cortana is par on course for "us".

The magitek armor didn't hog the spotlight moreso it went away when it is done with it's role, if only another certain furry biped could take a hint.
As a bonus it didn't make any sounds beyond footsteps, cannonfire and gunfire.

/s