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

[gumas]

you know, put aside the rubber bullet, iam still amazed how ketenramn is alived, when the scene he got ambushed and straight up "slashed effect" i though he is pretty much dead, but it turn out he just get "bonk" to unconscious.

if this is any previous expansion, that scene usually 100% dead, granted i havent finished the main story yet so maybe he got some important role later, but i just cant think that this expansion it really felt got "disneyfy" a lot

[MartinFreeman]

you know, put aside the rubber bullet, iam still amazed how ketenramn is alived, when the scene he got ambushed and straight up "slashed effect" i though he is pretty much dead, but it turn out he just get "bonk" to unconscious.

if this is any previous expansion, that scene usually 100% dead, granted i havent finished the main story yet so maybe he got some important role later, but i just cant think that this expansion it really felt got "disneyfy" a lot

Your thoughts are more on the money than you think. Especially when you get further. Let's just say, you're going to find out how Disney it really is. To the point of an actual reference.

[sylphlands]

you know, put aside the rubber bullet, iam still amazed how ketenramn is alived, when the scene he got ambushed and straight up "slashed effect" i though he is pretty much dead, but it turn out he just get "bonk" to unconscious.

This reveal made me laugh so hard. If I hadn't witnessed the scene of him being attacked with my own eyes I would have had no idea it even happened when we saw him again. He didn't appear injured or even shaken up, just completely unaffected. What was the point?

[SushiOishiiii]

This reveal made me laugh so hard. If I hadn't witnessed the scene of him being attacked with my own eyes I would have had no idea it even happened when we saw him again. He didn't appear injured or even shaken up, just completely unaffected. What was the point?

Think it was a JJ Abrams moment... kill everyone, but not really.

[LisseyCrowe]

This reveal made me laugh so hard. If I hadn't witnessed the scene of him being attacked with my own eyes I would have had no idea it even happened when we saw him again. He didn't appear injured or even shaken up, just completely unaffected. What was the point?

The entire time I was waiting for him to go "AHAH! THE REAL KETENRAMN WAS ASSASSINATED, I AM ACTUALLY <insert Villain>".

Like why have him not only survive, but practically downplay the whole thing and not even mention it for quite a few scenes only to go the way it did. I can't even call it a clever red herring because there's no grander mystery at play here, it's just "Sometimes, the truth is boring" I guess? It's so confusing what the writer's intent here was.

[ZXN]

you know, put aside the rubber bullet, iam still amazed how ketenramn is alived, when the scene he got ambushed and straight up "slashed effect" i though he is pretty much dead, but it turn out he just get "bonk" to unconscious.

Clearly Ketenramm was slashed in the back with a rubber sword that Zoraal Ja just has on him for very specific times like this.

[BabySneed]

The entire time I was waiting for him to go "AHAH! THE REAL KETENRAMN WAS ASSASSINATED, I AM ACTUALLY <insert Villain>".

I was thinking the exact same thing but also I just want to say that scene loading into the goofy ass main city day theme was the funniest thing ever, I just watched some guy (as far as I was aware) get brutally assassinated in his own home and it immediately cuts to the Monsters Inc theme blaring happily into my ears, I had to give myself a minute before continuing because I was laughing so hard at the tonal whiplash
PoV: You have just been murdered in cold blood in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4DNJxG4v4

[Oizen]

Why didn't Ishgard and the Dragons just make some mixed food cuisine to end their blood war? Are they stupid???

[Voidmage]

Why didn't Ishgard and the Dragons just make some mixed food cuisine to end their blood war? Are they stupid???

Ishgard drank dragon blood.
Hraesvelgr ate his wife.

the whole thing more or less started over food.

[ReynTime]

What a great thread to read. Good to see so many people dissappointed with Wuk Lamat and Dawntral MSQ in general.

I have a lot of thoughts to post here, but there is one particular one gnawing at my mind:

Tural is like... more than twice the size of Eorzea. And so far we didn't saw ANY signs of Ascian influence in this region. Not a single note.

Through the expansions it was revealed that Ascians messed up with pretty much every beast tribe they encountered. To sow unrest, cause conflicts and set up the Source for another Rejoining.

I cannot believe that such "fertile" land as Tural with its many tribes and nations that are not aware to their danger was ignored by them. Why these two huge continents has no long lasting problems whatsoever?! (Oh, Mamool Ja problem apparently wasn't one, because Wuk solved it in 5 minutes or so)

Tural's map design is perhaps the best example of how complete shit the post-ARR field design is in terms of content and non-text lore. Tural is supposed to be massive, but exploring it doesn't feel that big thanks to Creative Studio 3's strict 6-field zones-no-more-no-less formula, and the maps are incredibly barren.