Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
I don't think it matters where we are going because they introduced a plot mcguffin that, as far as I can tell, is going to result in a couple patches of G'raha and Y'shtola studying in Sharalyan while we do some bs. Then the plot will move forward to some random new place. This is exactly how they executed the EW patches.

To be clear, they're going to say the tool needs to be unlocked to use, which means we're going to inevitably unlock it and use it to traverse shards.
Indeed. Yoshi-P's comments of 'throwing many things at a wall and seeing what fans like' is really bizarre because he's really only left us one thing and that's Azem's McGuffin. Tuliyollal and Tural as a continent is mostly solved and it took the plot to quite literally crash land into us for anything interesting to start happening there.

Feels very obvious to me that the future of these expansions will be less setting up political fantasy plot points to be resolved over time and more using a magical portal to travel to shards where anything could be happening, solve their problem, and move on to the next shard. A series of one-offs, if you will; except, unlike Norvrandt, they'll lack the same degree of personal stakes that Dawntrail did because they've wasted this entire xpac setting up its own insulated story and not laying the groundwork for the future.