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

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I think trying to talk about Wuk Lamat's shortcomings in characterisation is missing the forest for the trees. The issue is that the new writing team seemingly don't know how to execute a full character arc across the form of an MMO expansion story and that is infinitely more concerning to me than one dud character.

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The writing team have simply failed. Wuk Lamat is a primary victim of a far more ominous outlook on the quality of future content, not the perpetrator of a bad story.

This is actually true. Wuk Lamat is the most grating due to her hogging all the screen time with this level of bad writing. But everything else is ALSO bad, be they new characters like Koana and Zoraal Ja or old characters like Krile or the twins. The new characters all have POTENTIAL, even Wuk Lamat. She has potential, as do others. They are all valid archetype characters that could become lovely if written well. But the devs don't seem to know how to translate a character sheet into an actual character. On paper their traits all look great and it can work, but the execution is sorely lacking. The world building, the logic of the event progression, and all the dialogues, they are so often superficial and bad.

Gods the dialogues. They are in your face, like rattling off character traits to you without the actual portraying. I am actually rather endeared by Koana because he's a type of character that I do like, but he's also badly written. How he's shown to be caring about his sister is sooooo heavy-handed and ham-fisted it's giving me second-hand embarrassment. It's just all so transparent, we know what they are trying to convey, and they hit you with a dialogue/scenario with zero subtlety, and you are left with feeling ridiculous. I like what he could have been, and I headcanon him to be what he could have been, and he's better written than Wuk Lamat, but at the end of the day, the devs really didn't deliver any well-written characters. Some are better than others, but none can be considered good.

And plot holes, the abundance of plot holes! *Weeps* Why are the Hanuhanu forgetting about the way their crops are cared for? Why do the WoL and twins allow Wuk Lamat to be kidnap by some random thug? Why do the xenophobic Mamook accept outsiders within half a day? Remember how much effort it took for the Ishgardians to warm up to us? Why are all the scions and WoL just watch Gulool Ja Ja get murdered? It goes on and on...