Wuk lamat ruin EW/ShB legacy

[Xylira]

I think it's a bit dramatic to say she alone ruins the legacy of the last two expansions given that it was a story told over the course of 5, with Dawntrail meant to be the start of a new adventure after the Hydaelyn and Zodiark saga ended

as for her character, she's alright
not my favorite, but I don't hate her or anything
she's very much like a shonen protagonist in some areas

She's not good enough of a character to take the spotlight of an entire expansion, is my main criticism. As a side character in small doses her naive buffoonery would be tolerable, particularly if she occasionally felt the consequences of her nonsense. But to not only shove the WoL aside as the main character, but also effortlessly upstage them during the final trial fight was just way too much. She goes from incompetent and somewhat inept, to more powerful than the WoL out of seemingly nowhere, and it feels so incredibly unearned.

Honestly, the entire expansion would have been far better served if Wuk Lamat was sidelined halfway through the story after the challenge ended, and the WoL with the help of some of the scions handled the whole Alexandria arc without Wuk around.

[ZXN]

Depending on how you look at it personally, what Wuk went through and the characters she encounters could be compared to what our WoL went through and encountered.

"Sphene is Wuk's Emet Selch character!"
"Zoraal Ja is Wuk's Zenos character!"
"Living Memory is Wuk's Ultima Thule moment!"
"The attack on Tulyollal is Wuk's "Final Days" hitting Thavnair/Garlemald moments!"
Genuinely won't be surprised if during the patch cycle we get: "The big bad for the 7.4/7.5 trial is Wuk's Meteion/Endsinger character!"

Of course, someone might see all of these things I just listed and come to their own personal conclusion that Dawntrail and Wuk Lamat are both just mockeries of the Shadowbringers/Endwalker expansions and of our WoL, given the story is kind of presented as a "Speedrun of WoL's greatest hits of past expansions" for Wuk Lamat. It's like the new writers kind of forgot, or just don't care, about the importance of what all of those moments and characters meant to our character's growth as a whole, and what they actually meant when they happened and we experienced them. It kind of feels like these big moments we went through were just reduced to immediate gratification / shock value moments, with the characters we originally experienced being made into watered down bootleg parallel versions of them; all created and written just so the writers could make Wuk Lamat seem so incredible and strong from beginning to end as she went through them each one by one, while also completely removing any of the buildup or "growth" that made them all so memorable to many of us in the first place.

I hate Wuk, but I won't say she ruined Shadowbringer/Endwalker. However it does all depend on how someone views Wuk as a character and the story itself personally.

[Aurumis]

She's not good enough of a character to take the spotlight of an entire expansion, is my main criticism. As a side character in small doses her naive buffoonery would be tolerable, particularly if she occasionally felt the consequences of her nonsense. But to not only shove the WoL aside as the main character, but also effortlessly upstage them during the final trial fight was just way too much. She goes from incompetent and somewhat inept, to more powerful than the WoL out of seemingly nowhere, and it feels so incredibly unearned.

Honestly, the entire expansion would have been far better served if Wuk Lamat was sidelined halfway through the story after the challenge ended, and the WoL with the help of some of the scions handled the whole Alexandria arc without Wuk around.

Said it more loud let's see if the devs listen to the fucking nonsense they did.