Future Patches of Dawntrail

[CamuiKushi]

God I would love for Wuk Lamat to have a heel turn, but there's no way. There are too many other signs of bad writing for me to believe her overbearing nature was intentional to sow the seeds for a villain twist.
I would love to be wrong, but I severely doubt it.

[TheMightyMollusk]

She's just gonna become another background NPC to show up every once in a while and remind us that Tural still exists, just like Aymeric, Hien, Lyse, etc.

[ZXN]

Unfortunately, Wuk Lmao is going to continue being herself for the entire patch cycle as well. The only current "hint" we seem to have about what is to come is that we're not done with Sphene just yet given her "crown" still seems to be active.

Given Dawntrail really is just "FF14's greatest hits collection the WoL went through", now staring Wuk Lamat, I'm just going to shoot my cringe shot, here and now, high in the sky and wait for it to hit me in a year or two when I am wrong and we get something nowhere close to it.

Sphene comes back, but due to the erasure in the final trial, along with her memories being forced back as a result of the interaction with Wuk, her "memories" become corrupted. All the pain and sorrow and loss that she tried so hard to make everyone else forget now completely warps her original directive of why she was created. and essentially becomes Meteion 2.0, deciding that in order to truly "save" her people from the pain and sorrow of loss and death; EVERYONE must vanish. She then finds a way to reactivate Living Memory, and reverses the memory process of Everkeep, now transferring the memories of loss and sorrow and sadness, along with all the memories of the dead, that she took from everyone back to the people who currently have the regulators, making everyone remember the things she tried to "save them from" for the past several decades/centuries. As a result, all of the Alexandrians fears about death and the countless losses over all these centuries come flooding out, a "Final Days" experience for them. Given this is the FF9 reference expansion, I'm going to say that as a result of these emotions going haywire, they will give rise to a "primal" of sorts, aka, Necron, and he'll be our 7.4/7.5 trial as he becomes the physical manifestation of centuries of Alexandria's fear of death and loss, given his lore from said game and how he comes about anyway. Of course, us and Wuk do our best to strike him down but it isn't going well given there are centuries of memories full of loss and despair and fear fueling Necron. But just when it seems all is lost, another Sphene appears, the REAL Sphene's soul this time. She uplifts Wuk to get her to keep fighting for the peace and hope of both their kingdoms, and decides that her final act as Queen will be to give the Alexandrian's a new hope on life and fight with Wuk to protect her people. Wuk and Sphene fuse together, pulling a WoL and Ardbert, as it's revealed Sphene is one of Wuk's reflection shards, and now with newfound power, we beat Necron.

There is my prediction for the patch story, locking it in, for better or for worse.

[CuteBucket]

There is my prediction for the patch story, locking it in, for better or for worse.

The only problem with this prediction is it actually sounds somewhat interesting, even with the purposeful cliches, and I just can't put faith in the current writing team to write anything interesting or actually commit to doing something even remotely cool with the new characters.

[EchoingPulse]

This won't happen and you know it. At most, she'll become a background character like Lyse and the focus of the story will be on Krile now so people forget about the MSQ at launch and they'll be singing praises for it .

That said, I wouldn't say no to any chance to either beat up or kill Wuk Lamat.

Watch. The new story patch will have a Solo Mission of Wuk Lamat fighting the Warrior of Light, winning, and hitting em' with that sweet down for the count.
And the purest vision? That'll have the US playing as Wuk on said mission to beat our character.

[Yaskaleh]

Watch, the new story patch will have a Solo Mission of Wuk Lamat fighting the Warrior of Light and winning and hitting em' with that sweet down for the count.
And the purest vision? That'll have US playing as Wuk on said mission to beat our character.

I think my soul left my body there for a long bit.

[CorrosiveFox]

Watch. The new story patch will have a Solo Mission of Wuk Lamat fighting the Warrior of Light, winning, and hitting em' with that sweet down for the count.
And the purest vision? That'll have the US playing as Wuk on said mission to beat our character.

You're right this is more likely to happen than Lamat becoming a villain...

[NegativeS]

We must evict the solution 9 prawns from the source before they have a bloody civil unrest and disperse themselves all over the place. Imagine Pyongyang being fused into Arizona. The people of Tuscan and Phoenix are not happy with their new neighbors.

Everkeep could sink a mile underground and they wouldn't leave. They're too dependent on the technology they use, and I don't think Gridanians are going to be too keen on having soul extraction technology installed anywhere within 300 malms of the Twelveswood.

[lolnotacat]

Everkeep could sink a mile underground and they wouldn't leave. They're too dependent on the technology they use, and I don't think Gridanians are going to be too keen on having soul extraction technology installed anywhere within 300 malms of the Twelveswood.

That's going to be the plot for 8.0. Wuk will spend the entire expansion making tacos for every other faction to get them to accept S9. Then we'll finally have peas.