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

[CuteBucket]

This time, however, she didn't have any flaws, which were the only thing that made her character in the first half interesting. Now she's the 110% embodiment of stereotypical "power of friendship and understanding" mary sue anime character. I felt like I was watching Naruto Talk no jutsu style storytelling, but without all the big ninja spectacle to compensate. She gave very bland "fence-sitter" vibes with the people from solution 9. Going on about how important it is to understand them, while also being fully devoted towards destroying their way of life. This culminated in the cringe inducing cutscene during the final trial. While I did enjoy the sort of "inevitable" conflict created from two completely incompatible ideas, it didn't have near the impact it could have because it felt like the wuk lamat and the story in general had to make super duper sure we knew how important friendship is and how wuk lamat definitely always gets along with everyone.

This is also why I found the last 3rd of the story the most insufferable of it all. Yeah, sure, the first Dawnservant competition bits didn't have the best worldbuilding and storytelling, but they were in that kind of... bland but inoffensive level to me. I thought it was building to something greater, so I was willing to overlook some of the weird dropped/easily solved plot lines, (though in retrospect they annoy me quite a lot).

But whatever good will I had for Wuk Lamat (which wasn't a lot, but I didn't hate her by any means) was dead and gone by the time we were in Heritage Found. Her obsession with befriending the World's Most Suspicious Kawaii Teenage Queen at the cost of all common sense and reason was just painful to witness, and not in a "good, angsty" way, in a "oh no, the writers have completely lost the plot," kind of way. It would be one thing if Sphene was at all cunning or intelligent about her plan, and actually set up an interesting trap for the party, but she didn't. She's obviously untrustworthy and unhelpful from the get-go, but the narrative tries to drill into us "Look, she's so cute and everyone loves her!" and WL turns into an insufferable idiot trying to befriend the leader of an enemy nation that actively slaughtered her own people. I hated both her and Sphene by the end and never want to see or hear them again. And it's such a shame, because the concept of what Sphene is quite interesting (a rogue AI that has warped its core directive to the point that wanting to "protect the people" is creating harm), but the execution of that idea fell so flat that it makes me want to pull my hair out.

[DonutSteel]

Her obsession with befriending the World's Most Suspicious Kawaii Teenage Queen at the cost of all common sense and reason was just painful to witness

Well obviously it's because she's the Vow of Resolve, not Reason.

/s

[Aneshda]

Well, I will skip every single Quest with Wuk Lamat. I have enough of being a Maid and that the Scions acting like we are strangers.

There is no comeback from this bad story, no comeback for Wuk Lamat. If SE wants to do something then let Wuk Lamat die or never mention this NPC again.

[AureliusIX]

The Chinese player base got Dawntrail a couple of weeks ago and have now voted on their favourite and most hated NPC of Dawntrail. It's no shocker who will be number 1 most hated but I'll list it out here all the same.
Starting with most liked
■ Ranking of most favourite NPCs in 7.0
1st: Cahciua(1,320 votes)
2nd: Erenville (1,245 votes)
3rd: Krille (1,002 votes)
4th: Alisaie (602 votes)
5th: Estinien (560 votes)
6th: Graha'tia (599 votes)
7th: Otis (499 votes)
8th: Sphene (479 votes)
9th: Gurool jaja (329 votes)
10th: Wuk Lamat (319 votes)
11th: Y'shtola (243 votes)
12th: Zoraja (239 votes)
13th: Urianger (97 votes)
14th: Thancred (90 votes)
15th: Gurolja (86 votes)
16th: Bakuljaja (80 votes)
17th: Kona (80 votes)
18th: Namika (59 votes)
19th: Shale (46 votes)
20th: Alphinaud (33 votes)

Most hated
■ Most hated NPC ranking in 7.0 1st: Wuk Lamat (7261 votes) 2nd: Sphene (1247 votes) 3rd : Zoral ja (645 votes) 4th : Bakul jaja (409 votes) 5th: Guroolja (250 votes) 6th : Shale (246 votes) 7th : Erenville (112 votes) 8th: Korna (56 votes)
Source
https://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/61880612.html
https://imgur.com/EAWxLkC

[Alchemii]

The Chinese player base got Dawntrail a couple of weeks ago and have now voted on their favourite and most hated NPC of Dawntrail. It's no shocker who will be number 1 most hated but I'll list it out here all the same.
Starting with most liked
■ Ranking of most favourite NPCs in 7.0
1st: Cahciua(1,320 votes)
2nd: Erenville (1,245 votes)
3rd: Krille (1,002 votes)
4th: Alisaie (602 votes)
5th: Estinien (560 votes)
6th: Graha'tia (599 votes)
7th: Otis (499 votes)
8th: Sphene (479 votes)
9th: Gurool jaja (329 votes)
10th: Wuk Lamat (319 votes)
11th: Y'shtola (243 votes)
12th: Zoraja (239 votes)
13th: Urianger (97 votes)
14th: Thancred (90 votes)
15th: Gurolja (86 votes)
16th: Bakuljaja (80 votes)
17th: Kona (80 votes)
18th: Namika (59 votes)
19th: Shale (46 votes)
20th: Alphinaud (33 votes)

Most hated
■ Most hated NPC ranking in 7.0 1st: Wuk Lamat (7261 votes) 2nd: Sphene (1247 votes) 3rd : Zoral ja (645 votes) 4th : Bakul jaja (409 votes) 5th: Guroolja (250 votes) 6th : Shale (246 votes) 7th : Erenville (112 votes) 8th: Korna (56 votes)
Source
https://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/61880612.html
https://imgur.com/EAWxLkC

Wow it's almost like it's not a vocal minority in the west that hates Wuk Lamat, but a universal thing.

[Fatch38]

Most hated
■ Most hated NPC ranking in 7.0 1st: Wuk Lamat (7261 votes) 2nd: Sphene (1247 votes) 3rd : Zoral ja (645 votes) 4th : Bakul jaja (409 votes) 5th: Guroolja (250 votes) 6th : Shale (246 votes) 7th : Erenville (112 votes) 8th: Korna (56 votes)
Source
https://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/61880612.html
https://imgur.com/EAWxLkC

how can shale be even in there, she has like 4 chat bubbles

[GartredZW]

how can shale be even in there, she has like 4 chat bubbles

That's all she needed. I want to see more of her. She's stolen my heart.

[lolnotacat]

That's all she needed. I want to see more of her. She's stolen my heart.

[Zakuyia]

Holy hell im sorry i meant by the twelve this is still going strong. Congrats

[CuteBucket]

how can shale be even in there, she has like 4 chat bubbles

I don't even remember who the hell Shale is. Whoever she was, she apparently made zero impact on me as I have no memory of her whatsoever.