Someone on reddit analysed how many main cast lines are in the game. Wuk Lamat is 3rd

[Kranel_San]

All credit goes to u/turn_a_blind_eye/Rise Narukami and u/eriyu.

Like the title said, someone posted on the XIV subreddit some very cool and interesting graphs, I do not know if I can post links in this forum or not, if I can, I will edit with a link to it.
Top 3 characters with the most lines from 2.0 to 7.1 in total:
1. Alphinaud at 93,649, 7.1%.
2 Alisae at 48,404, 4.3%.
3 Wuk Lamat 39,134 4.2%. In one expansion.

Wuk Lamat is *BARELY* behind Alisae, a character that has been with us since the very first cutscene, since the start of the game.

And with those 39,134 lines, she has basically said the same things every single time, never anything new. She is genuinely the most forced, uninteresting, bland character in the game. How is a character that has been here for only ONE expansion, and not even a full one at that, have almost more lines than Alisae? Why force her so bad?

I'd like to add that according to the Reddit post comments. The term 'lines' refer to every dialogue in-game. Including Main quests, side quests, seasonal quests, NPCs dialogues, etc.... and not just the MSQ dialogue only, which I believe makes this even more disastrous.

[BunnyReaper]

I'd like to add that according to the Reddit post comments. The term 'lines' refer to every dialogue in-game. Including Main quests, side quests, seasonal quests, NPCs dialogues, etc.... and not just the MSQ dialogue only, which I believe makes this even more disastrous.

You're right. It is an actual tragedy lol

[Exmo]

I'd like to add that according to the Reddit post comments. The term 'lines' refer to every dialogue in-game. Including Main quests, side quests, seasonal quests, NPCs dialogues, etc.... and not just the MSQ dialogue only, which I believe makes this even more disastrous.

This seems to be the case. For example, Wuk Lamat accompanies us often in battle, so you get various segments like this:

Wuk Lamat: I've got you!
Wuk Lamat: Yaaaaaargh!
G'raha Tia: That was too close...
Wuk Lamat: Steady now.
Wuk Lamat: Dammit!
G'raha Tia: Spread out, everyone.
Wuk Lamat: You'll pay for that!
Wuk Lamat: Thank you.
The giant colibri flies into a fit of rage!
Wuk Lamat: What's gotten into this thing!?
G'raha Tia: Try aiming for its wings!
Wuk Lamat: Hmph, that was hardly a tickle!
Giant Colibri: Hardly a tickle!
Wuk Lamat: Try this!
Wuk Lamat: Nothing to it.

These are all counted as separate lines. Personally I think it's silly to consider a line like "Yaaaaaargh!" to have the same 'weight' as a line of exposition or drama, but this analysis collapses all context and meaning. For example, many of the lines in the above text are different lines by virtue of appearing in different text bubbles, but are clearly semantically and contextually grouped together. Given how inflated the statistics likely are, I'd be more interested in a report of 'meaningful' lines by character.

[ViinaS]

This seems to be the case. For example, Wuk Lamat accompanies us often in battle, so you get various segments like this:

Given how inflated the statistics likely are, I'd be more interested in a report of 'meaningful' lines by character.

You act as if other characters didn't accompany us through dungeons for 3 expansions now. Even with that none of the Scions come even close to Wuk Lamat over 3 expansions of being with us and also with us in dungeons.

Wuk bashing besides, but you cant judge anything based on this right now, if you wanna see the true % you need to make a sheet and make a list for every single expansion to see how much of a expansion are spoken by xyz npc, because like earlier someone said that wuk has close to the same % then alpidumb has in HW

The reddit post did that.
And you can't compare Wuks yabbering in Dawntrail to Alphinauds blabbering in Heavenward as Heavensward has much fewer lines.

If anything Wuk Lamat talked so much that her lines are more thna half of the entire lines in HW by all NPCs combined.

[AvoSturmfaust]

You act as if other characters didn't accompany us through dungeons for 3 expansions now. Even with that none of the Scions come even close to Wuk Lamat over 3 expansions of being with us and also with us in dungeons.



The reddit post did that.
And you can't compare Wuks yabbering in Dawntrail to Alphinauds blabbering in Heavenward as Heavensward has much fewer lines.

If anything Wuk Lamat talked so much that her lines are more thna half of the entire lines in HW by all NPCs combined.

Thats why i said you need to get all lines for every expansion, you cant compare a expansion which has 5 lines with a expansion with 100000 lines, if i wanna compare wuk to the other npcs based on a % we need to compare it to EVERY expansion seperated as %


Like as example if alphinauis talk in HW was 50% from all HW voicelines and wuks DT lines are 40% based on the % its still less talk then alphi did, the exact numbers on voice lines doesnt matter because we judging it based on the % of the voicelines