7.2 MSQ opinions (spoiler obviously)

[AshtonCrowe]

The bad:

- Wuk Lamat, I don't see a reason why she is there aside for the reason of her being the main character of this expansion. We shared a moment with Sphene, yet Sphene's whole "ask for help" scene is directed to Wuk Lamat to answer, not us.

- Poor Krile. Nameless side characters getting more voiced lines and scenes than Krile lol. The supposed "Shes gonna play more of a part in the expansion." Her calling Wukkie Lamatiyyy made me want to throw up.

- I like and dislike the villain, I hate that we might be going with the "trying to understand the emotions of an AI" route again, and I am fearing it's going to go to another Dawntrail special of trying to insert "Spene lissen to mee" instead of just realizing that this wizz-kid tech-emo needs to be kicked to the curb and shut down.

- I hope 7.3 shuts this whole plot down, while this patch seemed more mature, it still had some inkling of that "Lets write for teenagers" all over it.

- I still hate that we are glazing up the fake-Sphene AI computer program and treating them like a real person.



The good:

- I honestly like the actual Sphene, her story arc, they wrote an actual character with actual emotions and dialogue. Good job, I hope we get more of this character. I hope they don't dumb her down into a Wuk-Lamat fangirl or into an "I need to understand the emotions of everything even if they are clearly just out to destroy everything I cherish, because cultures and understanding and Dawntrail stuff, yo." - route. Or if that crown devolves into the obvious trap that it probably is.

My wish is that we would get to train her, as she wanted to grow stronger, have our actual mentor arc and Wuk Lamat stays as FAAAR AWAY from that phase of the story as possible.

- I think the combat animation cutscenes are great, and are showing promise of maybe us someday doing something in them other than a random offscreen slash and something falling down.

- While I still don't like the whole bumbling idiot citizen plotline full of "theme npc's" this added a bit of flavor to it. Pacing for this patch story was better.

- The first dungeon was kind of a nothingburger, the trial was fun. I wish Zelenia and Otis would've been longer lasting characters alongside of this Sphene.


I'd resub at 7.4 maybe 7.3 if it hinted at this arc ending.

People laugh when i say Lamat is a dev insert, But she 100% is and is their version of "Sylvanas" from WoW, Those characters are bad for the story you slowly get phased out of relevancy till it's just "Lamat and her trusty sidekick!" Then you get phased out of all actual story and only appear when combat is relevant.


They brought back Sphene cause that's the only character who was well received by majority of their population, IT's equivalent to Blizzard bringing back Arthas Menethil cause they needed to milk playerbase numbers. Then they killed him off cause "Sylvanas" didn't get her 5s of clout.

They'll do the same thing to Sphene, Or phase her out like Lyse then push even more lamat into 8.0 they very clearly want Lamat as a focus.

Though, I'm sure the cultists will defend it as usual.