Power Reset? [Spoilery]

[Hezzlocks]

Does there have to be a lore reason why we're struggling fighting normal things after defeating world-ending enemies? Pretty sure those butterflies on Elpis are far more dangerous than anything you faced at level 50 if we look strictly at stats.

Funny thing is, there really is kind of a lore reason. Remember Omega? He analysed us, and the heroes of stories in general, as being typically too weak to even care about, yet time and time again, heroes, like us, always seem to do the impossible and defeat the clearly superior villains. He analysed it as some kind of hidden trait that seems to empower the heroes under situations of extreme stress, which is why he lures us into the eScape in the first place, to try to determine the existence of this unknown trait and learn how to utilize it.

In the end, it was something about the hope and determination to surmount overwhelming odds and save the day that empowers us, and the greater the threat, the greater the empowerment. Sound familiar? Yep, Dynamis was being teased even in Stormblood. Like it or hate it, dynamis has been the reason why we defeat godly beings one minute, and struggle to kill a few wild beasts at once the next.

[Thatusernameistaken]

Hm, I've had this thought since finishing the EW MSQ, but after reading this thread maybe it's not as obvious as I thought and maybe I'm wrong. But I felt like the fight with Zenos WAS us getting depowered. We "burned through the candle of our lives" during that fight, which I took to be a quite literal expenditure of power we won't get back. But I guess the fact that we're still strong enough to fight unsundered raid bosses in Pandaemonium shoots a nice hole in that theory anyway. Oh well.