The next "Oh, shit its Ranjit" post...

[Raven2014]

Urianger was enigmatic, but JUST enigmatic. His presentation was never particularly subtle in what it revealed. There is dubiousness, there is mystery, and then there is subtlety. Ranjit's backstory was presented subtly, in ways that intentionally are not just a convinient flashback #84 or some third party just telling us his trauma. Its still not REALLY subtle, but compared to other stories in ff14 it is, and I liked Ranjit. But people are too upset because echo and blessing of light dont matter when facing an opponent with extreme martial skill and so they hate both Zenos and Ranjit.

Then I don't know what you meant by subtely then. Ranjit was the character supposed to show that the Eulmoran didn't surrender because they were coward and just rolled over, but gave up because they were broken after fighting back hard. How can it be subtle when the narrative make tons of reference to it and Ranjit himself screaming at you that very thing half of the time? Rin in particular tell you a lot of it if you care to listen. He makes you painfully aware of his position even if you don't want to listen to it.

But that's not even the main point here. Like I said I have no problem with his position in the story, whether he's as great as you can be debate. But his execution just sucks.

And yes, Our godslaying skills are irrelevant because the only thing stopping quite many people in the world from being as high in godslayer rankings is us is lack of protection from Tempering, not the lack of skill in combat.

Uhm ... no. It's not like those being were weak that temping was the only weapon, so any one who manage to avoid it can just walk up and put a dagger in their throat. All of them are capable of mass destruction. In between we also fight ... you know, dragons, alien weapon of mass destruction, ancient heroes, other demi-gods (warring triad). The WoL is a peerless warrior that had faced down all the trial of strength from West to East in our journey, that strength didn't simply come from Headalyn blessing, because more than half of the trial we faced that's not even relevant.

In fact, there is nothing I saw in ShB that come close to compare to anything we had fought at the source.