Did Zenos ruin Endwalker

[IkaraGreydancer]

My god, did Zenos really need to be in a flashback on the topic of FRIENDS for 6.4?

He's not our friend. At all.

You speak for yourself and only yourself. So who is "our" exactly? Also I thought you stopped xiv for Ark. Or is that someone else?

[Elkanah]

Zenos is our Vegeta in the Dragonball franchise. Was a villain- now we're best friends. He'll eventually have a wife and grow a giant mustache

[TheMightyMollusk]

Zenos is our Vegeta in the Dragonball franchise. Was a villain- now we're best friends. He'll eventually have a wife and grow a giant mustache

Moustaaaaache

[Petite]

I feel not many people are bringing this up; but I still think the "Zenos taking over your body" bit in EW was the biggest waste of potential the MSQ has ever had.

The tension was palpable. What if he kills one of our friends? What if he does something messed up while pretending to be us and thus sow chaos, distrust, disbelief and despair in our party? Will he finally step into the role of a truly despicable villain and give us tremendous motivation to destroy him?

Nope. Instead, that plot point lasted only 1 quest long and nothing important came from it.

[Mimilu]

I feel not many people are bringing this up; but I still think the "Zenos taking over your body" bit in EW was the biggest waste of potential the MSQ has ever had.

I 100% agree with you.
I loved the tension and the feeling of helplessness and it was completely wasted.
It makes me feel like they rewrote the story when they were halfway through with it. (●´⌓`●)

[DPZ2]

You are assuming that "Zenos taking over your body" was the point of that set of quests. The actual point was "WoL is now as helpless as Zenos was in a similar body. Can he survive as well as Zenos did without his body? Let's give the WoL an added incentive ... the possibility of murder and mayhem against his friends".

[TaleraRistain]

You are assuming that "Zenos taking over your body" was the point of that set of quests. The actual point was "WoL is now as helpless as Zenos was in a similar body. Can he survive as well as Zenos did without his body? Let's give the WoL an added incentive ... the possibility of murder and mayhem against his friends".

That's more the way I took it. Give the all-powerful Warrior of Light a taste of what it feels like to be normal. And give them incentive to see if they can still break their limits. Also kind of supports the idea that the WoL's essence reacts with dynamis in ways that others don't, and from Venat's comment about how powerful the Azem after her was in their first spar, may have reacted that way as an Ancient, too.