The Power Progression in Dawntrail

[Iscah]

It could be a pretty straightforward explanation that our fight with Zenos actually drained some degree of our lifeforce / power level / whatever and we're weakened from what we were.

[Gullis]

[Hyperia]

This is the best solution yet and if they don’t use it, it’s a horrible missed opportunity.

[SieyaM]

We'll give a large portion of our light aspect aether to stop Zeromus. That will sap our strength and render us so helpless that we need two small children to guard us on our trip abroad.

Why do I feel this will be exactly how it goes.

[Steffie]

Considering how relaxed Derplander looked when fighting that monster in trailer, I say, our WoL will just be finding the dawntrail enemies pretty weak in the story at least.

Of course gameplay and story do need some separation or else Dawntrail enemies have to be below lvl 90.

[Jeeqbit]

A question i asked myself for a while now is how SE will introduce a new threat to us players. Or a reason why all of the sudden the new enemies and bosses are stronger than the end of the universe and existence itself.

We fought dragons, primals, gods, ancients and literally the end itself. So my question is, what big bad evil will come next? How will SE make it believable that after defeating Meteion we struggle again with some random trial and dungeon bosses?

How do great boxers and MMA fighters get defeated after a long winning streak?

What about when people get old and lose a step?

That's really where we're at. It's like Zenos said. Who will be the one to finally...

[Mr_Gyactus]

A question i asked myself for a while now is how SE will introduce a new threat to us players. Or a reason why all of the sudden the new enemies and bosses are stronger than the end of the universe and existence itself.

We fought dragons, primals, gods, ancients and literally the end itself. So my question is, what big bad evil will come next? How will SE make it believable that after defeating Meteion we struggle again with some random trial and dungeon bosses?

When you see G'Raha fatter than Dulia-Chai (he's eating burgers in the trailer too) that will fade into the background.

WoL: "strange, the armor I wore in HW is tight in my belly and sides! What do you think G'Raha Tia?

[Lordes]

Yes I'm so over the whole children bossing and somehow someway managed to keep up with WoL power level nothing make sense anymore

[Cabalabob]

When you think about it. Nothing we have done that’s noteworthy we have done alone. Gaius van baelsar? Took 8 (now 4) of us at level 50 to defeat him. Nidhogg, 8 again at level 60, zenos, we went against him alone at 60 and got thrashed, we then went off and trained up to level 70 and still only beat him with a party of 4. Shadowbringers we get forced to retreat by Ran’jit at low 70’s when we take him on alone and all our noteworthy victories, again of course, parties of 4-8.

Basically what I’m getting at is, on our own we’re actually kind of weak. Any time they want to introduce a serious threat they have us fight them alone and usually unprepared. Sure we defeated meteion… with 7 helpers while riding shinryu… But while we’re out napping on the beach? Krillin could throw a rock at our head and it would hurt!

The only real issue I see is Azem’s Crystal letting us summon help at any time, making it pretty much impossible for a serious threat to catch us off guard and alone. So unless we lose/give up that power somehow, it’s going to be difficult to introduce threats that way going forward unless they are some world ending threat we need to come up with a plan for.

[KageTokage]

I'm expecting they'll just resort to the tried and true trope of "strong as the plot demands" to maintain narrative tension.