Dawntrail hype in a nutshell

[Mayhemmer]

The most important question though. Will we, the godkiller, the all-powerful warrior of light, be useless in every cutscene again? Will we be standing there like a doofus while the villain monologues before we let them slowly walk away?

Well of course. They can't just have the WoL use their equipped weapon in a non-job-related cutscene, now can they? If they did, then... I dunno? It'd forever take away their excuse to just write easy outs in the story whenever they want, I guess?

But real talk. I'm going to just have to ignore the fact that we'll be power-reset like Goku at the start of a new DBZ season in the early 2000's, but I'm personally ok with a smaller scale again... even if we all know it won't take long to get big again...

[Volgia]

Well of course. They can't just have the WoL use their equipped weapon in a non-job-related cutscene, now can they? If they did, then... I dunno? It'd forever take away their excuse to just write easy outs in the story whenever they want, I guess?

But real talk. I'm going to just have to ignore the fact that we'll be power-reset like Goku at the start of a new DBZ season in the early 2000's, but I'm personally ok with a smaller scale again... even if we all know it won't take long to get big again...

I mean you could write it as your power fading since you're no longer the "Champion of Hydaelin" but i'm not sure they are willing to go there.

[Mayhemmer]

I mean you could write it as your power fading since you're no longer the "Champion of Hydaelin" but i'm not sure they are willing to go there.

Part of me was hoping they would go that route, in a kind of parallel of how exactly that happened with Midgardsormr, because at least it would be plausible. I doubt they're willing to as well, but we'll see.

[AlucaDragonheart]

Be prepared for Y'shtola to magically know everything about Tural and it's surroundings despite never knowing anything about it before, because why should the player discover all this when the community's waifu can just explain it to us like our WoL's are idiots?

[Brynne]

I love the Scions, and I know I'm not alone. I feel a little bad for you guys on the forums who are sick of them, but overall I'm glad SE is catering to me and others like me. Bring on G'raha with a big fat taco!

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Why yes, I do enjoy the Scions’ company. How did you know?

[SieyaM]

Urianger or Y'shotla will drown us in their exposition diarrhea once again in a new setting.

[dspguy]

The hype in every expansion is pretty much the same. New zones, new jobs. Then there's the disappointment that ultimately every job sees some older abilities get stripped away. Grind to level cap on MSQ on first job. Grind PvP or roulettes and then dungeons or sidequests on remaining jobs. Rinse and repeat.

[Hyperia]

Agreed, citizen. I'm quite miffed the Scions will be following the WoL around like lost puppies again. They should all be sent to the Aetherial Sea.

Imagine if the ones who are with us are actually familiars and not the real scions as we did not have enough power or skill to fully bring them back.

[CamuiKushi]

I'd kinda like them to revisit a bunch of the job quest NPCs they mostly abandoned when they switched to role quests.

God I feel this. So sad walking past one of them and they have nothing new to say except "thanks for saving the world, hero". Even just having a single level 90 job quest would have been nice.

The most important question though. Will we, the godkiller, the all-powerful warrior of light, be useless in every cutscene again? Will we be standing there like a doofus while the villain monologues before we let them slowly walk away?

Or playing a PLD and having the cat boy use passage of arms on you when you're fine. Then there's the 6.5 cutscenes where there are literally 3 paladins in the party now. Considering it was the poster-job for the expansion, PLD enjoyers sure got sidelined a bunch.
Like, I get they have to cater for all the roles in the cutscenes, but it sure does suck all the dramatic tension out of a scene when you know your character is going to do literally nothing of value.

Edit: To address this topic, I'm fine with the scions being around. I'm a scion enjoyer. But they've been around for so long across so many different writers that they're starting to feel like different people.
I wonder how much overlap there is between scion and Zero enjoyers.