Unenthused About Dawntrail

[Doomfist]

I had zero expectations for Dawntrail, I didn't care about Tural at all and wanted to explore Ilsabard instead while cleaning up the Garlean Empire's mess. They just kept mentioning locus amoenus and corvos, so I was expecting to go there and eventually Dalmasca.

But I was pleasantly surprised by Dawntrail's story, I actually enjoyed all the world building and the character writing around Wuk Lamat. Maybe it's because I enjoyed Stormblood. The only MSQ I didn't enjoy, was the 6.X series, because it was split between being an epilogue for Endwalker, and being a trial series with a completely new enemy.

Also, it seems like the FFXIV team has expanded their team and can now deliver more content than before. SHB didn't have a deep dungeon because of Bozja, EW didn't have a Bozja equivalent because of the new deep dungeon and island sanctuary, but Dawntrail is getting all of those so the future looks bright for me.

EDIT: Almost forgot but I do agree that the gameplay for the MSQ was lacking in terms of combat, comparing the solo duties of EW and DT, EW soloes were much more involved, while DT's solo duties were more trial-like and shorter. The MSQ also way overused the "talk to locals" trope of quest design, we literally did that in EVERY town.