So is there anything good about Dawntrail at all?

[TheCount]

Reading the forums, there seems to be nothing good about DT at all.
Maybe it's my fault reading before even completing DT. But the negativity starts to affect me, and I'm losing motivation. I just landed in Tural, and I immediately feel like logging off, because I've been hearing all bad things about Wuk Lamat.

So is there anything good to look forward to from DT?

The forum is weirdly super negative about pretty much anything and everything. It's such a disconnect from what people say in-game about it and then going here and seeing hyperbole and negativity all-round.

[Ratikal]

long story short is people who play video games are not good judges of video games.

Is this bait? This is legendary levels of bait.

[Saitress]

The Forum Criers are getting paid by EA or something to downtalk everything in the game and litterally everything, even if it is something that people like very much and it is EVERYTHING they don't like

So ya dont worry about the forums, you may see one good thread now and then.

People should read Charles Dickens Book: Great Expectations

Wish i was paid by EA. In that case i at least be able TO PLAY the game in the first place

[dullneedles]

The maps are really beautiful, well forested or cactused in Shaaloani's case. It was very jarring to go from lush tropical maps, jungles and floodplains to like.... Arizona. But I love that map too. Really captures the dry air of the Sonoran and the mesas. I love love love loved the magical blue undergrowth beneath the canopy in Yak T'el. A place like that is where I pictured the Fae coming from in SB before they were driven out of LaHEE forest. Maps from past expansions have seemed extremely bare and empty of any detail in comparison.

Not a fan of Tuli's bgm, it's a bit too high energy for town music. The track isn't bad, it just doesn't fit in my opinion. I feel like the main city should have a more mellow vibe because of the amount of time you have to spend there. The story did have an overdose of Wuk and I didn't realize how much until we got a break from her in Shaaloani. When the poo hit the proverbial fan, I did whine a bit when we had to go back being errand runner for her again. I got bored of the twins, loved Erenville participating as a guide, missed G'raha and screamed with joy when he reappeared. I really, really missed having our whole cast of Scion friends for most of the msq.

I have mobility issues with my hands on account of stroke and I've been playing primarily with trusts. The npc's seem to have been programmed to intentionally screw up now and then. Alisaie eats AoE's like nobody's business lately! I usually park myself right on top of Krile (who I marked with a + sign because she's so smol) and when a big hit is coming, she'll just stand right in the dead zone until the last second and then move, so I'm a step behind and get squashed by fists or lasers or what have you. It does teach the mechanic but also makes me a bit insane. I really, really, really love that I don't have to run all the way back.

Valigarmanda was a fun trial in trust, only died once. They played it up like this snake-bird was a massive threat and it took Galool Jaja and friends 10 days of continuous fighting to finally trap it and we smooshed him like a bug! Because of my reaction time I'm having a lot of trouble navigating Vanguard with trusts because of the crazy amount of AoE's stacking up all together, but most players seemed to enjoy the jump in difficulty. I hope I can get past it because I really want to see the rest of the story. I went up to 5 tries before I got booted out of the instance and packed it in for the night.

I wish there was a story only option we could choose that doesn't award gear for the people that play just for the story and aren't planning to participate in endgame raiding where we could watch the cutscenes and skip over the combat. I don't play with other people unless it's required because I don't want to inconvenience anybody with my disability but pretty much everything requires completion of the msq. All in all I enjoyed the story up to 97, where it started getting really interesting.

[Carin-Eri]

Reading the forums, there seems to be nothing good about DT at all.
Maybe it's my fault reading before even completing DT. But the negativity starts to affect me, and I'm losing motivation. I just landed in Tural, and I immediately feel like logging off, because I've been hearing all bad things about Wuk Lamat.

So is there anything good to look forward to from DT?

The scene where

Vrtra appears and blasts the crap out of the airships? I mean, that was utterly epic in my view..... and ironically used 'Footfalls' from Endwalker as backing music!

[FuturePastNow]

Reading the forums, there seems to be nothing good about DT at all.
Maybe it's my fault reading before even completing DT. But the negativity starts to affect me, and I'm losing motivation. I just landed in Tural, and I immediately feel like logging off, because I've been hearing all bad things about Wuk Lamat.

So is there anything good to look forward to from DT?

Serious answer: Dawntrail is very good and you should stop reading this forum

[Valorak]

Yeah, I just finished it last night.

The story isn't as hype as EW or ShB, but we (hopefully) all should have realized that beforehand. Other than a couple of minor gripes, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to the next chapter. The fights, environments, music, art, and new graphics are all super awesome.

Seems to me like the negativity around it is being massively overblown by a sizeable but very loud (overall) minority of people that are for some reason, obsessing over portraying it as the worst story ever and getting other people to agree with them.

[Bearskjold]

Reading the forums, there seems to be nothing good about DT at all.
Maybe it's my fault reading before even completing DT. But the negativity starts to affect me, and I'm losing motivation. I just landed in Tural, and I immediately feel like logging off, because I've been hearing all bad things about Wuk Lamat.

So is there anything good to look forward to from DT?

I was genuinely bored for the first like 2 levels and Wuk is an annoying character, but once you get about halfway through, things start to get more interesting. It's definitely not the best FF story, but it does get better if you can make yourself keep playing lol.

[Zolvolt]

You literally had entire cutscenes running at single digit FPS! What the hell do you mean minor issues?!

I litterally didn't but go off

[Isala]

I litterally didn't but go off

There's no way you didn't have the 3 FPS windmill, or the 5 FPS classmates. Stop lying.