Quote Originally Posted by StormChase View Post
We can help her but we can't do the job for her.
My dude, we didn't help her at all during her character growth. We were there for combat and that's it. As a character we were a non-entity.
She has to be the driving force.
Characters have previously been the driving force of the story without completely sidelining every other character in the protagonist's team.
I think the actual problem is this: Dawntrail is too short.
This I definitely agree on. Everything needed more room to breath. As much as I enjoyed the void quests in EW, those patches (or at least 6.4/6.5) should have been spent on DT build up instead of just 6.55. Everything is FAR FAR too compressed and it all suffers because of it.

I will say for probably the 4th or 5th time, I don't hate Wuk Lamat, I hate what the story did with her. There were multiple occasions where both the writers and scene planners undercut the competency of the character for no narrative pay-off and not enough to counter-balance it. Yes, every character should have their flaws, but the story needs to address those flaws, and I feel like Dawntrail never really did. At best they were hand-waved.

With a few very minor tweaks she could have been a character people at-worst felt mildly perturbed with being present.