The best part of Dawntrail?

[EusisLandale]

My only real issue with the story is the rubber bullets. Like... really? lol.

Rubber bullets in all the real guns. Real bullets in the nerf guns. Dawntrail everybody!

[GartredZW]

Well I want to say the best part of Dawntrail was the credits rolling, but that'd be a lie. The song wasn't very good.
It would probably be when Sphene tells everyone else "Shut up, and go away. I'm fighting this guy. He's the main character now"
Too bad they couldn't just let us have that moment for once. It honestly felt like the point of that scene was that Sphene underestimated Wuk Lamat, and that's why she failed.

There was also the moment when we went on a Capybara ride. When that happened, I said out loud "Holy crap, Finally. We split the party, and I'm not with Lamat. Watch, it'll be like three quests before the end."
The very next quest was the end.

[Erit]

All memes aside, I quite like the encounter design so far, even if I spent most of Everkeep on the floor because I can't read swords worth a damn. The music is generally a win, though the placement of some tracks seems a bit weird to me. In concept the two plots are actually pretty good, and right up until we have to discuss the second being bolted onto the first rather haphazardly I think they're alright—if it had played Smile over the ascension ceremony and then smash-cut to credits I would honestly think the plot was a win. The expansion did not need a world-ending crisis arc when the entire point was to be a palette cleanser to reset our expectations after Endwalker.

Basically if Dawntrail didn't reek of insecurity it'd be perfectly acceptable-to-good and worth the time and money. As it stands it is merely aggressively meh with unusually effective high points.

[hynaku]

Best part for me caused me to start playing Black Desert online because of how bad Dawntail was.

[LilaIronman]

Best part of DT is not playing it coz even though it is an EXPANSION there is literally nothing to do beside raids

[ovIm]

Hands down the playable content. Trials, Dungeons, and the Raids are an amazing step up from previous expansions, and I hope Square Enix keeps improving on that.
MSQ is something we only do once, but duties is what we engage with every day. That should be the real meat of an expansion.
(Yes, I am aware that on x.0 patches, the only thing one can do is the MSQ, Dungeons, and the Trials.)

[Annapaw]

That the MSQ ended.

[Antharaes]

Goodbye Wuk Lamat !!!!

[Amecoeur]

Pretty much the fight encounters. The dungeons, trials, and raids are really enjoyable. For me at least the dungeons give enough trouble not to sleep through.
Moreover is the revelation that I need to seek another game to play alongside FFXIV, since this ship appears to cruise into uncharted waters.

May the light shine us a true dawn worthy of celebration.

[Rientikall]

Joke answer: When it finished.

Real answer: The Dungeons, Trials, Arcadion. Wasn't a massive fan of the solo-trials during the story though.

I'd joke and say that Dawntrail is Stormblood 2.0 storywise, but that's an insult to Stormblood.