The emotional damage....

[Daughterofdeath]

I'd say it's both. With both issues compounding onto each other.
We got one of the worst written characters in FFXIV, and the MSQ also solely focuses on her.

tbh id agrue that y'shtola is the worst character written the amount of asspulling she gets every expansion and the only price she has paid for it is going blind which turns out to be a benefit not a punishment price for what she did she basicly dies every new area in the game more so after yoshi' lie pre endwalker saying "there is a price to pay" nope didnt happan asspulled the scions alive AGAIN for the 1000th time honestly at this point the scions are even worse than wuk.

All the good characters they killed off the little lalafell with a btchy attidude killed pre stormblood, zenos senpai killed, zero we probably will never see again since se went lazy on voids story, emet-selch dead and Dark meteion dead any good character worth a damn they kill off

[Vandi]

Regarding Wuk, too many people went into Dawntrail with completely the wrong perspective. DT was supposed to be an unsaid vacation after all we went through, literally, from the last few expansions. Handing her the reigns was simply a way to step back, sit in the backseat of the carriage and enjoy the ride, wherever it led. All the boohooing about Wuk’s exceedingly dramatic.

[Gwenkatsu]

Regarding Wuk, too many people went into Dawntrail with completely the wrong perspective. DT was supposed to be an unsaid vacation after all we went through, literally, from the last few expansions. Handing her the reigns was simply a way to step back, sit in the backseat of the carriage and enjoy the ride, wherever it led. All the boohooing about Wuk’s exceedingly dramatic.

Unfortunately they couldn't even get this right, seeing how half way through the expansion yet another world ending threat popped out of nowhere.

[Final-Fantasy]

Wuk Lamet made me learn Japanese and change the client audio to Japanese.

If mayhap, a community manager reads my post, please pass this on to senp-I mean senior management.

[RoboticNomad]

No, I think the vast majority went into Dawntrail thinking it was supposed to be a vacation and have lowered stakes. I don't think a single person's complaint has been that we weren't fighting Ultima in the heart of the galaxy or something.
The problem is it wasn't a vacation. It quickly turned into babysitting an idiot while you're forced to pity clap and cheer everytime some insane thing happens because the cat said 'peace'. The mentor cope also doesn't work because Wuk takes 0 advice since she's already the perfect peace warrior.
The poop cherry on the poop cake is the final trial, where we finally have a nice 1v1 with a decent threat calling us out directly only for peace cat to literally rip the fabric of reality to get back in the spot light, out damage us and steal our boss fight because apparently the warrior of light is outranked by the warrior of tacos and peace.

[Fatch38]

The poop cherry on the poop cake is the final trial, where we finally have a nice 1v1 with a decent threat calling us out directly only for peace cat to literally rip the fabric of reality to get back in the spot light, out damage us and steal our boss fight because apparently the warrior of light is outranked by the warrior of tacos and peace.

you forgot that the wookie broke through a time and space magic without being an expert at magic and not having echo while krile, you know a character who posses echo and is an expert at magic, didn't.

[RoboticNomad]

Krile just didn't believe in herself or peace enough.
Completely understandable as I'd also have trouble believing in myself if I was supposed to be a main character for an expansion but became less important than my USB earring.

[RinaB]

I think my favorite beneg video is the wol singing the "La hee" rak Tika great wood song. It always makes me chuckle. The "helping a sprout through the vault" is really funny. That dungeon was pretty hard when it was relatively new. I started playing when stormblood was end game and it feels like the vault was much harder then it is now so the white mage sprout shrugging at the end is perfect.

[chip793]

Yeah, they had actual writers. They should be done with their 2 year vacation in time for 8.0 though. Just like with half of Stormblood.

[TaleraRistain]

That quest in Sharlayan talking about "Big Moony" XD