Is DT over yet

[Ath192]

Didn't they literally say they want to move away from the Ascians? I am believing I heard something like that during Fanfest or Live Letters.

Yes. But clearly they lied.

Dawntrail was supposed to be a fresh start. Well let me tell you, besides the graphics, absolutely nothing feels fresh, the formula is as stale as fossilized bread, Jobs, for years, have been playing like the previous expansion's jobs but each time they get a little bit less unique and easier. So by now, you are basically playing half a job from Stormblood.

It's doomed man. There was another thread asking what I wanted for 8.0 and I realized I haven't thought about it because I have no hope. I'm just killing time in this game out of familiarity and laziness to try something else. And that's on me.

Secretly I hope SE will save my interest but I just don't see it happening. I also did promise I'd stay for at least 7.0 if the revamped the graphics, which I have held on. It's so bad though I couldn't even bring myself to finish the tier. It's just so samey. The game feels like a sensory deprivation tank when I log in.

[Jeeqbit]

They did want to finish the Ascian and Summoning arc, that's true.

But it's also the case that we didn't account for all the Ascians yet and SE don't like to leave loose ends. Not wanting to leave loose ends is why they have explored almost every piece of lore the game has ever made to the point they're finding the remaining crumbs to make a story out of. One of those crumbs is the few remaining Ascians that were unaccounted for. They could easily just say "they died somehow by other WoLs like Arbert or Shadowhunter", but SE usually doesn't do that.

Most likely they are going to explore it to move us away from Dawntrail given the game was better received under the Ascians. If you think about it, they never really moved away from the concept of monsters that endlessly consume aether. Sin eaters contain an abundance of soul energy, presumably of their victims, that all enter and overwhelm you. The 13th has monsters made up of, again, lots of souls and they endlessly consume more souls. The bosses in Dawntrail endlessly run off soul energy and they often try to endlessly collect souls to power them, draining worlds of their souls, and this is no clearer than with Zoraal Ja who killed a lot of people so he could use their souls.

So they never really abandoned the concept of "monsters that endlessly devour aether at the expense of people's lives". Although we are kinda past Ascians at this point, we may as well continue fighting them given we didn't abandoned this concept, and anything to move us on from Dawntrail is probably a good thing.

[MoonNoire]

I'm all for it but it really feels like:

[Oizen]

It's over

I have killed Dawntrail

The amount of people I saw desecrate the wuk corpse with various emotes was a funny way to end the MSQ

[Midare]

It's over

I have killed Dawntrail

Thank you, you made the fact that Poochie was made to look actually injured over at most getting some blisters, actually amusing.