They usually pause it whenever there's a decently sized Natural Disaster. The US had Helene and Milton tear through NC and Florida very recently and there's still people without food/water/power/etc.
Considering that the final boss of the first stage is almost definitely The Shadowlord, they're probably putting Prishe there to do Vanilla > Rise of The Zilart > Chains of Promathia.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Well you're in luck, because Yoshi has heard your feedback and taken it into consideration, according to this recent interview:
This is basically where husband and I are at. We've been focusing on the older hard dungeons we haven't run yet, mixed with a bit of PVP and achievement hunting.
I assume the way things are going he's going to announce that you'll play as Wuk Lamat in 7.2 onward.
The worst this got was right after the Golbez trial when he just gets up and does what he was planning to do anyway. *tune in months from now!*
Ok this dude has to be retarded right? I get he's the hype man and whatever else but he could just *not* mention the fucking character and have the story go into another direction, you can hype something that isn't that fucking character.
I genuinely believe more than ever in my conspiracy theory that Wuk was intended to be the new main character, the new face of FFXIV, for the next 10 years (or until the game dies),, and they literally CAN'T afford to let her fail now as they likely invested so much into her, so much of the future expansion plans probably revolve around her (as they would keep forcing her in as the main character every single expansion), so much promotional art, merch, etc. Probably even planned to do trans-media (like FF15 did) with tons of outside media (comics, novels, spinoff games, even anime, all revolving around Wuk Lamat). She was supposed to be the perfect DEI-approved character, a "safe" protagonist that was meant to offend noone and appael to everyone, complete with a tranny VA. They'd even go as far as to replace Meteor with Wuk, it'd be Wuk who'd show up in Meteor's place in the future expansion cinematic trailers, and Meteor would either be off to the side in the cuck corner or not even IN the trailers.
Apparently giving a new character the majority of the dialogue in a 40-hour expac isn't enough to properly do her justice. They didn't "fail to properly depict" her complexity, every new character in Dawntrail has the emotional complexity of a five year old.
Yeah, I'd believe that as well, she's the replacement for Y'shtola so they can finally kill her off like they've been meaning to do for a while now.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if they bring back the Ascians after that shitshow. I would still take something recycled over another dawntrail.
Fuck it. I would rather go back to Elpis for an entire expansion than suffer through more DT. Or let us go back to the First again or something. Somewhere Wuk Lamat cannot follow.
I'm super torn on that tbh. Part of me wants a cohesive story. Part of me wants more glams and the Kam'lanaut hairstyle. At least it's not more Shantotto bullshit I guess. Never understood why she became the de facto mascot for XI.
