Ahh finally! The music you use in your guides! I have found that beautiful track :,D

Only thing I'd add to this is if needing to access the Blacklion trader, bank, or general merchant (Ever run out of a mining pick on a rich node somewhere remote) just use the PVP lobby which is like the free user's passkey it will have all the banking trading and mercantile needs one could ever want and when you're through just leave the PVP lobby and be precisely where you were on the map before entering the lobby even if it is at the end of a jumping puzzle.

I don't think enough people are questioning the ethics of what we did at the end of the MSQ. It really did make me feel like a genocidal maniac. It's also jarring how the many characters who you meet in the various zones learn of their fate and are weirdly fine with it. The endless show that they have their own thoughts, feelings, and aspirations for the future. They are most definitely sentient beings. I understand that introducing immortality at will in the story would definitely be a bad move, so the solution cannot be easy or just "immortality is now a thing and everyone has access to it". However I have two main problems with the solution we arrive at in the end: 1. I don't think the need for the aether to sustain the endless to be "living" aether was ever properly justified. I recall it being mentioned in ONE line, no reason given. With 99% of the universe now being empty as per EW, there's plenty of unused aether to go around. If they are just basically computer simulations, why would you need souls to power the computer?. Now, assuming they really do need living aether in the form of souls, this only lends more credence to the endless being living sentient people, which brings me to my second point: 2. There is a HUGE difference between letting someone die because the alternative is worse, and outright MURDERING them. Disregarding your solution with the robot bodies (which I hadn't thought about, great solution), yes, the system must stop but WHY TF DO YOU PUSH A BUTTON THAT KILLS MILLIONS? You can just stop the supply of souls and defeat Sphene and they will eventually fade away, let them live out the rest of their (un)natural lifes. The only reason it is written this way is so you can cheaply and artificially make sad farewells for some characters. Speaking of these sad farewells... If I was forced to do this, and truly, really, there was absolutely no other choice, I would be absolutely DEVASTATED and looking at what I've just done with abject horror. Instead the characters are mildly sad and still completely sure of their moral high ground.

I gotta disagree with the voice acting thing. I was fully engaged through the entire story even with a lack of voice acting in certain scenes. If you prefer the story to be told with voice acting I think that's fine but I don't think it's an "unforgivable sin"

Good video, thanks. I enjoyed some of the story but Wuk Lamat really dragged things down for me. At least the combat is getting better it seems.

Notice that nobody ever says "a dishonest review?" BTW, did you even finish the story? If you had, you'd know that the Dawnservant didn't have two heads. He had one head and one mummified corpse-skull.

I'd like to see Braham revived, not as a youth but as a wise soul tempered by being at one with a Dragon. He was a Chosen one all along, and Janthir Wilds is his kind of territory. I could see him eventually replacing Knut White Bear as leader, therefore sent by Knut as an emissary to the Lowland Kodan. Caithe is a given from the footage, a bit of a wild card as too why, other than she could find no comfort in the grove anymore. Countess Anise and Livia makes sense.

I read all the quests, my friend skips everything unvoiced, so when we have our play sessions progressing the story together it is quite tilting, especially since like 10 of those unvoiced cutscenes were super important for the plot, including one with Zoralja and the gate. Why was this unvoiced? There is no logic behind this.

Your voice is so relaxing to hear, I had to watch the video twice, because in the first time I closed my eyes a lot of times

A new MMO should not only aim at the target audience you are referring to, namely "older" people that grew up with the oldschool MMOs. It should try to innovate to get new players on board. Younger players.

I would absolutely love for an allied race-esque thing to make its way into Guild Wars 2! Imagine if we got to play freed Mordrem Sylvari or something, that would be incredible!

You still call the character “commander” whenever we are referred to as a “wayfinder” now but I very much prefer commander and hate the other :,)

I thought the problem with the Endless wasn't storage it was energy consumption. Putting the endless in robots just moves where the energy needs to go not the elimination of the need. A total AI allegory.

Thought the demon we channeled for Revnants was pronounced MALIX while the Sylvari is MAL-ICK <3

Not expecting this for Janthir, but I hope we do start to get more world politics stuff. It makes sense to me that since the dragons were a catalyst for unification, their absence would over time cause those threads of unity to fray.

Long video filled with lore and your thoughts about it is so good to watch! Great video Boss <3

Great video! I really enjoyed your speculations about the Kodans and Mursaat.

Wuk Lamat in English is something else... Story is way too slow for what it tries to do and achieve. Wuk Lamat's dialog in general could easily cut in half without losing any character building. Game's structure doesn't work at all for "mentor" arc of story telling. Can't wait for JP voice mod port for english voiceover, would fix some of the annoyance with Wuk Lamat. Msq's structure remaining identical to every other expac when story telling shift is so major is a god damn crime. Other post msq content is good, so expac as a whole is fine. However I would be lying if I didn't say that I was looking forward to hitting skip on every Wuk Lamat's dialog on my alt. Lastly. Wuk Lamat and Sphene are strangers since, yet she still comes in Gaia style when it makes zero sense and takes all the glory and steals your final conversation with Sphene away from you... I get that DT is about her, but that moment made me straight angry at writers.

One of the things that I remember from mapping Skywatch Archipelago when you just have a Lady whispering in your mind is she says she has seen fractals in other places and they are not always about our people…. There are more out there than those we have seen

8:00 There's a garden-terrace in the Wizard's Tower where some "fractal refugees" are gathered and voicing their feelings, along with some Astral Ward commenting on the scene... so I'd assume at least some of the fractal dwellers from the Archipelago have come to know better - or worse =P

Enjoyable watch as always! thank you :)

Warm milk to the ears right before bed time <3

The Archipelago is was what happened when the kryptis hijacked the tower and it went crazy manifesting the fracals in Tyria. The wizards didn't make the fractals real on purpose. What they did wasn't any worse than what we do exploring the fractals. Clearly explained in dialogue.

Regarding the Eye of Janthir, when I played through the story again (to /sit on the throne and grab the throne POI 😅), I looked out for the Eye.. saw it.. then skyscaled/glided over to it, and when I got close, it got object text "Eye of Janthir," which wasn't there initially. Also, I found it strange that once Peitha "took the throne," the Eye disappeared. Its job was done, I guess.. but was it a success or a failure....?

Great thoughts on seeing phased versions of the world incorporating the Crystal Bloom, etc. There is a very limited example of this in Amnoon.. where you hear NPC dialogue based on which faction (Sunspears, Joko, Cavaliers(?)) the character chose. I wish they would do this with any maps that had map-wide story-critical metas.. let you choose to enter a meta-enabled or meta-less map. Or even a personal instance vs. a public instance. When new story + map is released and you enter the map for the first time and see a giant meta underway - especially near the end with the boss - it can kinda spoil the "new story" experience.

The most awesome GW2 content creator of them all! I could watch and listen to The Krytan Herald's videos all day long. I wish I had an EU account, so I could play the game with you from time to time. Do you ever play on the NA servers? Thanks for all of your videos, looking forward to the next one.

I think I missed something important .. Fractal disaster? what happend?

I'd love the idea of ascension with your character depending on what story you play through. I would love to have aurene inspired armour, That would be an awesome one to do for legendary for PVE story playthrough and craft it after collections through all the dragon inspired maps. Also having find out about the lore behind the spirits of the wild would be awesome.

YAY we got the video! 🎉❤

Warning: The Video cuts off a little early at the end. >.< I thought I corrected this in editing, but nope. >.<

Return? Why? it is the Master in the Genre with PvE Open World Feeling, sPvP, massive PvP / WvW = 220+ ppl Content (all Game Modes are separately Balanced), Best Fashion, Gameplay, Mechanics, Story, COMMUNITY and much more! When I play other games, everything seems so Sterile! It's not for nothing that WoW is becoming a GW2!

10:44 did you never play any old FFs? couldnt disagree more with this take lol

Well with the time these kind of games take, it makes sense to work on gw3 with a small crew while gw2 is running.

I wonder if we will see Aurene again. Do you think it's possible that Isgarren might know where the five remaining gods have gone? we had our encounter with balthy, but remember he had Lyssa's mirror...how and where did he get that? did he get it from Lyssa herself, or was it something she just left behind in the mysts when they left, and he just happened to find it?

The problem with gw2 story is that nobody is the bad guy anymore we see this in every game this days its called the woke safe story telling to not offend anybody the demons in gw2 should have never been given human characteristics they are the bad guys as much as a nature event like a tsunami is and its not offensive to tell this, they hunger and they ate like the locusts the same for the elder dragons now what they gonna do with this story? introduce the mursaat who wanted to return to their homeworld that was eaten by the demons and let us sing together in friendship forget all past wrongs? lmfao

Its the first expansion ive ever skipped the story and for me its a bad msq.

Erenville: "Why didn't you tell me you were an Endless?!" Cahciua: "Why are you the only Turali with an Icelandic accent?! Even I don't have one!" Erenville: "I... shit..." Sorry, that just stuck out to me. 🤣

If Narut--- Wuk Lamat had stayed in Tuliyollal after the attack, and the story had moved onto Erenville and Krile, this could have been just on par with Stormblood or Heavensward, specially with the Final Fantasy IX themes. But no, Luff- Wuk Lamat had to return. Seriously Japanese writters sometimes just stick to a theme/character and over do it, and this was one of those times. At least i am very tired of anime narratives and specially 25 year old shonen anime narratives.

I am not done with the MSQ but I have skipped more in this Expac than all off the game combine and yes that also includes ARR lol it's very sad because I really wanted to enjoy it but sadly I just can't I am going to play the parts of the Expac that I like which so far are the classes and dungeons and raids but the MSQ I am sadly going to skip because I just really feel not motivated to go through and read/watch.

While I appreciate your honesty and giving legitimate critizism, I simply hard disagree that DT is "worthwhile". The writing alone has so many flaws, with WL overextended screentime as the biggest one, and so many un-used ideas etc, that I have to recommend skipping the story all together, until the robot-invasion, because verything with the rite was basically filler that doesnt have any interesting enough story seeds for future Expansions.

Oh boi, the paper-clip anaolgy makes this so much better to understand... And makes any kind of moral dilemma kinda... moot? Like, they're not real so its ok to delete them? So, we were rpoving Emet Selch right, after all?

Wow, currently running my alts through the story, have looked all around that room and have never noticed the Eye !

My speculation STILL remains: Is queen Jennah Lyssa?

Brilliant review, subbed!

The writers seriously don't have a handle on how to make the player character a deuteragonist. HW managed that, DT fails miserably - you could remove the WoL so far and nothing would change. That is a *terrible* thing to do with the *player* character.

When you mention that "you are a better person for it," it makes me think you don't separate yourself from the narrative and the game, which was already a significant drawback, but you proved me somewhat wrong. I wish you had addressed the logical issue of how they simply bridged the gap of an "age-long war" with just a dinner. Have they never seen war? Do they really think all the maiming, hate, and worse can be forgiven so easily? I'm happy you mentioned how Zoraal Ja is nonsensical, the reason for being so "evil" is simply because "Daddy didn't give me everything for free."??? I'm also very happy you highlighted the problems with the Endless and how we are force-fed the writers' agenda and point of view on them. They literally "hear, feel, and think." Not to mention, the reason Emet-Selch said it's okay to kill is because "we are so thin of Aether." So, Endless don't have Aether in them makes it ok to kill them? I don't think Shadowlands is much worse than Dawntrail story-wise; they both have the same issues with pushing the writer's view of death down the reader's throat. Bottom line, stop accepting the dragon-tyrant. Regarding Sins: As far as unforgivable sins go, dude, I am with you. ESO has it all voiced, so why doesn't Square Enix? They're just becoming lazier and lazier. This isn't a money issue; it's a "greedy issue." The NPCs all having the same model? Honestly, I'm so used to it that I can spot all skeletons and animations on any race or monster. It's really sad at this point.

Awful story writing. Look into who didnt help write this MSQ this time. And it shows.

Whats done is done. Hopefully Square Enix doesn't compound their horrible mistake with the Dawntrail MSQ by continuing to have Wuk Lamat take center stage. As long as she just stays in her little palace and plays no part in the stories of the upcoming patches, things will be much better.

Thank you for the review! You have a lovely voice to listen to, first of all! about FFXIV's Dawntrail, I agree with you completely. I find it sad many people see it as an expansion that has to be 'better' or 'just as fantastic' as the other expansions they loved so dearly. And sadly, those two expansions mainly being Shadownbringers and Endwalker. To me it feels as if ARR/HW and SB have been forgotten and seem to hold no more candle towards 'the peak expansions.' Therefore, forgetting that before ShB and EW, there too was lorebuilding, there too was world building, character- etc. you name it. So overall, I see Dawntrail as just that, new world, new characters, new lore. etc. And we've just stepped into it with what we had. You've said it perfectly that, sure it has its flaws but the journey through it was well worth it. You've also opened my eyes a bit in understanding the Solution 9 part more deeply, and I thank you for that. Keep up the good work! Definitely got my sub!

Can you elaborate on why you think you're a better person for playing FFXIV? o.o