WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD
I just finished the HoT story, and it was… well… abrupt? unrewarding? not quite sure what yet, but it definitely didn’t feel like I accomplished anything significant.
First off, I have to question why the steps leading up to the final fight were so long with checkpoints so far between each other. I’ve died a few times and my armor was shot, and there was no repair anywhere to be found. It was at a point where I had to leave the instance because I had to repair. Doing this made the whole instance reset, forcing me to watch (unskippable) cut scenes, listen to (unskippable) dialouge, and kill the same mobs over and over, wasting a large amount of time.
The fights of the Illusion themselves were okay, I did Eir three times (died the first, killed the second, and third because the next boss bugged), Canach once (died to Mordy that round), and the Pale Tree twice (Bugged the first time, killed the second).
After finally getting to the big bad Dragon, I watched the cut scene introducing him, only to be met by… well… something I wasn’t expecting. It felt very “Wizard of Oz” with the little man behind the curtain. anyway, fighting him was okay, way too many things going on needing to dodge. After the first time I died to him, I went back in, only to have part of then floor be blown apart, and guess where the rift spawned. You guessed it, floating in the air, with Braham sitting there wondering why his commander can’t float in thin air like he can. Needless to say, I had to die and start over (this is where my armor started getting bad, so I had to leave, repair, fight illusions again, and back to Mordy).
So after a long, salt-infused way back, I get to the stumpy Napoleon-Dragon and get him down. Woo-hoo. Watch the cut scenes, and go back to get Trahearne, but wait! I can’t save him. so I shank my Marshal with his own broken sword, and for some reason, his head explodes. Okay, I’ll accept it. Moving on.
I get my rewards, and am sent to the spinning tree corkscrew. I make my way back up, and talk to my guild, everyone slaps hands, wants to fight more Dragons but I tell them to rest first. I look at my story tracker, and it just tells me there’s an undiscovered POI somewhere. I figure out that I have to talk to the copter pilot, talk to him, and get sent on my merry way to the camp.
Load into the camp, I expect some sort of… welcome? celebration? pulse? anything. I get nothing but a “Mordremoth’s mouth will clear the camp in X seconds” message. Wait, I thought he was dead? Okay, lets see what happens. BOOM dead. Move to the nearest waypoint, and I guess that ends the story?
So… I’m wondering. Am I missing something? Is there someone I have to talk to? Is there any parade like there was for Zhaitan? Do people not like me anymore? Where did Zojja and Logan go? Kass? Is Taimi still at Rata Novus? Will Scruffy 2.0 ever be made? Where do I go now? Did it really just end like that? I thought Zhaitan’s defeat was fulfilling, but this one is even worse…
Sorry for the long, and probably salty story, but any info on where I need to go to get some sort of closure to the story or anything please let me know, After all the headache that went into killing the Napoleon-Dragon, I’d like to know what is going on.