tybalt was a likable character who made the story a combination of fun and funny. instead of the bland trahearne lectures after every fight.
tybalt had an interestign backstory from what happened to cause him to be abandoned by the legions and move to the OoW
tybalt made the player character see that the game could be fun, funny, and make you grow attached to a character…..
and then the character died fighting impossible odds to let the player character escape.
Yeah, except the same choice was also made by Sieran and Forgal and nowhere do I see those two getting as much praise as Tybalt. Personally I only ever felt attached to Forgal and the other two felt obnoxious and overdone to me.
while Trahearne is “i sat in orr” …….who cares? did you do anything but stare at stuff in orr?
trahearne has never done anything heroic. he hides behind you(tell you to take the lead, or do this, or do that. let the commander do it blah blah)
he’s a scholar……and yet we are forced to believe he can handle the logisitics of not 1, not 2, but 3 giant orders…….
If you ever actually paid attention to Trahearne, he’d tell you that he studied the creatures and environment in Orr and he feels like his task to cleanse Orr is too much for one being – so he does have a personality and it’s quite easy to feel some sympathy for him if you just listen to him.
Also, he does save the player Sylvari character in the personal story. It’s not like he never does anything at all, it’s just that most of the personal story doesn’t involve him and for most races he just randomly appears on Claw Island.
I think he would have been better received by the player base if everyone had been playing a Sylvari from the start.