Lightbringers Podcast S03E18: Realm of Dreams Story thoughts 

I think they question we should all be asking is... "Why did Eparch skipped leg day?"

100% agree about the story and lack of cutscenes etc - calling for high standards and don't let them slip!!! comparing stuff to your competitors too. I'm sure Anet are taking notes. btw - within the story i thought i heard something about a spider...?

I think a better pacing would be to extend the story across two expansions so, you get a major drop of the story and then three smaller drips. Then you get another major drop and three drips to finish it. I think that would give a better pacing since this seems rushed and the narrative structure is absent from the last two drips. In the major drop, we had a Darkest Hour where things seemed really bad before we had our Moment of Triumph. In this half we have had no Darkest Hour, we've just gone from Moment of Triumph to Moment of Triumph. This means that the last Moment of Triumph we'll have in the last release will feel shallow and unearned. I feel like I'm reading a David Edding novel where the heroes just go from victory to victory and the villains are just basically no threat at all. A David Edding novel minus the humour, because that part is on point in his nocels.

Freezie strike CM lets go!

I ADORED the main story but y'all are right the other half isn't working, I think the main expansion should wrap up most of the plot and the last little episodes to wrap out all the little other plotline, it would feel better and with these much smaller-shorter episodes not have MAJOR other story beats. Nayos is GORGEOUS and the demons are sooo cool but theres nothing of substance, like one of those fake wedding cakes

Proper term/word to use for Eparchs legs is; Spindley

What's missing about Eparch is that the story has in no way presented the malignant narcissism that drives him. Look at Eparch, his design shows that he has tried to copy Isgarren in his own way. The form he has is one based on that Isgarren has assumed in recent times to make people think at first glance that he's a Djinn. Eparch looking similar to that is a visual sign that he has been spying on Isgarren and is trying to be a better Isgarren than Isgarren. Think of Trump being obsessed with past presidents of the USA like Washington and Lincoln and expressing that he's better than them. That's Eparch's relationship to Isgarren. What has gone wrong is that the amputated format is horribad at giving the players any sort of foreshadowing that this is the case. I can just hope that there'll be some collection in the third part that goes into this aspect. ANet has also failed by giving him seemingly redeemable traits. Someone who has a malignant narcissism in their personality commonly has none and only rarely has a few.