(04-03-2015, 07:05 PM)Verad Wrote: In the specific, the Warrior of Light is a character who has slaughtered half of Eastern La Noscea to get the ingredients for a feast in his own honor and never questioned why, spent about five levels and interminable hours of the players' life not realizing that the Inquisitor from Ishgard (whose name escapes me) does not have his best interests at heart when denying him access to Stone Vigil, hired a Mamool Ja sex offender to teach dancing lessons to Costa del Sol girls (among other absurd acts of letter delivery), and enabled the shared delusion of Hildibrand's competence.
Your conception of your own character as the Warrior of Light may be of one more competent, but from the things he does? He's a goddamn moron, and that's been established since Level One. The groundwork was already laid.
Company of Heroes MSQ-line :
All handwaved by the fact that it was necessary as established by the Company of Heroes themselves. Even though Y'shtola protests, she still tells you to go along with it because you do not have any other choice. Even if you protested, the CoH would just clam up because it was a trial that THEY THEMSELVES DEVISED. They also are not aware of the Blessing of Light that prevents tempering.
Coerthas MSQ-line :
Start of the stupidity, though AT LEAST the explanation being that if you ran him through prior to the moment you actually do, you would have likely ensured you never actually get to Garuda, which was necessary at the time.
When it comes to the MSQ up until 2.1, it all makes some sort of sense as you have an alternate goal you are pursuing. It's only with the patches when they pretty much require the WoL to never do anything remotely intelligent (such as you know NOT BRINGING UP THE NUMBERS BEING SHIT AND THE SHIFTY DEALINGS THAT YOU PERSONALLY OVERSEE) and everyone else to just go along with it. The plan has so many problems that just require everyone involved to be the dumbest human beings alive when placed in their situations (or in the case of Alphinaud, inexperienced - That was the only part that I really enjoyed because it's believable. Someone as young as him, who is not used to politics and military management, SHOULD make these mistakes).
Postmoogle :
Not MSQ, but I'll still entertain the thought. Most of the stuff you do comes at the requests of the letter carriers themselves. Gegeruju even enjoys the Mamool Ja mating dance but believes it's too risque for most of the guests he would have entertained by it.
In short, they are the artifacts of their own stupidity, you just smile and nod because your task is to be a good letter carrier. The only stupidity exhibited by postmoogle quests involve the Postmoogle himself because you're not throwing him under the bus.
Hildibrand :
Not MSQ but I'll still entertain the thought. You are often tasked by Briardien to do stuff that runs opposite of what Hildibrand is supposed to do at the time, and more often than not the WoL looks completely shocked at the idiocy being put forward. That he's still shocked after all this time is kind of weird, but not that bad. Being an enabler does not mean being literally the dumbest person alive like 2.4 onwards requires the WoL to be.
Funnily enough, it's often in the holiday events that the WoL shows they're not that dumb.
