Dark Astoria arcs left me unsatisfied.

When I finished them I felt there should have been more. It felt like I was leaving off in the middle of the story. I brought up my contact list and searched in vain for the next contact and it didn't exist.

Well, some of it picks up in the DD trial.

Some of it, I suspect, other issues.

However, I felt it was much more cleanly resolved than the First Ward arcs.

I felt it was nicely resolved, while leaving various other plot threads that didn't actually have to do with DA lingering for the next issue. Although I imagine most people might feel it's not very resolved when you defeat Mot once and for all, but Dark Astoria is still a nightmarish warzone.

Have to agree with Major. I really liked the DA arcs, especially the last two. The story needs to leave a few hooks to connect with what's coming so I understand how it could feel like it's incomplete. Still, it was better than what happened with First Ward.

Then again, I think First Ward needs to be revisited and more content added to it. Heck, Praetoria needed to go to full 50!

If you're still unsatisfied Tenzhi, here, have a Saltine.

I don't know that I finished the First Ward arcs with any character. I remember starting them and not caring about them much.

I liked the Dark Astoria arcs, but after the last one it seemed like there should be more. And that they should eventually lead to thwarting Mot. If the story is only resolved in a trial, that in itself is unsatisfying, but it seemed like there was room for another couple of arcs leading up to such a resolution.

The Mot storyline is very much finished with the Dark Astoria story arcs (though in a way that he can be brought up again if need be). One thing that's important to note is that we CAN'T beat Mot by killing him... if we try, he just absorbs his own death and gets more powerful from it. Yeah, he kind of cheats like that. But anyway, that's the basic reason why the sealing ritual was the only real way to beat him.

As for the Dilemma Diabolique Trial, it can be considered separate from the Mot storyline, and instead it wraps up the Diabolique story line (which was left hanging at the end of Praetor Duncan's personal story). It's less about Mot itself and more about Diabolique trying to use/take over it's powers and take them for herself. Mot is no longer a major player here, it's just a tool in the hands of another villain.

hmmmm left me very satisfied, particualrly that epic last mission. Leaves enough few loose ends to pick up later. We've now pointed a lot of other groups at DA, who will no doubt be plotting how to use some of the residue power for themselves. And the Pantheon are hardly going to be destroyed completely. I hoped there was more to come but i don't think it needed it yet. That epilogue story mission at the end wets the appetite though. That could have something to do with why you felt unsatisfied.

A warning to strict soloers who like story resolution - do not play Domiatrix's personal story mission - it undermines the apparent success you've had in her story arc, and sets up a major plot point that isn't resolved until the DD Trial.

Apart from Domi's personal mission, the rest of the DA story arcs are very well put together to give a satisfying conclusion without letting letting you know that you've not experienced the whole DA storyline.

It's wrapped up as well as it can be.

Mot can't be destroyed, only contained, and that's what we do at the end.

And DA will never *not* be a nightmarish warzone. With or without Mot, the BP will still have dominion there and there's plenty of other gods they can work on freeing.

At best, after the finale they could phase out the trapped civilians, fires and such. But DA will pretty much be a city of the dead until the end of time.



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I think that Mot should be viewed as similar to the Hamidon - an entity that's tied to the world itself, and can't be destroyed - in Mot's case, as long as death exists, he will exist too.

Alright, now that I've *actually* finished the arcs, it was satisfying.

I hated having to go to Cimerora, though, and the missions there were annoying.