Does it feel a bit odd to go from having had several expansions with world ending calamities over our head to now just being back to a simple adventurer? Yes, but I can tell that the developers are setting up a story to be told now that the previous story was wrapped up in Endwalker. Is the story perfect? No, but I still immensely enjoyed it. Wuk Lamat is an absolute treasure and her VA did such a good job with the character. I was super happy having Erenville join our adventures too. Always nice too see some fresh faces joining our little adventuring crew. What I will say is that the dungeons, trials and just overall the music is some of the best I've seen and heard. A lot of work went into them and you can easily notice that. There was not a single dungeon I didn't like and that's coming from someone who has always had some issue or dislike with an MSQ dungeon previously. I will say that the one thing that is the biggest negative for me though is the amount of fetch quests in the MSQ. I felt there was a few too many of them especially early on and some of the later MSQ quests. I am still however, looking forwards to what else the developers have in store for us in Dawntrail as the patches come along, and I will still highly recommend this DLC to anyone who is a fan of FFXIV.

The Pros:
MSQ
The Dungeons
The Trials
The Zones & HUB Areas
Music

The Cons:
MSQ - The Fetch Quests (there were just a few too many)
Pacing can be a bit awkward at times, sometimes it's a bit slow other times things suddenly progress too fast but this has been an issue I've had in previous expansions as well (most notably Endwalker)
Some of the voice acting sounded a bit stilted a handful of times