She was just as egotistical as your average Asura genius... but then, having an Elder Dragon rifle through your mind while you're held in a stasis pod can have a changing effect on a person.
Look what it did to Ceara, Logan, and if you played Sylvari... yourself.
Still doesn't change how much I hate what happened to her in SotO. Like, if we'd had time to build it up, sure. But it otherwise felt extremely disingenuous. It was a jarring change and didn't feel true to her as a character, on top of a number of glaring plot holes.
Beyond that, there's a difference between ego and how Zojja acted. She also had the credentials to back up her talk. She wasn't blowing smoke up anyone's ass; she was THE premiere genius on the block.
& frankly it felt like they only brought her back to sand her down and put her on a bus for good.
It was even worse coming on the heels of Gyala Delve, shaky as that story may have been, with the theme of "your friends care about you but you have to actually tell them you're struggling."
To say nothing of the glaring plot holes and inconsistencies in her behavior towards the comm.
I loved Gyala Delve plot line for the Commander. I really want more of that to come in the future.
Zojja arc is literally the opposite of Commander's arc in the Gyala storyline. Instead of trying to heal her wounds, she just decides to forget it all and be forever tied to Wizards on a leash.
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Look what it did to Ceara, Logan, and if you played Sylvari... yourself.
& frankly it felt like they only brought her back to sand her down and put her on a bus for good.
To say nothing of the glaring plot holes and inconsistencies in her behavior towards the comm.
HATE it.
Zojja arc is literally the opposite of Commander's arc in the Gyala storyline. Instead of trying to heal her wounds, she just decides to forget it all and be forever tied to Wizards on a leash.
If they'd given it any weight at all, let us sit with her while she weighed her options, went back and forth, it COULD have worked.
Instead she's there for 15 minutes, loses Snaff 2.0, then is immediately mind wiped and shoved out of the story. It was just bad.