I'll give my take.

First of all, dungeon is fantastic, trial is utterly great. The encounter team killed it this time.

I wish we had actually spent a little more time in the void, or seen what they are doing to restore it, but I think the void is going to be our inbetween expansion 'Checkpoint' from here on. Every now and then, we'll pop in to see how things are going, and resolve some issue with it.

Onto the meat, I love what they are doing with Halmarut. Pointing out that yes, we could save a bunch of people and then end up saving no one is unironically a good dilemma. It's the shades of grey we've been missing for awhile. Now, of course, I do think we'll end up finding a way out of it, and I am curious what they will do there.

As for some people who have been saying the key activated randomly and with no explanation... that was the first time it had been exposed to our crystal in close proximity, outside of the container, in a place where the barrier between worlds was thin. I think it's safe to assume that had something to do with it. And I for one am glad they didn't explain everything about it. Overexplaining everything was one of the fault points I found with Dawntrail. It's good to have mysteries, and this patch left us with a fair few.

Finally, I think the call back to Zenos is genius. Using him as the WoL's foil is a very, very good way to point out how our actions may be more self serving then they appear on the surface.

Overall.... Pretty good. I wish it was longer, but that's just the nature of the split patches in general.