If they wanted a tragic character - some humility would have been a better choice to make him likable. There's nothing in Wyll for me to grab on to, so far anyway. Just a contradiction of the "Blade" actually being a squishy spellcaster, and some empty talk about being all this and that. Pretending to be a legendary hero but having been molested by goblins. It's just all over the place.
The player needs to root for their companions, good or evil. Lae'zel is a good example. She's brazen and arrogant but it's motivated and she still has a realistic take on her abilities. She's a young warrior aspiring to impress her lich queen and get a dragon mount one day, instead of some annoying babble about having ridden ancient dragons in the Astral Plane and slaying armies of Mind Flayers before the tadpole weakened her. Which is basically what Wyll and Gale are saying. I get Lae'zel and I root for her. Likewise I get Shadowheart and she's intriguing. I want to like Gale but I can't stand the ridiculous Mystra story.
Warlocks are also a very demanding class to write and understand. The patrons are so much more hands-on than actual gods for Clerics. Especially when Wyll is a "good guy" with a devil pulling his strings. I'm sure it will get clearer as the game goes on a bit and it will be a part of the story. However, I can't help thinking that it would have been better to just write Wyll as a clean evil Edwin type of character. I'm not sure where they can go with the good guy-devil contradiction and I'm afraid it will be something silly again, because the beginning is so shaky.
edit: I just realized another thing that seems off about Wyll. He's so much "one of the lads" type casual guy. Didn't making deals with devils and serving one for a long time change him in any way? More brooding, stoic, dark, delirious, something? He's literally Wyll from next door. The whole thing seems more like a soap opera. <sigh> It's Mizora calling again.. what does she want now.
That's exactly the thing. He's a normal dude. Except, he's now just a dude who can kick moderate as. If he wasn't the spawn of some epic bloodline, Wyll could have had a normal life somewhere. Instead, he thinks he needs to be this hotshot to receive basic respect.
The Wyll of before was purposefully a loser in the eyes of actual fighters. Cowardly, even. He's much like Astarion in that, once given a leg up, he gets drunk on power. I think that's okay.
However, some improvements need to be made. Wyll's writing depends on how interesting the rest of his arc is, honestly. I think he may yet bend to the darkside... or achieve actual maturity through real confidence.
Once we have to make a choice that's not so clear cut, he'll have trouble. Because Wyll doesn't have so much a moral compass as a role he cast himself in.
