First of all, I, unlike some others, do not think any of our options have negatives. We are just choosing what we want to gain the most of, and what I want the most of is wizard PR. Because that goes beyond Waystones in long term benefits.
Secondly, do you think that the deployment in Sylvania won't have a similar dichotomy of prioritizing helping the villagers vs excising the vampires? Or that even the Waystones deployed in harsher areas won't also have a choice of prioritising exterminating the threat or prioritising making sure the threat won't cause any collateral to innocents while its going down? Because if I was a gribbly and someone put Waystones near me, I'd rage and possibly attack innocents.
This will affect the whole deployment strategy and possibly PR. And it is a question of "acting to kill the enemies of man as efficiently as possible" or "prioritize civilian safety". And sure, no matter what, we ARE kicking the enemies of man in the shivs and we ARE making life better for people, but what we prioritize will affect stuff like casualties, speed, flashiness (and thus funding), thoroughness, who are the major backers, etc.
All choices have their upsides, and I believe prioritizing safety has the upside of better PR with the commonfolk, because how we deploy it now will be how we are asked to deploy it elsewhere.
