No more almost impossible to obtain crap please

[Tile]

The afterglow effects are terrible, the only benefit is you look shiny (and didn't you already when people saw you with a relic weapon in the first place), and the trials are virtually impossible. Nobody is going to even attempt this, and even if they do, they're insane.

Wrong there, people will do these just for the fact they will glow.

AfterGlow is almost the same thing as Sphere people fight the same VWNM hundreds of times to get a body that has +1 more stats then the one you can buy off AH, But it Glows and gives a Sphere effect that you dont get at all, only the people near you.

the 99 weapons are the same thing as the VWNM Bodies. you put up with alot of work and you get alittle stat boost and you glow.

[cidbahamut]

As someone who won't be affected by these trials in any way, shape or form, I'm still pretty disgusted by them.

They are the proverbial writing on the wall.

[SirDayne]

Walk of Echoes "Walk of Logs and No Spell Drops" comes to mind...

The high tier magic scrolls have been set to a somewhat higher difficulty to obtain, and it has not been balanced so that you are guaranteed to learn the spell as soon as you reach the proper level.

Enough with the "difficult to obtain" and "only a few PCs will ever equip this" garbage.

[Alhanelem]

Wrong there, people will do these just for the fact they will glow.

Take a look at those trials again. The Mythic one in particular is so absurd, you'd have to be on drugs or something to even consider attempting it. Best case scenario of playing almost nonstop, it will still take you years. I cast doubt that the game would still be running in the time it takes people to finish it.

Also, the sphere effects have a lower priority than aftermath effects (meaning they get overwritten by them and do not stack with them). If anyone else is using a super weapon, they will not benefit from the afterglow. The afterglow effects are nothing big, just like the sphere effects aren't. Making you glow is about the only thing you get out of it. You get all the damage and delay and other stuff on the easier trial- nobody in their right mind would even consider this.

you put up with alot of work and you get alittle stat boost and you glow.

It's not just "a lot" of work.
Estimated best case scenarios:
Empyreans: Possibly less than a year if everyone who does voidwatch with you gives you the items, probably at least 6+ months if you have unlimited gil and can buy all the items other people get. These are the most realistic and maybe some people will do them.
Relics: If you gather a pop set and pop ADL the same day, that's 1000 daily runs of dynamis with a full alliance, so like 2 and a half years. (This is roughly similar to the worst case scenario for the base relic was back in the day. Nowadays, anybody can probably get one in a span of several months). This is excessive but not quite ludicrous, considering how long it's taken people to get relics and get the trials up to this point done.
Mythics: By far the worst of all. "Mythic" is right. The weapons themselves are practically myths. Very few people have these weapons, and then they proceed to give them the worst final trials of all. It will take roughly several years to complete this one trial with the current parameters. It would have taken even longer if the pandy warden pop items weren't made 100%. All I can tell mythic people is: Not gonna happen.

[Tohihroyu]

Turn on those JP buttons folks, thats the only way to upgrade them weapons! No wait I'm wrong... time for the EGLS whore mithra to distribute full porn vids to their leaders to get that.

Trials just for a glow?! PUH-LEASE its easy to just use glowing weapon .dats...that look better too I might add.

[Alhanelem]

Turn on those JP buttons folks, thats the only way to upgrade them weapons! No wait I'm wrong... time for the EGLS whore mithra to distribute full porn vids to their leaders to get that.

Trials just for a glow?! PUH-LEASE its easy to just use glowing weapon .dats...that look better too I might add.

Actually, it's your character, not the weapon, that glows.

I tried them out on the test server (which is the only way anyone is ever going to see any of these afterglows, or at least the mythic ones)

[Krashport]

3315 Ukonvasara Rare Ex
DMG:156
Delay:482 STR+20 "Ukko's Fury"
Aftermath: Occ. deals double damage
Afterglow (Increases critical hit rate)

So in the upcoming update, SE going to gimp "Most" WAR/MNK/PUP/etc... Critical hit rate then re~adding them to the Afterglow Trial to get them back....

[Tohihroyu]

Oh D: well Relic afterglow looks like your character has B.O. I'll stick with glowly weapon .dats

[Tile]

3315 Ukonvasara Rare Ex
DMG:156
Delay:482 STR+20 "Ukko's Fury"
Aftermath: Occ. deals double damage
Afterglow (Increases critical hit rate)

So in the upcoming update, SE going to gimp "Most" WAR/MNK/PUP/etc... Critical hit rate then re~adding them to the Afterglow Trial to get them back....

you dont get the effect of your own afterglow, only the people around you. so you dont get the crit rate boost

[Alhanelem]

Also, if someone else has an afterglow and you're using a relic/mythic/empyrean, your Aftermath overwrites the afterglow effect even if it's not the same effect.