Can we do away with low spawn chance placeheld NM's?

[Horadrim]

I actually preferred these trials to the active ones because they allowed me to do other things in the downtime. Sure, it might take you 10+ hours to finish them, but that's like saying it takes you 1+ hour to bake a cake. Do you sit there staring at the cake the whole time it's baking?

As far as actual time investment goes, these trials are pretty darned low, and they're different from other trials. I like different. If anything, I'd say trials are too similar to one another and there should be more variety, not less.

My point was I don't mind waiting an hour or hour and a half for the respawn. I don't mind exploring old zones or hunting low levels NMs -- I actually like that they make you see NM's you might have never seen before.

What I don't like is that on top of downtime of waiting for NMs you actually have such a low chance of getting because of the respawn that it can take one who's window opens up after 1 hour up to 8 or 9 to appear. Imagine if your luck is so bad that every respawn takes 5-8 hours for you. It would take months just to make it to the point where you get to actually fight things that represent a challenge.

Again, I don't mind the 16.5 hour minimum to finish my Empy up to the Color Abyssite mob -- what I don't like is that that minimum can easily get magnified. Case-in-point: I tried to get Tumbling Truffle this morning before work (the plan was: One in the morning before work while drinking my coffee, one during my lunch break since I live only a 5 minute drive from work, and one as soon as I get home so I can go to Jeuno, get some stuff done, and set up to do the next trial tomorrow.), but due to his poor drop rate I camped him for 2 hours and got nothing before I had to head out to work.
Mind you, no one had been there farming him before me, so his window should have been open from the get go, and even if it was, I was there long enough to where I should have been able to see him twice.

I proceeded to go home during lunch and after 46 minutes, I literally got the spawn right as I was gearing up to walk out of the door.

I think that's a bit asinine. Technically I'm only finishing 1 trial a day at this rate anyway, it shouldn't be so rare for him to spawn that I miss him over the course of a 2 hour window and a second 45 minute one.

Consider the fact that over the course of 16 hours I could complete a piece of +2 from scratch and you start to realize a stark difference between the work = reward vs. wait = possible reward. I'd rather be actively working on something than standing around. I don't pay 12 dollars a month for FFXI to watch netflix and play my Playstation Vita.

Would the idea of having normal mobs drop a rare item that you can trade to the ??? point similar to abyssea NMs be a good idea? This way people can sell their excess items in AH and others can buy them and pop their NMs quickly as a group. If soloing it will be slower but not as much.

Farming special items you can only get while using your trial weapon would be great, imo -- At least then you can feel the progress you're making even when you're not getting drops. Frankly, I'm dreading the 15 minute respawn placeholders I'm going to be fighting...