Quote Originally Posted by Insaniac View Post
Refer to my post from the last page.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post265131

The precedent is that horrible things that most people don't want to do will be optional and have very little effect on the power of your character. This is a good precedent not a bad one.
If we were certain that's how it would stay, I would agree with you completely. But as it stands, it could be unique to R/M/E weapons.

In the future, they could say "Oh, well everyone was willing to deal with this trial. Let's add more."

If things went the way you stated, that would be perfectly fine. However, I'm concerned they wouldn't limit it to trivial things that people wouldn't mind being optional. Look at your dagger for example. Right now, afterglow is trivial and it's not going to affect your damage or performance whether you upgrade it or not.

What if, instead, the afterglow was something incredible and made your damage better, your delay lower, etc. etc.

Now there's a problem and it's a problem that could become real in the future if SE decides it's ok to go about doing trials this way.