Ok...let me level with you here SE...

[Insaniac]

There is nothing exclusive about glowing or offering very small buffs for your party.

The exclusivity is that 1/10000 people will do the trial. That's pretty exclusive. I don't care about exclusivity. I just want to do as much damage with my dagger as I possibly can.

[Alerith]

The exclusivity is that 1/10000 people will do the trial. That's pretty exclusive. I don't care about exclusivity. I just want to do as much damage with my dagger as I possibly can.

This is precisely my point. If you don't mind, I'd like to use you as an example.

You want to do as much damage with your dagger as you can. In that case, you have no reason to do the afterglow trial. Some other R/M/E wielder crazy enough to do the trial in it's current form can do the work and you'll get the benefit in a few years.

As was stated earlier by Arcon, that's fine for someone who does the trial specifically to help others. But can you honestly see anyone doing a trial this crazy just for a part buff? I can't even see many of the "hardcore elitists" doing this trial for something that, at the moment, isn't worth getting.