Quote Originally Posted by Alerith View Post
The conversation is really starting to boil down to the main concern: The path of SE's thinking.

Sure, we who don't care about being all sparkly glowy could just let the issue pass. But the Dev team is going to get it into their mind that it's acceptable to make these horrid trials and to make gear even more of a pain to obtain than voidwatch already makes it. (Picture THAT one.)

No. I won't be doing the sparkly glowy trial. But I'm still concerned about it.

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.