Quote Originally Posted by Runespider View Post
Honestly I'm kinda glad it's a)crap b)so stupid that most of us will never seriously contemplate doing it. If the trial was the same but the end result was amazing we would all be really upset we couldn't take it to the last level, if the trial was a little more reasonable but still rather stupid we would possibly attempt it and waste mass amounts ofour time on it.

Be happy for what the trial is and fear what they could of done. If a few want to do this glow trial then good luck to them, I'm thankful for the lackluster upgrade as to not make me emo to worry about it. They are determined to do thisd minority upgrade so be glad it's crap and leave it alone.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. No matter what SE does there is going to be player rage against them. They could make the weapons OMFG "hard" to obtain, then the people who want status have something to be happy about but most relic holders will be pissed off. They could make them easy to obtain, but then the people who are status are pissed and moaning, most relic holders are happy but complain that it's "too easy". SE opted to do both, create one trial that's relatively easy such that a majority of players can obtain it. It has good stats and resembles the final version of their weapon. They also created an "upgrade" stage to it that has no additional stats and a weak aoe effect. It's ridiculously time consuming to obtain, but once obtained it'll be shiny and immediately noticeable, it'll make the status seekers happy. The only people pissed now are the ones that would be pissed no matter what SE does, just gotta filter them out.