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

[Crysten]

To the development team:

I don't know if you realized this yet, but the playerbase has long outgrown the need to spend endless manhours achieving the goals of a single person. Even more so when multiple people have relics now. The only way these trials should have been designed is kills, not items. That would promote far more teamwork and make us far happier than this tripe.

Once again, your vision of the game and what the players expect from the game are completely detached. Whenever you guys feel like designing content the players would appreciate rather than content that appeals to your morbid sense of masochism, by all means, let us know.

Regards

The playerbase

[Creelo]

20ADL items is completely insane tho. There is MUCH too many relics out there and going to ADL involve loosing dynamis entry while going for PW involve just some time loss.

Could you imagine the congestion in Dynamis - Xarc for doing this trial? >.<

Please SE... At least make it Kills.

[Coldbrand]

Yeah items is terrible, let any currently existing ones be traded in to be counted as a killshot or refunded for some item or gil or something. No one wants to play gear up the LS PLD lead's shield for a year.

[Damane]

its retarded beyond believe...

[Nervosa]

I don't care if the numbers are temporary, why even put a number then.
Seems like the Dev Team just wants to troll the community and get a reaction.

The requirement for Stage 2 should be what you have listed for Stage 1. (maybe x2 as much if you want to keep it "exceedingly difficult")
If Stage 1 is for the majority of players, it should be something random people could get together and do while still being difficult for someone to solo or duo. (like have weapon equipped while killing PW or ADL)

With the current numbers, the game will be dead before anyone finishes a stage 2 to have a glow effect that doesn't help them at all.

Alot of people use FFXI as a glorified chat room. You are not offering any new content to keep plays in the game and with each dev update you just slap them in the face.

[Insaniac]

Why is it that every time I start a sentence with "I don't think SE is dumb enough to..." the end of the sentence is always something they turn out to be dumb enough to actually do.

[SpankWustler]

Summary: We would vastly prefer Killshot-based trials.

This. Even if the number of kills would be a little bit higher than the number of items needed, I think a large majority would prefer Arch-Dynamis Lord and Pandemonium Warden kills rather than drops.

Plus, the drops from those kills could give the few, the deranged, and the subterranean some hope of completing the second trial before the servers go down or they go insane.

[Cowardlybabooon]

You guys actually want the FINAL trial to take only a week? I agree with SE on the amounts shown for V1. V2 is insane though.

[Insaniac]

Considering I've already spent easily 200 personal hours on my mandau (who knows how many man hours) and 150 hours on my Aegis, yes, a week long trial would be reasonable. Mythics should just get handed their 99 because they have had a shit sandwich since day 1.

[Rezeak]

Kill shot trail please // (u can have both trials if ya want SE)
Killshots should be 20ish and item should be 5ish for stage 1