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

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I think you still cant understand that WHAT items are needed for trial went to LIVE server and only thing that was not ready and temporary at test server was Amount of those items require to upg. In which case only thing that I should risk is amount of those items I decide to gather before this temporary number will finally go live.
I also gathered Riftdross not marrows lol.

You all disagree because you are in those 99% that obviously want trial to be easier.
All I want to tell you is stop whining and start farming. I have items for 99 ready for a month now and I share all gils with my friend and we both have work (normal 5 days a week 8h). I farmed/got those dross between gathering coins for his 3rd relic so I have no idea how ppl can say its hard to gather 1500 HMP and 60 dross.
Relic trial is stupid but to fix it they should add more drops to ADL and maybe add one 100% drop from normal DL not change whole trial to something else.

150M + 120M to finish an Emp isn't reasonable to most regardless of your ability to finish the trial beforehand. Now we know the exact number of cinder/dross to finish, the prices have skyrocketed to 1-3M/pc with cinder being rare because well.. Botulus Rex isn't exactly a walk in the park.

I can only imagine how much cinder will cost once desperate people start throwing money at it.

You also fail to realize you've got good resources in your friends that other people simply cannot match. Perhaps others friends quit, perhaps work schedule makes FFXI a 3-4hr/day experience, perhaps farming Dynamis daily to grind out coin doesn't sound ideal, perhaps some people have no friends or perhaps people don't care to buy a dualbox to play the game. Toss in the fact that soon new events will divert attention away from Voidwatch and you have a scenario where supply could plummet and prices skyrocket a la Alexandrite.

Maybe cinder/dross/plates will be Legion buyable. I wouldn't hold my breath though.

Bottom line is an emp shouldn't cost more than a relic when it was sold to the public as a casual weapon for people who don't care to make FFXI a fulltime grinding operation yet with the current prices it will outpace a relic just to get two trials done. Ridiculous.

SE being SE can't even be arsed to make HMPs 100%/kill which would still require 1500 kills in Voidwatch to complete a trial or drive the prices out of the stratosphere.