how hard was it for you to get your blue mage spells out of Trials?

I went with a group that was 7 BLU 1 max level for Ramuh's spell. We got it our 2nd go, so a few people dropped, we picked up more BLUs and helped the guy who tanked for us.

It took over 3 hours to get this guy his skill. Easily 150+ runs. It was beyond ridiculous.

I think it took 20+ runs for Ifrit and Ramuh and around a dozen for Shiva.

Didn't bother with the other primals since I didn't need their skills to do a full rotation properly.

I mildly dread the inevitable grind of the six HW primals + maybe Nidhogg for their new skills.

Shiva was the first and last trial I did for the skill

We did in party with a 4/4/4 rotation (4 blumages, 4 capped other people, 4 tries per group). I was in the second rotation. My group got it on the second try, so we swapped.

That poor first group. I was the last of the people who tried to help the first group at the 12th run before finally giving up. I felt bad but I had to go.

I never did any other trial after that. The rng method is terrible. I've said it before and I'll say it again: what SE should've done is give a 100% rate on skills provided you're in a party of blumages, -5% per non-blumage. This would've made the content more "engaging" because people would be motivated to do the content with fellow blumages and at least get a sense of well-derserved reward, rather than get a friend at capped level to spam ad nauseam an instance just to get the skill. Especially when you consider the end goal is to basically partake of the Masked Carnival.

I got most of them the first weekend BLU was available to play. I found a group in PF for the dungeon spells (running 4 BLU), then we got more people for the trial spells where we did 4/4 runs, swapping every 5 until everyone had the spells we were chasing. We didn't manage to get all of the trial spells because some of us had to stop after 18 hours of spell grinding. I've since gotten a couple more of them (the one from Binding Coil and Leviathan) with random pug groups farming the spells, but I'm actually still short a few. I tend to keep an eye on PF for groups grinding the relevant instances for the purpose of completing my spellbook.

I'm hoping that when the new spells come out my friends from that original BLU group will be up for the grind. Because after spending that much time together there was no way we weren't going to add each other to our friends lists.

Once the Ifrit bug was fixed, only like 6 runs for normal. However I burned myself out trying before I knew it was a bug and had little drive to get more

Tried Shiva for 3 days, 4 hours per days.
The next day I decide to stop playing BLU altogether.
I’m not supposed to waste this much time for just one BLU spell.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

Shiva was the first and last trial I did for the skill

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I helped my friend get the Shiva skill, and it took FOREVER. I did the same thing except I didn't even get the skill, got bored leveling it (level 16), saw the RNG on Shiva, and was like.... HECK TO THE NO! Haven't touched it since. I don't even know what I did with my BLU weapon...

Shiva took me..78 kills, Ramuh took me 65 and I gave up never tried again never will because they're just not worth the effort.

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Originally Posted by Awful

Shiva took me..78 kills, Ramuh took me 65 and I gave up never tried again never will because they're just not worth the effort.

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This pretty much sums up my experience. I managed to get Titan and Ifrit thankfully because I had 3 party members that were super cool with helping me out getting my primal spells. But I just couldn't take it anymore after Shiva.

That fact that all of them had to carry me just to unlock ONE stupid spell for each trial just made me lose it and quit BLU.

I gave up on certain ones (Shiva)

But when I was farming, i'd see multiple horses, crafting mats, Nightmares, etc and never see a BLU spell.

It is pretty ridiculous. All for a spell that is a carbon copy of another spell