Did you (or do you plan to) level your Trust NPCs to 80?

I tried it once....

On average: A dungeon run with Actual players, at best takes 12-15 minutes and at worst maybe 20 minutes

When I ran switch with trusts; it took us nearly 30 minutes to complete

never again

Painfully slow and boring. No way. They are level 71,the default level.
Maybe one of the big reasons why I won't is that I don't really like any of these Scion characters.

It's not that bad to level seconday jobs. Though the pace of leveling the Scions is really slow.

I got all the Trusts to 80 right after I completed 5.0 Main Scenario. Getting two alt jobs to 80 was all it took to complete them all and while the dungeon runs are slower than with other PCs, it was nice for whenever I didn't want to play with other people in the moment (like my most recent Dark Knight in Twinning who spammed Unleashed and never pressed a single other button the whole dungeon - not even to finish the combo).

Plus, the interactions of the Scions was interesting to see, as well as the dialogue throughout the dungeons.

Understandably, not everyone will make use of the Trust system but that hardly means it's a waste of development resources.

I wanted to level all jobs so it was easy to do at the same time as I was leveling a tank and a dps.

In general I've noticed that people spend far too much time grinding the same thing multiple times when they could stack their objectives and do it in one go. Why max everything with leveling roulette and boring msq roulette, and then grind trusts, bicolor gemstones, wolf marks, relics, sightseeing log, beast tribes and other things when you are already 80? You can complete side content with alt jobs and gain "free" xp for them.

I did it, but it was very boring and I only did it because it was there and I haven't touched the Trust system since then. SE even increased the experience points the Trust NPCs get in patch 5.05 and it still feels really crazy slow. It must have been horrific before that patch...

Future MSQ dungeons will likely let you use the trust that one time for the quests (even if they're not levelled), I'm not looking forward to levelling them to 90 in the expansion (whichever NPCs we get that is)...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Level TRUSTS???? to 80! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

In short: you couldn't pay me to struggle through dungeons with them.

I think I did one or two dungeons with trust and decided I preferred the people debuff over them

Literally forgot this was a thing until I saw this thread. Didn't think there was much reason to since as far as I could tell there weren't any rewards or anything, and it seemed like doing just about anything else was a faster way to level. And now I have everything at 80 so I mean. Unless it gives something neat, why bother? I don't see much point.

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Originally Posted by Avidria

Literally forgot this was a thing until I saw this thread. Didn't think there was much reason to since as far as I could tell there weren't any rewards or anything, and it seemed like doing just about anything else was a faster way to level. And now I have everything at 80 so I mean. Unless it gives something neat, why bother? I don't see much point.

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The Trust NPC's are about 1/2 as fast as an incompetent group. 75% as fast if we are being super generous.