Quote Originally Posted by LunaHoshino View Post
This. I just did my first-ever run of it via DF, and we one-shot it. Why? Because the group communicated with each other on what needed to be done and when. A few things went wrong, but we were able to deal with them thanks to communication.

That's it. That's all that trial needs: people working together.
The 8 times my groups abandoned were in DF. That 9th time though, I had done every gimmick I could think of to get a party organized lol (ranging from "Free dragon rides" to "Join for an opportunity to be like Shiva and get ravaged by dragons" and many things in between), but I got in a party with 2 PLD (me being the weakest PLD, 1 WM, 2 DRG, 1 BRD, and 1 BLM. I cried when we won lol.