Just a note:
I am helping a friend try to catch up. She is just completed "Let US Cling Together." Now onwards to the last patch.....
NOPE! To even start the arc of "Before the Fall" she was to go and do Titan, Garuda, and Ifrit in hard mode. Why? The is no freaking reason why a new player should have to do these. It is not apart of the MSQ. There is no precious "Lore" that supports her having to be stopped in the MSQ to do these fights. At least we have a good FC that will help her punch these out. so it is really 13 Trials, and 3 are not apart of the sacred Story.
New players are NOT going to be happy campers trust me.