A3S nerfs incoming

[Zojha]

If something is too hard and/or has no rewards (or worthless garbage as rewards) to motivate people, people will not bother to clear it.

I dare say steps of faith would qualify as giving substantial rewards, Heavensward being gated behind it and all.

Motivation was at an all-time high there. Even so, it was nerfed, likely because Yoshi and the crew realized that forcing people to "git gut" doesn't work when people have the option to just leave the game instead.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I dare say steps of faith would qualify as giving substantial rewards, Heavensward being gated behind it and all.

Motivation was at an all-time high there. Even so, it was nerfed, likely because Yoshi and the crew realized that forcing people to "git gut" doesn't work when people have the option to just leave the game instead.

The issue was Steps of Faith was done so badly by the player base that any time it popped up in the roulette, people would rather bail and take the 30 minute penalty than to deal with people who were new to the trial or were just bad at it. This, in turn, made it even more difficult for people who still needed to clear it since now nobody wanted to help them. I didn't see motivation. I saw people not wanting to waste their time on a trial that doesn't reset on a wipe.