Quote Originally Posted by dragonseth07 View Post
You are caught up on this idea that doing older trials makes you better at newer ones. Running Ifrit didn't make me better at Titan. Running Titan made me better at Titan.
I half agree with this.

I agree that running Titan made you better at Titan, but running older things also makes you better at newer trials as well. Take Thordan Extreme and Zurvan Extreme as examples. They both have new mechanics of their own but plenty of recycled mechanics too. Recognizing how to handle those mechanics from previous experiences makes you better at them. Those towers in Thordan? I've seen those before, they were in T13! I should probably handle them the same way since I recognize that. Hmm, that Halbard in Zurvan? Where have I seen that before. That looks a lot like Scrapline from A9! A new player wouldn't recognize that since they never did the old content. That's why Zurvan was SO EASY, all of the mechanics in his fight are things we as players have seen before. Inner AoE attack, Outter AoE attack, Stack behind boss attack, a bait attack, a tether mechanic. These're all things we have done before which made us better at Zurvan.

Older trials do make you better at newer ones because those older trials are an introduction of things to come in the future.