White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[BillyKaplan]

If the ARR and HW Primals weren't just unsync fodder and people still cycled through them, both in pursuit of the mounts and to help friends/because they enjoy the fight.

I'll tell you one thing for certain - a lot less people would've run them. I've went into Ex trials on-level before but many, many friends of mine don't bother. They don't like the difficulty, they don't think they're good enough, etc. Now we're pony farming. It gives me something to do as I farm tank mount points, and they want the shiny. So unsync gave a lot more content to a lot more people than the alternatives.

But surely that was one avenue towards longevity with the game.

Extreme-trial running crowds sadly probably aren't big enough to warrant half the effort that would've required.

Gonna vary wildly person to person, I'm sure. For me, I have no real idea what I'm looking for. I'll know it when I see it, though, and I know what we've got and where we're going ain't it. That's about all I can offer on that front, again as someone that isn't even being enticed to go raid.

And as I said before, then maybe this isn't the game for you and yours, and the story only made me think that all the more Because honestly, it sounds like the content itself just isn't fun for you. Wishing you were doing anything else? I can sort of see how getting a good weapon that lasted for longer would help mitigate it a bit, but what would you even use it for? The next hard fight, which you wouldn't enjoy again?
Things I don't enjoy in the game, I don't do, regardless of prize. That includes even the most tedious grinds, liking filling out my fishing log, and getting the Centurio tiger, and running Mentor roulette. Which, now that I think about it, are all actual examples of trophies that don't lose value. Even with using SB fishing skills, getting Feast of Famine done was a pain in the neck, and whenever I'd see other fishers trying for those fish, we'd instantly bond, knowing what we were there for. They're not going to nerf Mentor roulette, and they're not going to nerf the tiger without overhauling the hunt system.
But at the same time, these are all casual contents, in the sense they take a time investment but aren't inherently hard (with the exception of the occasional Extreme primal in Mentor Roulette). Savage, in comparison, takes less time. It certainly shouldn't take years like the Centurio tiger. The problem, then, is with how the battle trophies of this game are earned and how long they last, which so far, other than PvP-Feast awards, have all been rather fleeting.