Why don't normal Trials drop anything?

[Nihility]

the normal trials are intentionally made super easy for story purposes

the "reward" is trial roulette i suppose

[Nezerius]

the "reward" is trial roulette i suppose

More like mentor roulette. Having everything unlocked hasn't been a requirement for any other roulette (or at least trial) for a while now.

[Destati]

Perhaps the Normal Trial could have accessories as incentive while Extreme has weapons?

I wish they would do that. Still a bit miffed that Lakshimi didn't get her own weapon line.

[Maeka]

Yeah, but I remember way back when, trials dropped stuff.

Like, Moggle Mog. You can get a Mog Whisker (very rarely), and weak mog weapons.

I mean, Suzaku could at least drop 350 weapons. Would that be too OP?

Not something you'd use to fight Suzaku but would make an excellent "skip grind on other jobs" weapons.

[Rosentretter]

Yeah, but I remember way back when, trials dropped stuff.

Like, Moggle Mog. You can get a Mog Whisker (very rarely), and weak mog weapons.

I mean, Suzaku could at least drop 350 weapons. Would that be too OP?

Not something you'd use to fight Suzaku but would make an excellent "skip grind on other jobs" weapons.

350 weapons when you can farm mendacity, get the 360 and then 1 Rabanastre and Ridorana to improve it to 370. Would be a waste of data and effort.

[Vahlnir]

They haven't done that since King Mog (hard) back in ARR. Not really sure what the problem is tbh.

[Maeka]

350 weapons when you can farm mendacity, get the 360 and then 1 Rabanastre and Ridorana to improve it to 370. Would be a waste of data and effort.

*points to where I said "it would be a nice grind skip*

Not everybody enjoys farming hundreds and hundreds of mendacity, or they might need that mendacity to do something else with.

[Rosentretter]

*points to where I said "it would be a nice grind skip*

Not everybody enjoys farming hundreds and hundreds of mendacity, or they might need that mendacity to do something else with.

Why everything has to be so easy?

[Maeka]

Why everything has to be so easy?

Grind != Difficulty

We're past the 350 tier.

Suzaku requires 355 to even enter.

If you can kill Suzaku, why should you have to grind grind grind to get 350 stuff just to have a little fun on a 2nd, 3rd, etc job?

EDIT: Also, for that matter, I'd love to know why we stopped doing dungeon weapons. Even if they were a bit behind in I-level, not sure why it'd be so terrible if dungeons would drop weapons. I have like 3-4 jobs that are Lv70, wearing a hodge-podge of 355/345/325 armor, but have 300 weapons because the tomestones are needed elsewhere. For example, my freaking RDM has like 343 avg and IIRC, the weapon is only like 320 or something like that, whatever the first tier of Eureka is.

[Claviusnex]

I don't think dropping weapons is needed but minions, special crafting supplies and/or music scrolls would give some incentive for folks that don't do higher level trials.