I do have to admit that while the trial is really fun, it's a strange decision as a reward.

I don't know why they made it 480 and attached no mount. I beat the trial once, the glam isn't great ...so I'm done. 485 or even 490 would have made more sense, any player who isn't savage geared would probably farm a set, maybe even give them a little stepping stone to Savage. Then next patch the tome upgrades get released and we turn our Allegory gear into 500ilv and that takes over and becomes relevant again. So a 485-490 set wouldn't even make anything irrelevant, just serve as a decent patch filler.

Why take something away from casual players to use as a reward for EX players who don't even want it that much, then refuse EX players any sort of reward they'd actually farm for. Both sides have lost out really.