Quote Originally Posted by Sarnai View Post
Yes I know that the point of "unreal" difficulty is to actually be hardcore. And Shiva delivers the hardcoreness with her tight dps check, a big stress on healers and barely enough room for error (3 deaths are probably gonna end up in enrage).
Nope, unreal difficult means lv 50 extreme synced to lv 80 extreme. Nothing changed. Basically the ARR trials now are easy, because players have more experience and knowledge on more mechanics. If with 3 death you get enrage, try to improve yourself (the party) and u'll get more easily

Maybe I'm wrong and Shiva is super easy. For me personally she herself is easy and all mechs are easy to understand, but the main problem is my lack of static party, and the mercilessness of that trial. PuGs may make mistakes and die, especially with the variety of oneshot attacks. Every clear or reclear party I got in usually wiped 3+ times just because of enrage.
That's a problem of players, not the trial, maybe you/others don't even use food/pots like usually do on Savage/Extreme (not that pots are useful here), but you know, everyone play in a differente style and must bring patience.

And what you get after it? A chance to play a game, and win 5-100 points. 5 points give you a chance to reclear the trial and play once more.

Unique rewards for points start up from 350 points, which demands you to be lucky 4 times or stick up for a long time, doing the trial weekly.
Yeah,it was explained in the last LL, basically it's 30 minutes each week to spend, not a "grind" but patience tu fill your points, it's a good way to keep "busy".

And the last part that I noticed is that currently you cant tick the "duty complete" in PF, which binds you to reclear it with people who may be the first time on it and obviously mess up the fight because of lack of experience.
I'm agree, that's a big shit to deal with.

For me there is just no purpose to do Unreals for now, other than to waste my time and mood. But I'd love to hear others thoughts on that, maybe I'm wrong?
Take it like that: you did extreme trials synced back in the days? If yeas, skip it, if no, do it only one time just to "revive" and knows how was the content in ARR