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    Quote Originally Posted by Havenchild View Post
    While not impossible, the specifics surrounding those 3 trials are unique in that narratively the scions are right there for the encounter and they were written to be there with the creation of DT's MSQ.
    Retroactively though for older trials, if they were to continue current course, they would have to redo narrative design in the older MSQ to make people available to participate in the trials. Now they could rewrite certain scenes to include some characters but I don't foresee that much variance.

    If they abandon the narrative component though, technically they could also just throw in "random soldier A-G". Not impossible but they have to either abandon their precedent when it comes to duty support in trials or rewrite a good amount of MSQ to inject enough characters into certain scenes pre-trial fights. I imagine this is their current predicament.
    They already abandoned precedent by giving us random GC peeps for ARR duty support and even more random fill ins in the MSQ duty support up to ShB. And especially for the new trials we have a very easy narrative out, we already do summon random people to help us with the fights, no narrative reason for those to be players but not NPCs.
    And even for older trials the common thing if the MSQ even does a call back on there being other people with you instead of just you apparently going at it solo with 7 people that aren't there, is "get you adventurer friends", once again no narrative reason those have to be other players (who are rarely my friends), instead of NPCs (like I watched that thaumaturge grow from a newbie wondering which spell to cast to a confident competent caster, I'd take her to Shiva any day).

    And the cap trials should feel special because they are special not because you are blocked from progressing to the end by the duty wait times and people dropping out (like what happened for my DT finishing trial.)
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    Last edited by Ilisidi; 10-04-2024 at 06:25 PM.

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