The exp stipulation, along with some of the more retarded conditions such as day or weather made certain trials hell (Don't even get me started on the Relic trials... oh how I pity the 2000+ killshots with Catastrophe vs Skeletons @.@)

As I said in my original post, it doesn't have to be a copy & paste job - Yoshi can tweak it however he sees fit. It's the concept itself that I'd like to see, done in a manner befitting the game. For example, to upgrade an Ifrit weapon it could be either beat him X times or trade in X totems etc.