What or how another player achieves an accomplishment, has NOTHING to do with your own personal achievement of the same accomplishment. There is no need for different colors of armor or markers for honoring the legacy of those who did it first. Everyone's achievement is a personal thing and takes nothing away from anyone else's.

If you are so concerned about how other players' use of the echo or buff or any of this will affect your own accomplishments, then you are basing your own worth on how others perceive you. Have pride in yourself. You know how you completed the trial. That is yours and yours alone.

Only small people feel the need to belittle other people in order to make themselves look better.