Bring Back Original Steps of Faith as Hard/Extreme Mode!

[Novaura]

After Patch 2.57 made Steps of Faith easier to minimize the "hourglass effect" and get more people clearing Realm Reborn, it also took away the countless cowards who bailed on the challenge before it even started.

But now that the "hourglass effect" is gone and everyone can clear Steps of Faith before Vishap can even reach the third barrier (because the latest group I was in had Vishap beat immediately after the second barrier was broken), I want to see the restoration of the original Steps of Faith as a Hard mode in a future patch with everything the way it was before.

Because now that everyone can clear Steps of Faith with the greatest of ease, it's time to give this trial the Hard/Extreme Mode treatment that has been given to all the primal trials. I want a challenge!

[MilesSaintboroguh]

....Are you sure people can still clear it now?

[Rita1989]

Why would they add that when no one wanted to do the original.

[Zeonx]

People still cannot win this one.

they struggle and lose, just because you won and think it's easy doesn't mean you will stay in the dungeon to help those who fail.

You would probably say no thanks and run on the first or second wipe.

This is why just leave it alone its done and old news time to move onto new content.

[Boyzby]

People didn't even want to do it before, so what makes you think they will now? I don't think any reasonable amount of incentives would be enough to persuade players to queue into it willingly.

I suppose at the very least you have to select it yourself, so people wouldn't quit immediately or after one attempt, when seeing what they got from the Trial Roulette.

[Nestama]

Why would they add that when no one wanted to do the original.

No one liked it because it offered nothing as a reward. Effort in an MMO demands a reward.

[Colorful]

They said they're not working on harder modes of existing primals (I suppose that includes all trials too), better to invest that time into new primals. They could bring the normal mode, but I don't see how you'd get people to do it.

[Martin_Arcainess]

there is only 1 way people will do this trial! As a group! Clear STOF EX 2,000 times with a total of 2,000,000 victories across all servers to bring back Haurchefant! I will gladly do this!

[Sakuraluna]

Not gonna lie, it was a fun fight if you got into a group that could coordinate well. That wasn't always the case though.

[lawlHT]

In truth, offering a mount or some kind of glamor item as a potential drop from steps to fix the main issue (everyone jumping ship when it came up in trial roulette). There was no motivation to ever do it again after your first victory, and a failure on that particular trial could still take upwards of twenty minutes before a reset. It was just too much wasted time for no reward whatsoever