Why don't normal Trials drop anything?

[AriaXIV]

I tend to do Extreme, so I personally don't care too much, but it seems weird that the Extreme trials have all of the gear now while there's pretty much no reason to run the Normal Mode.

Perhaps the Normal Trial could have accessories as incentive while Extreme has weapons? It just seems weird to make the Normal Trial a one and done deal, particularly for people who might happen to start that content late.

Because.. its normal?

[Lambdafish]

I think Khloe really helped this back in HW, but she seems to have become dead content to most people (mostly because she's in idyllshire and most people don't care about the rewards), maybe if that kind of content got an update, we would see more people doing NM trials without needing to put housing items and other rewards in them.

The flip side of the argument is that NM fights should not be content, rather an accessibility tool so that players who don't want to do extremes get to experience the story, if more emphasis is put on the NM version, then it would compete with the Ex version potentially

[Jonnycbad]

They drop tomestones and EXP (in the case of Ifrit/Garuda/Titan/Susano/Lakshmi/Bismarck/Ravana).

[Luin]

Why should you be rewarded for nothing?

[Bright-Flower]

This has baffled me for a long time.

Now I don't expect normal mode trials to get unque models for loot or anything, but them getting nothing always seemed odd. A suggestion might be say weapons of the same ilvl as dungeons in the same patch. IE give normal Suzaku 355 weapons, not neccisarily even with new models. Definitely not the EX models don't want to take away from the ex weapons being earned.

As it stands, there's really no incentive to rerun normal mode trials. No loot. Better ways to get tomes. Do it once for story and never again unless you get it in trial roulette. Just feels weird.

[ChaoticCrimson]

Personally I think it could be neat to do a separate totem system between normal and Ex trials. Ex trials can still yield the weapons, and hand out their own totems for the weapons exchange like normal. But imagine if you had full gear sets based on Primals and other bosses. They don't need to be quite as high in ilvl as the weapons, but I think people would farm totems clearing the story fights if it meant they could glam up as something akin to their favorite bosses. Of course, this would also take a fair chunk of development time, so it's likely not an idea that'll ever meet fruition.

[Vahlnir]

Personally I think it could be neat to do a separate totem system between normal and Ex trials. Ex trials can still yield the weapons, and hand out their own totems for the weapons exchange like normal. But imagine if you had full gear sets based on Primals and other bosses. They don't need to be quite as high in ilvl as the weapons, but I think people would farm totems clearing the story fights if it meant they could glam up as something akin to their favorite bosses. Of course, this would also take a fair chunk of development time, so it's likely not an idea that'll ever meet fruition.

I love this idea, but sadly server limitations would be their excuse for not doing so. They have no issue monetizing on the item storage problem though, so...sorry, not buying the server limitations excuse anymore.