Why don't normal Trials drop anything?

[SendohJin]

Tomestone reward is enough for those people need in gear.

no, it's not. stay in your own bubble if you want but there are lots more of them than you think. the devs know this.

[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.

[Reynhart]

the devs know this.

Sure they do...as much as they clearly know that doing the same boring formula for every patch can't do any harm, right ?

[SendohJin]

Sure they do...as much as they clearly know that doing the same boring formula for every patch can't do any harm, right ?

some of them can know this and not be allowed to do anything about it because of budgets and other things.

and it's really terrible for you to bring this up as a problem in the same thread that you suggests tomestones are enough for other players. the selfishness that's involved in that is astounding to me.

your suggestion of cutting out loot from Normal raids doesn't fix this problem for anyone either.

[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.