Trust should go up to trails

[Penthea]

... I wasn't really comparing the two games.

Really? You were the one who brought up WoW. Unless there's a different game that is the supposed most popular mmo on the market you're referring to that I don't know about.

I would disagree with that statement.

Max level story content includes:

Max-level MSQ - includes mandatory dungeons and trials, requires gearing up for endgame and grouping up (outside of TRUST) until you can solo them in future expansions.

Alliance raid story quest - includes mandatory raids, requires gearing up for endgame and grouping up, even just to enter the instances in future expansions.

Trial series story quest - includes mandatory trials, requires gearing up for endgame and grouping up until you can solo them in future expansions.

Regular raid story quest - includes mandatory raids, requires gearing up for endgame and grouping up until you can solo them in future expansions.

Relic weapon story quest - may or may not require gearing, but definitely encourages grouping up for at least parts of them.

I didn't say that FFXIV doesn't have a lot of max lvl quests tied to pve progression I said that unlike WoW FFXIV frequently give max lvl quests that are not tied to it. WoW rarely gives max lvl quest content that isn't tied to pve progression. Don't confuse "frequently gives quests unattached to max lvl pve progression" for "gives mostly only quests unattached to max lvl pve progression" because they are not the same thing. I didn't say what you think I said.

Hildibrand, the quests that are chained to role quests, Doman Enclave and the Scholasticate quest line to name some examples of max lvl quests that are not attached to pve progression. WoW very rarely offers quests like this, FFXIV has in every expansion.

EDIT: just want to add in case anyone is confused, I support Trusts being expanded to msq trials, I just don't think it's going to happen soon. I think we would sooner see the Trusts being expanded to the rest of the 4 man content first considering it already works fine for 4 man content and there are significantly more of those to do than trials. And well we have no idea if SE even fancy the idea of adding Trusts to anything above 4 man, maybe we will see some comment about it in May.