emerald weapon extreme is quite possibly the worst extreme trial this expansion

[grinkdaboy]

i'm glad they learned their lesson from it and made diamond the way it is

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I prefer Emerald over Diamond personally.

[van_arn]

While the multiphase trials can be pretty cool, if they’re going to add checkpoints I’d rather just see multiple trials after the initial normal mode clear.

I wouldn’t even mind token halves if they insist on tying the trials together; ex kill emerald for one half of a token, the transition plays as you leave the instance, you go back in for the second half and fight gaius.

[ItMe]

OP why do you think Emerald is so bad?
Before we can have a conversation can you elaborate please?

[Avidria]

Curious about what makes it the worst
Personally I find Diamond a mix of fun and incredibly annoying. The timing on when he jumps away is suuuuper annoying for cooldown timing, and my opener gets screwed sideways if I'm not on the left ship... admittedly I don't care quite enough to spend time figuring out how to adjust for the fight when it's so easy already, but like... yeah.

[RyuDragnier]

Between all the Trials this expansion that award mounts, I'd say Diamond is the worst, and that's more just because it's more annoying than anything. But in terms of trials that don't drop mounts...Memoria Misera. WHY DOES IT ONLY DROP COSMETICS THAT AREN'T EVEN THAT GOOD!?

[Irisdina_Wiloh]

It's definitely the extreme I have the least fun doing, the second phase has good music and I think it's a cool fight from how it looks but I just don't enjoy the mechanics of the fight. I'm surprised people dislike Diamond so much although I completely agree that it is a nightmare for your rotation, feels like it's been a common trend with the more recently added fights to the game too.

[Vahlnir]

Between all the Trials this expansion that award mounts, I'd say Diamond is the worst, and that's more just because it's more annoying than anything. But in terms of trials that don't drop mounts...Memoria Misera. WHY DOES IT ONLY DROP COSMETICS THAT AREN'T EVEN THAT GOOD!?

Because said cosmetics are the dyeable AF sets for Shadowbringers, which a lot of people want for glamour purposes. And there is no other way to get them. Such things are coveted amongst a lot of the player base. Whether anyone agrees with them or not, it's effective. They might not be your thing, but they are many other peoples' thing.

[ItMe]

But in terms of trials that don't drop mounts...Memoria Misera. WHY DOES IT ONLY DROP COSMETICS THAT AREN'T EVEN THAT GOOD!?

IDK man, but I'm happy they used that as an excuse to give us another raid.

[grinkdaboy]

OP why do you think Emerald is so bad?
Before we can have a conversation can you elaborate please?

my first gripe with it is:

1) first phase is a joke. the most complex mechanic is orbs and then after at it's so trivial i wondered why they bothered. was the intent to make a reverse sort of situation with ruby? where p1 of ruby ex is so frontloaded compared to phase 2? if that's the case then they definitely missed the mark and could've just done away with it.

2) the audio and visuals are very boring. oh boy! GOLDEN emerald weapon! oh boy! GAIUS!!! it's very drab and unappealing to me. we can laugh together all day about how diamond weapon turns into mecha-ifrit, but at least there's something interesting under the surface there.

3) the fight is more punishing on melee on account of how quickly things snapshot in this fight. forced downtime isn't fun, either. sure, diamond also had its share of stopping and starting, but the stopping never quite felt as long as it did in emerald. dodging exflares is boring.