Time to Update The Triple Triad Card Gathering Options?

[Infindox]

If you want cards from EX trials, just do EX trials, whats the problem? they are not that hard.

They aren't hard, but the card drop for some of them is insanely low.
Varis's card is on a fight that is pretty easy to fight unsynced now, but sometimes tough to find PF parties. Most people only want to do one run for wt/clear. There's only dyable job gear attached as a reward for the fight so that lessens the people who want to do a grind even further. Then it's possible (which happened to me quite a few times in the process) for everyone in your group to get what they want (usually gear wise if they don't care about the TT card) and just bounce, leaving you to find yet another group.
Considering that every other reward in EX fights you can get after so many tries or buy off the marketboard (mats, music), feels kinda weird that the card is not available in that way.

[Arohk]

They aren't hard, but the card drop for some of them is insanely low.
Varis's card is on a fight that is pretty easy to fight unsynced now, but sometimes tough to find PF parties. Most people only want to do one run for wt/clear. There's only dyable job gear attached as a reward for the fight so that lessens the people who want to do a grind even further. Then it's possible (which happened to me quite a few times in the process) for everyone in your group to get what they want (usually gear wise if they don't care about the TT card) and just bounce, leaving you to find yet another group.
Considering that every other reward in EX fights you can get after so many tries or buy off the marketboard (mats, music), feels kinda weird that the card is not available in that way.

im at 349 cards, only missing the one from the new lvl 90 dungeon, and 4 of the red cards from the tournaments (seems kinda impossible to get without cheating imo)
I farmed Varis on 80, no pain no gain.

[dspguy]

It sounds like the OP is working towards the 1-312 card mount. I am too. I see it as a challenge and it should be a challenge. When I started on this TT journey, I had whatever cards I had earned through the course of playing this game since 2013. I had a lot of the ARR cards (24-man, dungeons, etc). I had most of the HW cards (I used to raid and run extreme content often). However, my SB and ShB cards were lacking. When I decided to start playing TT, I mostly stuck to NPCs.

Frankly, if the goal is to just "play TT for leisure" then you do not need any of those extreme cards. You can make a perfectly well-functioning deck without it. Take it from me. I had very few SB and later extreme/savage/24-man cards. This did not hold me back at all. If there was a card that would be part of my main decks, chances are I could find a suitable replacement from a card that was easier to get - such as either from NPC or from easily soloable trials.

Sure, I'd love to see some of these harder to get cards moved to an NPC or maybe allow us to exchange extreme totems for cards. However, IF your goal is to get that mount, expect a challenge.

[Brightamethyst]

However, IF your goal is to get that mount, expect a challenge.

Problem is, it's often not a challenge. Spending a stupid amount of time trying to form parties for dead content with low drop rates (Memoria Misera, Kugane Ohashi, etc) isn't challenging, it's just annoying and frustrating.

[Nezerius]

4 of the red cards from the tournaments (seems kinda impossible to get without cheating imo)

The four tournament cards are hardly impossible to get without placing #1-3. Just getting 20 wins against NPCs will give you enough points for 3 platinum packs, and will often get you to at least place #11-20 for the tournament-specific Bronze pack. Might even get you to place #7-10 too, for the Silver pack instead.

Sure, it's still a long term goal at 4 chances every other week, but still not impossible. It's how I got 3 of the 4 cards (with the last from Tataru, when she was still around as a TT NPC).