Why make trials so integral to the completion of the MSQ

[Jeeqbit]

The reason is because they want you to fight a big bad boss with a party of players. Although they find it genuinely challenging to make Duty Support NPCs work for trials, they are also torn on whether to do it because they want there to be bosses so powerful that NPCs can't cut it and provide the experience of taking it down with players. This is what I've read across numerous interviews at least.

Back when I was going through the MSQ for the first time 10 years ago, every single dungeon and trial was a 40 minute queue and this was on a tank. There was no NPC support either.

The best advice I can give for this is:

• Queue at evening hours for your region, when more people are playing.
• Ask for help in your Free Company or Novice Network chat. They can queue with you to increase the speed at which it pops.
• Start recruiting in Party Finder to find more people to help.
• Unsync it. Any that are below level 91 can be unsynced using the Unrestricted setting. This means you won't need a full party. Although the higher level it is, the more people it would be ideal to have, to help with damage and survival.
• Once you begin Dawntrail, the first two trials have NPC support. Only the last one doesn't.

[syldon]

Where is the option to unsync it?