[quote]Trials has always been said to be a PvP end game just like Iron Banner. It is supposed to be tournaments where the best of the best fight. Players that worked hard to get their light and skill level up. If you want to be a world champion in boxing you can also not say I don't have time to train I want to become world champion based on skill. Trust me all these pro athletes work hard to get to a stage to become the best. Also players who want to finish raids don't complain about the light level because it is an end game activity. Haven't heard anybody say like "Please remove light level requirements from raids because I don't have time to put effort into the game". If you don't have time to put effort into playing an end game activity then just play the normal elimination of survival modes that don't require light level. Keep in mind that the bonus from the artifact is resetted at the start of the new season. Guardians who now for example passed the 1000 light level mark will also be max. 970 again.[/quote] Simply put players don’t like that instead of skill deciding the outcome some games will come down to power level instead. Then the games are no longer about skill but who can non-stop grind bounties during the week to out level the competition on the weekend. It’s true the reset will even things out for the first weekend, but then players who no-life will have a significant advantage over those who don’t for the rest of the season.

I lost count how many times I pre fired a throwing knife l, landed a headshot and got 170-180, the guy lived and one banged me with a shotgun in iron banner two rotations ago. I outplayed him in every way shape and form but he beat me simply because he has time to grind out bounties on the moon and survived something he normally wouldn’t which has ZERO carry over in terms of skill in the crucible. Now iron banner isn’t necessarily”endgame” but trials where a flawless card is on the line, situations like this would be completely game breaking

The problem is bungie claiming that they are trying to make trials fair but then they allow artifact power to make a difference. There is nothing fair about 3 power level 1050 players who no life the game going against 3 980 players. Now if trials power was capped at the probable 970 pve powerful gear cap, that's fairness. Then skill determines who wins and not unbalanced damage output.

To use your example specifically: Imagine if that pro-athelete was put in a disadvantage with all his specific sports training when put against this new competitor. This opponent gained the advantage he holds not by the same sports training the pro-athlete went through, but by putting his time into another area that has nothing to do with what the sport the athlete's working on improving in. With the current format the only effective way to level your artefact's light level (=the advantage) is by grinding pve bounties. That should not be the only realistically feasible way for gaining the high artefact light level advantage in a pure pvp endgame activity. That there's no cap on that advantage and you can keep increasing it in a non-pvp enviroment is the source for the current complaints. The artefact reset is is a non-solution with the current format. I had a 1000 light level player in my clan 2 weeks into this season. The cycle will repeat the more the season progresses. Disabling artefact levels in pvp would be the most straightforward solution. Pinnacle gear would still offer the advantage but it'd be naturally capped at some point. Also assuming trials would be a source for pinnacles, which would fix the pve investment -> pvp advantage issue on that front.