I’ll start by freely admitting I am bad at trials and pvp in general. And I am not going to complain about it being “unfair” that I have to play against (I mean get stomped by) sweats. I acknowledge that’s what trials is - everyone who chooses to play can get matched up against everyone else. But the passage of persistence card is Bungie’s attempt to keep people like me (people who “can’t go flawless”) playing trials to keep the player numbers up so there isn’t yet another trials death spiral of more and more sweatiness. Usually in a season I do one trials reset plus the lower tiers, get enough match drops and engrams to get good rolls of the new guns and then wait for next season. A chance to get an adept each week with the persistence card seemed like a good enough reason for me to play some more. I managed to complete a card the last two weeks, which was nice. But the grind was brutal. Very few competitive matches where I even felt like I could have any effect on the outcome. Essentially for my skill level winning just boils down to rng in the lobby - am I lucky to get matched with the two better sweats in the lobby than are on the other team? Then for the card, can I be lucky two times in a row a bunch of times? So far this week I’ve played 21 matches, have 7 wins total and just 1 win on my card. This doesn’t give me any sense of satisfying progression for my time spent. I’m not saying “woe is me” “trials is unfair” etc., and I don’t need the inevitable “git gud” “trials is endgame pvp” comments. I’m just saying if Bungie wants me to keep playing trials, the persistence card rules have to change to make my bad matchmaking luck less pronounced. Maybe something like you get to seven wins on the card and then subsequent wins have a 25% chance of dropping your one adept for the week. I’d still be mostly relying on lobby rng, but at least the luck factor would be kind of cut in half. I’m ok primarily serving as cannon fodder for a while, but there’s a limit.