Before you ignorant sweaties and whiners go on a rampage, read this, be enlighted to know what the recieving end of your bullshit bullet has to say. For those who don't know (I will be surprised if there are any) Trials of Osiris is a competitive gamemode where 3 people of the same fireteam are pinned up against another team of 3 where a team must win 5 rounds of killing every enemy teammate, and revives are there too. The level REQUIREMENT (idk if its reccomended and 280s can come in cause honestly those people arent my issue) is 290 but it would be better to be higher as level advantages are enabled (or so I thought). So now that I have explained that, you can tell that there are so many exploits for this damn mode, and im sick of it. The idea behind Trials was to have another gamemode (aside from iron butt buddys) that people could earn amazing loot [u]LIKE[/u] the raid loot. The word earn though is not even being used today in the game though. From ice breakers to sherpas to Requirements to find a group (honestly all I see on lfg sites are people that only want pvp gods like wtf man get a life) and all of that stuff I mentioned are not earning it. Using an ice breaker is WRONG because it puts you at an unfair advantage with special ammo, which they removed it from starting spawn FOR A REASON. Sherpas are also WRONG as your not earning it, your having someone do it for you, sometimes even paying MONEY to do it (come on bungie, if your going to let this happen just make a damn microtransaction option for lighthouse loot cause honestly your not doing anything). The lfg sites, are a great way to find people to play with and have new experiences, but when people just ask for the same people over and over again, well it just gets pointless to the sense that I can't find a group cause im not meeting a standard that I didn't think (or rather want) to exist. My next point is the guns and rewards offered by comparing some guns to their counter parts. Raid bounties vs trials bounties One exists and one doesnt, I hope you know which one is which Raid auto rifle: ok but has a suros fire rate Trials auto rifle: god tier and has a fast af fire rate Already are you starting to see an issue? No? Alright lets move on. Raid hand cannon: crap Trials hand cannon: ehhh, crap to me Alright that was a gimme, give me another chance. Raid pulse rifle: god tier and only pulse rifle that can have firefly, and with cocoon, it is insane Trials pulse rifle: its ok... I guess, maybe I got a bad role, but it just doesn't live up to its raid counterpart...oh wait a minute... Now do you see my point? No? Then your blind Seriously though if you havent found out, its because none of the guns (excluding handcannon cause rip all hand cannons) have anything alike, and thats BAD. The whole reason trials was made was to give players who are more pvp-centric rather than pve-centric a chance to get loot LIKE the raid gear. But as you can clearly see, none of the guns offered in both of these activities are similar in any way, shape, or form...quite literally. Im sure some PvP centric people are like "dayum that raid pulse rifle is sick, I suck at pve though so I gotta stick with what I got" and PvE people are like "dayum that trials auto rifle is crazy, too bad I can't win enough games for my life to even bother, guess I gotta stick with I got". For all you people who can do both...good for you mate. But im sure a majority of this community are not as amazing on one side as they are on the other side. The guns should be at least 80% similar so that way, if you can't do one side so well, you shouldn't be missing out on much. What I would support is if bungie created 2 guns for each type for both activities. Like 2 raid autos, each with a different archetype for a different purpose. I fall in to the category of lucky when it counts...sometimes. I did get the trials auto rifle after countless tries when it was the 7th win reward with a group. It felt satisfying but I felt that I was still missing out on stuff like the lighthouse (which I haven't gone to btw, and probably never will) and it truly hurts cause im missing out on something amazing because the people who have been there countless times give me shit on how I can't join them cause my k/d or ELO is low, or that I can't win a round cause they keep using cheesy, lazy routes that ultimately put people like me in a shit situation. And that, no matter how you put it, is BAD. I get bungie is trying here, but it isn't changing anything, and it sucks. They need to track down this kind of stuff and fix things like this so that people can't use it and spread it to the point of no return. If your one of those people that do these cheezy routes to get something thatvyou don't deserve, your an asshole. You can argue all you want but the fact of the matter is your technically cheating by means of completely ignoring the rules and taking an alternative to give you a win. Your not earning it, so don't go around saying that either. AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HACKERS, MODDERS, AND BOOTERS I hope I got my point across, and I hope some people actually read this entire thing as I put a lot of effort into making this post (I mean look at it, it's too damn long, but I needed it to hit all my points). I hope you enjoyed my long rant, and found it useful or inspiring. For all the people who disagree, please feel free to respond as I am completely open to your side, and it is respectful to hear the opposing sides argument as well. I will be reading all comments and replying to them as fast as I can (seeing as there is ample reason to respond). Thats all from me, I hope you enjoyed. And as deej says; Jim out God why do I feel no one is going to read this and just comment on the title. EDIT: Thanks for the comments guys! I really appreciate that many people are also willing to voice their own opinion. Although some of them are nonsense, it tells me that my voice is being heard, and im happy for that! EDIT 2: I will try, but I can not guarantee that I can get to every reply, they are stacking up a little so I'm going to try as hard as I can to get to them, though im not going to guarantee it. EDIT 3: for those TL;DR people: Trials is in need of serious changes. The matchmaking is screwed up, the idea of light-level advantages are almost no advantage between a 297 and a 318. The rewards compared to the raid are really screwed up as half of each of the weapons offered are pretty much unusable. Sherpas are ruining the experience too as they are just getting another reason to make others who are trying to go flawless's life miserable (my hatred for sherpas also apply to raid as well). Didn't get enough info? Wasn't worded correctly? Then read it if you desire more info or better worded info. I highly recommend reading everything if you want to get my actual opinion on the issue. These are just replies I had to give recognition to as it would be a really smart idea to integrate into the game Credit to Robotsaysrawr: [quote]They should lock all Trials matches into Trials weapons. Upon entering a match your weapon inventory is replaced with all the Trials weapons without perks. You can only choose from and use those weapons. Then no one can run NLB, Universal, Invective, or Icebreaker to get around the special ammo change. Everyone is also then on more equal terms and skill should be the deciding factor like it currently should be.[/quote] Credit to Synge1080: [quote]They should just lock in your weapons, armor, and subclasses so nobody can change their starting set-up after the match starts. You trying to get ammo with your sidearm? Nope, that's what you have to use. Generate ammo with icebreaker or invective? Well I hope you like those guns cuz now you've got to use them the whole match.[/quote]