Hi, I hope this is the right section for this but I rarely post here so I'm not entirely sure, apologies in advance if I'm wrong. I think I have a solution to help alleviate the problems we've seen in trials without trivializing it so there's still a degree of prestige for the sweats who like to grind out their weekly spoils and also make it more inviting on a weekly basis for the more casual crowd, as opposed to only when there's a top meta reward at 3 wins/from the bounty. The simple solution is to make trials loot work in a similar fashion to how benedict used to give us access to leviathan drops. Make every game in trials reward a currency, I'd suggest retooling the existing tokens for this but you could make a new one. This currency could then be exchanged with saint 14 for loot. Each week you'd have the 3,5 and 7 win items available for a scaling amount of this currency so that even those who can't achieve a 7 win card can still grind out the reward. You could have the full loot pool of items you've already acquired available for a fixed amount, similar to the raid chest in deep stone, which would drop at base light but give more chances on off weeks to aquire better rolls, helping to incentivise everyone to jump in every week since they'd always be able to work towards a favourable drop. Making the rewards an inevitable acquisition in this fashion would make paying for recovery and carry services less desirable since the value would be diminished, the player pool would become healthier and skilled players would still have everything sooner if you awarded more points for a win. If taken a step further where the more games you have on your card, the more your points were multiplied, similar to streak bonuses in regular crucible, your top lighthouse attendees would be again incentivise to finish cards as opposed to farming lower ranked matches and even the worst performing of us would still benefit from taking three losses rather than resetting as each completed match, win it lose, would add to the multiplier. I believe that this system, or one like it, would: improve the player pool, make trials a relevant experience for more players, devalue and disincentivise purchases recoveries, preserve the sense of accomplishment that the top players wish to maintain, encourage card completion which in turn would potentially help make matchmaking more balanced and ensure that everyone who played could feel rewarded for their time investment. You've already laid the groundwork with DSC so implementation of this method should also be fairly straightforward for you and ritual weapon missions being more accessible seems to have been received well also. This method would blend the two principles that have seemingly been embraced and lauded by many community members without encroaching on the exclusivity that others enjoy. You could even attached triumphs to reward the adept mods at specific long play incentivised milestones eg 100/500/1000 points for grandmaster pve players to also have a reason to engage. Apologies for going on a long as I have. I just wanted to make sure I made a fully developed argument for an alternative method to discourage cheating and encourage engagement and alleviate the many frustrating factors the drag trials down. I understand that there will be individuals who think that this is simply giving away rewards and others that don't feel it goes far enough. I however believe this to be the fairest compromise and, ultimately, we need to find that balance for the longevity of the mode. If you have any criticisms, constructive or otherwise, you should comment. Hopefully between us all we can find the balance that the team have been failing to this far and, with luck, perhaps they might crib some ideas from us all.