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Edited by jhermannITJ: 2/20/2025 3:08:26 PM
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What the Trials Rework is missing... a PvE player's perspective @Bungie.

So... let's just get it out the way. I suck, lol 😇👍💠. I know it. I gave up on endgame PvP... and really PvP for the most part. I do my Comp placement... I gild my Iron Lord... but beyond that rarely touch it. I'll play Gambit for fun, but I had given up almost entirely on PvP. I went to the lighthouse 3 times last week, once on each character. I got a 3 streak... I got some good drops, I feel like I'll be able to improve if I stick with it... gear up for it. For context, I had purged my entire vault of PvP gear... I don't know any openings or angles... And you have to practice that stuff, and there is no place/mode to do that... or wasn't. Trials is so much better now. More context... I have been solo flawless 3 times before this... During Vanilla D2 (Trials of the Nine) and twice since it was brought back after the hiatus. It was always horrible. I had fun last weekend. Still a huge struggle for me solo, but it doesn't feel impossible... though not flawless, I doubled my trips to lighthouse in a single weekend. The loot incentive is there... more on that in a bit; more importantly the mode seems accessible to learn and get better. To learn those openings and angles... to incentivize learning the tactics and gearing up for the mode. Okay, let's talk about my criticisms and an idea... The 1st card doesn't work, if sbmm is going to turn off after 30 secs you might as well just get rid of it. 2. People are still exploiting the 2nd card to farm lower skill band players... I matched those with multiple flawless tickets, some show it on their emblem tracker. Now the IDEA... remember I'm a PvE player... PvP casual. The loot still isn't good enough... one thing is missing. @Bungie... Even Gambit has an exotic. Every 6 months... Trials should have an exotic to pursue. For the 1st 3 months (I'm taking inspiration from your points and current rng system)... a 5% drop rate for completed Lightouse passage chests... 20% drop rate for flawless chests, 7 streak chests post flawless. For the 2nd 3 months... 10/50 respective the above conditions. Every exotic... 80-90% of all viable gear comes from PvE. Every Dungeon and raid, multiple exotic quests per year, every campaign... heck... every season pass has one. PvP... dedicated PvP players DESERVE 2 exotics a year in their endgame. It will keep that pop stronger too. I'll grind till I get it 😇👍💠. Even at 5-10%. Also, every now and then ... once every 4 weeks, let the sbmm card grant passage... change that sbmm card to strict or at least a 90 sec buffer before it shuts off. Those are my thoughts, for your consideration @Bungie... please & thank you.

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  • I think the trials changes are pretty good, my only complaint is once you go flawless you can't reset and go again.

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  • I havent played Trials in a few years until this past weekend. I played on both cards with a friend (or with 2x friends). None of us are "good" PvP players. I played just over 50 games over the weekend. In the time that I was in a pair, none of our matches faced a trio. In the time that I played with two friends, all of our games were against trio's. The games that we played with all having the lower tier card, our games trended to be easier and we had some matches that our team went 5-0, others that we went 0-5, but most were fairly close and had some good back and forth. In the games where we all had the lighthouse card, we were basically steamrolled 90% of the time. I have an interest to play more, and learn more... I tended to stay away from 3v3 playlists, but now have been playing a bit more comp as well. I think this was a general improvement, but for how long will it last? Once the PvE only players get the loot that they are looking for, will they continue to play? I played some Trials in D1, and early D2. Went flawless 3 times between them. I tend to do ok in the 6's playlist most of the time where its a bit more chaotic, but not as well in dueling modes...

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    • The trials passage absolutley works from what I've seen. Are you saying you used the trials passage and qued up against players on a lighthouse passage?

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