It's only my first night playing the new Issue 20, and I'm already bored out of my mind of doing the same content over and over again. Why in the world would the developer make it so incarnate threads only drop in these trials?
If threads dropped in all content at least we could enjoy all our favorite locations and get a lot of variety in playing. I played the one trial 6 times in a row trying to unlock the first slot. What's worse is that during that whole night I got 12 incarnate threads. It takes 60 threads just to make the first item! That means I'd have to do those same 2 missions 30 times just to slot one beginner slot!
Now Imagine doing that 4 times and going up each of the trees. That's doing the same 2 missions 120 times just to get the beginner slot items. No one just wants the beginner slot items either, since the good stuff is up the trees.
Sure I might of been unlucky and these numbers might be slightly under the status quo, but that doesn't exclude the fact that people who want these abilities will be forced into the same content night after night until they do these 2 trials hundreds of times. Who would want to come on night after night and do the same task force hundreds of times!?
You might say that you can just go get shards on normal content and convert them. That is true, but if you're trying to obtain a favorite power in one of these trees, using shards will be many times longer than just putting up with this repetitive content. I believe people are going to burn themselves up trying to get these powers on the same content and by the end of the next billing cycle they'll all quit. Well not all, but all but the most dedicated.