I have run 10 trials today, I never want to run them again. Am I alone?

Its not that I can't get a team
Its not that I cannot finish a trial (that bug was finally fixed).
I AM making progress...

Its just that I am bored out of my mind repeating the same two bits of content repeatedly.

I haven't even finished the first judgement slot on one character, and I am not having fun doing these trials anymore.

Am I alone in this?

I can't even bear to log into the game because I know all I will be demanded to do is incarnate content, which is just the two same tired boring trials.

Yep...I find it boring beyond endurance. I did get 2 of my mains to T1 Judgement, but the process is making me hate playing.

Cal

I doubt you're the only person however my advice is to cut back on running them sequentially. Persoanlly I'm trying to only run a few a day and rotating my characters to keep it interesting. If I ran 10 a day? Yeah, I'd probably burn out pretty fast as well but 1 or 2 a day keeps it interesting.

The thing to remember is that you have ages to get the new Incarnate stuff. I doubt we'll see new slots before Issue 21 and that is probably 4 months out so take your time and have fun. If you aren't having fun then do something else, play a low level character, run one of the new TFs or even play a different game (I bought a bunch of old games on GoG last week end and am playing through those).

While more variety would be nice, i don't mind running these trials over and over if im making progress towards new shineys. Once the newness wears out I'll go back to all the other standard content.

See the problem is: why should I maintain a subscription t a game I don't enjoy to play anymore.

This was the game I play to avoid buying other games,
It doesn't meet that need anymore due to the "new game" being repeat the same 2 events over and over.

Gunna have to seriously consider my options at this point, as there isn't even another MMO to go to for at least a year.

I'm not bored at all. I enjoy the new trials greatly. My solution: I've ran 3 of them so far. Totally not bored. Currently running the new Maria Jenkins arc that I hadn't gotten around to. It's very enjoyable. There's more in this game than just the 2 new trials. I've even rand the Admiral Sutter TF twice. Great fun as well.

Why play so many if you don't like them? Just run them once or twice a week instead

I will also say that while I'm slowly making process on the one 50 that I'm running incarnate stuff on, I've burned out on this game more in the last week than I have in the last 3 years.

These two trials are already repetitive and this new salvage is more baffling than I can actually believe. I like sitting there trying to figure out which of these rare components I might need in 6 months when I might get to slot a rare into something. But there are something like 40 absurd and arbitrarily named items that I may or may not be able to use, and 5 choices to choose from, none of which are clearly useful to me.

Will someone's advice be to stop playing the game? Yes. I would prefer an option that is still fun though.

Did two trials yesterday. Didn't do any today. I'm fine.

I can understand your point of view (I think). While it is easy to say "play like you want, not like others want", maybe what you want is to play with your friends, and maybe all your friends want is to run the trials over and over, for example.

If you're not having fun, cancelling your sub for a bit doesn't seem like a bad idea to me ; some people might do ten or twenty trials a day right now, less than one week after release - I doubt they'll keep up that pace 3 months from now.

... or maybe they will, considering this is the only required "grind" for character progression (everything else can be trivialised, XP with powerleveling, IOs with market/farming). Who knows. Ok, if I keep going I'm going to start yet another rant or plea for the devs to add alternate paths, so let's stick to the point ; if you're not having fun, take a break, and come back whenever you feel the urge to play again.

Edit: woops, missed some posts while typing that. So, okay, your problem is that you can't progress without the iTrials. Devs pretty please, add thread drops to every +4 foe and common component choices to the TF rewards.

You did better than me.

I got bored after the first one, especially the wait for the team to sort out. 70% to go to unlock Interface. That's 3 more Lambdas at least, assuming I get the threads needed to make the rest of the items to actually slot it.

If it could be done with 8 max, or less, I'd prefer it. Every person you need is more hassle and faff.

How to avoid endgame burnout:

Step 1. Don't do end game
Step 2. Read Step 1. again

Issue 20.5? What do you all think?

Note for european players:

If you need the influence to finish off the bar to unlock a slot then send me a message and i'll send you the influence needed to pay up to 50% of the bar One time deal per global!

Im on the bandwagon that loves the trials, the trial is an experience and it is an experience that you yourself make good or bad.

Plus . . . ION BABY!

I'm not tired of them yet, but probably getting close. My new plan is to organize an LGTF/APEX/TIN then double it for a Lambda, then add another 8 for BAF, then do a ship raid -- all without leaving RWZ.