Congrats, you did it!

Personally I quite enjoyed the old Keyes, however my fondness for it was based more on the flow of the trial than on the difficulty. I didn't mind the difficulty but it did make forming teams hard which I did mind. Given that anything that makes it more popular is fine by me.

I'd still like to see the difficulty tweaked up a little bit, primarily I think Anti-matter needs to arrive earlier, it seems that he doesn't show up until most of the terminals are activated and that kind of defeats the point.

I'm not sure how I feel about the new Keyes. It certainly is easier, but...

I still see people getting lost. While the pulse and number of glowies were a problem, I think they overshadowed the larger problem that this trial is confusing. The conditions for using the power cells changes too often. People are not understanding why they can or cannot use the cell with the War Works/Anti-Matter present/absent, and there is no significant break in the action to explain the conditions for the next phase. I almost feel it would work better if there were only one set of conditions (Anti-Matter present, no War Works) that could be explained at the beginning of the trial. That would allow teams to assign tasks (taunter, a team to clear War Works, and a team to retrieve power cells). This is something we have in other trials to a degree (teams assigned to a location in BAF escape phase or to collect a specific item in Lamdba) and gives players a direction.

Right now, it feels like a league can be carried by 5-6 people who know what's going on while the rest scramble in confusion.

I'll agree that the UG can be spoiled by one person, willfully or via ignorance. However, it's a separate and very different issue than the one facing Keyes. Both trials could be improved.

So where exactly does the difference between "tedium" and "difficulty" begin? Because if the goal is just to reduce tedium, they should've left the pulse alone and just reduced the number of terminals needed. That and cut the length of the Underground trial map in half.

I'm gonna make my position on this clear. When it was first introduced, Keyes was by far my favorite PvE content in the game. It was tense and required coordination with healers or good inspiration management if you wanted to stay alive the whole time. It was fast-paced and challenging -- you went AFK in this trial and you're dead, I loved that. It brought characters into the spotlight who were normally glossed over and forgotten in the rest of the game: good healers to keep everyone alive in both the terminal phases and the Antimatter fight, and characters who could do lots of knockback to save time killing the Warworks around the terminals.

Now, it's yet another trivial grind. Hell, the past three times I've run the trial, Antimatter never even made it to us at the second reactor. The pulse can easily be out-regenerated now. There's no sense of accomplishment anymore, it's just another grind to get the reward at the end, like the entire rest of the game. And I really miss feeling proud of finishing something in this game.

If they raised the pulse back up to the way it was before Key-baffin, then i know i wont have any complaint. As it stands the pulse is barely any trouble and even then its only felt by squishies.