Last weekend was my first taste of the new trials system. And I love it. I went to the lighthouse four times. I felt like I could focus on my improvement more without worrying about a streak as much. And the loot is generous. But what I really love is the boatload of materials you get. It rewards your time and effort a lot better. Now I'm very much looking forward to the weekend. Yes, it still wasn't a cakewalk.
You will have losses, but you won't be out of the running. This is what I imagine trials being and should have been years ago.
I know my 2 cents is late, but I'm glad I can speak positively about trials for once.
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This was also my first weekend of new trials and I enjoyed it. I was a little jarred by the fact that you are locked with a flawless card once you get it, because I wanted to play with non-pvp friends after I went flawless and was worried it would put me in hell lobbies, but it seems to take an average from everyone because the matches were not as hard as the ones I was getting solo but still close and challenging. I came around to the flawless card thing because you can get so much loot by just continuing to play, and you never reset once you have it no matter how much you lose, so even if you're winning half your games you get a ton of stuff and have an incentive to keep playing (I recognize it was double loot to be fair).