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skip all has my vote!

Been there, my friend XD

Happens to me every so often going back for more of those early insignias. Terra can't evoke-damage to oblivion?? WTH?? Whoops.

Honestly, I still really like the pixel art and the world and event maps, and the overall framework of the gameplay. Those aspects keep me mostly engaged, supplemented by a (continually shrinking) portion of the player community, long established habit, some (past) trial/mechanics enjoyment, and a sizable dollop of sunk cost fallacy (far more time than money, for better or worse).

I wish there was more care given to recent event stories/maps, as well as the world story (though I've read that it improves). I also wish that challenging content wasn't pretty much "have OP units and/or gear or f*** off."
I particularly wish that almost all generally/potentially (efficiently) useful content hadn't shrunk to video-based and, maybe, off-forum chat (thus "have 'OP' time/access or f*** off").

</cough> ...to what I'd imagine was your actual, lighter, commiseration, lol...
Why yes, I *love* this game for the actively anti-intuitive illogical "updated mechanics" with which the developers break their own established rules when they box themselves in/run out of ideas. ;-)

I've got pretty much all of the tanks other than those that everyone seems to use for these trials. Physical tank-wise: Gladiolus NVA, Mont Leonis, Alphonse Elric (new), HA Charlotte, WoD Galuf, AWoL, Sieghard, D. Rain, Wilhelm, etc., etc., etc. Magic tank-wise: possibly all of them except Melia, lol. Pretty much all of the "provoke tank" units (now that SoS Lightning finally dropped very recently).

Like @Misterdyox said, if you have Gladio you can probably just have one unit cast reraise on him every turn and then take your time killing the genies. You'll also want a separate provoke unit with 250% fire/wind/dark resist (after buffs) for the ST magic attacks. NV Lightning is ideal for that role since she also breaks SPR for your mages.

My Glad tanks Genis just fine. Those three's phy attacks don't really hit that hard, well, compare to Asura, at least. I did use his Blink and Razor Shield every turn though.

OG Malboro is still the rightful champ as far as time taken to clear a trial not artificially increased by disinterest->disgust->disinterest (though Malboro probably included some not entirely warranted delay).
...also f***, as written previously, multiple thresholds (for multiple enemies to boot) and aoe physical/magical damage on the same turn.
"Dumb*** 'Mechanics' Mania" can keep the 250 trust coins, lol.

Indeed, with this new trial and the two materias we can craft from the Space Seahorse event this week we finally have a good supply of 75% beast killers!

Ah, thanks for the reminder I have to clean up all the EZ stages for my 1million pts and then promptly go back to forgetting DV even exists XD

Congrats! She's really great slot efficiency unit imo. Especially for 1-shot or FTKO. The rest you probably need is an entruster. And you can add killer imbue or weapon imperil unit because of the slot efficiency.

Can probably be done in two turns with 2 break bar units

What Shr said. 2 breakbar gets it done quickly.

DW Barrage also works if you don't have a break-bar unit or you want to bring more bonus units.

Are you fusing your (off-banner) 5* bases for extra STMRs? Cleaning all of my rainbow 'trash' is my primary money drain. The cactuars have to go somewhere, since I have no other units that I'd rather use them on.

Occasionally. The STMR process and the related "get 'em or lose 'em" for TMRs has annoyed the f*** out of me since it was new. Then, STMR moogles gave rise to a dilemma re: on what to use them vs. just fusing the units and a resultant lack of action. Now, I don't have even what little patience I once did for making two 7*s, and don't really care overmuch about the STMRs either.

I just buy those stupidly priced chain coins now, to reduce gil overflow. And cactaurs? Feels so wrong to use a maxed one on a 5* level 8 awakening, but...What else are we gonna do? Not enough new units coming to me for use or STMR fusing.

Singing?! Did we fall back into the Elephim era for buffs? (not that she was ever relevant here in GL because we got her enhancements way too late)

Bard buffs indeed, except now on a materia and also affecting LB damage, 'cause stacking/super LBs for damage to DV training dummies is the "future" of "endgame content" apparently.

Looked back, and I stopped doing supercite expeditions 2020-01-31, when I maxed 2* Bahamut with plenty left for 2* Asura and then some. Now I've got 74*8 ('cause I like matchy-matchy, lol). 2909 to collect makes me hope that the War Goddess' final form isn't for quite a while.

ye da king was a hungry growing boy

I’ve stopped doing them ages ago as you can’t use em otherwise :/ gonna farm after I’ve used the rest when she comes lol