The twins fight is the best PvE experience in the game.

I love maw but I only recently started being able to get scores in there. Working on the time achievement. When I stop being terrified, maybe I can breathe and enjoy it.

For now, AA. The aesthetics are great and I like the thought it takes to split the team into 3 parts. The worst part about AA is the requirement for 12 people- you're always one DC away from waiting for someone to relog.

Hel Ra, the Warrior is the coolest Trials boss I think, from a tank perspective. And it teaches people to *** block

Heal Ra, lol. But I've only done Hel Ra and Sanctum, and I hate enemies that do Poison AoE attacks, just creates too much chaos.

The most memorable for me is the 12 stepping stones, one for each player, and sinks when you step on it, so cool.

MoL >>> AA > Helra >> Sanctum

I like HRC, both for its design and its simplicity. Short, but still keeping some interesting mecanics. You are assaulting a fort, and the enemy types and placements largely reflect that.

AA is a close second just for set design. SO I find the most boring of the trials, in the middle the tunnels start to all look the same. MOL and SO also tend to just throw the same packs of enemies at you an busy work between boss rooms where the process is to just prioritize the most annoying caster in the bunch. MOL does have the more developed boss mechanics, but it can be a bit much for first timers.

Maw has cool mechanics that you actually have to do.

vDSA for sure. Many different fights, a cool atmosphere, and Hiath is a funny guy. After that, vAA is the coolest, followed by vMoL.

In terms of the trials style, I'd definitely say Hel Ra. The whole idea of teams having to split up and take different routes to storm a fortress is awesome. Pulling levers to open gates for the other group and destroying siege weapons that are raining down fire on them makes it feel really epic whilst still feeling realistic. The only reason I didn't choose HRC is that only the 'right door' team really get to experience this, those on the left just get trapped in repetitive fights until the other team gets to a switch and most of the boss fights are pretty uninteresting (one is simply tedious). If both teams got to do stuff to help the other progress, and the fights were more varied it would be perfect imo.

Maw on the other hand, whilst having a really cool style, feels really linear in comparison. Like AA, it doesn't really feel like as much of an adventure, it's just rolling from fight, to fight, to fight. However, the fights, especially the boss fights are REALLY well though out, really good fun and really challenging. It fixes a lot of the problems that the craglorn trials had where you could just stack up and heal through a lot of the mechanics and makes you really have to coordinate.

My only hope is that the next trial does something to disincentivise simply stacking adds up under a boss and AOE-ing everything down. If there was a boss where all the adds intentionally tried to cluster up, and massively decreased their damage received when they were stood together (like when you're attacking the wrong colour twin in MoL) it would encourage a lot of new play styles in trials. Having to repeatedly chain maybe 4 mini bosses appart and burn them down individually so that their power and survivability goes through the roof. Mix things up so one fight needs massive single target damage and the next needs lots of AoE so a variety of builds are needed.

I voted 'other' because I really do enjoy them all in a different way.
vMol is the most challenging, especially with Hard Mode
vSO is the most beautiful place in the game, mantikora's cavern is just epic et I find all boss to be really well designed and interesting
vAA is intense with cool mechanics
vHRC is my least favorite because of the RNG on last boss
vDSA is a really cool place aswell, I find it even harder to be competitive cause every second is crucial if you aim for Leaderboard
I got bored of vMSA after 500+ runs mostly because I've farmed it too much