New GE Trials negotiation is completely broken

 

The new Guild Expedition launched on Beta server Jan 28, 2025.  Read about it here.

We've been getting some feedback about how negotiations in the new GE Trials have seen a significant difficulty spike and it's now confirmed.

The first encounter of level 1 on the easiest difficulty level only had a 32% chance of completion as opposed to the 100% currently on live servers.

The above is encounter 28 on trial 1 the easiest difficulty.  So on level 2 there are 8 good variables giving it a completion percentage of 13%.  I don't negotiate and most of us don't that have established cities but there are people that do and if this is the easiest difficulty then that's ridiculous.