Monster was balanced, IMO. I did about as well as I normally expect to, playing on my SBK-build sinx. In other words, I got points for rounds 1-3 and then died horrifically in 4 and 5. XD Which is typical of most of the 15 or so ToH's I've attended, so...
Item trial was hard. 8 times for that magic necklace dialogue is pretty time consuming (you can't just spam enter; you have to select the second option in the dialogue box), plus we had to eat through the gold coins we collected for the base 40 in order to make the moon jewels... hard to keep the numbers straight in the heat of the moment, IMO. I'm all for it being challenging, but I think this is the first time I've seen it where one of the recipe items we got required one of the same items that we were collecting already for the non-recipe categories.
Kind of bummed about how the trivia went down. A lot of people were, understandably, really upset. I get that mistakes happen, and that's to be expected, and that's fine. And I do think people were a little too quick to start piling on the vitriol at Radiance about it. But I do wish a verbal acknowledgment/apology could've been made at the time that it happened, rather than just soldiering on like nothing was amiss. I don't think it was clear to a lot of people that the 6th question was meant to make up for the botched GTB one. Low point of the event, for sure.
That being said... YAY DARK SIDE!!! \o/ Two high priests! Use of strategy! And you guys managed to pull round two out despite a bunch of us getting booted by the dreaded mass battle error, so good on you! I have to thank you guys especially, because if we hadn't won mass battle, I would have been ONE POINT SHORT of getting my wings, so seriously: thank you!
Overall, definitely worthy of the word "Trial" in the title.