Passage of Persistance should just be get 7 wins and you get the adept. Losses don't hurt in anyway, and you don't have to do any card resetting until you get the adept. Once you get it, you reset and get another adept roll after 7 more wins. This would keep people in the playlist until they get their god roll and make the mode much healthier.
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Don't think that'll help. Adepts in Trials is like Adepts in other aspects of the game, they're in master tier content, which means the par to subpar players will find it difficult to attain them without a really good team. 7 wins without punishment for losses would be counter productive and no one would find any motivation to go to the lighthouse. Trials has gone from "Only the Sweats and Cheaters will make it to the Lighthouse", to "If you have a good team, even a bad player can get carried to the Lighthouse and look like a demigod" to now "Have pulse? Can win"