I've been really relaxed with doing trials on STR sword since I started it early december, as in logging as usual and seeing darkday up and deciding to burn a few mobs on fireday in abyssea mostly, never sheduling ahead for it, and I just finished the 250 manticores trial so it's not that bad to do, especially when you can kill 50-80 solo easily per day, many more if ppl team up so it's worth considering too :)
And for NNI equip, I have some weird playtimes that don't really fit with the usual weekday evening/weekends statics so I just bought the wins in the end (been doing dynamis/limbus/VW for money when I play alone) and I must say that i'm not disappointed with the results(6 wins on 8 runs,got 12/15 pieces, all those I needed too) so don't discount NNI gear yet :)

