TOP: “Make all Soul Trials Assets.” The previously designed Trials and Season Trials icons were based on a rune shown above the entrances to those trials – this solution for “Soul” or “solo” trial icon is sand in the overall hourglass shape… resembling a Roman numeral one, (simultaneously driving home both “timed” and “solo”) but also “I” as a word.
BOTTOM: Original design attempted to use one image to fit too many disparate situations. This hurt legibility, and yet also the subject matter of the image was unclear. (Continued…)