Are you satisfied with the new patch's response to Trials?

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Excellus#2314 wrote:

This is copy and pasted from steam:

"Trial of the Sekhemas

Players were finding Trial of the Sekhemas particularly frustrating in close range so we’ve reworked how Honour Damage scales when in close range, as well as fixing an important bug that was causing players to take far too much Honour Damage from Damage over Time.

Honour Damage now scales down based on distance to enemies, when in close range you’ll take 35% less Honour Damage, tapering off as you are further away from Monsters.

Fixed a bug where Damage over Time was dealing thrice as much damage to Honour as intended, and fixed a bug where Honour Resistance was only applying to two-thirds of that damage. (This was confusing for us too)

Skitter Golems no longer use basic attacks and instead now just explode.

Serpent Clans burrow and ambush attack now has improved visual telegraphing and cannot be used from as far away.

Volcanoes created by Rattlecage’s Fissure Slam now last half the duration."


Are you happy with these changes? Personally, I think the honor mechanic should be completely removed. A range based 35% decrease for melee means nothing.

But perhaps the biggest, most obnoxious aspect of the trial, is needing to farm the entry items. I've done the trial twice on Cruel, and it has been about 20 hours of play since I've found an entry item.

I've pretty much stopped playing. I have no desire to continue the game if I'm going to have to farm for 40 hours to enter a trial that I will probably fail because of RNG.

Thoughts?

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Justafaceaccount#1585 wrote:

Not really. I just flat out do not like Sanctum. The whole playstyle with the honor mechanic is unenjoyable for me, regardless of difficulty. So basically the only thing that would satisfy me would to be either remove it or to introduce an alternative. From the initial POE2 release information I thought that Ultimatum would be an alternative, but you can't access that until the next act, putting you a tier behind on your ascendancy points. So it's not an equivalent alternative.

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Bellatrixxe#2627 wrote:

Sanctum is AWFUL as an ascendancy mechanic for one primary reason imho.

It asks you to play your character in a way you do not normally play or build for during the rest of the game. (With a few exceptions.) Secondarily the honor mechanic is unintuitive and again, unlike anything else you build for in the game.

The introduction of the mechanic so early in the campaign when you barely even have gear or a spec together is also terrible. In PoE1 the acts were frequently referred to as 'the tutorial' for the real game, the end game. If the acts are the tutorial then why is this punitive, confusing, immersion breaking and frustrating mechanic being put on new players so early (and repeatedly to ascend) their character?

Sanctum was always an optional content island, it should have stayed that way.

This was a controversial mechanic in PoE1, loved and hated fairly equally by the community so it's another decision that has me baffled that they decided THIS was the right way to hang player progression and gate-keep ascendency on.

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Fishbaka#4790 wrote:

I'm not satisfied with the changes to Trial of the Sekhema.

Adding a 35% damage reduction to honour damage taken is a band-aid fix at best, and doesn't address the core issue which is that the tying defensive layers to honour (regardless of how much armour, evasion, es, or life factors into that) undermines the premise of an ARPG which is build expression, and player creativity.

You can't go in there with a thorns build, life leech doesn't matter, life regen doesn't matter. It's an entirely negating mechanic for so many different ways to play the game.