Ascendancy Services - Trivializing the game?

Nah. You can choose not to buy said carry, by doing the trial yourself. You are not forced to buy them, it is currently just improperly tuned content that will need a bit of work to get right.

At the same time, there is absolutely nothing wrong with people trading this service to others if they both agree to some sort of deal. There's nothing to 'ban' here; do you want to ban them because you don't like the price? Then don't buy it. Do you want to ban it because you don't like people getting their 4th ascendancy without completing the trial solo? They're in a trade league, they did what they do for many things they want but take time and effort to get that they don't want to invest: They traded for it.

Seems like it's working as intended.

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pattw555#0071 wrote:

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

Carries in any game system should be eliminated at all cost.

Imagine the old days trying something like this

Walk up to a stranger and hand them your PlayStation/Nintendo/Xbox and be like “beat this for me since I’m incapable”

It shouldn’t be a thing and it’s one of these “new age gaming” bs behaviors.

You never had a friend growing up that couldn’t beat a level of a game on like an N64 or something so you came over and helped them, or vice-versa? That’s kinda sad.

Plenty of people come over for sure but didn’t need anyone to play games for me cause of a skill issue. You’re right that would be sad

Reading this thread reminds me of a time in PoE1 where people were telling me not only that ascending was optional, not mandatory for any build, but also that it simply was not supposed to be something every player got to do.
Which is..... a take people had.

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The_Song#4903 wrote:

Reading this thread reminds me of a time in PoE1 where people were telling me not only that ascending was optional, not mandatory for any build, but also that it simply was not supposed to be something every player got to do.
Which is..... a take people had.

Seems like history repeats itself in this case lol

I'm sure GGG will make the trials better, or they won't and everyone will just be going -100 exalts paying for carries every leaguestart.

The answer to this problem is to make it so that at least 67% of players can complete their ascendancy trials at the expected level.

If more than 1/3rd of players can't complete their ascendancies at the level they become available, then the content is too hard and the game is overtuned.

Why not just make them fun? Then you'd want to do them.

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Shakeyvick#4112 wrote:

Why not just make them fun? Then you'd want to do them.

because 'fun' is a subjective thing, and if you look at the forums for a while, you realize that 'fun' for a lot of people here is winning with the least required from them possible.

There are people who only think the winning part of the game is 'fun', and the gameplay is in the way of that.

Hence, saying "just make it fun" doesn't really do much besides sound good.

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

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pattw555#0071 wrote:

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

Carries in any game system should be eliminated at all cost.

Imagine the old days trying something like this

Walk up to a stranger and hand them your PlayStation/Nintendo/Xbox and be like “beat this for me since I’m incapable”

It shouldn’t be a thing and it’s one of these “new age gaming” bs behaviors.

You never had a friend growing up that couldn’t beat a level of a game on like an N64 or something so you came over and helped them, or vice-versa? That’s kinda sad.

Plenty of people come over for sure but didn’t need anyone to play games for me cause of a skill issue. You’re right that would be sad

Yeah you had TONS of friends lmao

It's just a sign that the trials are so poorly designed people are willing to pay to skip it.

I will gladly pay for the service.

OP if you like them you could be the one making the cash lol. Don't see why you complain! Be smart!