Sanctum for Ascendancy Discussion POE2

Sanctum is a MUCH better choice than old labs.

Old labs was a friggin' chore that many people just asked to get carried through.

Sanctum offers fun while completing your ascendancy, a welcome change.

Besides, there will be multiple ways to ascend, Sanctum will just be one of the options.

Personally love sanctum and look forward to it.

The problem I can already see that will cause a flood of complaints is the fact that it's an always-online game, so any lags or disconnects can and will ruin your run(s). These trials appear much, much longer and more cumbersome than Lab trials. This is going to suck.

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

The problem I can already see that will cause a flood of complaints is the fact that it's an always-online game, so any lags or disconnects can and will ruin your run(s). These trials appear much, much longer and more cumbersome than Lab trials. This is going to suck.

Absolute bold choice tbh when you consider how bad the engine in 1 already is and how much problems the game causes even on high end engine. Definitely rage potential when you disconnect in the last room

I spent thousands of hours in PoE but I've never done a singular sanctum, and Im proud of it

I have a quick question about Sanctum in hardcore. If you lose your honour in the sanctum, does it kill your character?
If they let you live I guess its a slow but 'safe' alternative to ascend? If they send you to standard, then it seems more deadly?

I really hope sanctum as its own mechanic is in POE2. It is some of the must fun content in POE1.
Edit: Nvm, I rewatched the reveal and saw they're keeping sanctum. I just hope the reward structure is the same as in OG sanctum..

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quodlike#4687 wrote:

Big L

Sorry GGG

I Loved .. so no Idea what you complaining about. care to be more clear?

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

The problem I can already see that will cause a flood of complaints is the fact that it's an always-online game, so any lags or disconnects can and will ruin your run(s). These trials appear much, much longer and more cumbersome than Lab trials. This is going to suck.

tbh.. on all these years I only ever had one time a connection problem that caused me to abort a trial run... so I think you might be puttign too much weight on this potential problem.

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

tbh.. on all these years I only ever had one time a connection problem that caused me to abort a trial run... so I think you might be puttign too much weight on this potential problem.

Except you are merely one individual using anecdotal "evidence" based on your own personal experience (and you may not even remember). EU servers are notorious for connection problems. There are plenty of threads that report about this issue, and I personally have had lag and disconnect problems in the past.

Hasn't been a problem for me for a while now, but that mechanic requires not to get hit at all, or not too often. If it weren't as much of a problem as you claim, Original Sin wouldn't be as expensive as it is, despite its extreme rarity, because a single lag spike can ruin your run and you need about 9/10 successful runs to break even, or at least so I've been told last time this was brought up. I personally don't like Sanctum for this very reason, so I don't engage with it.

Edit: And I mean no offense when I say this, but it's hard to take you seriously when your account is +10 years old and you have never even six-linked an item or completed Normal Lab in HC. Your gameplay experience is practically non-existent compared to an average league player.