TRIALS...

-IN MY OPINION-

WORST POSSIBLE ADDITION IN THE GAME!

Tried 8 times now to complete 1st trial, got to the boss 1 time with 102 honor lost my honor do to random volcanos every where on screen.

Took me about 30 mins to get through it, got lost most of the time.

You can say skill issue all you want if you want to be a child but it has nothing to do with skills.

ITS THE STUPID/MORONIC/DUMB/SESS/SUSS/FILTHY/RUTHLESS/IDIOTIC/WORTHLESS...


HONOR SYSTEM/TRIALS IN A WHOLE!

Imagine investing 30+ min into trial just to get railed by a unkown boss by making one single mistake - and then you start over again.

I mean it is fine having a respawn before a boss and learning bosses with repeated tries. But being punished by having only ONE chance and having to invest up to an hour each time is just retarded. They managed to make it more frustrating then labyrinth ... impressive.

its impossible to get even 5/6 ascendy points 99,99% of people wont even get it you need crazy gears and have skill level like ben how did GGG think this is good idea is insanity to me we need ascnedy points to help with our builds to help get through hard content and its locked for 99,99% of people

Kill Sirus at Level 85 to unlock you first ascendancy. This is an awful choice because the difficulty has nothing even remotely common to the rest of the game at that stage of progression.

On different note, any tips for the Terrracota Sentinels in the end of the second floor? They slam half the arena while AoE explosions erupt all over the place. And no, I don't have a million DPS so I have to actually fight them.How is this even possible without losing 2K honor? I managed twice to far, escaping with a couple of hundred to just die quickly on the Third floor. And to think that it gets worse form there.

I was so pumped about this game and I enjoy the rest of the design choices. But this one? I am losing desire to play. And I can't imaging doing this every season. Hard pass.

I uninstalled the game because of the Trials.

I tried the 3rd ascendency trial of both types.
At level 71.
Several times.

Campaign was brutally punishing.
The loot was the worst I've ever seen in any game I've ever played.

Glad I tried the game, but it's 100% not for me.

I'm not saying, make it easy.
Just make it enjoyably challenging.

I can only imagine how many people quit because of how overtuned this game is.

It's a beautiful game.
I mean it's just gorgeous down to the last detail.
10/10

But apparently the devs forgot or didn't care about the 'user experience'.
3/10

I'm out.

Trialmaster isnt that much better either: the debuffs in combination with boss mechanics are just too much.

Just now i managed to get to Chimera with my last token, played super careful and went after the kill as he was frozen - he had just 2% hp left, unfroze and onehshot me with his poison-spray. No tokens left, no ascendency point and 30 minutes wasted (in addition to hours at this point in trying getting point 5 and 6).
It is infuriating and and demoralizing - and i cant opt out of it, no alternative. Locking crucial character progression behind a system that punishes you that hard for a single missed dodge ... wow ... just wow.

Otherwise the game is amazing.

edit: so i went and tried Sekhemas again - honor got oneshot (1.5k) by some crazy aoe shit i've not seen before from terracotta boss (had <10% hp left), so i failed again seconds before making it by getting hit just once ... ONCE

So far the Trials is by far the worst part of PoE 2 for me.

Easily 10x worse than Lab.

They are too over-tuned, and the worst part is they take too long to get screwed. At least normal bosses, you just try again from the checkpoint.

You have to slog through 30 minutes of some of the worst league mechanics known to man to get another attempt at getting 1 shot.

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Deviant#8289 wrote:

its impossible to get even 5/6 ascendy points 99,99% of people wont even get it you need crazy gears and have skill level like ben

Typical PoE 1 veteran :) All you need is to learn mechanics, play smart and careful, like in any roguelike, and you'll do just fine after few deaths. It's not even that hard, at least first 2 floors / 7 trials. Ofc, it's almost impossible to get through in the first attempt, without learning anything. For example, in Act 2 trial even though you will get curses, but also you can get boons like 50% more damage and be quite OP. And traps are always the same, so you need to learn them and will have no problems with it. Well, most of the time :) But if you try to zoom through trials like you used in Poe 1 - sure, you will have huge problems.

One of the worst things in the whole game, atm.
As a warrior that went full armor - there is no way for me to beat the Trial of Schimiaz or whatever it's name is - i just skipped it after 10 tries and forgot about my ascendancy...

I was just like 90% done with the last boss and the game decided to crash. It was in ultimatum so I just lost because of the game optimization. It is the worst feeling ever.