Ascendancy Trials in POE2 make the game completely unbearable and unfun.

I'd rather go to the dentist than do those trials ever again.

3rd trial was about as fun as a circumcision.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of roguelit/ke games and that's what these trials are.

I've taken my alts through the Trial of Sekhema but I don't do the second trial in Act 3. No way man. I skip that one.

I'm just glad they made it optional and gave me a choice not to do it.

I think we can all agree that the ONLY reason we do Trials is for Ascendancy Points, right?

We don't care about the loot from Trials.

We can farm bosses for loot. (Which is way more fun and satisfying.)

So maybe give us an option at the beginning:
1. Keep loot on death but have to start from beginning of Trial.
2. Trial contains no loot at all and when you die, you can start from the beginning of the room.

+1 Forcing these trials for ascendancy feels like doing and paying my taxes. TBH I would rather do my taxes than trials.

There should be a way where if you want to do trials to ascend you should be allowed to skip to the boss but with 0 drops/ rewards other than ascending.

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ShimmyShimmy#4203 wrote:

+1 Forcing these trials for ascendancy feels like doing and paying my taxes. TBH I would rather do my taxes than trials.

There should be a way where if you want to do trials to ascend you should be allowed to skip to the boss but with 0 drops/ rewards other than ascending.

Act 4 is guaranteed to have Karui 3rd Trial, probably Totem Auto Battler. Maybe Act 5 has a Trial too? I wonder what that would be?

The funny thing is 1-3 is actually rather doable. Unless u are a warrior then god bless you i guess, thats bad probably. But the fact that they literally lock the 4th ascendancy behind uber bosses is actually more then questionable, and that is not excusable by "UHH but this is early access". This was a descision they made actively. IF you do everything "correct" you can get through floor 4, even tho its vastly overtuned aswell. You can even manage to get there with 5000+ honor and multiple damage buffs. But god bless your soul if you dont have enough damage to kill uber maven, you wont beat the boss. He has about 50 times as much hp as the scorpion in floor 3. You want to rather do the ultimatum chaos thingy? Well guess what you dont just have to beat all 10 stages and the 3 bosses, you have to do it multiple times to farm fragments for the door to trailmaster, only there you get your 4th ascendancy. Like this actually BLOWS my mind. It feels like they are trolling on purpose at this point.

its the worst shit i ever seen, jesus,
ascendancy is a key part of the char,
honestly,i prefer playing the game and dotn give a fuck about the ascendancy,
fuck off,
If they dont change this, i will move to another game and many will for sure,
Especially the new ones,
I iamgine, lets play this, seems fun hehe,
what was the problem with poe 1 ascendancy,
I´m just waiting for poe 1 next league, enough of this

We with my group of fiends struggling a lot with 3-4 trials.

In POE1 we were doing Lab and some harder (not hardest) content with relative success/stability.

Difficulty feels too harsh on 3-4, like you need high dps / good gear, I guess most semi-casual people will struggle to achieve before total frustration.

Limited tokens make it hard to learn (even if person wants to suffer).

I'm going to go ahead and say Sanctum has been wildly unfruitful and unfun. It's like almost okay, but everything from the length of the ordeal to the limited availability of attempts to some of the broken boss or trial mechanics. You can't easily move your loot from your inventory to stash in between floors, and if you die you have to log out and back into the game. It's awful. I can't imagine anyone wanting to do this.

Same here, I give up on the game after failing to complete the 3rd trial.

It is far too frustrating for me to lose something like 40 minutes per try not counting the time to get another entry key. With this pace, I cannot not even properly learn or memorize boss patterns and I have no feeling of progression or improvement.

You may say me that I should try Chaos trial, but since I reached the end game I didn’t find any entry for that one. To me, those mechanics are only a huge source of frustration and they completely erase the fun I had with the game.