Early Access Feedback - Ascendancy Trials in POE2 make the game completely unbearable and unfun. - Forum

" TheFilthxo#3768 wrote: I'll repost this here, as the other thread was toxic and likely up for deletion: My original character was a Chronomancer. Obviously, after having failed the 3rd trial ~10 or so times I concluded that my build was trash and that Chronomancer was a dead-end. So I rerolled. After leveling my 2nd char to 76 I went to do the 3rd trial again. Having massively overgeared it and invested heavily into the character, I assumed I'd one-shot it no problem. I instakilled the first boss. Killed the second pair in a few shots and made my way to the last room. The very last room gave me a random affliction. The random affliction was no energy shield. That was a Chaos Innoculation character... ~40 divine character, 16 levels overleveled, stacked with nice relics and I still could not complete the 3rd trial. I am unable to voice my opinion on trials, as there are no appropriate words to describe how I feel about them. Right now, four things make me reevaluate my decision to play POE2 EA: - Trials - Inflation. Economy and wealth (drops) are scewed too heavily in favour of lategame. Dadgamers play for months without finding a single Divine orb - the starting price on decent items - Lack of item-inspired build diversity. Not enough cool uniques with weird build-enabling features. - Lack of build diversity. Not enough cool support gems or keystones. Generally, support gems (and skills in general) have too high cost and too many drawbacks to feel good. Use Comet as an example: >500 mana cost, 2 seconds cast time, cannot move while casting Don't ever take random afflictions. You avoid them, because they can brick your run. You need to look a head, look at the pathing. Never let yourself path in a way that you are left with only a single room to choose (besides the boss, obviously) because that can brick your run. The end of your post shows a complete lack of understanding of what Early Access means... Last edited by Valsacar#0268 on Dec 21, 2024, 6:56:12 PM	Posted by Valsacar#0268 on Dec 21, 2024, 6:55:21 PM Quote this Post
" Valsacar#0268 wrote: The end of your post shows a complete lack of understanding of what Early Access means... Read it again	Posted by TheFilthxo#3768 on Dec 21, 2024, 6:57:30 PM Quote this Post
Almost beat it before the game crashed. Sekema takes way too long. Not trying anything again until that dx12 crash is fixed.	Posted by Assababud#2808 on Dec 21, 2024, 7:03:48 PM Quote this Post
" TheFilthxo#3768 wrote: " Valsacar#0268 wrote: The end of your post shows a complete lack of understanding of what Early Access means... Read it again ... Right now, four things make me reevaluate my decision to play POE2 EA: - Trials We covered this already, you made basic mistakes and just need to learn the mechanic. " TheFilthxo#3768 wrote: - Inflation. Economy and wealth (drops) are scewed too heavily in favour of lategame. Dadgamers play for months without finding a single Divine orb - the starting price on decent items This is BETA and the economy is largely player driven. We're not here to test the economy. Inflation is always going to happen, just learn how to sell things. " TheFilthxo#3768 wrote: - Lack of item-inspired build diversity. Not enough cool uniques with weird build-enabling features. - Lack of build diversity. Not enough cool support gems or keystones. Generally, support gems (and skills in general) have too high cost and too many drawbacks to feel good. Use Comet as an example: >500 mana cost, 2 seconds cast time, cannot move while casting BETA, not even half of the game is here yet. So yes, I stand by my original statement that you show a complete lack of understanding of what Early Access means. Last edited by Valsacar#0268 on Dec 22, 2024, 2:41:38 AM	Posted by Valsacar#0268 on Dec 21, 2024, 7:04:19 PM Quote this Post
" Assababud#2808 wrote: Almost beat it before the game crashed. Sekema takes way too long. Not trying anything again until that dx12 crash is fixed. Sekema generally lets you re-enter in the case of a crash. You'll be back at the start of the room you crashed in.	Posted by Valsacar#0268 on Dec 21, 2024, 7:05:00 PM Quote this Post
" Boltz_4_Life#1003 wrote: Why do people feel the need to announce their departure, as if it's going to have some kind of impact on the game or get an enormous amount of people to follow suit? People are simply venting their frustration. It is completely normal thing to do. Some are silently simmering, some hit (and sometimes break) stuff, some start ranting etc. Just regular coping mechanism. For myself, I will not share an opinion on trials as I am unable to form one that doesn't include very heavy swearing and this is forbidden on forums. edit: grammar Last edited by P_Johann#7575 on Dec 21, 2024, 7:07:21 PM	Posted by P_Johann#7575 on Dec 21, 2024, 7:06:26 PM Quote this Post
" Valsacar#0268 wrote: So yes, I stand by my original statement that you show a complete lack of understanding of what Early Access means. I think you, rather arrogantly, presume to know what needs testing and what doesn't. Further, you misunderstand me. I am trying to do right by the devs by providing them with my honest thoughts, rather than simply unplugging. It is my opinion, that the purpose of Early Access is to provide an opportunity to harvest player feedback. I am completely aware that the game is in Early Access. A lot is intentionally missing. I find it alarming that out of all the current uniques, there is just one that I find interesting. Extrapolating this trend to a bigger pool of uniques does not help the issue. Same for the support gems, where the pro's are often outweighed by the con's, to an extreme point where key skills very often get supported by Inspiration (the blandest of bland support gems). Can you honestly tell me, that if the current uniques and support gems are a fair representation of what is to come, that you would not be disappointed by the way that (almost) none of them feel impactful?	Posted by TheFilthxo#3768 on Dec 21, 2024, 7:26:55 PM Quote this Post
Accendency Trials are no fun. they are luck based, annoying, time comsuming, and the rewards are meager. i hate the chaos trial. i hated it in poe1 and now its is enforced. minion builds have an advantage over meele like 100%. Last edited by formatf#5893 on Dec 22, 2024, 10:54:36 AM	Posted by formatf#5893 on Dec 22, 2024, 8:07:48 AM Quote this Post
If you get any type of movement slow in the first floor. Quit the run now. It's over. If your get the thing that makes room effects hidden. Quit the run now trust me!! It's over. If you don't see much possible resource water by the first boss. Quit the run. It's possible but why risk wasting time. Before you enter: Greater! than 30% movement for trial 4. 75% resist honor resist by relics or as much as you can use for trials 1-3. Some max hp or honour. Never take a negative that's random. If you get forced into one (two bad decisions paths thanks GGG!) then hope and pray you don't get bricked in the room before the boss!!!! I got a dc one run and died, negative movement another, and lost all my evasion on a third, auto res boon didn't work on a fourth, a pylon bugged out on a fifth, and I got body trapped on an escape in the fourth floor on a sixth, and died on my first run bc I couldn't get the hourglass things with base 30% movement. Deleted my toon after the last one where I lost my movement speed at the end. I'm not spending time grinding to grind. If there is fun endgame content I'll come back and level a new one. I wish I just had unlimited keys and GGG told you the boss absolutely requires movement skills (if you even have access, random RNG, or passive PTS to movement) or it's over.	Posted by Cheakie#6094 on Dec 22, 2024, 8:19:34 AM Quote this Post
Ascendency trials make me want to uninstall this game....	Posted by Nakar#0865 on Dec 22, 2024, 8:21:24 AM Quote this Post