Ascendancy Trials Feedback: Understanding Player Concerns

+1 on the removal of honor.. cause good lord it's stupid..

Love the game, but I agree this is the worst part. One bad boon or one bad hit from a monster ends your 30 minute run

+1

Keep this at the top of the Forum.

Agreed and well written.

I can only agree with this post. The trials don't feel like an ARPG anymore. They have elements I would expect to find in other games of other genres. But in an ARPG, I want to face enemies/bosses and want to find out how my build fares against these challenges. But in Sanctum/Ultimatum I now have to handle elements I don't want to care about, but must do now to get my ascendency.

The game feels about 70% right for me. The next 20% are balance issues and missing content, which will definitely be fixed in the next months. But the last 10% to fully enjoy PoE2 is - for me personally - a complete overhaul of the trial mechanics. Just make it into something that goes well with the core-gameplay. I didn't like the lab in PoE1, but the new trials are even more annoying to me.

Please don't take this as a rant. The game is great and all. But understanding the players here is really important. PoE2 is on its way to be the best ARPG that ever existed until now. But these few tweaks are needed to definitely place it there.

+1

Hey lets just acknowledge that "criticism coming through" is not a bad thing.
criticism is part of feedback and you should not be sorry for it.
As you try to keep it fair and square you are not only entitled to criticism but it can be even considered a courtesy.

Love your structured feedback/opinion.

I can clear t10 without problems... still didnt completed any od 3/4 trials... and soon i leave coz its too much random debuffs/situations that BRICKS my build or making unable to progress... and having only half ascendacy is kinda bad... some ppl like me feel bad coz they cant complete build... and since respec is also req FARM/GOLD no1 wanna bother to make build just to pass this st*pid random mechanics.

Bumping this again because this system needs to be removed or drastically changed. I think this is by far the worst thing to ever be introduced to Path of Exile.

Also the rarity of the tablet/chaos needed just to attempt is insane for your 5/6th point. At lvl 79 I have gotten one so far in SSF.

I guess in the final game the third one will be a part of the campaign, but if this system stays I don´t even see the point in a full release of the game.

For me Sanctum and Ultimatum are reasons to stop playing game and rage quit POE 2 completely. Till now I died like 2 times in Campaign and many times trying to kill Ultimatum FIRST boss (Not done it, and i will not continue to do this random madness). 6-8 hours of Ultimatum "FUN" without any progress was enough for me.