Ascendancy Trials Feedback: Understanding Player Concerns

Excellent post. Heartily agree.

Still cant complete my 3rd ascendancy on slam titan at level 77. I've tried the trial of sehkema several times but I cant make it through the third floor. All my ultimatum attempts that have 7 trials say they wont reward me with extra points. I thought we were supposed to be able to choose between them?

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FurtivePygmy01#1646 wrote:

Still cant complete my 3rd ascendancy on slam titan at level 77. I've tried the trial of sehkema several times but I cant make it through the third floor. All my ultimatum attempts that have 7 trials say they wont reward me with extra points. I thought we were supposed to be able to choose between them?

You have to do Ultimatum 10 trial for your THIRD Ascendancy. It can drop in t9+ maps and is grievously overtuned. Although it was patched to some degree...

I was halfway through floor two of sanctum when I got a sinking feeling. I was going to have to do this for EVERY character. My desire to keep playing dried up around that point.

That run ended when I stood near an invisible ground ailment for less than a second during the floor 3 boss.

I'm just going to take a break from poe. Thinking about it is depressing and I'm better off doing something different with my free time.

Very well put together feedback and definitely echoes how I feel about these. Sekhema essentially feels like doing LAB, but now with randomness chucked in and the honour mechanic.

I enjoyed the occasional sanctum, but having to do it on order to ascend, especially on a build that isn't good for it feels really bad.

And ultimatum is well, ultimatum. I ran by him whenever I could, and wish I could do the same here

Im not attempting the trials again untill theyve completely removed the Honor system.

i tried to level up 3 chars to test some builds
I did first two ascendencies(sanctum + ultimate) on my first two chars.

For the third chars, i was so fed up and annoyed I symply asked a friend lvl 80 to carry me as I didn't have the courage to struggle and tryhard again.

I would love to make a fourth char but i won't because i don't want to go through the trials again

I'm extremely scared of trying the third ascendency and probably won't do it. I can't even imagine doing the last one

It's NOT FUN, hard, punishing and unjust. Melee have it even harder and ultimatum is just random unfairness.

This is the worst idea they could have for this and I don't even understand how they could imagine it would make the game enticing especially when it's mandatory.

If it stay like that, I propbably won't bother with poe 2 even after release ...

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MarsAstro#7928 wrote:

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MarsAstro#7928 wrote:

It was me, Bumpo!!

Bumpo strikes again

Well, I guess here I am bumping this yet again...

You'd think I wouldn't have to now that GGG has adressed this, but their respons showed such a clear lack of understanding that I feel like we still need to keep complaining.

Trials of the Sekhema doesn't need a small tweak to honor, it needs a complete redesign and to do away with honor entirely. They seem completely obsessed with the idea of honor, they seem to think they can just tweak the system a little bit and then it'll be good.

But it's just fundamentally not a good design. Almost everyone hates it for a reason, and they seem to not understand that at all.

So, here I am bumping this yet again...

I enjoy the roguelite spice on gameplay. I like Sekhema, but Ultimatum is crashing my client. Sadly after a crash I don't load up where it crashed, but right at the beginning as if I failed it. Shame because I enjoyed Ultimatum for the first couple of rooms before the inevitable crash.

I don't mind unfavorable randomness because I'm still getting something out of it, namely the Sekhema relics.

+1

Bumbo jr.