Ashar, The Sand Mother

Its a really long and boring time investment to do trial of sekhema. If i encounter a new mechanic i have no room to understand and experiment with it. Third time facing this boss, i had 2000 honor, 75% resist, although i had a debuff with 50% less effect of relics, so i guess that's 37.5 % resist. I lost all my honor under 2 seconds. I had my girlfriend on watch-out so maybe she can tell me if i die what was the reason, she didn't see anything either. Next time if i do this boss i will record my run, if i even keep playing. When i died there were a bunch of darts, boss did something that i dodged, but overall i had no idea what happened because i use gas grenade, and fire wall(only because explosive shot doesnt make my gas grenade shotgun which is a bug imo) boss realesed scarabs, which were kinda far away, then the whoel arena got darted, and i dodged something and died in mid animation for idk what, i am pretty sure i wasnt standing on a pressure plate, but again, i didnt see shit because i had to watchout for 3 mechanic and my whole screen is just green cloud and bright fire.

If you didn't see anything, it was probably the fact that some of the platforms in her room are traps that spit out poison. That poison does a completely unreasonable amount of honor damage, and can kill you quite fast if you don't notice fast enough.

Okay i got another djinn barya on the first map and i ran trough. 1500/2000 honor and the boss died, halfway trough the run i noticed i get -10% elemental resistance so my fire is 64% instead of 75%. I am happy that i got my points, but i am still salty about my previous post. It took me circa 1 hour to complete the trial, and the boss caused no problem at all. I have 2 conclusion,

- the -10% resistance is not communicated to the player, neither here neither in the end game maps. (I made yesterday a new character and i noticed it is told in the acts, which is good)

-the fact that on the second run it was zero challenge to beat the boos, just reinforces my frustration that there was something bullshit in my previous run

I recorded this time my game play, but its nothing to see there, i spammed my gas nades. I dodged what i dodge every time, i eat all darts, because i still have no idea how it works, although because i had an easy time i noticed there is a blind spot in the middle, but i'm not sure because i cant really analize the boss arena.

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ThrasherGX#5514 wrote:

If you didn't see anything, it was probably the fact that some of the platforms in her room are traps that spit out poison. That poison does a completely unreasonable amount of honor damage, and can kill you quite fast if you don't notice fast enough.

Thanks for the help, that was probably the reason, on the second run i was nowhere near the platform. Also my gas grenade probably made the poison hard to see.

Just died to this in first few attacks, almost immediately after doing the damn thing for almost an hour, just got sacked by the poison/chaos dmg despite having charm for it - literally zero tolerance for error.

Absolutely terrible experience, makes me want to quit if I have to spend another hour doing content I do not enjoy only to get dumpstered in the last couple of seconds.

Absolute trash of a boss and mechanics, I went 2 times being 12 levels above and still died after 1 failed dodge

Just wait to see what piece of cheese the fourth floor is.

Nah I've had enough :) I\d rather play without ascendancy than endure another 3 maps with 5 trials and over an hour just to die again.

i had 6000 honor, 50% resist and lucky 50% when i did the sandking boss and it still took a while. im not sure i got hit that fight tho. the new nerf to trials made it quite palatable. i generally like the idea and the setup the challenges are just a bit underdeveloped you see too much of the same shit.

Overtuned need nerf dmg