POE2: Trial 3

Hello,

I was just in Trial 3, do I have to chew through the entire 3 levels here + 3 Bosses?
I made it to boss 2 and then died, do you have to do this nonsense in 3 levels before you get your 2 more points?

And start all over again after dying?

Thanks in advance.

yup you need to do it 3 times over and each time it gets more boring and hard, and yes you lose the djinn and have to find another, and they are pretty rare, really only way you;re doing it is if you get lucky with merchants and boons, no luck its gg, awful system.

It's extremely difficult if you try to do 3rd before yellow maps. Sanctum will be impossible without good relics and movement speed bonuses.

I always tell people if you really need the points just get carried, otherwise hold off.

For the 4th, I think you need to clear t14-15 red maps comfortably. I mean the last boss has something like 10mil+ HP, so it's also a hard dps check. Sanctum pinnacle boss if you don't have good MS or blink on swap I think it's instafail.

And still you will fail from an unfortunate set of rng, but at least you will swimming with these trial keys from mapping.

I just used the better part of 1 hour to get to 2nd boss the 2 dudes that just blast slam and aoe from all directions espeically from outside the screen, melting my 2000+ honour in less than 20 seconds before I could nuke them down

Now I have to first find a new key and then do it all over after running like 6 horrible trap rooms just to get there in the first place?

I will just have to wait till I outgear and outlevel this place completly

Fool me once I guess

I really love this game, but if more design/gameplay like this comes, this is a deal breaker for me personally.

It is so anti fun, that I am lacking words just to describe it, and up until now all I have had with this game is fun.

Myself and many others have simply stopped trying, with many who stopped playing all together. There has to be better way to do these ascendancy trials, as the current system in all honesty is not fun nor challenging in a way that is challenging, but challenging in a form that is near impossible for even seasoned veteran players to deal with reasonably.

The current iteration feels like a "hard core" experience that punishes players with only 1 attempt, be it in maps or doing these ascendancy trials, and in the case of the trials, you have to go and RNG your way to get another token, usually much higher level then the one you tried previously.

There is a lot of potential for POE 2, but the way they severely punish players for wanting to play the game even once they are reasonably skilled and geared, only to get bricked time and time again with 1 death and no progression system to start at a later point in trials after dying, just causes many to walk away from wanting to continue.