difficulty spike for both 4th ascendancy trials is just too much

i can do xesht and simulacrum with my gemling on 3 ascendancies lvl 87

but both trialmaster and last floor on sekhemas are just too much
i can't touch anything trialmaster does, this is not a test of skill or build
this is just pure sadism and frustration
how much of the playerbase has 4th ascendancy without carry?
whoever thought of balancing, forget tryhard streamers, they will break your game no matter what you do

so for now i will give up, not wasting more currency on chaos or wasting 20 minutes of my life on sekhemas, enough of poe for some time too
i am more of a casual player than i ever thought

They seem hellbent on continuing to design the game for the top 1% of players.

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Renegade_Archer#1313 wrote:

They seem hellbent on continuing to design the game for the top 1% of players.

it is just very unbalanced
we get the barya or ultimatum at level 75, who can ever do those at this level?
if it is only feasible to do a trial after level 90, then it is already a failure
in poe 1, the ascendancy enables players to play at highest level of content
poe 2? feels the opposite

the same applies for atlas too, getting boss or other specific nodes after t15 or amassing splinters with a single chance
to get more juice of the game there is no adequate learning, everything is a one shot fiesta, for both players and monsters

feels like GGG is completely lost

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Renegade_Archer#1313 wrote:

They seem hellbent on continuing to design the game for the top 1% of players.

And that is why I'll probably be quitting, I didn't sign up for a slightly reskinned poe1. Loved the campaign and how different it was, but that's it.

While I agree on Ultimatum being brutal and not being something I would consider attempting, let alone - farming, The Trials of Sekhemas are quite fun and quite doable. You have several options to counter what RNG can throw at you and even some mistakes are not that punishing (I managed to get to 4th boss with Deceptive Mirror and a bundle of other fun debuffs on my very first account attempt. I died but got there). I don't think that in case of ToS it's the problem with balance - it has to do with general builds needing to be tuned up a bit if you really struggle. Maybe. I mean, there are people doing 1 honor runs so it's not that bad if you know what you're doing.