Ascendancy Trials.

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

Trials of Sekhema is not hard. I did my third ascendacy in lvl 75 zone with lvl 80 warrior in second attempt. Just learn how to dodge stuff and use honour resistance relics. Much easier than Trial of Chaos.

Not hard if you have the right relics, you don't get the wrong RNG and you overgear it by running maps for 15-20 levels, the same with Chaos. (I'd rather run 10 chaos trials over 1 sekhema tbh)

It will of course be easier over time as everyone learns what mechanics to avoid like the plague (those should probably just be removed from the game) and what basic strategies work best, but being able to make an essential game feature less terrible with experience is hardly a selling point.

I really enjoyed both of them, they are supposed to be a test of skill and knowledge not a boring slog like the labyrinth in poe1.

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ikjronie#9805 wrote:

I really enjoyed both of them, they are supposed to be a test of skill and knowledge not a boring slog like the labyrinth in poe1.

Try doing the first trial with a thorns build. That was my experience. I quit at that point and went to regular PoE for a bit. I'm now playing Diablo 2 Resurrected.

Note: I am a casual player. I'm not on several hours a day playing. I hop on a day or two a week to unwind and have fun. There is no fun in my play style of choice in PoE2.

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ragnov#4762 wrote:

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ikjronie#9805 wrote:

I really enjoyed both of them, they are supposed to be a test of skill and knowledge not a boring slog like the labyrinth in poe1.

Try doing the first trial with a thorns build. That was my experience. I quit at that point and went to regular PoE for a bit. I'm now playing Diablo 2 Resurrected.

Note: I am a casual player. I'm not on several hours a day playing. I hop on a day or two a week to unwind and have fun. There is no fun in my play style of choice in PoE2.

You are not forced to play Trial of Sekhemas for your Ascendency. If you force yourself in a build that it's clearly bad for one trial you can just run the other one. By the time the game releases there will be also a third trial as option.

Walk up to a door.

Push a button.
Get hit with 10 random debuffs.
Zone in, fight a boss.

THAT SHOULD BE TRIALS.

Save me the 2 hours of gripping game play of slowly accumulating
the debuffs while doing tedious mind numbing activities.

Ive actually failed the trials, from boredom, i literally alt f4 cause i didn't feel like doing it.

20 rooms that degrade your character into a wuss over a 40 minute period.
I am going to quit this game entirely based off trials, and "The Vision" one portal insta death ...

GGG tell me again, why do i want to engage with this mechanic?

And i don't mean the trial, i mean the whole "Vision" of the game.
An unrewarding, sweaty grind through highly repetitive game play with nothing but negatives everywhere, you are slower, you have less health , you have less defense , everything is better than you , you suck , you cant find anything and if you could it wont be good for you, you cant craft anything, just go buy a win from the market. The whole game is just Russian Roulette.. honestly I question if I have had fun, I continue thinking its gotta be just around the corner. But it never is

Trials are ass.
a truckload of leper diarrhea.

Thanks for the time waste again today !!!
I hate your piece of shit trials ....

I question if you ever played this shit.
hey only 40 minutes into it today when 10 mobs spawned out of the ground in the doorway on the timed event...

Body blocked to fail ...

Fuck off

I love farming trial of chaos for currency. Trial 3 was kinda hard for me, I really don’t like sanctum, but i managed it. Trial 4 was easy (but i did it at lvl 90). I did chaos for my 4th. If you’re having trouble it’s most likely your build or gear. When you’re geared the game becomes trivial

I agree, it is not fun to have to run through these entire trials or farm the invitations. The 4th floor on the trial of sekemas feels like it is very specialized content, not something to be tied into ascendancy. There are way too many afflictions that can brick a run depending on the build you have. Sanctum as a whole is an incredibly basic type of rogue-lite. It's just not very fun unless you are going for rewards out of it.

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maquino85#7657 wrote:

I love farming trial of chaos for currency. Trial 3 was kinda hard for me, I really don’t like sanctum, but i managed it. Trial 4 was easy (but i did it at lvl 90). I did chaos for my 4th. If you’re having trouble it’s most likely your build or gear. When you’re geared the game becomes trivial

this is the point i don´t understand. i have read many rimes that you can just outlevel and outgear the trials, but imo i want to ascend to become more powerful not have to be overpowered to ascend if my character is nearly maxed out.

Negative effects in both trials are too strong. Like, lose all your main defense, or lose movement speed and automatically fail final boss. Or corrupted blood in Ultimatum.
Also mobs are way to fast across whole game.
After recent patch Ultimatum became much more accessible, it's a good shift.
But ascension still requires heavy overleveling.
It is too hard for timely ascension, and it is too easy for end game farming. And it is too random in terms of modifiers they are either deadly or trivial.
So any run isn't about skill, it's about overleveling and luck.