Trials of Sekhemas

Evasion with global defense relics + honour resistance

I love trials, really. Very hard for the first few times and very easy and fast after some knowledge)))

Trials are tough the first 10 times you do them. The secret lies in completing floors to unlock relic slots and getting or buying good relics to increase honour, honour resistance, and defences. If you have hp and or energy shield you get a good amount of honour. Then, the goal is to go for sacred water, merchants, and blessing of the winds rooms while avoiding bad afflictions. Avoid choosing afflictions that get rid of your defenses (energy shield, evasion, armour), avoid afflictions that nerf merchant options or prices, and avoid other afflictions like reduced movement speed by 25% or gain afflictions when using shrine or when you get another affliction, these are bad and can pile up quickly.

Also keep in mind that visiting shrines to change trial parameters can help you pick up good boons at a cost of taking some damage or get rid of bad afflictions for only a cost of 5 sacred water. You wanna get great minor boons like Hare Foot (40% increased movement speed), Ornate Dagger (50% increased damage), reduced merchants prices, can see additional rooms ahead, increased relic effect as, etc. You get a merchant (Balbala) at the end of each floor and sometimes throughout trial floors where u can spend your sacred water for good boons. Always talk to merchant to see what they have or u can afford before clicking door to advance to next floor.

As for Zarokh the 4th floor boss, it's all about damage and having good movement speed for hourglass phases.

To help clarify there are different types of shrines. Mereketh shrines that shrines that restore honour. The other shrines are shrines that allow you to make pledges to change trial parameters (affect outcome of the trial by changing up boons and afflictions). It's important that you don't make a pledge to gain a random affliction with these shrines regardless of how good the boon may be as it can make you gain a bad affliction that can brick your character or make the rest of trial harder for you.

As you practice these trials you'll notice there are minor boons, major boons, minor afflictions, and major afflictions and the difference between them.

Practice is key.

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spaznaz#0311 wrote:

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Chensanity03#1683 wrote:

I a new player and never played POE until someone told me about POE2. Absolutely love POE2 and the campaign to endgame was pleasant. I enjoy making characters with a strong build.

But to my main point. How is it possible to defeat the trials of Sekhemas. Its nearly impossible to complete with all the affliction going on. It like you're guaranteed to lose honour wants you get to the third trials. I need to see one of the devs complete it because it's simply not possible.

There are a couple of guides on youtube that help you navigate the rooms properly, you won't be able to run in blind and expect to clear it easily.

Build-wise, damage is important, relics are important as well, more you play, more you get, more you understand the trial, better you get at it. Might be you need better gear/level/etc

Learn what afflictions you can live with, what you cant. Naturally, path in a way that gets the least amount of those as you can. Dodge roll is your best friend through traps, or just don't walk into them.

I also failed many times, takes some practice and learning, it gets easier, and more rewarding (for beating down the 4 trial boss)

If you really don't like TOS, Trial of Chaos is an alternative to get your ascendencies. Many have preferences running that instead.

Not every trial is going to be the same, the RNG for every level is just annoying. I hear watch a YouTube every time from the more experienced player, yes it can help, Trials will never be the same as the video you watch, yes you can know what to pick. The game as way too many penalties, The only penalty should be death.

When you get All Afflictions that suck, you just deal with it or spend hours trying to find a different Trial?

It just feels like a chore everytime I am in the Trials or Endgame maps. Its very difficult to find resistances or Armour.

Trials and Endgame overall needs a rework.

I hope that the devs really rethink of all the penalties they have in the game
There are 6 in the game, if they want to target the causal player the way they have the Trails and Endgame mapping is not Fun. Campaign is so much fun.

I understand that you are trying to help. Do you want the game to make changes for the causal player that just wants to chill? Also people cant spend hours practicing everyday to learn every nuance.

They turned an optional mechanic from POE1 into a mandatory mechanic in POE2.
In POE1, people only went in with a specific build that would clear enemies off screen without any worry.
It's a bad mechanic, but I don't know how they could fix it without gutting it completely.

I just don't enjoy doing them. I don't find its a good use of my free time. So I pay someone 40ex to do all 8 ascendency points.