The Trials in PoE2 are the worst.

+1 here too.

Sanctum and Ultimatum are fine side mechanics that can have their own chase rewards or currencies to polish off a build. They are actually in a very good place in PoE1. Visit them for something specific or if one wants a change of pace, risk, whatever it’s fine.

As part of character progression on the other hand, they are tedious, not well balanced and an absolute slog.

The first 3 ascendencies are annoying, but doable after some build/gear tinkering for survivability and some farming for honor resistance/boosting relics.

The last one, however, between the RNG of the downsides and the nature of some of the boss fights are just awful. Nothing is more frustrating than doing Ultimatum and having to choose between 3 build bricking options after breezing through 9 rounds, basically wasting the whole time. Or being body blocked by some hitbox when rolling into the boss or a rock in round 10 only to get caught a one-shot mechanic. There goes another 15-20 mins with nothing to show for it.

Sekemas is just as bad on the 4th floor. Play three floors nearly perfect to run into crap downsides, or nothing but gauntlet rooms, which do not come even close to the definition of fun, that wipes out your hard curated honor even at full honor resist before you can say “still sane, Exile.” So now it’s been 30-40 mins of run time and wiping there just doesn’t feel good.

So TLDR either please move these mechanics out of the campaign and to side content where they belong for 1.0, or at the very least make them no longer than a 10-15 min time commitment to complete.

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Yep, I agree with the message of this post. It's not the language I would use either though.

I don't mind the Chaos trial as much, but the Sekhemas trial is THE most annoying, infuriating and just plain dumb mechanic I have experienced in a game. And then multiply that by at least 3 for melee classes.

I have actually really enjoyed PoE2 for the most part. I have come back each season and played plenty in each one. But every single time I have come back I have dreaded doing my ascendancies. In fact I pretty much just farm currency and purchase a carry from a random player to get them all done in one. I will do EVERY thing I can do to avoid doing them myself.

Sekhemas is the worst thing about PoE2. By far. Just get rid of the honour system, and it would be fine. Or better yet, make the honour system a bonus modifier for players that want the extra challenge (you can even put specific loot drops behind it) but not mandatory for unlocking your ascendancy.

Chaos is annoying to, but I find it reasonable. Sekhemas is just plain unreasonable. Especially if you are playing melee.

GGG please please please do something about it.

I hate the honour system

Skill issue. They are meant to be a little challenging. Farming some relics helps a lot. If you can't do it, pay someone to help you out or git gud!

+1, PoE 1 did it much better

Could've used some better language but yes the trials are possibly the worst mechanic in the game right now. They aren't fun, but they're mandatory to obtain the one thing that makes classes different: ascendency points.

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+1, PoE 1 did it much better

PoE did everything better. There is literally nothing what PoE 2 does better

People still complain about activity which can be easily completed from 10 to 30 minutes with any build lol. The only hard trial is 4th but honestly if your build requires all 8 asc points to he viable then it's bad build.

I genuinely don't understand why they are so damn stubborn about adjusting the trials. I can't imagine they can consider it "working as intended" if all the trials currently are so unfun, that nobody ever wants to do them except out of obligation.

If they were any good, then people would actually want to run them just to run them. But no, since their inception, they have been hated. I always see people joke about the "vision", but honestly if something is almost unanimously hated, then maybe the "vision" in this case is jsut bad.

not a big fan but they are doable.