Trials are such bull.

GGG your Trials are such bull crap. The Honour system for ascending so stupid. If you are going to make different trial at least let me pick which i want to do. Ruins the game for me.

Will you can choose between 2 mechanics that are punishing :) so I guess that gives you what you asked.

But yes, ascendancy gated between those trials is just stupid I agree.

Agree
I always buy my 3rd and 4th on tft

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Biscuitboots33#5495 wrote:

GGG your Trials are such bull crap. The Honour system for ascending so stupid. If you are going to make different trial at least let me pick which i want to do. Ruins the game for me.

all these things boils down to the individual player's knowledge, understanding, competence and ability. hence the player belongs either in the "can do" camp or in the "cannot do" camp.

if the player belongs to the "can do" category, then it would be easy and the player will be farming loot and doing carry services for other.

if the player belongs to the "cannot make it" category, then either the player learn more and work harder and be successful. if not, then continue to be a failure.

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stkmro#2432 wrote:

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Biscuitboots33#5495 wrote:

GGG your Trials are such bull crap. The Honour system for ascending so stupid. If you are going to make different trial at least let me pick which i want to do. Ruins the game for me.

all these things boils down to the individual player's knowledge, understanding, competence and ability. hence the player belongs either in the "can do" camp or in the "cannot do" camp.

if the player belongs to the "can do" category, then it would be easy and the player will be farming loot and doing carry services for other.

if the player belongs to the "cannot make it" category, then either the player learn more and work harder and be successful. if not, then continue to be a failure.

+1

Once the first wave of adjustments came, trials became essentially free.
A few runs and your relics will make it pretty much free..

and the clear speed / damage requirement is considerably lower than even maps, so I think it's quite reasonable.

I really think GGG should be steadfast in the trials being an earned (but low barrier for entry) rite of passage to more power.

It's interesting to see the backlash because a lot of people when PoE1 labs came out REALLLLYYY hated it for the same reasons.

Yeah, when labs came out, man did GGG get a lot of shit.

I think the difference between Labs and the new mechanic for ascending is that you're forced into a type of gameplay and GGG's obsession with curse style mechanics. I definitely prefer PoE1 labs because I was never a fan of the Ultimatum league.

I know for me, the initial Trials of the Sekhemas was painful because I tried to brute force my way through. This is the style of gameplay I was accustomed to and is completely at odds with the Trial. I eventually learned to slowdown and actually use the dodge mechanic. As some other comments have made, you need to use relics with honor resistance.

I'm still not a fan of the Trial of Chaos. I wish they used kiss curse where you received a boon when you pick your modifier. It took some time and some trial and error to learn which negative modifiers are the least punishing.

I typically will only do the first two trials. I tried the third one and it was too long and I couldn't be bothered.