PoE 2 - I hate trial of the sekhemeas so much

Worst part is that I think I wouldn't mind the trials at all if it wasn't for honor.

Like, they might be boring, but perfectly doable. Honor is what really ruins it, such a terrible, horrible and unfun system.

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hellix#5931 wrote:

+1

I actively avoid sanctum and ultimatum in POE 1 and I just hate how they shoved them in our faces to get the most exciting part about any build - the ascendancy.

I love everything else about POE 2 but these ascension trials are completely removing all the fun.

After many tries to get my 3rd ascendancy, I am level 77 and still can't get it.

The honor system is trash, the ultimatum build bricking RNG mods are trash.

GGG, ascending needs a major rework, please.

10000%

I like Ultimatum in POE1 but what we have in POE2 is NOT Ultimatum. It is just like you said "build bricking RNG mods trash"

they wouldn`t be so bad if you could do them just for rewards, not gating important game mechanics behind this crap.
how are melee classes expected not to get hit?! why even introduce honour at all, why not just HP?! then do this honour crap maybe for a single test, but don`t base a whole mechanic around not getting hit.
cherry on top: just got a pact shrines restore 30 honour, how generous, in exchange for a "minor" affliction. affliction was that enemies get 25% on attack, cast and movement speed :D

will not bother with this mechanic again until I make a ranged class. think its time for some meta build, finally have some fun after the constant slog

i wonder if i will ever get my third lab points...

I'm not gonna complain about the overall difficulty of the trial, but the sheer imbalance against melee builds.
Builds that are meant to get in, take/tank damage, get out, heal up and get back in suddenly aren't allowed to take damage at all? What? Who's idea was this?

If you're not gonna remove honor, you need to do something about it to even the playing field with ranged builds.

Totally agree love pretty much everything about this game but having ascendancy linked to these game modes is a deal breaker for me, they're as unfun as a kick to the nuts. Hoping that they'll do something else, ANYTHING else to be honest, Id rather fight 2 or 3 of the bosses at the same time than what we've got.

You are actively scaring people away from the game, please REMOVE this. Either rework the system or announce you are preparing a unique lab for full release.

Even ultimatum feels terrible with the RnG.

This game is truly amazing, never have I loved an ARPG as much as this since D2 so please for the love of the First Ones rework ascension into its own thing and insert these mechanics as optional content where they belong.

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ruipadinha#4954 wrote:

You are actively scaring people away from the game, please REMOVE this. Either rework the system or announce you are preparing a unique lab for full release.

Even ultimatum feels terrible with the RnG.

This game is truly amazing, never have I loved an ARPG as much as this since D2 so please for the love of the First Ones rework ascension into its own thing and insert these mechanics as optional content where they belong.

This and plz announcement if it is there to stay or will be reworked. Ultimatum and Sanctum are a game breaker for me. I have never felt worse about a video game while doing those even though the rest of the game looks amazing. The design of these to league mechanics is in an absolute toxic state, if this will not be completely reworked i will maybe try to bring a hc char through the campaign but never ever paticipate in endgame, since it is jsut not worth it for me...

When I did my first sekhemas run it wasn’t so bad. But now I’m trying to get my third set of ascendancy points as a warrior and I’m really starting to hate it.

What’s worse is I can’t do the trial of chaos because for some reason you need a very high level chaos token for it to give you ascendancy points. And even if I got that token, the trial of chaos debuffs are so extreme that 7 of them at the same time sounds crazy.

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CooCooCaCha#5529 wrote:

When I did my first sekhemas run it wasn’t so bad. But now I’m trying to get my third set of ascendancy points as a warrior and I’m really starting to hate it.

What’s worse is I can’t do the trial of chaos because for some reason you need a very high level chaos token for it to give you ascendancy points. And even if I got that token, the trial of chaos debuffs are so extreme that 7 of them at the same time sounds crazy.

you need 10 for the third ascendancy not 7, 7 trial ultimatum won't get you anywhere. Maybe you get some loot from it who knows^^