PoE 2 - I hate trial of the sekhemeas so much

Third ascendancy points gated behind the sanctum is really something.
I overleveled to 10+ levels and in the 3rd floor my honor got removed by white mobs like it was nothing, despite having 40+ honor res in relics.

Guess I'll continue to play with 4 ascendancy points...

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HardKatZe#6601 wrote:

Third ascendancy points gated behind the sanctum is really something.
I overleveled to 10+ levels and in the 3rd floor my honor got removed by white mobs like it was nothing, despite having 40+ honor res in relics.

Guess I'll continue to play with 4 ascendancy points...

I got to the floor 3 boss. It started doing a mechanic and the djin told me to stand on a platform. Did so and 3k honour just vanished leaving me with 100.

Boss tapped me a second later.

Stupid ass mechanic.

the third lab is way too hard. its needs a rework.

I'm here too.

Always disliked sanctum and ignored it.
First trial (1 room) is kinda okay, but third trial with 3 rooms - just outrageous.
Got one-tapped with 1700 honor by last Scorpion boss on my 3rd try - have never wanted to wipe a game from my pc so hard. My maximum honor is less than 2000, i'm lvl 71 and trial was 65, how the hell boss deleted almost all my honor with single move?

I'll probably make myself finish it one time but i cannot imagine repeating this on other character, especially slow melee builds.

I liked old-style lab 9999 times more, hell I even farmed it. But this sanctum sh*t is just too much, it's too tedious, too long, too punishing and too unfair.

I'll +1 every single one of these threads I see until GGG at least acknowledges the Sanctum problem.

I have never seen an aspect of core progression locked behind such an obtuse mechanic in a game. Like, it's literally a mechanic that over half of players seem to hate, how on earth was that managed?

I'm enjoying poe 2 but the trials are one of the worse experiences I've had in a video game.

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RedSpades9#5940 wrote:

I have never seen an aspect of core progression locked behind such an obtuse mechanic in a game. Like, it's literally a mechanic that over half of players seem to hate, how on earth was that managed?

I'm enjoying poe 2 but the trials are one of the worse experiences I've had in a video game.

That's the question everyone is asking. Sanctum was one of the least popular content pillars in PoE1 after being added as mainstay. Nobody understands how GGG thought that somehow it would go over fine for them to make it mandatory in 2. It unironically feels like they thought that if they forced us to play it we'd somehow magically come to love it.

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AdeptusEnginus#0665 wrote:

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RedSpades9#5940 wrote:

I have never seen an aspect of core progression locked behind such an obtuse mechanic in a game. Like, it's literally a mechanic that over half of players seem to hate, how on earth was that managed?

I'm enjoying poe 2 but the trials are one of the worse experiences I've had in a video game.

That's the question everyone is asking. Sanctum was one of the least popular content pillars in PoE1 after being added as mainstay. Nobody understands how GGG thought that somehow it would go over fine for them to make it mandatory in 2. It unironically feels like they thought that if they forced us to play it we'd somehow magically come to love it.

Quite simply the Streamers and top .01% players loved it. They made lots of videos saying how great it was and lots of Reddit post because they made loads of currency. GGG thinks this was a popular opinion just like how they thought "were bringing back the most popular most requested mechanic in PoE.... Ultimatum, instead of Sentinel which easily was the most popular mechanic in the last 3 years.

Agreed, "Honor" is an awful mechanic

It makes healing, thorns, spirit shield and resistances obsolete since all that damage is gona be compounded into a flimsy frail shitty "Health Bar" that's not a health bar

The whole thing isn't even set up to kill you it's just to be able to get cheap shots on your honor and "Whoops, guess you're dead"

first trial is annoying but doable, but Cruel one- playing as a monk- is borderline impossible. I am able to do Chaos trials and Tier13 maps without problem, but floor3 of the trial always has monster that one-shoots like 2k honour... Ged rid of this bullshit mechanic...