PoE 2 - I hate trial of the sekhemeas so much

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Esubane#6099 wrote:

It's way off-balance.
Getting a tiny amount of honor every floor is a MAJOR boon
Getting "you have no energy shield" is a MINOR affliction.
If you're a CI build this just ends your run right there. And it's a MINOR AFFLICTION. You can get this at random from some fucking fountain or a pact. And there won't be Original Sin for you at the end if you somehow make it on 1 HP.

I give them the benefit of EA, this will need some major tailoring before being shipped as an official product.

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iteration2#2163 wrote:

Just tried to get my third (let alone my fourth) ascendency on a warrior. I knew that the trial of the Sekhemas is WILDLY biased against melee classes, so I decided to play it safe and overlevel the trial by 12 levels before even attempting it. And not just overleveled, but quite well geared, having just spent about 40 exalts buying gear upgrades for every slot. Only have the 1 trial key, because their drops are so damned rare, so I'm not taking any chances.

First floor is easy enough, but after the first floor, I started getting random afflictions in every room. The very first one I get is "lose 94 honor after every single room"... With about 20 rooms to go, that one affliction costs about 2/3 of my honor. I struggle through, hoping that there will be some way to remove it, and taking every opportunity to get honor refills when available. Then I'm horrified to find that the second floor bosses do massive AOEs. Easily survivable for my tanky build, but still do MASSIVE honor damage. Then I get to the third floor, all my afflictions still in place, and slowly bleed out honor until my run is ended.

Now my level 60 trial key is spent, and along with it all of my enthusiasm for this game.

Maybe I'll pick it up again if and when these devs, whose choices I've generally respected over the last 12 years, admit to the mystifyingly stupid choice they've made here. I mean, gating a core aspect of character progression behind the most punishing, random, unpopular, and unbalanced game mechanic they've ever introduced is bad enough. But to then also make every single attempt at it require a rare drop is just... I honestly just want to know what the hell they were thinking.

GGG: What. Were. You. THINKING?!