Honor mechanic makes me hate path of exile 2 already.

just another reason not to play poe 2 and to keep playing poe 1 instead.

+1

I spent 20hours with my first poe2 char and I failed the trials 3 times.

Well, no more shield + 2h mace with perfectly timed block to see them melt because one cannot get hit as most of the trial is full of unblockable attacks and without it, the damage on that build is nonexistent.
So I spent 40k gold on respec just to fail again as a melee.

POE2 is all about limiting the previously insanely creative casual -> casual+ range. So, nothing new on this trial as well.
Its just tedious.

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CBFTW#0432 wrote:

You don't need to do the Sanctum version for your ascendency. There's the Ultimatum version later in the game that you can do instead. It does mean that you'll be without your class for a while longer, though.

Ultimatum is just as bad.

+1

sanctum just sucks from the start, but u could choose not to play it.
now u getting forced into this bullshit.
this and the "everything respawn" absoluty destroyed my fun.
in fact just ragequited cuz i failed the lab cuz of honour and boss had under 10%..

I REALLY wish that they would let you do the other ascendancy methods IN THE SAME ACT. Some of us just cannot do sanctum, either due to our build or just not having the skill.

And if we cannot get our ascendency we are stuck attempting an act boss THAT WAS BALANCED AROUND US HAVING THAT ASCENDENCY. It is essentially punishing us for not picking the hardest possible ascendancy method for no reason whatsoever.

+1

I think Sanctum could be fun, but I absolutely hate the honor mechanic. I never played sanctum in PoE 1 because of it and using it for ascendancy was an awful decision in my opinion.

I've seen people saying that you can ascend with ultimatum instead, but you need to wait for Act 3. If you are going to offer multiple ascendancy options, I think they all need to be presented at the same time so you can pick between them. There is nothing in game to indicate that this sanctum challenge is optional and I think it is going to make a lot of people upset when they get to it.

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Azuma2#6863 wrote:

+1
in fact just ragequited cuz i failed the lab cuz of honour and boss had under 10%..

Right there with you buddy. He was just about dead and then spawned the little volcanos all around me while I was near the edge of the map so I had to roll through them. It did practically no damage, but I lost all of my honor and game over.

If you remember league starting in poe1, you'll know that if your build can't handle Labyrinths then you simply just move on with the campaign until you're strong enough to do so. Similarly, you should view ascending the same way in here.

The good news is that there are two methods for ascending in the EA and according to the video revealing poe2 a few weeks ago, there will be either 12 or 20 (I forget which) when the game gets released. I assume they're all simply doing variants of different league mechanics. For EA, looks like they chose sanctum and ultimatum. For now, just focus on completing the campaign and come back any time later when you're stronger.

Yes, it is awful!

Player power locked behind some gimmick bar that isn't seen ANYWHERE else in the game is insane.

Sanctum never had a place in a game like this I could rant for hours about it but it was fine as side avoidable content.

I built my character to be hit and now some gimmick gamemode that requires me NOT to be hit is the wall. An irrelevant gamemode to the majority of the game.

Oh you beat the monster but it hit you? GG can't ascend. Absolutely nuts decision in my opinion.

DELETE HONOR MECHANICS in Labyrinth!
I avoided this mechanic in "PoE 1" with all available methods,
and here you FORCE me to play this one!