Sanctum/Ultimatum weren't controversial in PoE1 because they were OPTIONAL.
3 (THREE) floors of Sanctum is the most painful thing I'd ever do as a Warrior. I choose to just not ascend. Ultimatum is not better.
My class is slow, and melee. It destroys bosses, yes, that's not my issue, if only I could get to the boss. If only the boss was the only challenge. Being stripped off my defenses that I've built only for them to be nullified for the sake of an arbitrary challenge and 2 points in my ascendancy is not what makes an ARPG an ARPG. Being followed by a spectre that makes you lose if you get hit 7 times. Or a cloud of poison damage. Or a growing circle of physical damage. All absolutely awful, melee and ranged unfriendly. Rogue like elements are fine, and fun, when they're optional for profit. In this case they're mandatory. And that's just not fun. People aren't doing their 3rd and 4th lab because it's just a huge time waste. And if you lose you HAVE to get another invitation because... ? I rather sell the invitations. They have to go GGG. Please. This is not it. People complained about lab for 10 years and it's unbelievable that we rather have lab than this. Every build was fine for lab and you could attempt your first 3 labs non stop until you got it. They were an 7 minute ordeal. 3 floors of Sanctum and 10 trials of Ultimatum are north of 1 hour long things, only for you to lose and gain NOTHING out of it. Last edited by idkwat#6167 on Dec 10, 2024, 7:16:42 PM Last bumped on Jan 13, 2025, 11:57:22 AM
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This is the stain on this game for me. They knew it didn't really fit, because it never really fit in poe1. But they put it in anyway. I hope this one goes the way of the old masters and silver coins, retired but sooner rather than later.
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Agreed. and this is even worse for hardcore.
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GGG's goal is to make people pay 3rd parties real money to clear ascendancy's for them. It's long, obnoxious, and worst of all it's zero fun.
Not even D4 had something this obnoxious and I'm a firm hater of everything in that game. |
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Wait until you get a room were you have to kill rares to pass.
Got one with lightning storm and one with a short term immunity buff. It was so much fun and the lightning storm ended my run. Then two runs in a row were I had to just quit out because my honor was too low. Knowing I wouldnt be able to kill the boss. If they made it so you all had to was make it to the boss room. Then the rest was down to your health. It would be a bit better. |
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It's terrible. I posted here on the forum some time ago. I've been playing POE since 2013, and when they introduced the Ascendancy system, I thought the labyrinth and its mechanics were really cool. I was expecting that for POE 2, they would create something equally grand, like labyrinths, challenging bosses, and specific trials for each class. But no—they lazily decided to take poorly executed leagues that no one played, make a few minor changes, and shove them down everyone's throats.
If this is supposed to be a joke by GGG while the game is in early access (BETA), it's already in very bad taste. I started playing POE 2 without watching anything—just me and the game, like back in 2013. But when I got to the Ascendancy part and saw the Sanctum mechanic, I turned the game off and only came back a week later. I can say it was disappointing. I’m still playing, but I won’t do Ascendancy. I'll keep playing as far as the game allows without it, creating new classes until I’ve tried them all. After that, I’ll quit the game and wait for the final release. If the terrible Ascendancy mechanics persist, I’ll be forced to stop playing POE 2 entirely. |
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The only trial that is even remotely hard is the 4th, and even that can be outgeared via doing trial master instead of sekehema.
You can also just buy the 4th trial. And if you are playing a challenge league like ssf and cant manage to do it yourself you should probably be in trade. And if you are playing HC SSF just to do piss baby easy content IDK what to say, reason I stopped playing HC at all in poe1 is I was doing just that eventually. You dont have to do these on level, you can come back and smash all of them eventually, and you dont need your ascendency points as soon as they are available. And if you are still having trouble at that point it is a massive gearing or skill issue and the entire endgame not just ascendency trials are going to be a problem for you. Its also funny to see people say these are lazily ported when they are too lazy to learn sanctum, and there is literally no learning required for ultimatum beyond knowing what afflictions are bad and dont hug the fucking bird boss or if you are playing melee to turn on sound so you hear the audio que. Last edited by BossOfThisGym#2062 on Jan 13, 2025, 12:00:50 PM
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