Trial

I know this is early access. Can you please bring the old trial back, but improved, rather than this sanctum version. Currently running a mercenary grenade build at level 61, and struggling with getting to the boss on level 2. Having no trouble with the second round of the acts, but sanctum seems to be ridiculously hard and this is just level 2. I enjoyed sanctum in poe1 and made many divines with it. I feel the problem with sanctum is that you need a certain type of build to complete it which therefore limits you what type of build you would wish to do. I understand that a game must have some sort of challenge but not to the point where it limits you and puts you off dong it all together.

rant over

Thanks :)

+1 am lvl 78 with good gear and still can't make it to level 3 boss because the hourglass rooms spawn mobs that jump on you and completely take away your honour. Have ~75% honour resistance and still this happens. Just wasted another 50 minutes on this crap mechanic without seeing anything useful.

Hopefully this get's scratched completely on full release. Not fun, extremely difficult.

Will now proceed with T10 maps and wait until this get's some love before getting my 3rd ascendacy trial done.

Trials are a complete waste of time. Altru the idea of them might seemed cool and fun, it seems the worst of the worst part of this game. As a poe player with 5khours i would say these trials are a quit reason from my part. Simply i don\t like the mechanic and traps, i don't like the idea of it and i will never like to do them in general. Take it off pls this gruesome stupid trials please. I have failed atlease 25 of them. 3k honor, 1 trap 500-1000 damage. hell no. I have hp, i have es, let me use those or pls find another way to grant the ascendancy points. Can't say i like the poe1 trials, but instead of this i choose it 10000 timees. Also, maps drop are way to low and the death penalty simple is not a good implementation of this game.

The traps are OP as fuck. Wipes Honor quicker than you can react. Remove the Honor mechanic.

just run ultimatum, it saved me a lot of headache, literally did ALL my ascendancies in there.

Stout hater of Sanctum since Sanctum league.
When Sanctum was bad enough to suck you in from your map - nightmare fuel

The trials are not fun. They should just remove them.

I hate ultimatum and sanctum, always ignoring it in PoE1. Now I cant. Not fun and retarded mechanics. I want my 3rd lab and just cant finish L60 sanctum and Im L74. Remove it, bring old lab back or find another way to give us ascendancies. Sanctum+Ultimatum should stay as side farming things for those who likes it. We casuals just dont.

I wrote a bunch of stuff, but realised I run the risk of breaking the code of conduct by being overly negative, so I will just limit my feedback to these dot points.

- I have never liked traps in either POE 1 or 2; it's just busy work, I don't feel engaged when I see them, I feel fatigued.
- Stacking negative debuffs (and honour mechanic) feels like I'm being punished for the trial's lack of ability to engage with the player.
- Trials are too long.


Rather than create two mediocre trials using recycled content, I'd much rather have one refined ascendancy trial mechanic that I look forward to.

My friend asked me if it was worth picking up POE 2. While the trials are not the full reason, I could quite confidently tell him it's not quite there yet.

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cove1974#4825 wrote:

Currently running a mercenary grenade build at level 61, and struggling with getting to the boss on level 2.

No offense, but if you don't manage that with a grenadier you're either seriously under-geared or you're doing something very wrong.

That being said, I really dislike that stupid honor system and I think it should be removed immediately or at least only be made relevant for getting keys and shit, but not for passing the trial.