The Trials

Dear Devs,

The Trials are like going to the dentist. I don't want to go. I have to go anyway. When it's over, I don't feel like I've achieved anything. I'm just relieved it's over.

I'm guessing that's not the vibe you're going for.

Loving the game otherwise. Thanks.

-SK

Same here. I honestly don't see where the fun is at. This totally ruined the game for me.

Somehow I feel GGG are shooting themselves on the foot with this trials. Take the trials away from the game and POE2 is a 10/10.

Same here, clearly the devs have never tried any of them as a melee character. I would actually like to see a live stream seing the devs or anyone from GGG try to clear any of the trials so that they understand what a mess they created.

Pure RNG or you have to trade for nearly perfect gear, melee is heavily unfavored

That's because they used the WORST possible League mechanics from Poe 1.

I have no idea how they'll fix it.
But I know this.

I have strong feelings about this particular issue.

I will Never spend another Dime on POE 2
until Sanctum and Ultimatum are no longer FORCED into our Core progression.

I (swear words) HATED those leagues SO much I Quit playing them.

A lot of other people hate them too.

Sanctum and Ultimatum were terrible mechanics.

Now they're FORCED into the Core progression?

It's NOT okay.

The ENTIRE MECHANIC is bad.
Not sections or aspects of them.
THE ENTIRE system of Sanctum and Ultimatum is Terrible.

I think fundamentally, the decision to structure ascension trials as another branch of pinnacle content was a mistake and needs to be revisited. Ascension feels like a very fundamental part of character progression. It wants to be part of leveling up, a baseline axis of growth.

Most characters will clear tier 15 heavily modified maps very comfortably long before they are ready to face their uber ascension trial and that is a huge miss in my opinion. You shouldn't get to an important axis of character progression only when you've already progressed your character to the point of being able to do pinnacle content. What is the point of the last two ascendancy points if I have to basically be ready to clear the hardest content in the game already to get them.

I uber ascended my witch on Trial of Chaos after several failed attempts, and it was basically just RNG to get enough tribulations that were invalidated by chaos inoculation (monster bonus chaos damage I/II, inflict bleeding/poison on hit, reduced life/ES/mana regen I/II, and to a lesser extent monster crit I/II) to finish it.

I don't know how a non-energy shield/CI character ever does those. It is certainly beyond my meager skill level to accomplish.

I've yet to finish a 4 trial sanctum, or even make it to the boss of trial 4, in spite of attempting several with 10k+ honor, 75% honor res, 40+% honor restored, and a grab bag of extra movement speed, boss damage, and roll distance on relics.

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Praxis609#1721 wrote:

That's because they used the WORST possible League mechanics from Poe 1. (...)

Sanctum and Ultimatum were terrible mechanics.

I totally agree. Worst two PoE mechanics ever. I don't really understand why they forced them in ascendancy, instead of making brand new friendly mechanics for ascendancy like the Lab was.

This trials are so bad, I just play maps witout this skill point to ascendancy.