Add the Labyrinth as an ascension option

The current options, Sekhemas and Chaos, both suck. I'd much rather run lab for ascension. You already have just as much trap bullshit in Sekhemas, but it hits honour instead of life/es, which is a far worse experience even with how starved for life regen we are in POE2, and a lot of those traps are also much harder to avoid even with WASD than the ones in lab are without WASD.

Labyrinth is just better than this shit. By a lot. Please make it an option.

+1

These trials might even be a good challenge for ranged builds with enough DPS but for Melee is beyond... beyooooond horrible.

Lab is much more fair for melee and actually more interesting overall.

+1 sanctum was the worst league in poe1 when it was optional content.

+1 along with everything else stated above, the rng is disgustingly effective at setting up no chance in hell runs

Even though the campaign lab trials were a pain in the ass I still miss lab

Nah

We still would have another trial for the release so maybe the lab ?

I strongly disliked the lab but preferred it over the options now.

My merc is lvl 65 and I still only got two ascendancy points. Did some overlevelled Sekhema trials yesterday and didn't succeed, one time I got stuck at a trap, the other time the level was still loading the particles and I got hit by a flameblast that took more than 90% of my honour.

Trials are my number one frustrating content right now. I'm sure that can beat enough to get 4 points, maybe even 6. But they are the reason I quit 0.1 and yesterday I felt like quitting 0.2 for them, too. I don't like dying 10+ times for an act boss to win, but I can push through it. But ascendancies frustrate me hard. Yesterday I ragequitted. Today I will try Chaos trials once more. If I won'T make it, I feel miserable enough to not play anymore. I don't even have more trial tokens anyways. [Edit: Ultimatum was easier for me, I got my 4th point now. Still something I could do without. Hoping I can get 6th point, too]

I think it would actually be quite important for GGG to add the third ascension option sooner rather than later.

As others here have mentioned, I still see the ascension trials as one of, if not the biggest hindrance to my long-term enjoyment of PoE2.

Not even because I think the current trials are difficult. I just don't enjoy them, they are no fun to me. I played exactly 2 Sanctum and 1 Ultimatum encounter in PoE1. Ever. Those are not fun activities to me, never have been, probably never will be. And the worst motivator to do anything in a game is "because it is required" to me.

Ascension trials as they currently are deviate way too much from the core experience of the game for me to consider them worthwhile. As an optional mechanic? Maybe. As a requirement? Just no.

I am cautiously optimistic though. With the quick fixes to 0.2.0 in the last week I have newfound hope that GGG is tackling issues one after another, so ascension trials might just be one of many todo's on a long list of things to fix in EA.

Oh please no.
Even though I dislike the new trials I am not a fan of Lab either - especially without the movement skills we have in PoE1

I rather have them think of something new and a lot less annoying than any of the trials we have now.