Ascent to power Bugged

Still cant find a way to fix it, its boring to make a new character just bcs of this
nothing yet?
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seaman#4993 wrote:
Kill Balbala in Traitor's Passage in Act 2 (normal) and get Balbala's Barya. Then talk to Zarka.


You are misunderstanding the issue. Players who drop their green (quest) Barya after killing Balbala for the first time in Act 2 before speaking to Zarka are permanently locked out of Trial of the Sekhemas. Balbala will not drop another green Barya on Act 2 Normal nor Act 2 Cruel, and speaking to Zarka will not progress the quest in any difficulty, with any Barya in or not in your inventory other than the no longer re-obtainable green (quest) Barya. Players who dropped their Barya in a later part of the quest have various 'fixes' available including your previously referenced use of the Ziggurat Refuge map device, but there is no current workaround for players affected by this specific issue.

It's been mass reported since 0.2 and there has been no acknowledgement or fix, sadly, especially since it's often conflated with similar issues that have been fixed or do not impede gameplay such as Ascent to Power showing up in Cruel difficulty. But anyone who this is affecting cannot access Trial of the Sekhemas on that specific character, on any difficulty, ever.
Last edited by sunshoes#1838 on May 1, 2025, 9:43:50 PM
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sunshoes#1838 wrote:
You are misunderstanding the issue.

I understand and know about this problem. It's just that in this thread no one specified that they already killed Balbala, received and threw away the quest Barya.
Cannot access the first Trial at all — Ascent to Power says "Use the map to travel to the Trial of Sekhemas". It's not on the map — I don't see where to go. Maybe put the Trial on the map if you want me to use the map to travel to it?
Last edited by MbPoE83#0644 on May 3, 2025, 1:17:13 PM
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MbPoE83#0644 wrote:
Cannot access the first Trial at all — Ascent to Power says "Use the map to travel to the Trial of Sekhemas". It's not on the map — I don't see where to go. Maybe put the Trial on the map if you want me to use the map to travel to it?

You need to use the Desert Map on the Caravan to travel to the Trials of the Sekhemas. Then you can activate the waypoint there.
Last edited by Th69#3281 on May 4, 2025, 3:32:43 AM
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MbPoE83#0644 wrote:
Cannot access the first Trial at all — Ascent to Power says "Use the map to travel to the Trial of Sekhemas". It's not on the map — I don't see where to go. Maybe put the Trial on the map if you want me to use the map to travel to it?

You need to kill Balbala in Traitor's Passage in Act 2 (normal) and get Balbala's Barya. Then talk to Zarka.
If you already killed Balbala, received and threw away the quest Barya, then the quest is broken. Wait for a fix.
seaman#4993: But then the quest would say "Talk to Zarka".
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seaman#4993 wrote:
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sunshoes#1838 wrote:
You are misunderstanding the issue.

I understand and know about this problem. It's just that in this thread no one specified that they already killed Balbala, received and threw away the quest Barya.

No one specified that they hadn't killed Balbala either, as if that was the issue it would have been resolved by reading the quest text to explore Traitor's Passage.
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sunshoes#1838 wrote:
No one specified that they hadn't killed Balbala either, as if that was the issue it would have been resolved by reading the quest text to explore Traitor's Passage.
If you don't kill Balbala and then find a regular non-quest barya, the quest will also change to "Talk to Zarka", but cannot be continued without the quest barya.


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Th69#3281 wrote:
seaman#4993: But then the quest would say "Talk to Zarka".
Yes, indeed.


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MbPoE83#0644 wrote:
Cannot access the first Trial at all — Ascent to Power says "Use the map to travel to the Trial of Sekhemas". It's not on the map — I don't see where to go. Maybe put the Trial on the map if you want me to use the map to travel to it?
Show screenshots if you haven't figured it out yet.
Last edited by seaman#4993 on May 5, 2025, 5:43:54 PM

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