I know it's called the Temple of "Chaos" , but the RNG factor is just too much

I just spend a whole hour chasing a Dragon Around. Dealing some bit of damage, then avoiding the part where he does a Roar (This can take out my whole ES so it is his only risky move) and then moving around a bunch of elemental ground that does nothing to me because I bumped my resistances quite a bit.

It was painful and very annoying but I kept doing it because I spend the gameplay hours prior to it grinding the Temple trying to get some ascendancy points. Before my "successful" round it would usually go like this:

- Really easy first round, kill all monsters, get some XP and items
- Probably die on the second round if I get surrounded or die on third round if it rolls Soul Core challenge or I get a pretty bad curse combination.
- Get to last boss and die if it's not the Dragon

Earlier this morning, I rolled the Dragon but I was unlucky because a previous room forced me to pick Energy Shield. At my current build Dragon + ES means that the Dragon will simply never die. And I actually had to give up.

Otherwise the bosses are pretty difficult. The vulture is workable until it summons the giant rat. The other bird I had no idea actually existed until today, but it killed me with a surprise tornado. No big deal, because a bad combination of the first two curses would usually get me killed at the second room while surviving.

But this last time I had a very lucky run. I was able to pick "No flask charges earned from killing enemies", "Debuffs take longer" and "Monsters have extra 20% damage" . To add insult to injury, for the Dragon Boss fight I picked the thing that releases lightning. It's placed in such a way that it is trivial to ignore during the fight with the dragon. But it would have been very deadly if I rolled the Vulture. (Chaos damage does nothing to me because I have Chaos Inoculation)

Many of the curses are game-enders. But some are completely harmless. One of them actually helps my build because it slows down missiles.

The bird needs to go for sure.

Everything else is fine. You just have to do the trial a few times and you'll quickly learn which options to take based on your build (for example, not taking bleed and poison if you're playing ES with no CI).