Trial of Sekhemas and Trial of Chaos are anti-fun and should be overhauled or scrapped entirely.

i think the trials are fun BUT they need adjustment for sure .
for example chaos trials schouldnt have just escalating downsides . there schould be fun or even beneficial modifiers in some cases , like the one that we have now where theres more rares and they have more mods . i want more stuff like that instead of the constant - you won yaaaay now bend over and get fucked lol

for sekhema trials there schould be more ways to remove curses , for example after killing the floor boss get option to remove curse OR get random boon

also relic system could use re-work , like having slot for each relic in addition to the free-to slot board we have now . because WHO THE FUCK is going to use the gigantic relics ???

I just don't even ascend past the first 4 points because its just un-fun to do the rest, and it gets progressively worse. No thanks. I can do most the content I want to do with just 4 points. Eventually I'll outlevel/gear a 7 round Ultimatum and do that if I feel like it, but I'm usually not interested anymore. The 4th ascendancy? Nope, no thanks.

I played trade league for the first time in 0.3. I'm way more powerful now.

I beat the 10 stage ultimatum for the first time ever. I was excited to earn my ascendency points.

But then I found out it turns out you need to do the ultimatum THREE TIMES IN A ROW to get your points (and only if you then beat the pinnacle boss for ultimatum).

I specifically did ultimatum because of how huge a pain it is to run through 4 whole rounds of Sekhema.

Needless to say I was extremely pissed.

First and second become trivial if you overlevel for them, you don't need them immediately during campaign usually - get a few levels and them come back.

For the rest - they are too much, boring and annoying. I pay for a carry.

Maybe bosses should have honor disabled?

I died several times on the Terracotta Sentinel boss because they did huge AoE dmg and took away all my honor, then to find a new barya takes days...

Sekhemas is worst for melee. Maybe all melee classes should start with +50% honor resistance

However with that said, I don't think the trials needs to be removed, but toned down instead.

Agree the trials are the worst content in the game by a mile. Unfun and forced worst combo ever.

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But then I found out it turns out you need to do the ultimatum THREE TIMES IN A ROW to get your points (and only if you then beat the pinnacle boss for ultimatum).

I specifically did ultimatum because of how huge a pain it is to run through 4 whole rounds of Sekhema.

Yeah, length of this trial is an absolute bullshit. It wouldn't be so bad if these trials were at least easy, but they are not. They are ridiculously hard and one bad RNG will ruin your run completely. Sekhamas at least has some ways of removing penalties and gaining boons, we have merchant etc - but still we have bullshit bosses like this freaking scorpion that nearly killed me. Why? Because I'm melee, and I don't have luxury of picking the place to stand to do damage. And entire map was covered in sand that was slowing me down.

You need to suffer extreme, tedious length of that penalty stacking bullshit where in each trial you may encounter mob that will accidentaly one-shot you (in PoE2 one-shots are everywhere, sometimes even white mob may somehow kill you with degen or on-death), and then you also have bosses that can - of course also one-shot you before you even do anything.

And then you need to farm 30 maps to find even one Barja / Ultimatum to try again.

This system is pure hostility towards players. I find it insulting that it still exists after like 8 months.

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I died several times on the Terracotta Sentinel boss because they did huge AoE dmg and took away all my honor, then to find a new barya takes days...

Sekhemas is worst for melee. Maybe all melee classes should start with +50% honor resistance

I survived through these Terracotta guys only thanks to my big damage and huge AoE so I evaporated them both before they merged. You pretty much kill them both at the same time or lose, that's how it works.

+1 not fun and annoying. Honour should be remove totally - it's nightmare on melee and in team playing is garbage. After I played these on poe2 I loved more trials in poe1 so much ;D

I agree but guys, this is like the 100th thread I am seeing on trials. Literally no one likes it.

Getting the first and second ascendency is fairly simple. For the third one, I failed chaos 3 times so thats almost an hour down the drain and decided to do sekemas. I spent like 20 minutes and failed at the end of the second floor due to bad mods.

I instantly alt-f4 because I was so pissed I spent 1.5 hours trying to do trials for my 3rd ascendency and got ZERO REWARDS. In fact I LOST EXPERIENCE. All the while it was the most unfun thing and I was gritting my teeth through it. I am getting worked up just thinking about it, might be a few days before I login again.

I've never seen such disrespect and hostility towards players. It's a freaking single player game with a chatbox I dont understand why they make it so tedious.

+1