Trials are the worst gameplay experience PoE2 has to offer!

Agreed. That's why a large percentage of players just pay 40 exalts and get it over with. Not worth anyones time.

Be careful. Don't criticize the game in front of a bunch of glazing meganerds lols.

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Granathar#7992 wrote:

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LFA01#0120 wrote:

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Kerchunk#7797 wrote:

It sure seemed to respect my time when I spent it finding Relics to cap my Honour Resistance, boost my maximum Honour, and look ahead a bunch of rooms so I could avoid bad debuffs and stack a ton of Sacred Water on the way to one-shooting my 4th Ascendancy for the third league in a row like I genuinely don't understand what people find challenging about this content. It might not be the most exciting thing but if you're really struggling this much then I feel like the person not respecting your time is you.

You are completely right, but from the perspective of a player who understands the game's mechanics and their own progression scheme very well.
I don't find it surprising that people could find locking a major power boost behind a roguelite mechanic quite frustrating

In my case (Titan) it's really MAJOR powerboost because of Hulking Form. If I reach that node all my stats are gonna go bonkers to the orbit, I will be like 20-25% stronger only because of that single node.

And also Warrior is the worst class for these trials. I almost did it anyway, but still I failed only because of shitty RNG that I could not avoid.

I've done it as warrior, it's really easy after the changes they made in 0.2.

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GypsiDanger#4220 wrote:

Trials aren't fun or challenging - they are simply frustrating! Losing every progress in the 3rd floor one room before the last boss made me insta quit the game.

I used to thought like you until this season.

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GypsiDanger#4220 wrote:

A game like PoE2 should respect the players time and be rewarding and not frustrating.

It does, they are improving the game in every patch. Sometimes, their ideas are wrong but they need to check it out. I think the game is balanced, but it has a learning curve everyone has to be willing to overcome.

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GypsiDanger#4220 wrote:

Why don't you give us different options to get ascendancy points?

They are giving 2 options: Shekemas and Chaos. I guess that there are more trials coming, but they need to get ready those features.



Trials are hard if you are not prepared for them, but when your character is well equiped you don't have any problem.

The last two seasons I wasn't capable to do any of them. This season I do everything in the game without any problem. I have learnt a lot this season.

The trials feel bad because you get bullied by RNG into being weak.

No one likes playing on a gimped version of their character, it just feels bad.

I feel like there's some psychological loss aversion trap happening here because when I think about it I'd always rather have "enemies do 10% more damage" over "you have 10% less defenses".

Plus it fuckin sucks when you fail the trial, and still say "you know what? lets just get a few levels, improve our gear, damage, defenses, and retry". And then on the second attempt, get fucked even harder by afflictions to the point where you were better off in the first run!

I can handedly do either trial as melee or whatever as long as I don't get fucked by afflictions - and you can get screwed in either trial very easily.

I think there needs to be some kind of overhaul over afflictions and boons in general - what they are, how you get them, how you mitigate them, etc.

Accidentally sprinting out of roll while poorly dodging a sped up flamethrower trap which then knocks me down and instantly deletes me because of the hungry fangs affliction would actually be kind of funny if I wasn't bullied into not being able to collect water, gained afflictions when I gained affliction, have no defenses, and didn't go to the rooms I picked. In that scenario it feels like the game just wanted to waste my time and send my character to sc.

And when I do make it through, completing the trial doesn't even feel like I overcame a challenge - it feels lucky that I dodged getting fucked by afflictions and also relieving that I don't have to do it again. The happiness is found in the fact that I can go back to playing the content that's actually fun.

+1

I play Cheyula Monk specifically because it doesn't care about its ascendancy because they suck.

People pay to not interact with them.
Ya its a winner