Trial of Sekhemas - Honour is 1?

Do I need to drop eldritch battery and chaos before I start this?

Is that why my honour is literally 1?


Confirmed, I tried a reward from a level that did damage to me and I lost the trial.

I dropped the two points before I reentered and I have actual honour now... Pretty garbage design IMO.

The trials are a mess. They should have kept Sanctum and Ultimatum as optional
content. Even crazier is that they made them worse than their original counterparts in POE 1....I mean how does this even happen.....

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lupasvasile#5385 wrote:

The trials are a mess. They should have kept Sanctum and Ultimatum as optional
content. Even crazier is that they made them worse than their original counterparts in POE 1....I mean how does this even happen.....

Once we have the full game there will be a handful of different trials do, not just the two we have atm. In act4 there's the trails of ancestors as part of the story and will most likely be another one down the road probably in the .4 patch.

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baconbyte#0146 wrote:

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lupasvasile#5385 wrote:

The trials are a mess. They should have kept Sanctum and Ultimatum as optional
content. Even crazier is that they made them worse than their original counterparts in POE 1....I mean how does this even happen.....

Once we have the full game there will be a handful of different trials do, not just the two we have atm. In act4 there's the trails of ancestors as part of the story and will most likely be another one down the road probably in the .4 patch.

I remember hearing Jonathan saying that there will be 3 in total. And yes the 3rd one will be based on the Trial of the ancestors; and if you played that league in POE 1 you already know that rage is going to be part of it. Still, the least punishing one out of the 3.

GGG has somehow intentionally set out to make the Ascendency trials extra hard, and annoying because....."you must earn that power" or some auch nonsense.

I'm sure there will be more than 3, even if it's not at launch. There will probably also be trials not for ascendancy like lab coming back just for helm enchants would be cool.

ascendancy trials are only tough for newcomers. If you're still struggling with them after a few playthroughs, I don't know what to say lol.
That 1 honor thing does sound pretty bad though.

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yosheee89#3525 wrote:

ascendancy trials are only tough for newcomers. If you're still struggling with them after a few playthroughs, I don't know what to say lol.
That 1 honor thing does sound pretty bad though.

The real issue with the trials, in my opinion, is the randomness. If it's some optional side thing you decide to do, like in POE 1, nothing wrong with random stuff screwing you over. But locking pretty significant power and progression behind RNG is just frustrating, whether you are a newcomer or experienced. No matter how good you are at the game, when those trials give you only choices that destroy your build you're done; and repeating the same trial until the RNG rolls in your favor is not fun, and will never be fun.

Also, the honor mechanic is unfair towards melee characters; even after the change. So not only do you have to deal with random encounters you also lose for being touched too many times.....just stupid for this type of game.

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yosheee89#3525 wrote:

ascendancy trials are only tough for newcomers. If you're still struggling with them after a few playthroughs, I don't know what to say lol.
That 1 honor thing does sound pretty bad though.

Never said it was tough, it's just dumb that your honour is linked to your HP / defensive stat.

Very, very dumb.