Ascendancy is no fun at all

First i want to state that POE2 in this case has some great features and combat mechanics. But alas if you are a more casual player or do not intend to build the 1 shot screen builds it becomes extremely frustrating to progress in the later parts of the game. Especially when you want to get all ascendancy points.

Starting with getting you ascendancy points. The trials of sekhemas and Trials of chaos straight up suck.

Step 1: Hope that RNG jesus gives you the right level of ultimatum or Barya
Step 2: enter 1 of the trials.
Step 3: Over nerf yourself or overbuff the enemies so much they will 1 shot you
Step 4: See step one again and repeat following steps.

I am by no means a player that understands all the nitty gritty details of the game but that also makes it that your sense of progression comes to a roaring halt when you hit endgame or want to gain all ascendancy points.

The times trials failed because of the rediculous Honour mechanic or a trial of chaos boss being so rediculously buffed and than losing the entrance key is infuriating.

I hope these 2 things get either removed from the game and another form of ascending gets implemented or Heavily tweaked because for the more casual player this is near undoable.

The same counts for maps and yes i know you can manipulate the modifiers on maps but before you have the materials to do so you need to invest huge amounts of time and effort to be able to do so.

Don't get me wrong i don't want maps removed but i would like to see the insane buffs monsters can get to be looked at because if you are not able to either tank all damage and become immortal of 1-shot the entire map you will get swarmed stunlocked and killed.

I have max resistances on everything and the most basic white named enemies kan kill me in 3 auto attacks which to me seems rediculous.

I hope the coming patches will make the game evn better than it already is. But at this point ascendancy just falls flat being locked behind rediculous mechanics.

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TheDecended#0726 wrote:

Step 1: Hope that RNG jesus gives you the right level of ultimatum or Barya

This alone shows that you don't know what you're talking about. Let me enlighten you: Drop level depends on map level.