Ascendency should not be gated behind secondary content.

SSF

Sukhemas is... it is the most frustrating experience I've ever had in a video game. With perhaps the League of Legends matchmaking system still taking the lead.

Act 3, and the fucking non-stop slowing sand... I mean. Are you actually trying to get all of your potential new players to drop the game?

That scorpion fight is such dogshit. I'm just running the fuck around half the time waiting for the damn thing to come back up so I can attack it. I mean, seriously- seriously. If the goal was to be annoying, you guys just nailed it. Killed it.

The aimbot poison, spam your dodgeroll kids. Its so fucking non-skill stupid.

There is nothing so fun as just trying to move. Just move. I'm swimming in sand, trying to walk between a bunch of sink holes while a giant scorpion is jumping all over the place. Don't know where its coming out, where its going back in- there are no tells, no indicators. Maybe I can't see them or something.

Maybe I'm supposed to spam spacebar. I mean, fuck- skill expression.


I beat it, but thats not the fucking point. I hated every second I spent the entire way through to the end of floor 3. It took WAY too long.

I should be able to start from the floor I'm doing. Its such a fucking waste of time. The first floor is so easy. The second is so annoying. The third is more annoying.

I don't want to play the fourth floor.

This build sucks to do sukhemas. What do thorns builds do? Just not ascend, quit? What about recoup? We just ignoring completely mechanics in the game? Do we have to rebuild and gear, just to do this shitty sidequest action?

Great game until end game. Really good, challenging, awesome. Then it just goes off the rails and turns into shit. Nearly all side content is out of balance to the main content- like ported in from a different game.

The league is sick until you get to fight the end stuff, then every rare is just so fucking annoying. Everything just turns annoying.

Endgame stuff is going to kill this game.

Suckhemas Heh xDD

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kazajhodo#6457 wrote:

SSF

Sukhemas is... it is the most frustrating experience I've ever had in a video game. With perhaps the League of Legends matchmaking system still taking the lead.

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I don't want to play the fourth floor.

SSF would require a massive farm of the 1st 3 floors to get the needed relics which are dirt cheap if you can trade for. (honor resist/boss dmg/movement speed +-dodge roll, defenses if you have ES).

4th floor is actually easier than the 3rd if you have relics, and don't pick some silly affliction (e.g. 5% dmg to hp/mana/es)

The trial is built for glass cannons for the most part. Immunity to ignite trivialize some of the traps. Being ranged (not taking damage) is a massive boon.

For reference: on an alt (proper off meta - tactician with spear and twister) I've lost like 100 honor only or so (in the very 1st room) in 3 floors.

Well for one thing, as a thorns build, you don't use Sek to get 3rd and 4th ascension, you use Chaos, or Ancestors once added.
Heck, you might even skip the first ascension at Sek and get those points alongside 2nd at chaos.

When you make a build that anti-synergizes with a particular form of content, you don't do that content on that build.
If you want things from that content, then on ssf you'd have a 2nd character that does that content so the first doesn't have to, and on trade you'd buy it.

Meanwhile the same build that avoids that particular content is better at something else, and does that to get the items the other character would want.

This game isn't meant to be the kind where you only play one character, and even when only playing one character you still account for the specialization of your build.
Stop running Sek with thorns, or any build that is meant to get hit. Go to chaos.
I have a melee recoup Sorc Chrono build. It won't be ascending using Sek.

Seems like you dont understand the mechanics of the scorpion fight.



You seem to just hate Sekhemas. Dont run it then.



The problems you have with it, are all obtainable knowledge though. And skill expression in the end.

I think it is alright, though maybe the 3rd and 4th should have quest versions. I haven't had much trouble with sekhemas, though i've sone some sanctum before and it is pretty similar, actually probably easier than sanctum.

The chaos trial is a bit different. I liked the trial when I first played through SC, though in HC it is a bit more RNG. You can potentially just get bad options which make the run tough and dangerous if you don't fish for good mods, depending on your build. Since it is repeatable on the early trail it is not a big deal, but RNG for ascendancies coming from lab which had some random factors, but was largely static content, might be what is annoying some players. Still, overall I think it is fine with what I've encountered. I do wonder if there are some builds that they are just really bad for. There is some RNG in sekhemas as well that could be aggravating for HC.

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

Seems like you dont understand the mechanics of the scorpion fight.



You seem to just hate Sekhemas. Dont run it then.



The problems you have with it, are all obtainable knowledge though. And skill expression in the end.

Let me translate this:"I like that it's hard so it shouldn't change at all".

My take:
They should absolutley gate Ascension behind secondary content. It's something you earn, that elevates your class, not something that just happens.