ascendancy trials are TRASH content.

So... don't do them?

Welcome to PoE, where you can choose to focus on content you enjoy.

For me, I spend no more than maybe 15 minutes in Sekhema during any given league... I get my points and move on.

Also remind yourself, this is early access. They still have plans for a 3rd option.

Sanctum is a popular mechanic in PoE1. Yet in my 4k hours over there, I've never pushed into it, since I don't enjoy it. Still had fun doing other stuff.

If you don't like the rain, grab an umbrella or stay home and make other plans.

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 wrote:

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

Trials are fun af. It's literally the only content which you can't faceroll completely rn. People actually need to learn mechanics and adapt on the go. We need MORE content like this, not less.

Trials are a faceroll, they're just not exciting, engaging, or entertaining.
Slap kn some honour resistance and trap damage mitigation then just run through everything and 1 shot the boss.

Or choose from a series of mechanics that can be completely ignored like lightning damage if you stay in a circle or fire traps that only shoot in 4 very specific directions.

The problem isn't that they are hard, it's that they are boring.
We need more fun content.

I think that experience is very different for SSF (which I play) and trade. At this point I even think we should have two separate forums as a huge part of "trade" feedback is non-existent in SSF.

Even SSF is a faceroll, just repeat the "free" trial that can be attempted infinite times, don't complete it, just use it to farm relics and recombinate them until you've got a few good ones. Then you can race through as many as you want at any level worry free.

temopralis cost 3 mirrors LOL.

I havent even used this item since 0.1 and now we are in 0.4 and I never got any close to try it.

For a human who is emoployed and have certain amount of time to play per day how do they expect the player to even try this item ??

Those trials are a joke and I agree.

I still stand by my opinion that Trials are the best content this game has to offer, when you do them at the appropriate level (basically when you the Ultimatums/Baryas to drop, even in SSF). They should beef up the trials because the Trialmaster and Zarokh are underwhelming. Ranged characters can trivialize this content so we'll need some more counter-measures :)

I absolutely do not understand how you can farm all the content in the game but struggle with trials...they are so easy, especially Sekhemas trial, I don't get it. If you can do juiced maps you should have 0 issues with trials. You must do something wrong.

I agree with the OP, they are terrible.

I might just skip playing the leagues going forward for this reason. I have completed the fourth ascendancy a few days ago, and I do not ever want to do it again, ever.

Sanctum just does not belong in Path of Exile. People who enjoy PoE do not play rogue-like games, and vice versa. Those few people who do run Sanctum never play any other content.

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Sanktusdub#4305 wrote:

So... don't do them?

Welcome to PoE, where you can choose to focus on content you enjoy.

For me, I spend no more than maybe 15 minutes in Sekhema during any given league... I get my points and move on.

Also remind yourself, this is early access. They still have plans for a 3rd option.

Sanctum is a popular mechanic in PoE1. Yet in my 4k hours over there, I've never pushed into it, since I don't enjoy it. Still had fun doing other stuff.

If you don't like the rain, grab an umbrella or stay home and make other plans.

Judging by the fact that Original Sin costs a mirror, I wouldn't say that Sanctum is particularly popular in PoE 1.

100% agree. Any type of Ascendancy trial is TRASH. Just give us 2 at 20, 2 at 40, 2 at 60, and 2 at 80. seriously need to simplify some mechanics for people who want to play but arent NO_LIFERS who you cater to and then let them ruin the economy with no recourse

It can take 30+ minutes to do a 4 floor run, and it's something every player is pretty much "forced" into unless they just buy it, because trial of chaos is even slower than that. Failure means you get "nothing", because your entire goal of going into it was just to get your final ascendancy.

I don't think it can count as good or fun content, if for many players they have to be forced to engage with it, instead of doing it for fun and getting a bonus as well.

Ok so I'm sorry, but if you have completed everything and are still struggling with trials of sekhema, its because you are scared of it and refusing to do it

Remember learning to ride a bike for the first time without training wheels?

You were definitely scared to take that leap maybe having someone assist you, but eventually you have no problem on that bike and you don't even think twice you just bike!

Same goes for any piece of content in this game, I was initially in the crowd begging to remove it, to nerf it at the least, now I laugh every time I do a trial

There is a way to do them, you choose the right rooms, to know what the right rooms are? you gotta run them

You do have to fail, how many tests at school did you ace on the first try?
If you aced them first try, its because you did alot of studying, others may get a lower test mark, some fail

Do you let that failure scare you away from ever doing a test again? Or do you study? Looks like you choose to be one of those delinquents skipping class refusing to study and do their homework!

Through every failure is how you succeed, ask yourself what exactly it was that killed you, Was it the room you chose? the afflictions?

Sadly the issue is your patience, maybe need to rework your build, watch some videos on how others run the trial, but by no means does it need a nerf, other classes(specifically right side of tree) legit need a buff maybe introduce
F O R T I F Y into this game so melee has an ES equivalent, you know just a thought GGG? Only like every other ARPG has it or something similar

Pathing is everything, taking the rooms that offer the most choices not ones that only have 1 path etc etc, sometimes you can take some real shitty afflictions and still succeed, you have to try lol, only took me 1500 hours xD