Worst content in the game - TRIALS
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Horrific content - even on decent servers without lag. Probably the worst design of any content I have ever seen in ARPG game ever. And to still see this crap unchanged now a year into this EA is the final straw for me.
Lets put it this way... I did not buy DIablo 4 expansion 1 cause it had co-op only content. And I never looked back. Now... I will declare I will never play POE 2 again while this trial system is in. So the only thing these so called TRIALS are doing... is to see how many players will NOT try it again and leave this title for good. Last bumped on Jan 22, 2026, 6:16:46 AM
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It was an odd choice to take the two least enjoyed pieces on content from PoE1 and make them mandatory in PoE2.
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I mean, really, they should add an option to insert currency instead of bariya coin.
3 ex - Balbala teleports you to 1st floor altar 10 ex - Balbala teleports you to 2nd floor altar 30 ex - 3rd floor 1 div - 4th floor Everyone is happy. -) Also bariya coins could have tiers, just like currency. Lowest one is that we have atm, better one - you start from floor 2, still better one - from floor 3, and best one - from floor 4. Last edited by Azimuthus#1135 on Jan 18, 2026, 6:26:33 PM
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" No thanks ?????? and since when people are not happy about the entry? sounds like a you-problem tbh, people usually complain about trial being too hard and unfair, you're like the first I see talking about that. Token are too common to complain about the entry "fee". Tech guy
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" You misunderstood the whole thing. You pay currency and thus skip the floor and get teleported to Ascendancy altar. Practically people do that anyway, buying "carry" services, so it is effectively there already. Devs just need to legalize it lore-wise ) Maybe we will need to corrupt Balbala coin at first, for example -) Or double corrupt (Vaal Cultivation Orb) our first ultimatum to get the same effect on another trial. Last edited by Azimuthus#1135 on Jan 18, 2026, 6:40:00 PM
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It's a lot easier today than it was at the start. The 4th one is the only real boondoggle. Waaaaaay too long, even if it is "easy" for a lot of people. I have no real issues with the first 3.
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" trials are easy. there are content providers writing guides for achieving trials. only if people bother to learn. if a player cannot even master easy things, then the player has zero hope for accomplishing more challenging things in the game. 34pre98qua Last edited by stkmro#2432 on Jan 18, 2026, 11:40:06 PM
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Early on they had so much more flavor, If you touch the Alter you are afflicted. Now its always, if you enter youre screwed. If you read it and remembered, you didn't get the negatives. It was so much more fun. They jacked that up, then nerfed the Body Armor that they wanted to make harder to get. Which they could have done on the Relic, making curses easier to get with that relic. Instead they made it horrible for everyone instead of making the content fun for average players...
Last edited by Krytren#1839 on Jan 19, 2026, 2:50:47 AM
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"* And where did I ever say I couldn't do it...? Finished this league and league boos but it does not make the trials good or even interesting content. RNG on top of RNG on top or RNG to "test" players skills - when half the time you just sit and wait for mobs to respawn... The last set is by far the worst... tedious and boring when GGG ALREADY have the trial master ready to fight. SO skip the crap and do the fight. Last edited by kristinnhf#2555 on Jan 19, 2026, 6:46:09 AM
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+1 trials suck xD I hated it in poe 1 and so do I in poe 2
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