I hate Trial of Sekhemas

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MasterBLB#3551 wrote:

That's why carriers like me can earn nice amount of divines by helping players like the author whose don't want to bother learning nuances of the trial.

Btw, if you overleveled why don't you try trial of chaos? Although there you'd probably nag about Bathlak, the vulture boss. Undead bird boss can also be nasty, truth be told.

i'd rather fight that final bird boss than the scorpion with traps boss

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ih8myjob#4722 wrote:

If you are level 80 and cant crank out a 60 sek.... especially with even mediocre relics, the issue is irrefutably you.

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yeah it's totally my fault that 2 hits of the boss can nuke your entire honour bar even though you have increased maximum honour and honour resistances.

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karsey#2995 wrote:

Nothing worse than being bullied into taking run-bricking afflictions.

One time I had to choose between "gain an affliction when you gain an affliction" and "you have no armour".

Me, being an armour-only based build, figured it was unwise to remove my primary and only defensive layer.

So I gambled on taking the "gain an affliction when you get an affliction".

It immediately gave me another affliction: "you have no armour".

Good times.

this is so typical for all of my trial runs so far. it's like the devs don't know how to make the trials more difficult so they artificially just make it more difficult. and instead of it being more difficult (meaning you can become better and learn the game more), it just becomes more annoying and infuriating.

The only tests that feel fun and a "challenge" to me, are the ones where you have to touch crystals before the timer runs out. or with temple of chaos where you have to escort a stone or collect items to activate a device while enemies spawn infinitely.

any afflictions that nuke your defenses should be removed from the game. I don't mind if enemies have more resistances or hp or an energy shield etc. it just makes it a bit more difficult.

mobs having 300% increased crit chance get go away though.

Sorry to say that mate, but it looks like build/skill/know-how issue:
1 HP Trial of Sekhema
and
1 HP/1 Honour final bosses kill

And if wasn't even the Last Flame - I deliberately picked that "You have no Defenses" to make my 1 honour run training more realistic.

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MasterBLB#3551 wrote:

Sorry to say that mate, but it looks like build/skill/know-how issue:
1 HP Trial of Sekhema
and
1 HP/1 Honour final bosses kill

And if wasn't even the Last Flame - I deliberately picked that "You have no Defenses" to make my 1 honour run training more realistic.

I see the point you are trying to make with the flex - that the challenges can usually be done easily if you put in the effort to master them and play a relatively Sekhemas-friendly build.

I don't think that excludes people from hating them because you definitely can be bullied into afflictions that brick a run, or make it 1000% more annoying to run.

On almost every character I make I do Sekhemas at ~22, Trial of Chaos ~38, and then I just do a full Sekhemas Run ~75-80 depending on my gear/build and get the 3rd and 4th points over with at the same time because I also hate the trials, even though I do not struggle with them. They kinda suck.

I can't get past the scorpion because seems there are some traps which I don't see.
I play a build with extreme screen clutter/no visibility so can't see the floor past all the burning ground from my skills.
Killing arbiter was excruciating because it was so hard to see anything on the ground.

I always do 1st and 2nd asc by myself but 3 and 4 usually someone gives me a taxi.

Both ways we have to ascend are garbage and people have hated it since 0.1

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MasterBLB#3551 wrote:

Sorry to say that mate, but it looks like build/skill/know-how issue:
1 HP Trial of Sekhema
and
1 HP/1 Honour final bosses kill

And if wasn't even the Last Flame - I deliberately picked that "You have no Defenses" to make my 1 honour run training more realistic.

But can you eat 15 pounds of shit ?
I bet you can !!!

Then you will have mastered 2 things nobody wants to do!
Go for it man!!

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LewtDeezNuts#1011 wrote:

Then you will have mastered 2 things nobody wants to do!

And that's why there is service market where players who can't/don't want to pass trials on their own can pay someone who can a fee to be carried - for satisfaction of both sides.

The Ascendancy trials are a cancer on the game IMO. Worst idea I have seen in years. To force players through that slog from hell to advance their character is just indicative of Jonathan's 'everything has be a punishment' 'Vision'.

Leave them in for the people that like them, add some phat loot and RNG so people run them again and again I don't care, just stop forcing us to do that hell for Ascendancies.

If you have people setting 3 Div aside on all chars for the carry thru these dang things to avoid them maybe they aren't as fun as Jonathan thinks they are.