3rd and 4th ascendancy

i'm begging you guys to just let me find rare items and use those to get my last ascendancy skill points. these trials are so unfathomably ass, it's insane

It takes like 30 mins to blow through the entire 4 stage ascendancy trial. What is the problem you are having with it?

pick up rare items to get ascendancy ? what?

It would actually be more straight and fair situation lol. People mass-buy ascendancy runs anyway, so instead of scammable party payments, just let runners sell ascendancy skill books on trade or something:)

Yeah, as of today, 3rd and 4th ascendancies are ass. It blows my mind how people sat together and decided it's a good idea to gate core, build defining features behind basically obscure, hard, endgame content resulting in the majority of the players probably never doing it.

It's one thing bringing over some of the more divisive/disliked content of poe1 to poe2. But making it mandatory to ascend is just a mind boggling choice.

Personally I never like them in poe1, so I d rather see them completely deleted, and just make the 4 ascendancies unlock through class specific quests, one naturally integrated in each act.

Just chalk it up to the failure board and be done with it. It's early access after all.

Collect rare items for 3rd and 4th ascendancy? Naaaah, they should give it for free.

getting ascendancy is sooooo EASY hahahahaha.

Yes, easy.

But what if the items given by trial of chaos weren't unusable corrupted trash?

I agree there. Even drop rate of Trial Master is HORRIBLE. Besides Adorned no item sis good for anything from the get go. Shield and gloves can be really good but you HAVE to vaal cultivate and hit the right mods. I did countless trial master runs in trade AND ssf. by countless i mean beyond 50. i saw the gloves 3 times so far. AND i never hit the cultivation to make em useful.

Seks takes like 30 minutes and the relics alone can often sell well. Collect them all, dump in relic stash each level, and ID and price check when you're done and you're virtually always coming out with several divines, sometimes hundreds of them.

I hated the idea of ascendancy trials, because I quit PoE1 right around when they first appeared, and remembered losing multiple HC characters to one hit trap mechanics. It's nothing like that. A handful of slow traps that are easy to avoid and rooms that have them can be avoided entirely many runs, low density, low damage mobs. It's really just a matter of watch the screen and moving your character as needed to avoid incoming damage.

Hell, even if you don't with a few relics to boost def and honor resist you can basically just walk through the place.