GGG, please reconsider your decision not to include the third Ascension trial in 1.0.

I'll start by stating that I hate Trial of the Sekhemas/Sanctum; I am not physically able to 'git gud' as I don't have good enough reflexes to play without getting hit too much. But it's all good as I have infinite tries with the quest-given Djinn Barya, then I don't have to touch it again. My understanding is that's why we have different trials so that we can choose, right? I have no problems with the Trial of Chaos/Ultimatum as it's straightforward and I can deal with it.

The problem is with the 3rd pair of Ascendancy points, us Sanctum haters has to wait until mid-late endgame to get our what supposed to be a late-campaign power increase. Inb4 "just buy a carry", I want to do it myself. Also please spare yourself from commenting the usual 'just get relics and cap honour res, etc.', I know all that.

I hope in the spirit of players having choices and also for better new player onboarding, again I implore GGG to please reconsider your decision not to include the third Ascension trial in 1.0.

My guy its just not done yet. They said its like 3/4 of an Act just in the animations alone. Sure they could just vomit out some shit and it would probably work in the meantime, but people have come to expect a certain level of quality. I think after Druid got out the slammer, a great void was left in the animations dept and TotA got sucked in like a little kid next to a jacuzzi drain. Somebody save the little shit.

I know :( and I still hope they reconsider. I know it's an almost 0% chance, but at least I got it off my chest.

I agree, the runes of alduur and the expedition mechanic share some things and Jonathan and Mark said that it's something they try to do to basically optimize their time, so ideally the next league needs to be about trials and the Karui somehow

They already said that they want to improve trials before, and imo all the new players that are going to play poe 2 when it becomes f2p should have the best possible experience while ascending

But in the end is just a different perspective about what 1.0 is supposed to mean, to me it should mean the most stable version of the game possible in all fronts, but to GGG apparently is just about having all acts in the game and an endgame loop that's interesting enough, everything else is secondary

They want to release 1.0 this year no matter what for some reason, i personally think that EA should be extended by another year

The game could still use some gpu optimizations, fsr 4.1 implementation, better trials, better balance overall (which incorporates a ton of different things, like armour and evasion hybrids are a joke outside of tactician), better crafting, better rare itens from the ground, swords, and so many other things..

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But in the end is just a different perspective about what 1.0 is supposed to mean, to me it should mean the most stable version of the game possible in all fronts, but to GGG apparently is just about having all acts in the game and an endgame loop that's interesting enough, everything else is secondary

Yeah, I'm of the opinion that Ascension is an important part of the campaign but in the end they are the devs.

Sometimes I wonder if they've shot themselves at the foot by calling it early access and calling the F2P launch 1.0 instead of repeating what they've done with PoE 1; a paid closed beta and made the F2P launch 0.10 or something. I'll imagine it will take off the sting of not having all classes which many will assume it supposed to come with 1.0