The Trials Are the Least Fun Mechanic In the History of Gaming

[Plutonious]

See title. The whole honor system forces you to play in such in suboptimal way, prioritizing never getting hit and avoiding combat for most of the rooms. It's just not fun. God help you if you get the chalice and you get the mana drain aura mod on one of the rares that nukes your honor to 0 instantly if you get within half a screen of it- good luck melees! Or if you get the bugged ES mod that makes the mobs invulnerable (pls hotfix this).

The whole thing needs to be gutted and redone.

[FireShark]

Haven't got there yet. Sounds fun, tho

[Tolfdir]

Wait till yo see the other trial. It is bonkers!

[Moose]

there's no need to do them early. i ended up getting my first ascendancy by completing the trials at level 40. it was ridiculously easy. waiting to do the ultimatum trial in act III is what most people will do, but at level 38ish it will be very very difficult. soo when you get to the ultimatum trial, just go back to act II and breeze through the sanctum.

[Preyhamster]

they took league mechanics from PoE1 and put them in PoE2, which, fine i get.

But deciding that Sanctum was ok as a replacement for labyrinth has to be the most ass-backwards thinking i've seen.

It takes longer, and punishes you for being hit, not for dying, but being hit. Its not a good mechanic, especially when the boss at the end is all about AoE and making the arena an insufferable hell of AoE spamming mini-totems.

I'm not entirely sure what the thought-process here was.

[😎Astran😾]

This is fine, the whole game is a combination of the least fun mechanics

[pakoo]

wait till people cry being ripped off the same way they did for dialo 4 before .90 percent of people here are same people who were claiming last year how diablo 4 will revolutionise the genre .
the same people from six months from now will be crying about poe2 and how it is nothing like they were told it would be .but hey its your money if you are throwing it in drain pipe .more power to you .you will eventually run out of it and end up on street , xD

[Plutonious]

Originally posted by Moose:

there's no need to do them early. i ended up getting my first ascendancy by completing the trials at level 40. it was ridiculously easy. waiting to do the ultimatum trial in act III is what most people will do, but at level 38ish it will be very very difficult. soo when you get to the ultimatum trial, just go back to act II and breeze through the sanctum.

I did it on the 3rd try. The first couple failed because of the aoe rain on rattlecage once he hits 50%- great idea to put massive AOE rain into a system where you aren't allowed to get hit btw, it's amazing for melee chars who can't cast on the move. Had to swap in a ranged skill to do the last bit because of it. But I was already overleveled at 29. It doesn't mean it isn't the dumbest mechanic in the history of gaming.

[Flaze]

Took me 2 tries as a ~lvl 23 shock monk (melee). First try I didn't really pay attention to the room types and debuffs enough, and took few lazy hits. On second try I aimed at a room with merchant and it had +dmg to monsters buff in sale and I still had most honor. Last boss hits are slow, you just have to pay attention to its telegraphs and watch for the ground effects and your golden.

If you can't get it done on first or second try, do not despair and either get more relics to buff the honor gain from the sanctum itself or come back later.

[Plutonious]

Originally posted by Flaze:

Took me 2 tries as a ~lvl 23 shock monk (melee). First try I didn't really pay attention to the room types and debuffs enough, and took few lazy hits. On second try I aimed at a room with merchant and it had +dmg to monsters buff in sale and I still had most honor. Last boss hits are slow, you just have to pay attention to its telegraphs and watch for the ground effects and your golden.

If you can't get it done on first or second try, do not despair and either get more relics to buff the honor gain from the sanctum itself or come back later.

It's not the boss that's the problem, it's the AoE lava rain that starts at 50%. Each hit from that takes 150 honor and it doesn't seem to have an indicator, you just have to keep walking in circles to avoid it, which as melee char kinda kills your ability to do damage.

But the entire system up to that point is still beyond stupid. You just run through everything and fight nothing, because you can only afford to get hit 8 times by anything during the whole trial.

[VoiD]

This is the reason why I'm shelving melee characters in this game