Trial of Sekhemas is garbage

[Squirt Games]

This honour mechanic needs a rework, do you not want melee characters to have fun?

[Midnightoker]

one of the biggest complaints . not touched in patch. there just scaming us. the whole game is a scam. if the patch dnt drop by this week im done. there just like everyone else just scam people they dnt care about players. f2p pft sure...

[bobroonie.bda]

It's not the system. If you build a paper cannon you're going to get one shot. If you don't build up honor resist and maximum honor you better be great at not getting hit. I'm melee and beat 3rd trial with 4000 honor remaining. Play your build right or die trying.

[This PC]

stack honor resistance
it's as simple as that

[This PC]

Originally posted by Midnightoker:

one of the biggest complaints . not touched in patch. there just scaming us. the whole game is a scam. if the patch dnt drop by this week im done. there just like everyone else just scam people they dnt care about players. f2p pft sure...

bye felicia

[Crow Buddy]

Baron01 wrote a fantastic post about this. I hope it's okay to quote them from a different thread. I'd highly recommend listening to their take:

Originally posted by Baron01:

While there is certain level of RNG involved, you should be able to finish full trial run with end-game character 8 out of 10 times. Once you get good set of relics, your success rate should be 9 out of 10. That 1 run is reserved for those bad luck situation where you get railed into situations that massively penalize your character. You might be able to finish the run if you have strong character but it might be wiser to save time, penalty loss or death in HC to just quit it and start again.

I'm an evasion based character using HP and ES for EHP. I have few showstopper afflictions that I avoid--no evasion, monsters can not be slowed below base speed value, reduced movement speed and possibly "no energy shield" but I finished one run with this affliction lately. On the other hand, there are some free afflictions as well, such as "no armor", "lose of sacred water on hit or room completion", "100% increased damage on low life", "can not restore honor removed after defeating floor boss (my favorite freebie) and few more. You need to understand how your character works and pick your poison carefully.

Obviously, all of the trials are made easier if you have strong character. If you can kill the final boss fast without any boons, imagine how quickly it can be done with 30% less monster HP and 50% more character damage.

Your absolute priority is to avoid showstopper affliction closely followed by getting as much sacred water on first three floors and buy everything in the shop.

Relic set priority for full trial farming:
1. Honor resist at least 75% - I have slightly over 100% partially because I can deal with affliction reducing relic effect by 50% and partially because I can not switch honor resistance on my relics as I want their other effect.
2. Bosses take increased damage - I have 65% and bosses melt, the more the better.
3. Maximum honor - this is cushion in case things go bad and it also allows you to absorb certain afflictions without becoming too squishy.
4. Maximum defenses - this helps your character survive better and also pushes your total honor up. This works well with increase maximum honor.
5. Increased movement speed - this is nice to have as it speed up the farming, makes the last boss easier and reduces your reliance on getting the boon from trader/gate. I can now make the last boss time trial without the boon but I have 40% base movement speed + 10% bonus from relics. It can still get dicey if the pick ups are spread in bad positions.

[Not A Vampire]

Originally posted by Chazer:

Surely they will rework it somehow before the full release. Not many people seem to like it.
And in the Poe forum the sentiment is the same, GGG surely already took notice because it was and is a hot topic

Id be fine with it, if it didnt seem like it out for me. Always seems like it knows just how and when to ♥♥♥♥ me over. I almost perfected that stupid trial last night, well the easy one for 2nd acend points, but nope, some stupid little fire ball clipped me then another.. after ya know, i rolled thru 20 before that.
or it lines up allll bad rooms in a row.
i have not beat it to get 3rd round of points. I was getting to the bull poopie poison scum bug but the last 4 times the game bends me over just at the right moment.
AND HONOR PROTECTION IS COMPLETE BS.
65% out of a 75% cap and it did nothing.

[Not A Vampire]

Question.. if i have a thing thing thats says ALL MONSTERS take 17% more damage, does that include bosses? Would assume so right?

[A Queefing Corpse Scented Candle]

i’m not coming back until they increase barya drop rate or sell them at a vendor. right now there’s zero respect for our time.

[SharkPlush]

I mean, if you're a chad you just hand someone an exalt and have as many barya as you want

I got the exalt from someone else by just id rare items and dump them in sale tab

so

[Gon Freecss]

Yeah as warrior with 500 health when i done it, i literally tried to avoid everything until the boss. Then the game crashed, i didn't even choose my ascendancy so i had to redo it. lol

[M'Hael]

lol, trials used to be my biggest complaint too...but rest assured it gets much worse.

[Squirt Games]

Originally posted by M'Hael:

lol, trials used to be my biggest complaint too...but rest assured it gets much worse.

you make me glad i stopped before reaching endgame lol, after being told i needed to replay a harder version of the campaign again to go from lvl 50 to 100 i was like ehhhh ill just wait for more updates thanks

[HunApo]

Nothing needs to be reworked in sekhema, it is easy as hell, once you understood what you need to do.
You can do 99 out 100 runs on full 4 floor with any class, as long as you know what you are doing.
If you are clueless, yes, it will bit you in the arse, sooner or later.
At that point you have 2 choices:
- either learn from your mistake and try to figure out why you failed the run
- look for the metric tons of guides available basically everywhere (steam forum, official forum, youtube, guide sides, even pamplets in your gorram mailbox)

Or you can cry on the forum and yapping about "no balance, no respect, bad RNGjesus, etc"
Surely that will achive alot, because "casuals" are very important, who have to deal with 2 families, 3 lovers, 4 jobs and have the attention span of a butterfly.

p.s.
If you dont like the easy way, you can go and flip the slot machine trial of chaos, which will break your build, no matter how godlike build you have, you can get easily messed up penalties at the very start which will kill you (not often, but 100 times more often than sekhema, because you cannot get boons, only penalties)

[Squirt Games]

Originally posted by HunApo:

Nothing needs to be reworked in sekhema, it is easy as hell, once you understood what you need to do.
You can do 99 out 100 runs on full 4 floor with any class, as long as you know what you are doing.
If you are clueless, yes, it will bit you in the arse, sooner or later.
At that point you have 2 choices:
- either learn from your mistake and try to figure out why you failed the run
- look for the metric tons of guides available basically everywhere (steam forum, official forum, youtube, guide sides, even pamplets in your gorram mailbox)

Or you can cry on the forum and yapping about "no balance, no respect, bad RNGjesus, etc"
Surely that will achive alot, because "casuals" are very important, who have to deal with 2 families, 3 lovers, 4 jobs and have the attention span of a butterfly.

p.s.
If you dont like the easy way, you can go and flip the slot machine trial of chaos, which will break your build, no matter how godlike build you have, you can get easily messed up penalties at the very start which will kill you (not often, but 100 times more often than sekhema, because you cannot get boons, only penalties)

it was literally bugged when I made this post, and the devs themselves adjusted it besides bug fixing, so yes it absolutely needed to be adjusted and you don't know what you're talking about. Go away.

[HunApo]

Originally posted by Squirt Games:

Originally posted by HunApo:

Nothing needs to be reworked in sekhema, it is easy as hell, once you understood what you need to do.
You can do 99 out 100 runs on full 4 floor with any class, as long as you know what you are doing.
If you are clueless, yes, it will bit you in the arse, sooner or later.
At that point you have 2 choices:
- either learn from your mistake and try to figure out why you failed the run
- look for the metric tons of guides available basically everywhere (steam forum, official forum, youtube, guide sides, even pamplets in your gorram mailbox)

Or you can cry on the forum and yapping about "no balance, no respect, bad RNGjesus, etc"
Surely that will achive alot, because "casuals" are very important, who have to deal with 2 families, 3 lovers, 4 jobs and have the attention span of a butterfly.

p.s.
If you dont like the easy way, you can go and flip the slot machine trial of chaos, which will break your build, no matter how godlike build you have, you can get easily messed up penalties at the very start which will kill you (not often, but 100 times more often than sekhema, because you cannot get boons, only penalties)

it was literally bugged when I made this post, and the devs themselves adjusted it besides bug fixing, so yes it absolutely needed to be adjusted and you don't know what you're talking about. Go away.

Thank god we got you captain know-it-all
Oh wait, you know less than John Snow:

Originally posted by Squirt Games:

you make me glad i stopped before reaching endgame lol, after being told i needed to replay a harder version of the campaign again to go from lvl 50 to 100 i was like ehhhh ill just wait for more updates thanks