Trials of Sekhemas

[Stratajim]

Worst idea I have seen yet in this game. Literally got a random affliction and it wiped out the rest of my honor and killed me on the spot. Developers, you should trash the idea, or remove the honor system. I'm not investing anymore money until you fix the trials.

[Shajirr]

Honor system is fine, because you can either gamble to pass with no honor resistance, or do relic collecting runs until you get 75% resist, then use them all at once.

And with some Merchant buffs bought the trial becomes a joke. You can get massive movespeed buffs, massive damage buffs, etc.

Much more of a problem are random afflictions that can just end your run right there, like getting "No ES" one while using Chaos Inoculation.

[Paroe]

Note: While not stated, you are fully expected to fail a handful of times while building up a relic pool.
Once you have a few relics and higher skill, it gets a lot easier.

I fully agree that honor is awful and should be reworked though - id prefer it if your HP just didnt recover while in a trial, and honor was consumed to heal you like constitution in grim dawn.

[GaviJa]

Just use honor protection. I did a run with warrior for the 3rd ascendancy and I ended at 3000/4500 honor at the end

[RedShirt]

The system is overall disliked so I guess it will change at some point. I get why they thought it is a good idea, but it clearly needs some tweaks.

I'd bet on them removing the instant loose and instead reducing the rewards and/or causing a serious affliction when honor runs out.

[TyresTyco]

After getting all the necessary relics I actually quite like it. The 4th boss is very bad tho since bad rng can make it impossible to beat.

[M1lh0u53]

I feel like the system isn't going to change, they put enough time and money into it that they aren't just going to remove it.
BUT it's where i draw the line, I was enjoying it up until that point, It slows the game play right down - Talk about time consuming.

[--T-a-u-r-u-s--]

I like the trials only 2 things would improve my experience the beetles are to fast and overwhelming on close combat

And last Boss falling rocks are hard to predict wher they fall so fast I can not react or roll to falling rock

Last time I kill boss and last rock kill me

I play monk

[Shajirr]

The devs are also supposedly adding a 3rd way to get Ascendancy points, although I don't know what it'll be

[SomeKindaCasual]

The Trial of Sekhemas is a rehash of Sanctum, and is generally just fine. Additional forms of Trials will join both Sekhemas and Chaos/Ultimatum in the future. In the meantime, it's not for every build, you'll have to make better choices, and there'll be more choices in the future that may be better for you. Pay attention to afflictions, choose wisely, and most importantly:

Git Gud.

[Nauct]

Doing the 3rd Ascendancy was super hard. So I did some runs of lower difficulties of it and unlocked some Relic slots and upgraded my relics, got the resistances I needed, and some extra spell range so I could stay far away and then it was super easy.
Can't outskill it, just RPG it

[zynx.-]

The honour system is dogsht. Thats all.