Ascendancy needs rework

[ramongeon]

There were two parts of POE 1 ascendancy that drew criticism most. One was the labyrinth itself and the other was needing the favor of the RNG gods and finding the trials necessary just to do the lab in the first place. (or having to pay someone in trade to let you join their maps)

Fast forward to POE 2 and not only did they choose not to fix either of these issues (to be fair I never really had an issue with the lab itself, but I did see the complaints), they made them worse. Instead of a labyrinth we do trials or ultimatums where we are victims of the RNG gods with constant debuffs, which likely will be run ending ones. Then they made you use a currency that drops at your level meaning if you want a reasonable trial/ultimatum you either need another character or trade for lower level currency.

They need to allow you to buy the currency at the lowest level necessary to do the trials if they leave it as is. That way I don't run 20 maps with a single coin dropping at my level. Either that or provide a non-destructible currency like the first trial /ultimatum. Plus it would probably be fine with most players if you nuked the normal rewards of those instances and removed the RNG portion of both types.

As an experiment let's see how much people in POE 1 would love if each floor of the Lab instituted a RNG debuff system like these, pretty sure the reaction would not be positive.

[Floppa]

the sky is blue and the air is clear

[Isseus]

Are your opinions too important not to post in one of the other gazillion threads about this exact same topic? I'm no saying I disagree, quite the opposite, but other than venting, I don't see what a new thread will accomplish.