Who designed Trial of Sekhemas?

[WarheroJango]

It's a poor imitation of Hades like games and is likely to be the reason I uninstall this game.

[Captain Rhodes]

I believe in you.

[WarheroJango]

Escrito originalmente por Captain Rhodes:

I believe in you.

I'm not wasting my time.

Not unless they redesign it from the ground up, cause I can't even play like I want to.

[Wutever]

The trials themselves are mostly fine, but Honor is the worst mechanic that I have ever seen in like 10 years of PoE. Even if you play ranged it forces a cringe, hyper-defensive playstyle and invalidates a bunch of skills and game mechanics.

[Eido]

They are too long, especially the 3rd and 4th fourth approach, I don't blame people for being irritated by them, in poe 1 they annoyed me, but they could be done relatively quickly. In poe 2 they are on a much higher level of irritation, they can be difficult, but not take so much time. They can lead to a rage quit when you die on the last boss after 1 hour of playthrough

[Freakazoid!]

The Honor mechanic must die. It's not fun. Otherwise, the trials are nice.

[Taita]

I kinda like it a bit. I was determined to learn those mechanics but then I understood you need key for each run. So I can't just go again and again as in hades. I can do 2-3 runs and then farm for like 3-4 hours to do another attempt. Maybe at higher maps keys drops more often I dunno I am doing maps lvl 9 and they are not not that common.
It could be solved by buying keys but the whole game could be solved by buying things and following guides - I would like to do something on my own.

[Wutever]

Escrito originalmente por Taita:

I kinda like it a bit. I was determined to learn those mechanics but then I understood you need key for each run. So I can't just go again and again as in hades. I can do 2-3 runs and then farm for like 3-4 hours to do another attempt. Maybe at higher maps keys drops more often I dunno I am doing maps lvl 9 and they are not not that common.
It could be solved by buying keys but the whole game could be solved by buying things and following guides - I would like to do something on my own.

If you're dedicated to running specific end-game content you're kinda expected to buy keys or other resources for it. This can eventually become very profitable.

Focusing on Trials without trading isn't really sustainable, and that's by design as some of the best uniques can only drop from specific endgame bosses.

[Rankiry]

It feels like they designed a game with plan in mind of tactical precise gameplay.
And then suddenly decided to return to old POE1 style. We are just suffering their indecision consequences.

[Taita]

I just wanted my ascendancies. I didn't even know there are trial specific uniques. You just made it worse for me :/ . I loved hades but playing trade minigame and farming minigame to do sekhemas... I don't know something feels odd.

I see the philosophy behind this. They want to give us wider variety of things to do while mapping and farming. In their head or on white board it definitely looks cool. "Look I did 10maps now I can do 1 chaos trial, 2 sekhema and I can do that delirium thingy. Cool." But I feel like I want to play it from the other end. I would like to do a specific thing and for that I have to farm a lot.

[Saturnus]

Agree. I would like them to bring the labyrinth back, it could be the labyrinth of the sekhmas. But I'm not going to stop playing the game because of that.