Trial of Sekhemas is the dumbest thing in a video game

[Flappers]

Sorry, but it has to be said.

It's the most frustrating, time consuming, completely dumbest thing ever to be implemented in a video game.

Dev 1: "So the player needs to progress their ascendency nodes, so let's make it that they do a rogue-like game mode, where the player has ONE LIFE, but instead of their life being used, we use an HONOUR system instead that gets decreased so it can't be healed with pots"

Dev 2: "Oh, that's a brilliant idea, and to allow the player to recover it, let's make it COMPLETELY RNG! That will be super ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun"

Dev 3: "Yeah, not only that, let's make them go through MULTIPLE floors, that take ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AGES to complete, and if they die right near the end on the boss, they have to go through the ENTIRE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THING AGAIN"

Seriously, what the actual ♥♥♥♥ were they smoking when they came up with this idea.

It's NOT FUN. None of this is fun. The chaos trials are even worse because there are no good boons, only bad afflictions.

You're supposed to make games be fun to play. Neither of these are fun at all. Making me waste a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hour, because I ran out of honour on the final ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss for my third ascendency? Absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid mechanics in a game, such a waste of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time.

[Besto]

agree, i farmed for relics untill i had 4 stash full of relics, now im 10+lvl than the actual map and still some white phantom mob one shooted me in the last room before the 4th boss.
It was fun a couple of times + the exp and loot was equal/better than doing maps.
But at this point its something that i dont want to do ever again.
you can tell by the fact that they sell the asc carry in chat that the system sucks and nobody wants to do it, definitly needs a rework

[SeiKz]

today i stoped playing because of the 3º ascendancy, i was 2 rooms before the 3º boss then i got a room that recovered my honour but give a random debuff.

i was already debuffed with -50% damage, the game REMOVED ALL MY ENERGY SHIELD, i lost 4k of my energy shield, ok i had 1k of hp left, then i saw my honour, it went from 5k to 900 because of some kind of bug, got 2 hits and lost all the trial, this debuff was the dumbest idea ever.

it's like the prize of the room was "now you die in one hit if you are a energy shield focused build."

this game is starting to not worth my time

[Orthrus Dragon]

Thats the reason why GGG said they are going to be making some changes to it.

[Towoo]

Originally posted by abominioo:

it's the reason why I am quitting poe

I feel you. Same here..

[Imperius]

agree, its a horrible gameplay loop.

[Casul Gamer]

Originally posted by Brother Orthrus:

Thats the reason why GGG said they are going to be making some changes to it.

Just like they were reducing one-shots. Bread crumbs to assuage the negative reviews. There were some good things they improved in patches, but again, that was only after negative reviews and big content creators complaining.

[Demiurge]

Hopefully they'll change them by full release

[Tony]

Yea It would be 10x better if we didn't have this honor system to worry about.

[MetalMamacomon]

Agreed. Both trials suck, but sekhemas should be deleted.

[TheAceOfSpodes]

The biggest problem I see with Sekhemas is that it negates a whole lot of builds. It heavily favors evasion and dodge roll focused builds, while really gimping people who just want to soak damage and recover from it.

It wasn't a problem for me on a ranger, but I can absolutely see where the close ranged/melee folks are coming from.

[DarkFaceGlow]

It is kinda lame, but it’s not very hard.

[Ray64]

Yah I think it is fair to say that if they deleted it from the game and replaced it with literally nothing, we would have a better game.

That is how awful it is.

[Nepherael]

couldn't agree more. my sorceress is not weak yet I can't be hit more than a few times or my honor is dangerously low. And honor resto is only about 100 when I need like 3-500 just to get a cushion back. If I could just restore it easily it wouldn't be so bad

[darkmage1000]

i recently started farming it. summoner is easy mode in it. minions block some traps and eat ranged hits. if you have 75% honor res you can stand in the fire trap for a whole min and not lose all your honor, this assumes you do have hp/es above 1500. if its your first ever character it will take some farming to make it easier. if you can farm currency and buy the merchant offers more choices relics it gets super easy. 4th boss has around 16 million hp so you better not be weak going into that one. repeat you must get to 75% max honor res with at least 1500 hp/es combined to have an ok time.
avoid taking any afflictions when possible, but especially no energy shield or other defense, and dont let it take you to random rooms or remove info about rooms those are run ending as well as the 50% reduced dmg just reset it at that point. all you need in the buffs to trivialize it is you do bonus dmg and the move speed. move speed make traps look silly.

[Knavery]

I think "constructive" criticism will help. Remember, this is in early access. I'm sure they'll take the things we bring up into consideration.