Ascendancy Trials

[+Istocnik13+]

This is worst experience i had in a game in my entire life and im gaming for 25 years. These trials is something most anoying and most horrible thing i have experienced while gaming. Im deleting the game untill GGG realize this was a mistake. Ascendancy point are supposed to help you in end game and not be the other way around...i need to over level and over power my self to come back eventualy and do these trials like WTF. JUST MAKE FCKING BOSSES NOT 1 SHOT ME FROM NOWHERE LIKE WTF IS THSI GGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Othe then that im loving the game but cant continue like this untill you change something coz this is ridicilous.

[moonfeast]

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Originally posted by moonfeast:

have you gotten your full 8 points yet and how many characters have you gotten all 8 points ? so you think its ok for a person in order to experiment builds have to reach end game before they can even get their ascendancy points ? sure one or 2 char is ok, but for multi chars i would feel its a huge waste of time, no one says to remove it entirely i always say make labs optional and let players get ascendancy points more easily .

i've only got one witch to fully clear all 4 ascendancy and i would never go thru it again for another toon, but to each his own, you prefer it this way then sure good for you, im back playing poe 1 anyways so not a big deal.

we're all trying to voice our opinions anyways no one is right or wrong, lets see where GGG takes the game

This is how POE plays. Every time they reset the game for a new season, you WILL have to do everything again. This is how POE plays. There is no skipping content.

Could they change this in the future for POE 2? yes, they could. Will they? Probably not, but you can voice your opinions on how skipping content helps the player base stay steady, then go ahead and try to make a case on the forums. I sincerely doubt you will be able to come up with a good case. Good luck!

what are you talking about skipping content ? im talking about multiple character per season, you only play 1 character per season for poe ? LOL im saying i am fine with doing this for 1 character person season, but this is an arpg, no one only plays one char per season.

[Lu2]

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Originally posted by moonfeast:

have you gotten your full 8 points yet and how many characters have you gotten all 8 points ? so you think its ok for a person in order to experiment builds have to reach end game before they can even get their ascendancy points ? sure one or 2 char is ok, but for multi chars i would feel its a huge waste of time, no one says to remove it entirely i always say make labs optional and let players get ascendancy points more easily .

i've only got one witch to fully clear all 4 ascendancy and i would never go thru it again for another toon, but to each his own, you prefer it this way then sure good for you, im back playing poe 1 anyways so not a big deal.

we're all trying to voice our opinions anyways no one is right or wrong, lets see where GGG takes the game

This is how POE plays. Every time they reset the game for a new season, you WILL have to do everything again. This is how POE plays. There is no skipping content.

Could they change this in the future for POE 2? yes, they could. Will they? Probably not, but you can voice your opinions on how skipping content helps the player base stay steady, then go ahead and try to make a case on the forums. I sincerely doubt you will be able to come up with a good case. Good luck!

what do you mean reset ?. this is singleplayer not pvp whats a point of stash capacity then if everthing gets wiped

[IncognitoOri]

100% agree. I got to the final boss on floor 4 of trial of sekhemas. I got one-shot in a mechanic based on movement speed because I was unfortunate enough to have the 25% reduced movement speed affliction. Pure RNG. I entered the fight with 10k honour, died with 9.5k with the boss at half health. Complete, utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Empukris]

Originally posted by Orclover:

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

GGG would never allow a cash transaction to skip trials.

But thats already happening, people are just hiring people to hold their hands through the trials. Why would GGG pass up on that cash cow?!? It would be stupid.

Officially approving it will genuinely make your game P2W. At the moment it is illegal and bannable offence. It is consider RMT which already exist since PoE 1.

Approving it will be another D3 RMAH 2.0. Surely GGG is not that dumb. I can assure you that every single streamer that praise this game at the moment will turn immediate 180 the moment GGG announce anything related to RMT. Most of those top streamer familiar very well with the chaos that Blizzard caused with RMAH. It is a career suicide.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Lu2:

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

This is how POE plays. Every time they reset the game for a new season, you WILL have to do everything again. This is how POE plays. There is no skipping content.

Could they change this in the future for POE 2? yes, they could. Will they? Probably not, but you can voice your opinions on how skipping content helps the player base stay steady, then go ahead and try to make a case on the forums. I sincerely doubt you will be able to come up with a good case. Good luck!

what do you mean reset ?. this is singleplayer not pvp whats a point of stash capacity then if everthing gets wiped

You clearly have no idea how POE 1 opperates. The point of a reset is to enjoy the new gameplay that they introduce to the game every season.

You still get to play your old characters. You also keep all your stash tabs and loot.

The new season starts fresh tho. Only seasonal characters interact with season.

[Boomshanka]

They seem alot easier past week, also the more you try them the more relics you get the easier it is. Frustrating at first but your first accendancy is unlimited tries so you should get that one.

[Diavolossos]

First make it less buggy. Had it now three times now that i kill the endboss at full live myself and enough honour. Quest says solved, but you will instant killed when the boss is killed! And you can do nothing more in the game. Alt-F4 is the only way to get out of this situation! No reward, no chance to make it again after relogg!

[Machin Shin]

I must say.... yes i hated the 3rd ascension BUT I did it in try 5 and after changing some setup and the feeling when you manage to do things in this game are way way way more satisfying than easy mode

but yes some afflictions are way to overtuned and they really can make it a little easier tweak is. I mean 3rd and 4th i had no problems with first and second

[MeslockPlays]

I have to agree with the OP. I loved POE1 ascension trials but this honour mechanic doesn't allow different builds to succeed. Why should you have to change your build to a set meta just to obtain part of your leveling process. It is supposed to be fun process. In all the other content you can learn mechanics, increase your resistances and be able to heal through damage, but this honour mechanic is just not fun. Being swamped by 20-30 mobs that explode no matter which way you dodge. I'm lucky to have >100 honour by the time I get to Rattlecage. Oh and the whole you losing honour if one of your party members looses honour is just stupid.

[Talindor]

The trials are really not fun. If I want to play something like that, I will play Zelda. Hopefully they change that before the final release. Nobody enjoys it.

[Heartbeach]

Inevitably, PATH OF EXILE II has been seriously demanding ascendancy respeccing/reset/change/switch, and stash tab expansion by gold spending instead of real world money spending, for no pay to win and equality, critically.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

The trials are a great way to gauge your gear/build.

I hard disagree.

And for reference I have completed both now on various characters and figured out good ways to complete both. But it doesn't change the fact that they are complete BS

They gauge nothing because none of their difficulty relates to anything outside of the trials themselves.

Sekhema has the stupid honor system, you can easily glass cannon this trial (its actually preferable to do so), I did with one character that did tons of damage had trash defenses. Cause defense broadly doesn't matter you just don't ever want to get hit. This relates to no other part of the game. If you take a build that can cake walk Sekhema and try to run maps with it you'll get owned.

Chaos trial is even worse, it has arbitrary modifiers that can outright brick your build if you get bad RNG again these modifiers don't exist anywhere else in the game, not even high tier maps. Nowhere else will I ever have to dodge lightning turrets and heat seeking on death effects while taking ramping damage. And the boss Balakh itself is harder than literally any other boss I faced in either difficulty.

It's fine to like the trials or to argue even you think they should stay but they relate to no other part of the game and gauge nothing except how good your build is at doing those trials.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by RodHull:

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

The trials are a great way to gauge your gear/build.

They gauge nothing because none of their difficulty relates to anything outside of the trials themselves.

Mmmmm... IDK about that. If you have a hard time killing things quickly in the Sanctum Trials, especially the last boss, then you know you have a DPS problem. If you have a hard time getting through the Chaos Trials, then you know you have a survivability problem.

Seems pretty easy to gauge to me.

[JiggleBill]

For 4th trial I recommend doing Ultimatum over Sanctum. It's way easier. It's even faster if you buy the 3 fate fragments instead of farming them.

I think the difficulty needs to be adjusted early game a bit but by mid to late its fine. People are struggling because they dont know how to build their characters yet. They just expect to be able to easily finish all the content with little to no thought or time invested. Diablo has made people weak. PoE isnt a casual game. Never will be.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Originally posted by RodHull:

They gauge nothing because none of their difficulty relates to anything outside of the trials themselves.

Mmmmm... IDK about that. If you have a hard time killing things quickly in the Sanctum Trials, especially the last boss, then you know you have a DPS problem. If you have a hard time getting through the Chaos Trials, then you know you have a survivability problem.

Seems pretty easy to gauge to me.

As I pointed out those things do not correlate.

The boss you face in the first chaos trial (balahk specifically) is so overtuned its more powerful than bosses I have now beaten with ease in cruel. It can delete you with its whirlwind attack that is so large it takes up the whole arena, nothing else I have met in the game before or since even comes close to how powerful he was. And the modifiers again they appear nowhere else in the game.

It's not even like you can brute force him as he just jumps up in the air and becomes unhittable at specific break points on his health bar. Its a terrible fight that teaches you nothing except how to beat that specific fight