Trial of the Sekhemas is the worst thing I've ever seen

[dumpster cat]

I am playing in ultrawide, and I am getting off screened from mobs constantly during the trial. Half the time, I don't even notice that I got hit until I look down and see 500 less honor than I had 10 seconds ago.

Mobs that aggro and cast on you from off screen is bad. The concept of honor is bad. The entire base system of this trial is badly designed at its core. (Edit: to put it more lightly, in the framework of an ARPG this system feels out of place)

To spend 60 minutes at a crawling pace, inching forward, desperately throwing spells at the edge of my screen to hopefully kill something I don't see before it hits me (while I still don't see it) IS NOT FUN. Plain and simple, it is just not fun.

The entire system needs to go out the window and be replaced with something else. This is one part of the game I will absolutely say does not respect my time, and I will die on this hill.

Edit: gonna add some suggestions for something more fun below as I think of them
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- Make the sekema trial so that each level can have monsters OR traps, but not both.
- Allow spending sacred water every few rooms or halfway through to create a "checkpoint" which lets you respawn there one time, but you can buy it more times if you have water
- A couple people have mentioned that this system wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't mandatory for your ascension. After some thought, I agree - if it was just for big loot, I think it'd be okay, though I still think it needs some kind of checkpoint system.

- Add a new trial, in the style of a Colosseum gauntlet battle, in which you have to fight tougher and tougher bosses, maybe with random modifiers and a light amount of traps around the arena, with the final boss always being some kind of trio of gladiators (akin to the ancients fight in diablo 2)

- I'll try to add more if I remember

[Sable Winters]

The game does need to allow zooming out a bit further, however, It also seems ultra-wide compounds the issue.

[Nico]

No need to replace it since the Trial of Chaos already exist and you only have to do one of the 2 types of trials, in the future even just one out of 3.

[5ean5ean]

I concur....Sanctum is dogsh*t.

[dumpster cat]

Originally posted by Nico:

No need to replace it since the Trial of Chaos already exist and you only have to do one of the 2 types of trials, in the future even just one out of 3.

I still like the idea of having options of different trials to ascend or target farm certain items.

[No.]

I think the Sekema trials are okay it's just way too many of them at higher levels. It's like 30 rooms. And likely you'll not just be running them once. I think the minigames are fun, it's just that let's say you fail a couple times, then the 30 turns very quickly into like 100+. And they're not so fun that I want to do them 100+ times in a row

[cheshire.panther]

Both of them are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the current state. I was warning people about having mandatory sanctum/ultimatum not being a good thing and fanboys were seething, and now look at where we are.

[Nauct]

I like this one, the other one glitched out first time I tried and insta killed me, spawned like an obelisk in my character when I clicked the thing and dead, left a bad taste.

[Lucifer]

never crashed until 2nd floor boss. f* this garbage so much

[ApexKano]

I wouldn't mind the trails if the Honor system wasn't tied to not being hit in combat. Our heroes move way too slowly for this type of system to be tied to honor.

[htluvinz]

even on a dedicated build sanctum can be super rough and really rng. strange choice for ascendancy trials.
i did one earlier that was lvl 57 only to find out after i needed lvl 60. lmao.

[Critical]

This is actually the WOSRT mechanic in the entire game. Trying to get my next ascendancy points feels like pulling teeth out. Seriously can't be bothered to try again. Got to Trial #3 and enemies that tickle my hp take off 1/3rd of my honour - absolute BS. If i'm not running around annoying burrowing enemies to touch some crystals I'm spamming roll in a room for 1:30 minutes trying to survive until the timer is up.

Rest of the game is great but this is horrible

[Sel Und Irae]

Trial is fine, I just wish you could opt into Honor for better rewards . . Most of us just want our points and that's it. I'm playing / was playing a tank build and that was not fun having to dodge everything cause game decided you fail if you get hit enough.

[ssj grumpig]

It really doesn't feel like it should be mandatory, would work very well as side content

[Josko]

The honour system for the entire trial is crazy bad and not fun at all, just frustrating really.

What they should do is make the honour system be enabled in a specific room only and not the whole trial just like there is a room where you have to survive a timer until the next room.

So you enter a room and maybe it has the honour system, then the next room its gone and you have something else but not honour for the whole trial.

[Diminutive]

I'd say playing in ultra wide might be a contributing factor, tends to sacrifice the top and bottom to give you more left and right. This won't change the ai logic just because you have chosen a bad form factor.

As for traps and mobs, they are actually quite limited to the point it is fairly easy to memorize their patterns, where they spawn, and what to expect.

So the only thing left to help would to remove your self inflicted disability of form factor to factor in.

After a couple attempts I could clear the trial without issue, 8+ clears with different classes later and I can clear them without getting hit. So practice will make perfect in this trial.