Prismatic trials are toooo hard with these artifacts

[chunglya]

Im a fairly new player and wanted to unlock the item harvesters scythe
in order to do this you need to complete a prismatic trail I have tried a lot of times but they are so hard and unplayable with these artifacts activated also every refresh of the trails the arts are the same so annoying

[MarcoPants]

If you think just completing one is impossible, you'll probably have a stroke when you see the Mercenary: Ethereal challenge

[chunglya]

ok but dont you think artifact of spite, honor, dissonance and swarms is a bit hard for trials?

[Seftak]

Just wait for the next one. The timer at the top tells you when the trial will change. I did mine with the huntress with artifact of glass.

And these challenges are CHALLENGES, not a tutorial for newbies....

[chunglya]

Ive waited like 3 resets still the same artifacts. Have you completed this seed?

[Seftak]

No. But i did one a week or two ago and they change every 48 or 72 hours. They MIGHT look samish because they reuse other artifact but the one i did was very different than this one.

[Steelflame]

Devs have acknowledged that Prismatics are a bit busted (Partially due to Horde of Manys which very often spawns as the teleporter boss, always in Of Kin runs) but keep your eye out. While some of them are basically impossible stage ones (Elite Wisp swarms with artifact of glass is fairly cancer), if you can beat them it's a lot easier on the second stage. It's hard, but possible to unlock Harvester Scythe even if you are only ok at the game on most seeds.

Merc challenge is stupid atm though. Swarms/Elite basically being default makes it close to impossible due to sheer enemy density/health pools meaning you have to plan your route perfectly, although if you're lucky you can have the Glass Artifact enabled which is a massive boon to you (Because you consider taking 1 hit as a run loss anyway, it's basically just a 5x damage modifier for you).