I have yet to complete a full sanctum...

I'm curious OP, did you have any 'gain inspiration when you receive an affliction' relics? You can easily stack 1k inspiration with those, and that allows you to get hit all the time and make tons of mistakes & yet complete the runs.

Btw lvl 75-80 sanctums are still worth running, you can get divines & sanctified relics and they're considerably easier to complete. Would suggest just rushing those maps to save sanctum rooms & then port out so you can chain it faster.

I tried now with 5 different builds till end of acts / first maps, to run sanctum and managed 1 time to finish 1 floor of sanctum.
Got 3 relics with a bit extra coins, nothing good, nothing for resolve.
Play this game quite a long time now, this is the first league I see where you can not complete the league mechanic during acts (streamers and non-casual players excluded).
Also first league I only see some chaos orbs drop, but nothing else. Past leagues I found before maps always some exalted and divine orbs. Now 0, with 5 chars.
This game is moving further and further away from the casual player.

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

it was the trap exit room with square ground degen runes. battle arena is not that bad for me as i just run around in circles

Now we are talking. The rune trap rooms are the easiest ones by themself if we exclude any random guards that spawn in it. If possible just run to exit to avoid most dangers.

I think i can figure where the problem is. You evaded traps and then some guard or trash mob sneaked in or off screened and made you nervous so you lost more resolve than needed.

Its either that or he got the trap speed affliction.

Otherwise those traps are really not that hard.

^probably one of those things. but that was just one instance. there is always SOMETHING that messes it up for me. now i got 40% less mov speed in the rooms. not even sure how i got it

anyway i will probably stop trying soon because this is not fun for me at all.
sanctum reminds me of a juiced up lab and i always hated lab. lab is still in my top 3 most disliked content in the game

Not really, the lab's awfulness is the trap gauntlets and the traps in the boss room. Stopping you in your tracks and bleeding you down in a second is horrible, not being able to move during the boss fight - even more so. Sanctum is better designed.

still cant complete it

i always do well until the 4th floor and go into the 4th floor with full resolve then lose it all after 2-3 rooms. if something hits me i lose close to 100 resolve from that 1 hit. i also get hit if i hide behind a wall and there are no enemies near me. is this normal or my account is bugged? everyone i talked to says something fishy is going on

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

still cant complete it

i always do well until the 4th floor and go into the 4th floor with full resolve then lose it all after 2-3 rooms. if something hits me i lose close to 100 resolve from that 1 hit. i also get hit if i hide behind a wall and there are no enemies near me. is this normal or my account is bugged? everyone i talked to says something fishy is going on

There is NOTHING FISHY GOING on.

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

still cant complete it

i always do well until the 4th floor and go into the 4th floor with full resolve then lose it all after 2-3 rooms. if something hits me i lose close to 100 resolve from that 1 hit. i also get hit if i hide behind a wall and there are no enemies near me. is this normal or my account is bugged? everyone i talked to says something fishy is going on

There is NOTHING FISHY GOING on.

so its normal to lose resolve when hiding behind a wall? i play a totem build. i throw down the totems and run/hide but i still lose a LOT of resolve. i'm sorry but this is not normal. only happens on the 4th floor

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

still cant complete it

i always do well until the 4th floor and go into the 4th floor with full resolve then lose it all after 2-3 rooms. if something hits me i lose close to 100 resolve from that 1 hit. i also get hit if i hide behind a wall and there are no enemies near me. is this normal or my account is bugged? everyone i talked to says something fishy is going on

There is NOTHING FISHY GOING on.

so its normal to lose resolve when hiding behind a wall? i play a totem build. i throw down the totems and run/hide but i still lose a LOT of resolve. i'm sorry but this is not normal. only happens on the 4th floor

What are your afflictions? Resolve weakness + monsters impact +% resolve is always a bad combination to begin with. Try to compensate for it by getting strong boons/relics like inspiration gain on affliction and/or getting max resolve on using fountain/killing boss. This way you have a bigger leeway for errors as you end up having a bigger HP pool.

Not all walls block attacks. These fence like walls let some attacks through. Hide behind a solid wall if possible.

To avoid off screen use your totems as bait (casting them ahead of you) on passages you have not traversed yet.
In lots of cases they will draw attention of one or multiple guards or trash mobs and you will know their approximate location then.

Also as already mentioned if you get the trap exit rooms with these rolling magma balls you can use your totems to block them at their spawn point to make it easier to get through.

you must be having extremely bad rng with the rooms/layouts. Try to avoid entombments & desecrated crypts on floor 4 if possible.

I restarted in SSF and haven't failed a single sanctum there either, even without good relics. I'm playing cold DoT which is pretty close range like RF and my dps is really bad so I can't one shot anything - but still doing fine. Mostly just hard carried by inspiration.

i'm convinced there is something up with my account. everyone should be able to complete it with a totem build. come on. also if it was a skill issue wouldnt i have troubles on the first 3 floors as well? my character is lvl 98 and over leveled/geared