The first trial is god awful. Sanctum was a horrible league and so was Ultimatum.

When I play Path of Exile, I want to play Path of Exile. Lab was fine to ascend in PoE1 because it was a mechanic that took place within the game of Path of Exile. It got old to run it, absolutely, but you actually played the real game in it.

In a lot of the later leagues in PoE1 the goal of the league was always to not play Path of Exile. We were playing town management sims, stupid roguelite indie games, or auto-battlers. I beg you to PLEASE not force us to play a non-Path of Exile roguelite that doesn't even respect your build or your mitigation strategies just to ascend. I would rather just get the ascension point after killing the Djinn boss because that boss was better than the entire Sanctum trial.

Extremely bad and unfun. Just add a third trial that is playing Path of Exile, without some stupid secondary game ruleset tacked on.

+1

I have over 4000 hours in poe 1 and never completed a sanctum, this entire game is cooked, its like chatGPT wrote a sketch on what poe 2 should be and they then just told it to start writing python.

I cant believe I have to do this dog mechanic sanctum to ascend, no way can you tell me regular lab wasnt cool, i was excited to see a new labyrinth, not some overcooked, SRS minion noob mechanic as a lab.

ive never played sanctum before, didnt play the league never tried it.



justg tried the trail of sekhema thing?


that is the worst fucking thing i have ever played, i cant express how much i hate it. got to the final boss and i guess died or lost honour or something?


thank god theres another way to ascend. i will never play that again, ever, that is awful beyond words. walking through flame twisters and timing spikes and stuff?

really?

that was so badly recieved in lab. d4 added it for 1 season and it was awful.

i just cant express how much i hate this content. this is not arpg gameplay, what is this in the game attached to something so important for?

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

ive never played sanctum before, didnt play the league never tried it.



justg tried the trail of sekhema thing?


that is the worst fucking thing i have ever played, i cant express how much i hate it. got to the final boss and i guess died or lost honour or something?


thank god theres another way to ascend. i will never play that again, ever, that is awful beyond words. walking through flame twisters and timing spikes and stuff?

really?

that was so badly recieved in lab. d4 added it for 1 season and it was awful.

i just cant express how much i hate this content. this is not arpg gameplay, what is this in the game attached to something so important for?

Prepare for disappointment. At least right now Ultimatum is not really better than Sanctum. I think it is far worse, at least the entry level is super overtuned or possibly bugged? No idea, it's not fun.

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visibledark#0732 wrote:

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

ive never played sanctum before, didnt play the league never tried it.



justg tried the trail of sekhema thing?


that is the worst fucking thing i have ever played, i cant express how much i hate it. got to the final boss and i guess died or lost honour or something?


thank god theres another way to ascend. i will never play that again, ever, that is awful beyond words. walking through flame twisters and timing spikes and stuff?

really?

that was so badly recieved in lab. d4 added it for 1 season and it was awful.

i just cant express how much i hate this content. this is not arpg gameplay, what is this in the game attached to something so important for?

Prepare for disappointment. At least right now Ultimatum is not really better than Sanctum. I think it is far worse, at least the entry level is super overtuned or possibly bugged? No idea, it's not fun.

Definitely agree, both of these were some of the worst and LEAST played content in POE , why they use it to blockade character progression here is mental. Remove both of these mechanics, and either just give us points for killing those bosses or create a new lab.

+1 to never completed any sanctum in my lifetime.

+1 I guess ill have give up on using an Ascendancy for my class...

I was a little familiar with the sanctum mechanics, still felt incredibly awful.
The final boss had so much area attacks everywhere it was hard to not run into one of them when dodging the boss.

finally, long after it was unlocked for me, i beat it when i was a bit overpowered.

Hard disagree. Ultimatum was my favorite (and a fan favorite) and I skipped sanctum but was still able to clear sekhemas in one try with no difficulty. It's balanced to be super easy and every monster telegraph for 4-5 seconds before attacking.

Lab on release was so hard that people didn't ascend until level 50+ and didn't do cruel until maps. This is literally baby mode compared to poe 1 when they introduced Ascension