New Ascendancy Trials are fantastic

Significantly more satisfying than labs.

As someone who was very biased towards Lab (I played when the update came out, have ascendancy shirt, and have the official PoE Lab adventure book), I think this is very much a good change.

The new sanctum is a lot of fun and significantly more engaging than the lab. One positive change I think would be to allow defensive stats to reduce honor damage.

The new ultimatum is phenomenal, some damage values could be tweaked but it's a ton of fun.

Well done GGG! I don't miss the labs at all!

So far, completed on Warrior, Grenades merc, shotgun merc, Witch, Sorc, Ranger, Monk.

All weapon-based builds have very spike-ey damage, requiring you farm up for a good weapon to have an easy time in the trials. All mages have a more consistent power curve. (This feedback is from me and my guild members who all started at same time and all finished with ascending and/or in maps before weekend was up)

You have a golden gem here GGG, stand true to the vision!

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Kaboinglefop#0955 wrote:

Significantly more satisfying than labs.

As someone who was very biased towards Lab (I played when the update came out, have ascendancy shirt, and have the official PoE Lab adventure book), I think this is very much a good change.

The new sanctum is a lot of fun and significantly more engaging than the lab. One positive change I think would be to allow defensive stats to reduce honor damage.

The new ultimatum is phenomenal, some damage values could be tweaked but it's a ton of fun.

Well done GGG! I don't miss the labs at all!

Most wont make it there.

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PatrickFf#1965 wrote:

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Kaboinglefop#0955 wrote:

Significantly more satisfying than labs.

As someone who was very biased towards Lab (I played when the update came out, have ascendancy shirt, and have the official PoE Lab adventure book), I think this is very much a good change.

The new sanctum is a lot of fun and significantly more engaging than the lab. One positive change I think would be to allow defensive stats to reduce honor damage.

The new ultimatum is phenomenal, some damage values could be tweaked but it's a ton of fun.

Well done GGG! I don't miss the labs at all!

Most wont make it there.

Shame because it's really good. Hopefully GGG focuses on the feedback more than the whinging.

False.

Lies.

Propaganda.

Do not believe this, OP is an agent pulling a Psyop. Sanctum was an inside job.

Try being a warrior with a melee 2h mace approach. You have no clue what you're talking about.

Rattlecage traps melee players in his animations. Often getting shoved into degens and slams.

As usual ranged are favored and melee are oppressed. This isn't a fiction this is just the truth. To the point I am wondering if I should be building my warrior for ranged damage off the bat then swapping to melee later.

The trial of the sekhemas is easily one of the least enjoyable pieces of video game design I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. It's a shame because the rest of the game is the direct opposite of that.

Nah, never see more anti-melee place ever.

I invented ranged warrior and overlevelled the place to able to do it.

I enjoyed this part as well , I was a big Labs enjoyer back in the day and i liked the lab hear , alot smaller but the boss is alot eayser than most of the other ones , but with nasty modifiers i bet he gets harder .

evreything elce makes me want to pull my hair out but i did like this part .

+1

I've always dreaded the time when I had to ascend in PoE1, I've just never liked it, although I must admit I'm not that good of a player. This way makes it much more enjoyable.

(Only ascended once, will see how it goes later on)

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Izrakhan#0832 wrote:

Try being a warrior with a melee 2h mace approach. You have no clue what you're talking about.

Rattlecage traps melee players in his animations. Often getting shoved into degens and slams.

As usual ranged are favored and melee are oppressed. This isn't a fiction this is just the truth. To the point I am wondering if I should be building my warrior for ranged damage off the bat then swapping to melee later.

I am ranged and barely completed it. I watched multiple friends stream as melee and it looked unfathomable awful. This needs to be fixed. Why even have melee in the game at this rate.