Ascendancy is beyond cancer now

Sanctum, in particular, feels like it punishes players for certain playstyles / builds.

I’m a Titan that tanks damage while I melt mobs and bosses. In Sanctum I’m running around avoiding white mobs. That’s a terrible feeling.

Ultimatum basically has like 2/3rds of the choices tailor made to screw melee characters (vines, tethers, blood globules, that ghost that hits you 7 times, etc.)

If GGG is so insistent on randomized roguelike features why not just do something like a x round boss rush? Bosses are the highlight of the game, they should lean into it. It puts all players/builds on a level playing field as well.

I personally found the new trials tedious. Even without playing those leagues, it is clear they'd be viewed poorly / polarizing.

One solution would be to open up other options to unlock ascendancy. For example, add them as a reward to act bosses, but keep the trials in game. This lets players that want an early power boost and enjoy trials have an option to progress, while making boss loot very appealing.

Mostly I just think there needs to be a way for off-meta and under-geared characters to ascend that isn't a forced hardcore gamemode.

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like you can have the honor system, but when it go to zero, just decrease my reward for the end and let me finish it, so i can get my ascendancy point. i am a warrior, and i try to play a totem build, but i literally got no dps and melee, i cant be roller forever or just block forever for a half hour fight in this level 22, ppl said you should finish act 3 and come back to finish it, but if in that case, why open it on act 2? i can slowly tank the boss and kill it slowy without the honor system, but not with it. pls give warrior a chance to win.

Finished my first trial as a warrior yesterday (self made boneshatter+earthshatter no idea what I'm doing) just before finishing act2.
Idk what ppl are complaining about - you have mobility to just run through half the encounters (use shield charge and leap slam).And getting some dps isn't that hard. I finished the boss in less than 30sec. Farm some levels and upgrade your weapon and you gonna roll it.

Oh, wait until you get to Cruel difficulty

The one who had the brilliant idea to lock everyone's ascendancies behind two cancerous mechanics that require very specific build to be dealt with should be locked bare feet in a room without any window or light, filled to the brim with furnitures and be condamned to run like crazy in there until he hits his little toe two hundred times. And that each day this stupid system stays as it is.

The Escape Rooms in cruel Sanctum are so much fun! Fun like washing your eyes with bleach

+1.
Reached end of act 2.

No complains about the difficulty so far until now.
I even killed many bosses twice.

but this trial of ascension is fun killer, annoying.
I really hate this honor system.

IMO, Trial is tedious, too punitive and not very fun activity to do.
Unnecessary chores.

ALT + F4

I'm sensibly chuckling. Because this brings back memories of heated debates with Lab non-enjoyers. :))

Out of the three options of ascending, surely at least one will fit a given build / playstyle?

I mean it doesnt have to fit every playstyle, thats why we are supposed to have 3 options but they kinda arnt options. If they were in the same act and you could choose one than sure. They are spread out between acts so some build will just have 6 ascendency passives by the end of campaign while others will just have 2, thats the real issue. Its just not fair as it is right now.

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morbo#1824 wrote:

I'm sensibly chuckling. Because this brings back memories of heated debates with Lab non-enjoyers. :))

Out of the three options of ascending, surely at least one will fit a given build / playstyle?

Well, right now both just suck?


Sanctum is just a mechanic that doesn't fit int he game at all.

Ultimatum is pure cancer with the Mods avalaible right now and it's bosses are buggy messes.
It's easy enough to overlevel them and do them easily but that really shouldn't be how you do them?