Trials are terrible

I've honestly given up. It's frustrating at its current state and I don't want to deal with honor anymore.

I never liked sanctum and it was one of the first leagues where I 100% of the time avoided playing it.

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

It's funny cuz it feels like its super obvious that the honor system is incredible bad for melee classes {SNIP }if you want to make a thorns build for example you literally can't complete the trial

That's a point I had not thought of yet. I like the idea, but there's no... point in trying. ;)

I'm floating around hoping they make a better choice in the long run, but I've uninstalled the game for now.

I also am not really a fan of these methods to ascend. I enjoy both ultimatum and sanctum, but having to ascend via these methods feels... odd and out of place. It's just a strange conglomeration of activities for ascendancy.

Don't think I like the honor system.

I don't like that honor essentially supercedes your HP in determining whether you fail the trial. It turns the game into something different and negates certain parts of the game.

For example, a thorns build someone mentioned. What about a tank build. Or a build based on high healing?

The trials are universally required by all classes and all builds, yet the requirement of avoiding damage contradicts the core concept of many builds.

I feel like this is not it. This honor system doesn't belong to this genre of games. At least not as the gating mechanism of a core system. It could be provided as a side activity for people who likes that kind of gameplay, but not something forced on absolutely every single player.

It's like gating a raid boss behind a long platforming puzzle in an MMO. Or like gating a level cap unlock in an RPG game behind a rythm game where you can't miss 10% of the beat.

If honor was just used to determine extra rewards, I think this would have been a much more fun activity.

Of course, all this is moot if the original intent was to weed out the bad players and only allow the more skilled action game players to ascend, to create two tiers of players, in which case I might be glad I found it in early access instead of after launch.

I'm playing mostly blind and just did my first trial. And I hated it. Had to quit for the day after.
It feels like "earn your ascendancy by us annoying the s**t out of you for half an hour".
I really hope they replace the whole thing with something that's fun to do until release.

I hated Sanctum and after keeping an open mind and trying Sekhemas Trial (as a Witch)... yep, still hate it. Can I have Lab back?

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Hunderpanzer#1156 wrote:

I've honestly given up. It's frustrating at its current state and I don't want to deal with honor anymore.

I never liked sanctum and it was one of the first leagues where I 100% of the time avoided playing it.

Agreed!!

Don't have too much to add except +1 on the hate of these.

First one could be "fine" if Honor wasn't a thing, but it is so...
Still not great, but at least then if would not be a hard counter to a bunch of builds

Second one is just waaaay overtuned.

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Hunderpanzer#1156 wrote:

I've honestly given up. It's frustrating at its current state and I don't want to deal with honor anymore.

I never liked sanctum and it was one of the first leagues where I 100% of the time avoided playing it.

Same!!