Ascendency Trial Feedback

Id like to provide some simple feedback on ascendency trials without going into the details or difficulty of the gameplay in the trials themselves as that is a much larger discussion.

The first and biggest issue that i want to point out is that the invitations and therefore the difficulty of the trials scale with your (drop) level, it should not. Right now to have the best chance at completing a third ascendency is to go back to a level 60 zone and farm Trial of the Sekhemas invitations there as opposed to dropping a much higher level one from the maps that you are doing. The difficulty of a level 60 vs a 75 much different. I understand the the system is repeatable outside of just getting the ascendency points however the repeatable invitations should drop after the third point is complete or you should be able to downgrade the invitations to the minimum level required.

The second issue is the high level requirement for the third ascendency on the Trial of Chaos being level 75. In my opinion this should be much lower, somewhere in the 60-65 level range.

I agree with everything about this post, it feels very bad to have to try and farm a lower tier item just so i do the trial which is very time consuming and the hardest part is only the last boss after all the debuffs.

I can't believe they are forcing me to the "Sanctum" for ascendancy.
This is the most obnoxious content I've ever played in the game.
The Only logic I can see is, because they've designed this dungeon crawler and noone wants to play it voluntarily, they are encforcing it.
Usual GGG fetish to brimg the hate immediately after release, like some BDSM cult, I don't know....

There is no amount of tweaking that would make me want to re roll a new character every league to farm these Trials.
They need to separate the Trials from getting Ascension points. I honestly don't think they play tested these trials at all. Honestly, they handled the launch of this game very poorly. I think they need to remove Sanctum and Ultimatum from the game.

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BrianCole#1181 wrote:

The first and biggest issue that i want to point out is that the invitations and therefore the difficulty of the trials scale with your (drop) level, it should not.

+1

Trials are pure cancer and waste of time. I stopped trying. 100 hours in and didnt get my 3rd ascendency yet. I want to love the game - but it wont let me..

I agree 100%. Trials are pure cancer. Not only it makes the sanctum and ultimatum mandatory but also locks vital part of every build after the most difficult skill check in the campaign. At least lab was fairly trivial and infinitely repeatable. I would propose to either make the ascendancy point giving attempts much much easier - ie infinite honor in sanctum, 1/10 magnitude of modifiers in ultimatum etc) or make the ascendancy points available on certain levels and separate them from the mechanics altogether.

I hope this will be revisited as soon as possible as it is the only gripe i have with the game

I am surprised that the haven't fixed this already. There is a limited time window to make a good first impression. After that, people may not come back even if you fix the trials.

Trial complaints are everywhere but their refusal to fix promptly indicates

1. They are using it as an easy data-mining tool to weed out overperforming builds
2. Statisically as a whole it makes ppl play more/try other classes/meta-chase, so more play data and retention.

I made a suggestion that is super related to this. Check it out, it got buried because I made the mistake of posting right after the last patch lol.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3622531