Trials of ascension are plain unfair

Everything in the game so far has been great, when I've died in acts and maps its mostly been my fault but the way trials are rigged, especially for the 3rd and 4th ascensions is ridiculous.

I'm genuinely curious if anyone in the dev team actually managed to complete them without being 20+ levels over.

Honour system in trials of sekhema is a false difficulty mechanic. You are entirely screwed when you get packs of spitting spiders and snakes etc etc. So I'm not allowed to get hit, but I must also pick up multiple detriments in order to progress, why not just give the detriments and the challenge is to survive the 3 floors?

Trials of chaos stacks too many detriments when the base game is hard enough already, packs hit like trucks and risk of death is always high in this game, then you add tons of things purely based on rng just to exacerbate that.

Make the trials difficult, not unfair. The way they are now is pray to rng on so many levels and just not worth the time and frustration for 4 points.

Nah, the devs just want you to earn your ascendency points and not have them a freebie handout like in PoE1.

They did mention that the later trials are part of the endgame so it's kinda obvious that a more advanced character is required to tackle said content lol

also, failing trial of sekhema causes you to not be able to leave and have to reboot the game

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Pashid#4643 wrote:

Nah, the devs just want you to earn your ascendency points and not have them a freebie handout like in PoE1.

They did mention that the later trials are part of the endgame so it's kinda obvious that a more advanced character is required to tackle said content lol

Theres a difference between handing em out and what they have right now. I'm all for difficult gaming, I wouldn't have bought a pack if I wasn't but games are also meant to be fun and strike a balance between the two. There are far too many variables for failure with the trials right now that are outside of player control

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Pashid#4643 wrote:

Nah, the devs just want you to earn your ascendency points and not have them a freebie handout like in PoE1.

They did mention that the later trials are part of the endgame so it's kinda obvious that a more advanced character is required to tackle said content lol

Trials in POE for ascendancy points were just fine. Making something so important to the character into "end game" in that case, will lose them a very very large pool of players.
If that is what they want, then fine i guess. But i would think they hoped to attract more players for POE2 than were playing POE.