3rd and 4th Ascendancies are near impossible

The third and fourth ascendancies are damn near impossible to finish for melee.

First, I spent the last 3 days farming for a Djinn Barya‌ token that would give me 3 floors, it finally dropped tonight (I've been playing 6-10 hours a day).

Second, the bosses' one shot mechanics are ridiculous. I spent several hours optimizing my build, gems, traded for better weapons, maxed my dps, practiced floors 1 and 2 on the older tokens I had, and I still died going through the trial due to a boss one shot.

The bosses damage is stupid, this needs to be lower.

Traps take away TOO MUCH honour when blowing up (every relic I took in had +max honour or +honour resistance and one bomb still took 1/3 of my 3K honour bar).

The drop rates for the tokens are horrendous. Its not fun farming for 20+ in game hours for one token to just die to a one shot mechanic. Guess I'll just roll some alts to see how they play then quit POE2 until something is fixed because I'm not wasting more time on this ascendancy BS and playing a half powered monk because I missing 4 crucial ascendancy points doesn't sound fun...

It is not that bad as its look, i also have a bit problem with completing 3 ascendancy.

But after few run i got some relic that change a lot.

For my points there is few crucial point to success:
-relic - go max honor and honor resist (around 75%), resist make u almost to have 2-3 honor u have without it
-try few run because luck is big factor in sanctum
-look for boons and room with trade 3 boon for one major affliction that take u some of honor after 8 rooms - this is huge especially if u lucky with boons
-take every boon that make more sacred water, half prize in merchant ect
-don't buy honor restore on vendor, chose boons, 50% dmg or 40% speed is huge
-if u struggling go to trade and try buy low lv token - 62-65 make also difference

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Newy303#0297 wrote:

First, I spent the last 3 days farming for a Djinn Barya‌ token that would give me 3 floors, it finally dropped tonight (I've been playing 6-10 hours a day).

You can buy them for 1 exalted orb.

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Newy303#0297 wrote:

Second, the bosses' one shot mechanics are ridiculous. I spent several hours optimizing my build, gems, traded for better weapons, maxed my dps, practiced floors 1 and 2 on the older tokens I had, and I still died going through the trial due to a boss one shot.

Instead, you could spend 5-10 minutes wathcing video with boss fight and learn all his moves, so you would know how to avoid being hit.

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Newy303#0297 wrote:

Traps take away TOO MUCH honour when blowing up

Come on, traps are very easy to avoid. You must be dealing somehow wrong with them.

Some random tip: when you are choosing the room, don't forget to take into account how many options you will be able to choose from after this room. Try to avoid rooms with only one unknown choice.

If it's impossible then how was I able to do both?

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MMA_Enjoyer#3066 wrote:

If it's impossible then how was I able to do both?

It's not impossible but gatekeeping the ascendancy like that is a very debatable decision. If they gatekeep gigaloot liek that i am all for it, but the ascendencies are to fundamental, to basic to do it liek that.

Also these are very specific league mechanics. It's a poor choice of design to pick these two imo.

Of course there are players that like sanctum and like to become very good at sanctum. But it shoudl always be optional for people that want better loot.

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

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MMA_Enjoyer#3066 wrote:

If it's impossible then how was I able to do both?

It's not impossible but gatekeeping the ascendancy like that is a very debatable decision. If they gatekeep gigaloot liek that i am all for it, but the ascendencies are to fundamental, to basic to do it liek that.

Also these are very specific league mechanics. It's a poor choice of design to pick these two imo.

Of course there are players that like sanctum and like to become very good at sanctum. But it shoudl always be optional for people that want better loot.

The level of difficulty is unfair between classes/builds.

Melee struggle more than caster.
Bloodmage stuggle with boss in general by killing itself because of ridiculous skill cost or extending the fight and increasing the risk of finally taking a killing blow.

Access to ascendancies should not be so unfair in difficulty level like it is now.

If at least those event were fun i could swallow the pill but they are both tedious .... keep them for another things and give us back lab PLZ

Yes it is crazy how unrealisticly harsh it is

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

Instead, you could spend 5-10 minutes wathcing video with boss fight and learn all his moves, so you would know how to avoid being hit.

Yea..people could do that. But that takes all the fun out of learning a new boss fight.