3rd ascendancy trial is a bad joke - RNG+horrid balance=waste of time

Statues do nothing if you are mindful of position/the way you are looking
Blood globs hardly even hurt me and I am at 4k hp with ZERO mitigation other than elemental/chaos

it wouldn't be ascending if you could do it naked while forgetting to use ur skill points would it?
Get some more levels, gear up a bit more - ultimatum for me at least was no issue at all on 3 characters so far. Weaver/Deadeye/Invoker

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HwtChirino#2462 wrote:

Unfortunately, I don't think GGG cares about the hundreds of complaints towards the Trials.

Maybe because there are thousands that do not complain ?

I guess that they have metrics on which class and how often players fail the trials to adjust it with time.

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H3rB1985#0551 wrote:

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t0lkien#7048 wrote:

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HwtChirino#2462 wrote:

Unfortunately, I don't think GGG cares about the hundreds of complaints towards the Trials.

Actually, I think they're in the process of responding. It's a big fix. Give them time.

At this point they should just finish coding the third option to ascend and delete Ultimatum and Sanctum forever from the game

They are definitely gonna do that.

My biggest issue with ultimatum is that the rewards are complete garbage - you do it for 20minutes for leaving 8 rares on the floor getting 2-3 soul cores of questionable usefulness and a fragment which you need once, since the trialmaster drops suck as well

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Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index#1288 wrote:

Statues do nothing if you are mindful of position/the way you are looking
Blood globs hardly even hurt me and I am at 4k hp with ZERO mitigation other than elemental/chaos

it wouldn't be ascending if you could do it naked while forgetting to use ur skill points would it?
Get some more levels, gear up a bit more - ultimatum for me at least was no issue at all on 3 characters so far. Weaver/Deadeye/Invoker

Those characters dont have to pay life for attacking. I have pretty fine gear for my level, blood mages just dont have hp or any defenses really. I play elemental, not summons so i do have to spam a lot. Statues just brick mobility that i do need and globs and rings do one shot me, there is nothing i can do about that. If i get the ring on the "survive" it covers pretty much whole area you know.

i agree for some point. Getting ascedancy should not be locked behind RNG. And should be more accessible. Even with my 10y of exprience in poe 1 i just skipping it due to frustration i get. And i love difficulty of campain - but more in end game. Game loses it's face and being just copy of poe 1. Which is bad.

Ultimatum has to big encounters. Like circle of doom is to big. Most of nodes disable your build. Everything also is again.. against melee.

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kuciol#0426 wrote:

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Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index#1288 wrote:

Statues do nothing if you are mindful of position/the way you are looking
Blood globs hardly even hurt me and I am at 4k hp with ZERO mitigation other than elemental/chaos

it wouldn't be ascending if you could do it naked while forgetting to use ur skill points would it?
Get some more levels, gear up a bit more - ultimatum for me at least was no issue at all on 3 characters so far. Weaver/Deadeye/Invoker

Those characters dont have to pay life for attacking. I have pretty fine gear for my level, blood mages just dont have hp or any defenses really. I play elemental, not summons so i do have to spam a lot. Statues just brick mobility that i do need and globs and rings do one shot me, there is nothing i can do about that.

my weaver was mom+ci+eb so I literally do "pay life for attacking"

also what you are saying apparently isn't that ultimatum is hard, but that your build/sanguinist blows.

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Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index#1288 wrote:

my weaver was mom+ci+eb so I literally do "pay life for attacking"

also what you are saying apparently isn't that ultimatum is hard, but that your build blows.

Does something as basic as frostbite cost 400 mana + 400 life? I dont think so. I dont have problems on maps you know. freezing everything helps a lot.

my spark currently sits at 399 mana

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Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index#1288 wrote:

my spark currently sits at 399 mana

Cool, i have to literally pay life while having 2k of it, i could maybe get 400 more with perfect life rolls on gear. Thats how f'ed up blood mage is. Sustain is great and all but when you take away her mobility + regen there is nothing you can do.