Ascendancy is too difficult

Hello, first I would like to say that I really loved the game, I spent 130 hours playing it, it was a lot of fun dealing with all the new mechanics and bosses. However, I reached the and-game, I'm already doing tier 10+ maps and I'm level 80 and so far I can't get my third ascendancy because it's VERY difficult, outside the "normal" of the game in my opinion. (and yes I have the best possible equipment, all resistances at maximum etc etc) But I simply can't get the third ascendancy due to all the broken mechanics, both from the sanctum and the ultimatum, at this point in the game I'm thinking leaving the game, because it has become boring. I understand all the difficulty of the game and I liked that during the acts, some bosses I died more than 15 times to be able to understand the mechanics and finally kill them. However, from the third ascendancy the difficulty escalates absurdly and it is no longer fun.
Another important point, the new honor mechanic needs to be removed from the game. It doesn't make any sense, how do builds that need to take damage do sanctum?
I miss the lab :(

GGG failed to communicate this, but they designed it to be the new 5-way carry, eg. you pay the sweaty hardcore gamers to get something tedious done for you.

I know because I paid 4ex for 3rd, and 25ex for 4th cuz I was curious how it's done and didn't want to waste my time anymore.

Both times, you portal in they are SWAPPING out relics for the boss and crazy meta-gaming shit like that to clear. In the 4th trial sanctum carry, it was duo that combined a party swap with a warbringer to get the boss and a titan to clear the boss. Mods were something like 30% less damage taken 50% increased defences.

I have never seen anyone carrying ultimatums.

So yeah, if you don't want to dedicate your entire EA access banging your head on the concrete floor...

I disagree, I think the ascendancy should be difficult. It's literally to ascend so it should be difficult.

Just be better, everything is dodge able, or go back and farm for better gear.

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Elfiree#6659 wrote:

I disagree, I think the ascendancy should be difficult. It's literally to ascend so it should be difficult.

Just be better, everything is dodge able, or go back and farm for better gear.

Counterpoint no.

Ascendancy is essential player power and part of the character. Locking it behind a system so dictated by rng is bull.

Just consider ascending a build check, if your build is incapable to ascend you might have to tweak it. If you cannot beat a 10 round ultimatum/3floor sanctum your build most likely just is not strong enough.

I agree that ascension is an essential part in character progression, apparently you have not progressed enough yet.

This drives meta-gaming to the extreme. So good for content creators, build guide websites, and RMT.

Of which so many are lurking in here, prodding you on.

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eeeeechuta#7800 wrote:

This drives meta-gaming to the extreme. So good for content creators, build guide websites, and RMT.

Of which so many are lurking in here, prodding you on.

Agreed - just means there's even less option to diverge from meta builds.

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eeeeechuta#7800 wrote:

This drives meta-gaming to the extreme. So good for content creators, build guide websites, and RMT.

Of which so many are lurking in here, prodding you on.

IDK, if you are incapable of creating your own build, sure. But should that mean that content should be toned down to cater to the people who cannot create a functioning build themself, even though there are sources like you mentioned which offer solutions?

If yes the game would be way too easy to anyone who can create a functioning build, next are you going to complain you can't beat a pinnacle boss just because you forgot to spend your 90 remaining skill points?

If you do not want to use outside sources, maybe you should experiment with your build and try other skills/synergies/skill tree setups.

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Elfiree#6659 wrote:

I disagree, I think the ascendancy should be difficult. It's literally to ascend so it should be difficult.

Just be better, everything is dodge able, or go back and farm for better gear.

NOPE and more NOPE ascendancy is one of the key points to bringing your character level up to fight the end game, you dont fight endgame to beat your ascendancies.

Countpoint your point, tell me what gear matters in the chaos trials you can have 20k ES and you still die form a single dot because of the points loss...

THe fact is they bought 2 of the worst received niches from POE1 didnt tune them down to current player level in POE2 and expect people to do them, one point of content in the 2nd trial - chaos, i had one that was 50% more HP and resistances for ALL mobs, tell me how a character levle 50 is meant to counter that? even with all the others.. fact is in POE1 the players that did either of these game plays had specific characters that were built to fight them, you NEVER used a mapping or levelling or bossing character to do them due to their uniqueness.

and tell me again how does Melee character fight in choas (im not melee so i can get around it slowly but evn then its luck than judgement


Ive also not added the drops for the tokens to get in the relevant trials is a joke, i did maps last night for 4hours, and havent had a single access token drop, now if a token allowed you to run permma then that wouldnt be too bad, but i dont know, after the first 2 if that happens on 3 or 4, but i dont believe it does..

So farm for 4-6hours to get 1 chance and then get screwed because of the negatives are no good for you class....

Many people enjoy difficult things, I do too.
Going against hard boss and learning it is super fun and when you finally beat it you're felling ecstatic.

The thing about trials is they are very annoying, I just got to this boss, spent a bit fighting and it one tapped me, from full hp, full shield, 4k honor and resists applied - nice, guess I go again and waste my time to get here, maybe get one tapped again and repeat? Fun.

Argument about 'everything is dodgeable' sure, but how do you learn it when you get one try each time - you don't, you either play ranged and stay out of most stuff or just burst the boss down on stagger.

Oh and the other trial keeps crashing my game, so no go either, after crash I'm not allowed to reenter.

I don't think it should stay in it's current form, I would much more enjoy just fighting some difficult boss that you can reenter or something, just my opinion.