Are you satisfied with the new patch's response to Trials?

Trials for ascension sucks. I hate it, I hated Diablo 4's crappy season that was a copy of it. If this is a core component of the game I am out.

I was planning on grinding my brains out on POE2 over the holidays, I think I'll just play something else now.

No the system needs to be completely reworked or removed. It's ridiculous to lock a core feature behind this type of content. Then to have to grind for hours just to hope you get a key to drop then lose your run because of rng and being unlucky.

Until its Changed there's simply no point to playing and it's frustrating with how good the other parts of the game are.

I like the trials and I think the patch had good changes.

My only issue with them is that they are balanced around having somewhat mandatory honor resistance relics and I think that's bad design. Everything else is good though.

I just did my first 3rd Ascendancy Trial ever and I'm still raging so hard I don't even have the words. The thoughts that are going through my mind would surely get me banned or arrested. How is this encouraging payers to play more instead of dumping the game?

These trials are an exercise in devs being a-holes. This isn't about challenge. The traps, the specific type of enemies selected for this, the negative buffs, the honor "system" and everything else anti-player to make it as cringy as possible and not allow the class to develop into it's fantasy and build that the game is all about. On top of that you then have to wait another 3 years for another trial key to drop so you can ascend and play your fucking class. One of the most moronic decisions I have ever seen!

I hope people do not give them another dime until they change their perspective of wanting to see the player fail.

Strippers and co***in in a hot-tub won't make me enjoy sanctum and ultimatum.

Playing the game in ruthless mode on top makes me want to do the dishes more than attempting ascendancies twice.

Release the ascendancies with the campaign acts, until you have a fair, working trial that isn't gatekept behind the two of the most random and hated league mechanics in POE1.

I'm starting to think GGG did this to piss of the biggest amount of players possible.

Well, it's working.

100k players dropped in a week.
Next week it'll be 200 more.

By mid January, POE2 will be a barren wasteland if things doesn't radically change.

No, absolutely not. I honestly wouldn't mind the general mechanic of sanctum if it weren't for that stupid honour system, so this should be gone completely and not just tuned down for melee characters.

No. I do not want to do any of these trials to ascend at all. Ultimatum is still absurd and sanctum is the most boring and unfun league ever (other than TotA which will be the third ascension (lol)).

I would rather we get points for free in the story than any of these options, and I don't even want that to be how it works.

Trials are the most stupid mechanism in this game and just frustrating me. Ive now died 5 times and the last boss, after cleraring all 3 stages with endless rooms. And everytime starting again from the whole beginning ist just stupid.
The first 2 stages are easy and then in the last stage enemies just ripping appart my whole honour. The shitty snakes spawn right under you so you have absolute no time to react.

This f..... mechanic get me so angry that im close to stop playing.
Who invented this? Did you thought hey lets f... up our player with a dumb mechanic by putting honour ....

Im pissed and go to bed,

They are fine but the RNG of it all is what kills it for me.

I can get 3 rooms with no debuffs and them 3 rooms with terrible debuffs.

I can get a chain of honor restore and then an entire attempt with no restores.

If the trial tokens dropped more frequently it wouldn't be a huge deal but I've gotten a grand total of 2 level 3 tokens at level 76.

Gambling for skill points is not fun.

Yeah, I really wish we can repeat the 3rd / 4th ascendancy trial if you die. Having to redo the entire trials is punishing enough. I am so annoyed and hate having to go farm for Djinn Barya and Inscribed Ultimatums for a few hours in zone that is not challenging. This is boring and a waste of time. It doesn't add to the challenge it just pisses me off and wastes my time.

I sincerely hope the DEVS change this. It is a very off-putting mechanic.