The fundamental issue with Trial of the Sekhema

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tsunamikun#0433 wrote:

Also, there is actually almost no RNG in Sekhema. The only times you need to take an affliction outside your choice is, when you path wrong or have an affliction denying information.

That's absolute bullshit. I had several occasions where I simply could NOT avoid a really bad affliction because either all options were bad (which does happen quite often) or I had to take the risk and go through a 1-selection path to avoid a really bad affliction, e. g.:



Here I had afflictions on all three choices for the first room. The third choice was "Purple Smoke", so an absolute no-go, but the upper two led to a path where I would get two inevitable rooms. The golden key room was ok, but I had to take the risk getting a bad affliction in room #4.

That's all fine and dandy...

Just remove ascendancy points from it!

It's a new game, figure out some new and interesting way for players to ascend and stop recycling content that wasn't consensual to begin with.

Boss fights or some kind of special towers or whatever...

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C4Guy#0918 wrote:

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tsunamikun#0433 wrote:

Also, there is actually almost no RNG in Sekhema. The only times you need to take an affliction outside your choice is, when you path wrong or have an affliction denying information.

That's absolute bullshit. I had several occasions where I simply could NOT avoid a really bad affliction because either all options were bad (which does happen quite often) or I had to take the risk and go through a 1-selection path to avoid a really bad affliction, e. g.:



Here I had afflictions on all three choices for the first room. The third choice was "Purple Smoke", so an absolute no-go, but the upper two led to a path where I would get two inevitable rooms. The golden key room was ok, but I had to take the risk getting a bad affliction in room #4.

This is the perfect example, your greed moved you to take the worst of the first door choices. Maybe the reward was really good, but you knew beforehand that this would leave you with a bottleneck on your path without knowing if there will be an affliction.

This is a risk you chose to take!!!!!
This is not some unavoidable thing, you were greedy.

And with relics showing rooms on trial this can also be mitigated.This is what i meant with no real RNG. Its more that most people lack knowledge of path planning and risk analysis.

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tsunamikun#0433 wrote:

This is the perfect example, your greed moved you to take the worst of the first door choices. Maybe the reward was really good, but you knew beforehand that this would leave you with a bottleneck on your path without knowing if there will be an affliction.

Reading is not your strong suit, isn't it? I said I did not take the bottom room because it had "purple smoke" on it, this had nothing to do with the fucking key!
JFC...

So what was in the fourth room?

Anyone who starts 'feedback' with 'i love path of exile 2' is some kind of psyop

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C4Guy#0918 wrote:

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tsunamikun#0433 wrote:

This is the perfect example, your greed moved you to take the worst of the first door choices. Maybe the reward was really good, but you knew beforehand that this would leave you with a bottleneck on your path without knowing if there will be an affliction.

Reading is not your strong suit, isn't it? I said I did not take the bottom room because it had "purple smoke" on it, this had nothing to do with the fucking key!
JFC...

my bad, i have simply overread that. Still you skipped a minor affliction for the risk of a not foreseeable bottleneck that also could give a much worse one. And if we're talking about reading comprehension:

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Also, there is actually almost no RNG in Sekhema. The only times you need to take an affliction outside your choice is, when you path wrong or have an affliction denying information.

You situation is the second one. You did not have information about room number 4.
You chose to risk it. This risk can be easily minimized through, and purple smoke can easily disabled(parameter change) or entirely ignored(all seeing eye). even if you get it. Same with -MS which is actually the only really dangerous affliction.
You could have relics with more rooms shown or got scrying crystal etc.

Since my first 4th floor clear i have never! failed a trial. You think I'm a good player? because i ain't. Its just that easy, far more easy than sanctum ever was.
Its always the main point here, people don't like the mechanic, people don't want to learn about the mechanic and because of that the mechanic needs to be removed.

Actually the OP just wants something like labyrinth when i think about it. Weird, because everyone in poe1 was sick of it.

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TheFriggenBest#6781 wrote:

So what was in the fourth room?

In this case nothing too bad, fortunately, but that's not the point.

It's that every once in a while some weisenheimer comes along in the forum and claims that you can always avoid bad afflictions or 1-choice paths and this is simply not true.

You frequently only get two options, no matter what you do and the chance that both are really bad is not that small. I also had the case that I got three equally bad choices right at the beginning of the floor.
The case I mentioned above, where you have to chose between taking a bad affliction now or risk getting it later because you have to go through one certain room down that path also isn't that rare. I had that twice in the 7 trials I did so far.

i think the biggest problem is that the balancing is way off. if a minor affliction ist that you lose all your es/armor/evasion there is something wrong. on the other hand you get 80 honour if you complete a floor, i am sure if the numbers are not correct here but you know what i mean, the boons are really minor, the afflictions not.

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C4Guy#0918 wrote:

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TheFriggenBest#6781 wrote:

So what was in the fourth room?

In this case nothing too bad, fortunately, but that's not the point.

It's that every once in a while some weisenheimer comes along in the forum and claims that you can always avoid bad afflictions or 1-choice paths and this is simply not true.

where did I say that? reading comprehension? Funny how your whole argument build around something no one ever said.

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i think the biggest problem is that the balancing is way off. if a minor affliction ist that you lose all your es/armor/evasion there is something wrong. on the other hand you get 80 honour if you complete a floor, i am sure if the numbers are not correct here but you know what i mean, the boons are really minor, the afflictions not.

50% dmg multiplier 30% less health (which is again, a ~40% dmg muliplier) 40% increased movement speed 30% more relic power, scrying crstal.

Go on trade, buy a relic with merchant has +3 additional choices and focus on water on the first two floors. Buy all of the boons above. win the sanctum with your eyes closed.