THE WORST GAMING EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFE. Or in other words: The Ascendancy trials

I have a recipe for you:

Take the worst and most frustrating gaming decisions in a single game and turn it into a "trial" in which you can lose "honor".

Traps, some of which you can't read? Check

Bad level design where you can't see around corners? Check

A boss who can knock you out with one punch? Check

Burdens and Disadvantages BY RANDOM GENERATOR? Check.

Disadvantages that can ruin the entire trial? Check

You can't do the test several times in a row because you need something that opponents drop far too rarely? Check

A test that lasts an hour, only to end up being even more unfair than it already is? Check

Enemies that shoot at you from a distance and enemies that do damage after death? Check

All in all, the worst gaming experience in my life.

This MUST be changed. It's just frustrating and absolutely disgusting.

1. Get rid of the damn “honor”
2. You should be able to repeat the test
3. You should not completely disadvantaged as a close-range fighter.
4. Why does this thing take a damn hour? Only to raise the middle finger at the end?

These ridiculous trials are absolutely terrible and I hope they are banned from the game immediately. This is my feedback for these really bad and frustrating decisions.

While I didn’t have a problem with the first trial, the Trial of Chaos is wayyyyy harder.

In fact I skipped it and moved onto cruel difficulty because i think it’s impossible to beat right now.

I don’t mind the trials, but I do think they need to be tuned a bit more.

Trial of Chaos though…it’s a rough one!

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While I didn’t have a problem with the first trial, the Trial of Chaos is wayyyyy harder.

In fact I skipped it and moved onto cruel difficulty because i think it’s impossible to beat right now.

I don’t mind the trials, but I do think they need to be tuned a bit more.

Trial of Chaos though…it’s a rough one!

Im in the Endgame. You have to repeat the first and the second trial. And in the endgame, they are simply unplayable and unbeatable for me personally. I´m Level 78 and playing them in max 70 difficulty. It´s just a joke to me.

Yeah.

While you are clearly annoyed with the sanctum mechanic, the ultimatum one is worse.

To get the last two points you have to beat multiple 3-stage ultimatums that drop fragments that give you an attempt at the trialmaster.

It's very annoying that this content is just being forced down everyone's throat.

Playing for 30 minutes just to get 7 trash rares and a few trash cores and a fragment. Which of course requires a semi-uncommon drop as an entry.

I'm to the point where I basically one-shot everything in the trial and can freeze and kill the bosses in under 20 seconds and it STILL absolutely blows.

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Gkek#1581 wrote:

Yeah.

While you are clearly annoyed with the sanctum mechanic, the ultimatum one is worse.

To get the last two points you have to beat multiple 3-stage ultimatums that drop fragments that give you an attempt at the trialmaster.

It's very annoying that this content is just being forced down everyone's throat.

Playing for 30 minutes just to get 7 trash rares and a few trash cores and a fragment. Which of course requires a semi-uncommon drop as an entry.

I'm to the point where I basically one-shot everything in the trial and can freeze and kill the bosses in under 20 seconds and it STILL absolutely blows.

Let´s hope, that GGG improves this massivly. It´s simply not possible with some characters. I wrote with some guys who are saying, that they died 20 times until endgame (level 75) with the ranger. I died 290 times with the monk. That´s simply out of balance and should be fixed as soon as possible.

If they don´t improve the trials, lots of people will leave the game, because you force them to do very frustrating things to get some very important game mechanics for the character. it´s just... bad as it is at the moment.

Yeah got to say it. Trial are the absolute worst.

Here how trial for the 3rd assendy went

First try, see the second boss for first time list most of my honor couldn’t reach 3rd boss. Well that 30 min of my life wasted. (Cause you get no good loot in those and it just suck to do)

Second try, past second boss better but got hit by a trap and got a bad yellow mob so lost before reaching 3rd boss. Another 30 min wasted.

Third try, reach 3rd boss with most of my honor intact. (I went back 10 lvl later on lvl 12 maps) Boss play hide and seek with ton a hp and a ridiculous amount of stuff to dodge lost when he had half is life (I play lightning sorc, don’t have crazy burst and usually I chip away at boss take few minutes but get the job done). That 45 min of wasted time.

Could I get the boss with more try probably now that I know him…but I just hate every second of that trial.

Way too many room, way to long to reach the boss and way to punishing there is absolutely no fun to be have.
I think I’ll just forget the ascendy or came back lvl 90 with better gear. The whole thing is so un-enjoyable that I don’t want to waste more time trying to get it.

I don’t understand why honor exist….is it supposed to be fun to play super safe and never try to get hit for 20 something room.

This is by far the worst thing I’ve seen in an Arpg for a long long time.


The other trial well I got 1 drop it’s lvl 80 and required 10 room of crazy debuff…don’t even feel like trying it. So much rng but I feel in 10 room I will end up with those terrible trap shooting everywhere or with crazy buff mob.

Is it intend to be that hard…supposed to let you finish your ascendy but feel like endgame lvl of hard. Lvl 90 with crazy gear sure they will be easy. Hard to believe it was yhe inter behind them

Why dont you people just stop crying and start learning? Ascendancy trials are easy as fk.

I got the tornado bird boss in trial of chaos 6 times in a row on my melee monk... I finally beat it but god damn was that a miserable and painful experience. Put me off of playing for a while. I finally just got some player power but getting it made me want to put the game down.

Trial of chaos would be doable if that boss wasn't so ridiculous.

Playing melee in general feels like im being punished by GGG.

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GODOFWARSANCHEZ#4574 wrote:

Why dont you people just stop crying and start learning? Ascendancy trials are easy as fk.

the first 2 are fine, after that it's a joke. It's just not fun it's a chore. Some of us have lives and real jobs and play games for fun. If I was forced to restart a map on every boss death in the campaign I wouldn't keep playing. It's just bad design and seems like a lazy way to increase difficulty

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GODOFWARSANCHEZ#4574 wrote:

Why dont you people just stop crying and start learning? Ascendancy trials are easy as fk.

I will bite on this as I would like to see maybe what im doing wrong.

Currently im a level 50 ranger. I’m running mainly a lightning build with rod and Mark of Herald as an AOE damage dealer.

My issue is I can typically get through the first few stages fine if I don’t choose really bad mods. So far the gaze mod, no flask return, and hit debuff seem like the worst choices (they all seem bad).

I assume that the trials can be beaten with any configuration of mods though, regardless, it’s the bird boss that poses an extreme challenge.

I can seem to get away from the mods I’ve chosen and also getting away from his attacks while doing enough damage to get past him.


So my question is, what would you do? Is it the mod setup I need to rethink?