3rd ascendancy is wayyyyy to hard and a joke

i have maximum / honor resist relics etc etc but ive tried 7 different times now (currently lvl 77) to beat lvl 60-65 sek trials. original poe would be 1st try basically every time. this needs attention or a rework... its way to hard and see people constantly saying the samething in global chat. boons vs debuffs dont seem balanced. even trying to always pick the least / best route that hinders me the least it doesnt matter. RNG ends up making it all fall apart. made it to the last boss 2 times. i dont understand why it has to be this painful for a 3rd ascendancy

The problem is compounded when the ascendency points aren't really that fantastic in the first place. Like I'm going to go through all this effort for... "meh at best" rewards?

agreed.

I don't mind the challenge itself. It can be a "nioce change of pace" once in a while. But since this game is (probably supposed) to be harder, I would like to have the opportunity to actually try it over and over again. But that's not possible, since I don't have the coin all the time. I can try to farm it until I have like 4-5 pieces, so I can try 4-5 times, but that's takes a huge amount of time. And the alternative is, that I buy it from other players, which I would like to avoid, since I try to play through the game as indipendent as possible.

So I would like to suggest, that trials are accessable without the need of a map-item like inscribed ultimatum. This way, I can at least train my skills to overcome the challenge as much as I want. If I can try it once and have to wait several days until I find a new map-access item, then I may not be used to the trial anymore and very likely fail again. It's the same for bosses for me: When I can try it over and over again, I get better at reading patterns. But if I would wait a week before trying again, I completely start over.