I hate the new Ascendancy mechanic

You picked probably the two worst league mechanics to base the new Trial of Ascendancy around. I hate both of them. I never interacted with either in POE1. It feels terrible to be forced to do them now.

I failed my 3rd ascendancy two times now. And both times its not because I died. Its because I ran out of honour. Both times I got randomed into a -40% damage affliction. I had 3600 honour going into the start of the 3rd floor. Made it to the boss but could not damage him fast enough to make it through the room full of bullshit.

I uninstalled. It hurts. Because I really like this game. I want to play it. But I refuse to participate in that dumb ass league mechanic.

I do not understand how they went from an Ascendancy mechanic that was fairly build agnostic to the most RNG packed hatefests that they have now, where you get fucked for playing anything not turbo speedball.

Albeit the language used by the OP, I also find the new trials not appealing.

In my time in poe 1 I never played sanctum and while I did not play POE2 beta and wait for release I won t probably play a lot of it because of the sanctum based trial.

I agree, it's not fun or gives you a rewarding feeling even after you succeed.

I hate the ascending method, got 2 characters, 1 level 86 the other 78, don't have the 3rd ascendency in any character though i tried, but they are extremely long and unfair and i even stopped playing for a few days because of it... I'm 55 years old but my patience run out with this masochistic system. My rating for the game was also change in Xbox because of this issue. Been playing over 200 hours, hope they fix this or i'll just eventually stop playing

Hi there,

Happy New Year :)

I hate Sanctum mechanic too and dislike Ultimatum in POE 1.

In POE2 Anscendancy is absurdly difficult for the first one, i have to do this with a friend with minions build to pass it. Second one (Ultimatum) is easier but still nasty.
I don't have strong enough character to try the third one.

I hope it's just a test during the preview, Ascendancy is a key mechanic for this game and i doubt we can continue far in the campaign (and mapping) without it.

Anyway it will be a good way for strong characters to earn money.

Regards

Go without ascendency after my first ( i have 6 alts now ) I dont do any ascendency till I finish the campaign at level 66 to 70 depending on the build. Low level maps seem fine without ascendencies ... the ascendencies seem a bit weak in most cases one or two jewel slots are as strong as most ascendencies I suppose it depends on the build.

Sanctumatum feels so b4d in current game setup, even worse on consoles.

Honor is just a bad mechanic. No matter how durable your character is, they basically give you an unshieldable unhealable (except at a few points) health bar for the entire run.

How about instead, simply disable flasks for the trial? At least then your defenses count. Replace the fountains that restore Honor with ones that heal.

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ezAction#3649 wrote:

I failed my 3rd ascendancy two times now. And both times its not because I died. Its because I ran out of honour.

Its imbalanced (aside from being hated by many). Without honour resist relics you can do 1 may be 2nd tier? Then you need to get them somehow. Either do run and loot them, buy or ask a friend. With 75% honour resist it became cake walk.

It should no be so binary, but here we are.