Trial of Sekhemas: from a new player warrior perspective and logging off for a while.

Agreed i ended up using xbow with totems on my warrior


Probably will switch to totem build because the shield is largely useless in many scenarios that range just skips all of the damage all together

I did get my 2 points at level 24

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Tyrsonjsp#2390 wrote:

The trials are meant to be hard so you should always be 10 to 20 levels above the content to do them.

No they're not - if you're a ranged class. Not the first three, anyway.
A bow character around level 22 almost breezes through Act2 Sekhemas taking little to no damage as long as they didn't let their cat allocate their passives and have a minimally decent bow.
So does a crossbow character, a mage, and a summoner. Haven't played a monk, so no data on this one.

Warriors though? It's like the entire class was designed for a completely different game (No Rest for the Wicked comes to mind) and then just isekai'd into PoE2 minutes before launching Early Access.

It's not just the trials, mind you - while Warriors can tackle the campaign decently enough, the entire endgame mapping is set up in a way that just doesn't seem to mesh with a slow-hitting character that relies on Armor and Life to survive.

I beat him (golem) with just basic 2h mace attack with stun build-up.

But 4th floor sekhema is something entirely different. I get -500 honor 1 hit with 75% honor res there. And there are tons of shooters. No idea how to beat it with warrior.

for me just drop 2 totems, kite, drop 2 more, kite and in-between that shoot with xbow from range.

took like 50 damage

what also helped was getting the relics to boost honor resist (As others suggest)

i think my original build would have felt better if some of the dps bugs were fixed like aoe damage not working with some shield skills but aoe effect does

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Tyrsonjsp#2390 wrote:

The trials are meant to be hard so you should always be 10 to 20 levels above the content to do them.

maybe in hc you should be overlevelled that much...but it's true the suggested level is too low for the level you actually need to clear it. Especially the chaos trials.

The strangest thing to me is, these problems were fixed in POE1's sanctum before POE2 early access was available.

Armor gives extra honor resistance, Evasion gives a chance to avoid taking honor damage entirely, (I forget what there was for energy shield)

update: ice shards xbow warrior with totems is fun for me now.

kind of neat. drop two shockwave totems then shoot ice shards.