Trial of Sekhemas Feedback

I love Sanctum mechanic, so I love the idea of the Trial of Sekhemas. However, I think it's an anti-fun mechanic to use for ascendancies. It punishes melee classes way too hard, nearly forcing them not to be able to ascend until Act 3, which is a significant setback. We knew from PoE1 that sanctum mechanics were antagonistic to melee classes unless you can one shot absolutely everything. I want the Trials/Sanctum mechanic to continue to exist, however trying it to ascendancies feels very bad.

I agree with you and I hate Melee.

I hate sanctum and the very idea of it. I gave it a shot in PoE1 and absolutely hated it. I gave it a shot in PoE2 and was so thrown aback that anyone would even think of making this a thing again. Sanctum is one of the most controversial league mechanics. Those that play it, don't do it because they love the mechanics surrounding it, but the pure currency drops it provides. At the same time, those players also play builds that completely shit on everything 2 screens away while hiding 3 screens away. With the power level in PoE2, this becomes a shit show so freaking fast, it's insane how testing didn't account for this difference. I'm just disappointed. The same with the 2nd trial. There is not a single player that plays ultimatum in PoE1 with a build that doesn't completely ignore every and any mechanic surrounding it. How could the 2 most mechanically and build ignorant league mechanics get reintroduced in a progression gating way? You have so much data to work with, and you don't use it.

Sorry that this got longer and is a comment, when it probably should've been a thread by itself, but I'm just realy disappointed with the decisions that went into the game throughout the early access so far.

I died in room 2 twice with merc, bc once it was trap room (lost honor) and second time some mages with totally high life and portals that summons minions and because all portals started spawning, I got like 80 minions up before I destroyed first portal and they "body blocked" me and took all honor. (Had still 50% life)

I hate Sanctum also in PoE 1, so even when I build good character that wipe out final boss in A1 in 3 minutes. (on third try, in first two fights I got 25k MS and game crashed). I created new character, bc I hope that this class will not start with Sanctum.

Yeah this trial SUCKS I hate it.

I tried out my first trial and the boss at the end was just not fun. A pile of rocks that does a massive AoE that you need to get away from, but also little volcanos that deny you the space you need to be able to dodge. With boss health being actually significant and not able to be instantly killed means it is just a complete losing battle.

today I got to the point of trying to get through this... This is a huge disappointment for me. I've never played this mode in poe 1, and I didn't want to meet it here. perhaps due to age, the reaction speed is no longer the same, but at most I managed to reach the 6th test room. I have great hope that this mode will be made optional, otherwise I will just get stuck at this point and will be forced to end the game.

sanctum was the worst *+it in poe 1 now you have to do it, lol made me play stop playing poe2

I ended up on this and tried it. After doing all the bosses and seeing the overal mess this is realy the cream topping on the WTF pile. There is nothing even remotely fair about it. Its just another room that gets flooded by effects.

I realy would like to see the meeting minutes of the meeting where ppl got convinced that this is the way to go.

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Xebov#4972 a écrit :

I ended up on this and tried it. After doing all the bosses and seeing the overal mess this is realy the cream topping on the WTF pile. There is nothing even remotely fair about it. Its just another room that gets flooded by effects.

I realy would like to see the meeting minutes of the meeting where ppl got convinced that this is the way to go.

I am curious how this was passed in QA. Bunch of people going through acts with each class and trying to finish sanctum for ascendancy at the correct level with what they have, I doubt anyone can succeed. You either need god-like gear with a good gem setup, or need to be way overleveled which is just better to do ultimatum at that point.

This is just giving middle finger to most players, and saying "No ascendancy for you until act3."