Trial of Sekhemas Feedback

For me the trials and boss are fine, its the honor system that kills me. I get to the boss with low honor and that's how I die. Should have been a Merc instead of a Warrior. :(

these trials are a terrible way to ascend. they are fun as league mechanics that u can skip but not as integral character progression. ascension should be tied to the campaign in some way and not based on finding keys that are one time use in trials that have punishing rng modifiers that most of the time just do not play well especially when u start stacking them. Bossing is hard enough that getting points at the end of an act would be just fine and actually make them feel rewarding for the effort. i often feel challenged but not properly rewarded for most mini bosses so why not award points based on number of side bosses killed or something. anything that could award points for progressing the campaign would be more ideal than what feels like side tracking and rng based agony.

I play a melee monk, who has not suffered much in act 2. One shot most of the bosses with only some overturned content posing challenges (looking at you giant skeletons and evade/palm bugs that either don't get executed but do the animation or miss)

I second what others have said here. The trials are just terrible. Getting hit auto kills you cause of honor? Like your dmg has to then be insane as nothing can touch you even going potionless is meaningless. In some ways you just negated all builds minus glass cannon specs or rdps specs. Even if you ran a glass cannon mdps spec, then with the jankyness of the last boss hitbox and melee needing to be under him to slowly hack away at his giant health bar as he spams aoe attacks...you still probably dont win. Oops that big aoe clips you, minus 50 honor.like who tested this?

Level 71 witchhunter, doing great in maps and against regular content.

Just tried a 3 floor trial for the second time thinking I had done enough to build up power.

All went pretty well until the scorpion boss on the last floor. Had him down to 40% and was excited to feel like i had the fight nailed. He started doing cearly unavoidable jumps and two shot 1.5k honour I had left.

Im not doing these 3 floors again this is just ridiculous. Please fix GGG.

I am admittedly, a casual player. I’m not a souls-like lover as many here are. With that, this mechanic being tied behind a sub class selection seems like a very arrogant and ignorant decision. I get it…POE is known for its difficulty, but I’m a new player and this is not something I truly understood until this weekend.

I’m not saying get rid of the absolutely horrific Honor system that penalizes you for taking damage…with a class meant to take damage. This is something some of you love and you should enjoy it. either:

1. Don’t tie it to ascendancy. You dangle this golden nugget of an awesome sub class in front of us and then say “well, only those very select few can get this”

2. Provide a non-honor system mechanic for ascending as well.

The more options of game play you provide to a larger and diverse pool of would be customers, is more money in your pockets :)

I’m genuinely confused at why this exist the way it does in its current state

Honor system is horrible , the only view things i dont like in poe2.

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It's way too long to be the first ascendancy. I think there should be fewer rooms or we should be able to save our progress and brute force it.

Not a big fan of either trial tbh. I also just had it bug out on me when i was doing t2 of Sekhemas after i beat the twin bosses.

This was the worst thing I have experienced in game so far.
I've been playing warrior trying to do a stun buildup melee build.
I am useless in here I physically cannot do this content.
It is to the point where I'm ready to drop warrior and warrior was already a struggle to play.

Ran it with a group we managed to get to room 4 after seeing an honor restoration fountain route. Except all our water got stolen from the prior rooms so it was pointless. We got no honor restoration.

Melee couldn't do anything but act like cheerleaders. Yelling and trying to throw down earthquakes praying enemies went into them.

I genuinely do not enjoy this and it is souring me to the game quickly as from what we understand important things are locked behind this content.

Just tried a Lvl 61 Sekhemas (I am 72 Melee-Monk)

Was happy as I finished the Boss... ONLY to realize, that the ascendy points (5 and 6) seem to be awarded after another run of this "shitshow".

guess what?
the last escape-room lowered my honor so much, that I failed the boss room.

It is so random, so lee I could do to perform better.

JUST really really frustrating.
Very near at a RAGE-QUIT.

How could ppl at GGG think this force is a good idea?