The pacing on ascendancy points

Am I the only one who think the pacing on your ascendancy points acquisition is a bit odd?

Like, middle of act 2 you get you first two points then beginning of act 3 you get your third and fourth and suddenly, you have to wait act 4, 5, 6 and possibly a lot of mapping before you can even attempt your third ascendancy trial? And there's a possibility you can do the 4th one before even getting the third.

Like... I played ssf on 0.1 and I did my third trial on lvl 90 and my fourth at lvl 91.

Does that makes any sense? Should it be paced out a bit more evenly? Am I crazy?

Long ago, you had to do 6 different trials in PoE 1 that randomly spawned in atlas maps to be able to get the final tier of ascendancy, this could be extremely painful even in trade league, I cant imagine how bad it could be for players in SSF. Maybe this is a return to that design, who knows.

Remains to be seen what its like in 0.2, but certainly in 0.1 I think a good chunk of people did wait until well into their 80s to try the 4th trial simply because the last floors were tough and the final boss was rough, especially with low dps.

With a sufficiently strong build + good relics the pacing for the first 3 trials was similar to the first game on my deadeye to be fair (~33, ~55, ~68), but was significant more of a struggle on my league start character in 0.1 (warbringer)

acquiring ascendancy points is the worst part of poe2 by far imo. being forced to do either sanctum which is the worst poe1 league ever created or rng trail master garbage which has a ton options which bricks a lot of different builds. on top of the activities (trails) being absolutely miserable they are gated behind rng map drops like you say. gating the last set of points behind some rng makes sense but with how rare it is to get power in poe2 early on a lot of builds really want all the ascendancy points much quicker. i would take poe1 lab over this any day. i really hope they make changes soon.

Jon said on the last interview they did that getting your last ascendancy points should be a major feat, like it should feel like you accomplished something great.

POV to the crowd that doesn't play meta. That can't be bothered with the random difficulty curves of Ultimatum and Sanctum. And you end up with a large amount of players running around with just "merc lab" equivalent in ascendancy points at 90+ who will never even attempt to get their last points (especially in HC).

I don't even run my first ultimatum trial until I'm about lvl 50 (in HC) in hopes that I find good upgrades to my gear so I can just bully my way through the dogs*** arena modifiers you're forced to choose. And even then, it's still a pain in the ass.

POE1 old school map trials were a pain, but at least you had things to work toward while you were waiting to randomly encounter them.

"

l_Caxius_l#7930 a écrit :

Jon said on the last interview they did that getting your last ascendancy points should be a major feat, like it should feel like you accomplished something great.

Misery builds character is so last century