Trial of Chaos (level 38)

So I've seen the number of monsters have been reduced for that trial before the level 65... But monsters were never the problem..? And to be clear, this 0.2, this is what has made me ragequit the game because I had less patience than in 0.1. I hate ultimatum ever since it existed, and since there has been no changes except making the wyvern boss un-doable for melees because they don't playtest, well I have no hope.

What usually killed me was the affixes. I don't know if the damaging ones are overtuned, but unless I hit the turrets affixes, I know that 80% of the time I'm gonna fail. And turrets have never spawned for me this season, and I got annoyed. (again, for the lvl 38 one, later in the game with a complete stuff and resistances, it feels okay overall)


The malus on players are designed for endgame. Having straight up no regen, -15% resistances (which is one of the best even at that level though), your defensive layer utterly destroyed on the very first malus... Like... It's crazy. -40% defensives at endgame is manageable, even if you're in for a hard time... But when you're lvl 38 with nearly no tool, they're just deleting you and are no-choices. And you don't really have malus that you can handle overall... For the first trial of chaos, number should be drastically reduced to really match that you have no gear from the start...


And what made me quit after hours and hours of attempts... Was that wyvern fight. First, this boss has a crazy amount of life, I'd guess it's somewhere around 180 000 or something. But when I took that malus "monsters have energy shield", believing it'd only affect MONSTERS and not the BOSS (since some affix have the BOSS word which made me believe that monsters =/= boss, bad design there since it's confusing)... Well... Since affixes can't be balanced because they're untested, it had something like 20 or 30k energy shield, which recharges fast... And well... There was a change that made the wyvern not going in the sky much... So far I'm alright...

But then, the wyvern did its frost puddle under it, so as a melee character I went away and waited for it to approach... And the wyvern just spammed fireball... And never moved from that spot that was hurting me and making me slow... And I alt+F4ed...

I always saw ultimatum as a FAR endgame mechanic, not the one you start on tier 1 maps... Cos you need the gear and the dps... And doing it at lvl 40 is just hell... And you are forced if you want your ascendancy... This system just doesn't work for now it's a terrible feeling...

The first four ascendancy points are easily achievable before starting the Cruel Acts, regardless of the class played (ranged/melee).
They're really very accessible in my opinion.
I can understand the difficulty with the last four points (and even then...), but to be honest, the first four points are user-friendly.

Final ascendancy is ludicrous rng fest on both tracks

At least sekhema gives you some chance to reduce its impact by yourself chaos gives you nothing other than a trip to trade to fix it