The Labyrinth as a returning player.

So I haven't played PoE in probably about a year before the 2.2 patch dropped and decided to come back and check it out again.

In short, I'm having a great time again with the game.

Except for the Labyrinth.

Let me preface this because of all the people that apparently have a hard time understanding this in this forum. This isn't a matter of being bad at the game. I'm a huge altoholic, having 6 or 7 characters in Perandus at the moment and each of them have done their labyrinth runs and ascended.

That's 108 trials and multiple labby runs on each difficulty. I've probably run the Labyrinth a total of 22-23 times (1 one shot to Izaro on normal on day one, one or two trap deaths and one or two crashes and disconnects) , which is 22-23 more runs of the Labyrinth than of ever like to do.

The point, the Labyrinth is not challenging to me, even as a rusty returning casual player.

It is not hard. Barring my initial 1 shot due to normal Izaro on release day being legit overtuned for a character still running self found I have not died in Labyrinth to anything other than technical issues such as disconnects, crashes, or poor movement pathing from the game.

The Labyrinth does not test me, but it does frustrate the hell out of me.

Every moment I'm inside the Labyrinth just feels awful, every loading screen is spent praying by me to not crash for zero reason and have to do it again (Both my disconnects happened heading to P3 Izaro.)

The Labyrinth is not optional for me, character customization is not something that I will ever opt out of in a game revolving around said customization.

I could give a shit less about the helmet enchants inside the labby, I can run maps in the same time it would take me to get a GG helmet enchant and have probably double the currency to afford it by then.

The point is, I should not have to slog through mindless, frustrating content for the sole purpose of unlocking what should be a core feature of the game, namely, the ascendancy classes.

Get them out of Labyrinth. Let the people who enjoy that hell hole have it to themselves and get Ascendancy into the standard game.

This is not fun.

Agreed the labyrinth is not fun.

I'm bumping this thread because some silly person has argued that there are only five people that don't like the labyrinth. Perhaps he'll learn to count some day and realize that maybe it is more than five people. :-D