All Ascendency Trial options should be available in Act 2

Right now, if you are not interested or able to get through the Trial of the Sekhemas, you need to wait an entire act from mid act 2 to mid act 3 before you are able to try and do the Trial of Chaos. And if you are unable or uninterested in doing that, well right now you are out of luck but later on you will have to wait until (presumably) mid act 4 before you are able to do that option instead. I believe this is a poorly designed system that punishes players for wanting to go with one of the later options. I get that for lore reasons they want the trial to be based on the culture and region you are in for each act, but lore should not come at the expense of gameplay.

Right now I have two potential solutions. The first solution is a quick fix where you gain access to a map that contains all of the ascendency trial options at the point where you get access to the trial of the sekhemas in Act 2, which of course includes allowing the tokens required to do the trial to drop once you get access to this ascendency map.

The second option is more involved and difficult to implement, but it would let them keep the lore and pacing of the game much more consistent while allowing for a lot more variety, replayability, and fun for the campaign: let us pick which region we go to for acts 2-4.

So if you want to do vastiri to vaal to karui areas like normal, then they would be acts 2 through 4. But if you want to go to the karui area first, that will be your act 2 and the other areas will scale up to become acts 3-4 leveling wise. There is already adaptive level scaling for maps within the acts, so while this would take effort to implement it wouldn't be a jarring system in terms of player experience. I believe having the first option as an immediate fix followed by working on the adaptive act structure for 2-4 over Early Access is the best solution, since the second option also adds even more player choice and world variance to the game, which is something the developers have explicitly stated they want for POE 2's campaign.

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Honestly would be so cool if PoE2 had flexible acts like that!!