POE2 - Unable to Complete "Ascent to Power" in Cruel Difficulty

Same here

Having the exact same issue.
I did find this comment on reddit. However if this IS the case. The UI needs to be fixed. However I'm taking this comment with a grain of salt.

"So apparently there's no ascension on cruel difficulty, it's just a visual UI bug since we are repeating the same acts on another difficulty, they didn't remove the quests or whatever. You ascend 6pts+ on a lvl 70+ ultimatum or djinn drop from maps. I have gotten about 4 and ran 3 of them, they are very very hard and I'm playing a really good Lightning Arrow character. Cannot confirm on my end but multiple high level players have stated this."

I have an update in my Bug. So eventually I found several Djin coins Lvl63+ that had written "Will grant you ascension points", BUT... after completing first part of the trial (trial of strength), and getting to the room where I can use my keys, I had something like 400 Honor left, and I started the next phase of the trial (trial of will), and the 1st chamber afterwards was a trial where I have to kill several elits. As soon as I was about to killed the first elit monster, my honor dropped to 0, my trial ended with the message "Trial of Sekhemas ended. IN ROOM 1 OF TEST OF WILL". The problem is, that there is no button I can press (see the image), and the only way I can get out of there is press Escape, and log out of game. Another problem after that is that my Djin coin, that had 4 tries, disappeared and I couldn't retake my trial. Something is seriously bugged with this 2nd part of the trial, cause the same thing happened two times in a row, and now I'm without any coins to retry to run.
Please fix it, cause this is becoming frustrating!

I have the exact same issue. Please fix it.

same issue please fix

If you have this in "Act 5" as it's Cruel 2 then you will not see any quest markers at all and the only thing you have is Ascent to Power. Just load in the map so you start in the little camp at Vastiri Outskirts then look around the camp until you find the edge of the caravan. It will open and you can board it. You will then get a new quest to speak to the hooded one.

Once again there will not be a quest or a marker to board the caravan but that is how you fix it.

Just an FYI I swear the caravan was not there on my first load of the map so I went to act 2 and back to 5 and found it easy. It was most likely just me missing it but I thought I would mention it.

I hope you all get it fixed and Merry Christmas.

intended behavior.

not a bug.

this thread should get deleted.

Same here. Defeated boss in traitors pass, can't get 5&6 ascendant points...

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peep#3907 wrote:

intended behavior.

not a bug.

this thread should get deleted.

How is this not a bug?

+1