Trials of Sekhema feedback

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I spent probably 2 hours doing multiple runs of this trial. I think for the most part, the reason why most people are having problems is that, they have no relics. Comparing my first run, traps and monster are doing huge chunk of honour lost per hit and getting hit by the slam of one of the Terracota twin took like 2.5k honour. My final run, I got some good relics and I think I was close to 80% honour resist and by this time, I didn't bother dodging the traps and normal monster do like 20-30 honour damage against my 6.5k honour except those chaos cloud since I don't have chaos resist at this point.

While I'm okay to farm these relics since rare monster do drop something,I think it'll be too tedious for other people to farm these relics just to make their run easier to ascend much less expect them to do a hitless run. I'm not sure if a suggestion of having relics drop outside of trials of Sekhema is the answer since unlocking the relic slot is also not going to happen for those people that do not want to engaged with this content aside from ascending.

TLDR, the trial is very easy if you got the relics, even below average relics still makes a difference but the thing is, for people that just want to ascend, the entire process of is grueling.

I completely agree.

I'm lvl 86, did about 6 runs of the trials, last 3 were with 75% resist and 4k honour through relics.

Last run made me quit the game entirely. I've reached the final boss with great boons, I was killing it, having a good time, the boss reaches the phase where you have to collect the hourglass. One of them spawns in a corner where I couldn't see it. Boom, trial over, 1 shotted, 1 hour lost in a terrible terrible trial.

Second to last one I reached the final boss, I got the boon that reduces the damage done by 40%, which by the way was put in the game by a psychopath, and I was doing NO DAMAGE to the boss at all while constantly running out of mana.

In conclusion, I agree, the trials are the absolute worst piece of content I've ever played in a game in my entire life and doing 4 floors of it with one life and horrific afflictions is at least criminal.

It literally made me quit the game and it's probably for the best.

In my opinion there's a simple fix.

For each floor you completed, you get 1 life, at the 4th floor you have 3 lives. This way you can learn the boss mechanics and you can circumvent bullshit 1 shot deaths from monsters.

I would do this only for Ascension points. If you want to run the trials for loot, go for it. But for ascension, that's my take on it.

Let's not mention melee but even ranges are suffering.
Mainly lack of research.

Its easier once you get resistance, max honour and more importantly ... able to see 1 room ahead.

Most people that complain usually rush in and just go 1 direction .. .I wanna reach to the end mentality ...
thus you will see them mentioning afflictions.

With the ability to see 1 room ahead, you can plan your path.

another is greed / ignorance

Why take a random Affliction ? dun risk it ...
If its a Shrine + boon o yes but if the next path is multiple afflictions ...
Why go that direction , lured by a boon ?


Why go to a path which will force you to get affliction when you can be planning ahead which path to avoid those paths or choices that force you to pick only one route.

I rather take a dreaded gaunlet and go a longer way then be lazy and take the easy Escape only to land myself with 1 or even 2 afflictions.

see for yourself, most people I talk to, dun even know they can avoid .. .they will just lazly say .. oo its like that ... they cant be bothered saving themselves

sometimes the source of issue isnt the game .. .it's the thing between the table and the chair

I really have a problem only with bosses.
Waste time to get coin
Waste time to get through two floors
Die to oneshot/stutter/lag on a boss
Go back to farming for who knows how long to get another try

The entire premise is just so tedious. So, yeah, hopeful this gets a big old pass as the ascendancy system can be whatever they want, but I just hope it'd be as fun as the rest of the campaign. This is not it.