Trial of Chaos Difficulty

It's a challenge that requires planning.

1) You really need capped resistances to fire and lightning. Ideally with increased caps as much as possible. These will allow you to pick like 5 or so debuffs (lightning traps, fire traps) without actually increasing difficulty.

2) You need as much chaos resistance as you can get; lots of mobs in trials deal chaos damage. Bosses deal it too.

3) You need a build that won't get completely destroyed by picking certain debuffs like -50% AoE.

4) You need to avoid picking certain debuffs that will inevitably get you killed. There are plenty of those.

Was going to make a post of this myself, I do agree, though I'll temper my opinions somewhat.

It is hard, and a big part of the difficulty is there are -FAR- more active monsters here than -any- other time in the game thus far. There is simply no way to out kill them, as even reducing your speed for a moment to attack, you -very- quickly get overwhelmed. As a caster, you never get a chance to recharge shields, and I imagine evasion builds are going to crumple pretty easy from volume. An -insane- armor and max resist melee might be able to find a corner to stave off some things, but the need to dodge and the modifiers are still going to impose huge risk to that tactic.

You could cut the mob density by literally half, and I think the encounters would be moderately challenging for the first Trial of Chaos.

Honestly I just wish it was NOT luck based to get ascendancy points. When I am running META builds, overleveled, 1000+ health for a lvl 38 makes zero sense. I can easily solo every boss in the game thus far, but a lvl 38 minion can one shot me? Please fix this as its just simply not fun. It should be scaled down by at least 50% if not much higher, and the different debuffs you get are crazy brutal for no reason. Who is this for? the 1% with min maxed gear, max level people? If so why not make the normal progression people get a fair shot to get to that point. I am not saying its not partially a skill issue, but considering I haven't really struggled anywhere else, this is clearly an issue.

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Cernodan#5312 wrote:

Trial of Chaos in it's current iteration is not fun at all.
And I'm not even talking about the over-tuned cancerous mods that spew garbage in my face all the time.
It's that fucking tornado bird. It threw some daggers or something, one of them hit me and I got one shot.
Second attempt, I had worse mods, got the chimera, and beat the living shit out of it.
And I don't think I'm the only one that experienced this.

Dude i had to LoL this…I feel your pain bro. I can’t get past the damn turkey vulture.

I tried overleveling this shit ( I´m level 47; I´ve played more than 3000 hours of poe 1 so I know what I´m doing) Still can´t beat it because of one shot mechanics in the final boss (bird). Totally OP shit.

I can´t understand why it says the area level is 38 if you need to be level 50-55 to beat it. It would be better if they either postponed the trial , or nerfed it.

So far, ridiculously hard for it´s level.

the bird boss is impossible u cant dodge out of the big meat aoe attack my charakter is like stunned in the attack tried 5 times now same shit happens every time plz make it so we can dodge out of this bs boss move

It's pretty easy when your character is properly geared/leveled.


Pay for a carry, save yourself the stress.

You can also do Sekhema instead, even the 2nd trial.

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jangli#3475 wrote:

the bird boss is impossible u cant dodge out of the big meat aoe attack my charakter is like stunned in the attack tried 5 times now same shit happens every time plz make it so we can dodge out of this bs boss move

"Impossible"


How have people done it then?

I think i ran at least 20 Level 80 Trial of Chaos yesterday on a warrior.. how did I do this impossible task?

That survive the horde section of the trial is a PIA. It seems to be a tutorial in dodge rolling. Except that the arena is too small, and way too many mobs spawn in. The last 15-20 seconds come down to luck. Depending on mob sizes and if you're going to get trapped in that tiny little corner.

Combine that with the slow movement speed, and slow cast speed for spells, it makes this particular trial difficult, and not particularly fun, at best.

I disagree. I find the trial of chaos almost too easy (except maybe for the bird boss that has 9 different one shots).
And the trialmaster is a very fair boss fight. The part I didnt like is that you need 3 keys to access and that they drop randomly, so you can get unlucky and have to do it multiple times.

For context im playing blood mage (the worst ascendancy) and when i got my 4th ascendancy i did it with 0 ascendancy points spent because the blood mage nodes are so bad.

I think people have to get used to that ascendancy points arent free in this game and that you have to invest time in your gear.