Ascending is literally the worse video game experience I've ever had

3rd and 4th Ascendancy is just trolling, when average player count drops by 5k+ a day and your wondering why, that's why everyone said it everyday since day 0 and nearly a month goes by and basically you only managed to nerf the builds that run it... and take weeks off vacation which is about as long as the game had been out. Sad team left since it's tencent now.

I agree with you but you are being dramatic. Chill out and play a different game until they fix it.

I'm currently trying to Ascend #3 at level 80. The TRAPS! I can do the monsters just fine, but the TRAPS take tons of my honor.

I hate this garbage trap, avoiding stuff to get to a lever somewhere I can't see and then avoiding more traps on the way back.

What a garbage system! I can't stand it.

JUST DIED AGAIN TO THE TRAPS....SO STUPID MECHANIC.

CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US SOME INDICATION WHICH ROOMS AHEAD ARE TRAPS? YOU DEBUFFED MY MOVEMENT BY 25%...THEN I GET THE NEXT ROOM FULL OF FLAME THROWING TRAPS...NO INDICATION WHICH WAY IS THE LEVER...SO I RUN THROUGH THEM TWICE AND BLOW MY ENTIRE HONOR ON THE TRAPS.

I CANNOT ASCEND BECAUSE OF STUPID TRAP MECHANICS.

EDIT 2:

I give up. I quit the game. The stupid trap mechanics are insanely difficult to avoid, plus mobs around the traps. I blow through an entire honor bar in a matter of moments. I can't ascend my character, and no amount of "leveling" or gear will fix it.

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Moondragon#5232 wrote:

I'm currently trying to Ascend #3 at level 80. The TRAPS! I can do the monsters just fine, but the TRAPS take tons of my honor.

I hate this garbage trap, avoiding stuff to get to a lever somewhere I can't see and then avoiding more traps on the way back.

What a garbage system! I can't stand it.

I just can't understand why they felt the need to "fix" so many things that weren't broken? Lab was amazing. Maps were amazing. Crafting amazing. Why?

I play games to unwind, to escape stress, because I am bored, I play to have fun.

What happens when I try to ascend, I get infuriated, stressed, bored and it might just be the farthest from fun I ever experienced in a videogame.

The only redeeming thing about that is how underwhelming the ascendancy skills are (At least in my opinion). I can easily reach maps un-ascended but, I doubt this is what ggg was aiming for.

The design of Sanctum/Trial of Sekhemas doesn't lead itself to be as accessible for one build as it is for another. Some stats like life regen becomes arguably useless. Depending on your build, visual clarity can be an issue even with no monsters on screen, why am I expected to be able to efficiently avoid damage? Players are expected to fail; it is clear by how many relics and barya drops.

I do not agree with people saying Sanctum was hated. It sure was divided, but a lot of people enjoyed it and for good reasons. It puts a spin on the game and adds a touch of roguelite elements to it. But the thing is, in poe 1, you could easily either skip the league or just engage with other content. In poe 2, it is tied to what some may consider the most fundamental aspect of their character's progression. And there is nowhere near as much content to engage with in its current state.

Rip that code out and make a stand alone, a small side project for ggg that would receive enough engagement to stand on its own, I honestly believe it would. Because at the moment, poe2 feels to me like an arpg I thoroughly enjoy and the Trial feels like a different game and I want nothing to do with it.

Agree, enough to make me not play a game.

Same for me, this and actually die on a death effect in the boss of copper citadel made me realise im wasting time instead of getting fun from a game.

I actually enjoy trial skema now.
And has been playing it consistently to Test of time and stop before entering, selling them for 25EX each coin. Ornate dagger + Hare food is all you need

Can't help it. I gave up looking for citadels.
I cannot find it, 10+ screens and found none.

I found one...in like 20 hours of mapping. I've speed ran to every gd tower..no luck on beyond that.

+1 without exaggeration.

I literally can't think of a video game which was good enough to actually play which then gave me a worse experience, ever, in my life. This is the worst hands down.