List of "minor" afflictions to outright REMOVE from the game

- Sharpened Arrowhead: You have no Armour
- Shattered Shield: You have no Energy Shield
- Iron Manacles: You have no evasion
- Worn Sandals: 25% reduced movement speed (makes the final fight 100% IMPOSSIBLE to win, how is that MINOR???)
- Myriad Aspersions: When you gain an Affliction, gain an additional random Minor Affliction

These "minor" afflictions are basically instant game over afflictions. They should not exist.

Sharpened Arrowhead is okay because no one uses armour for it's intended purpose.

I agree, these are too much player build destroying. I think it could be better if these mods were inverse to something like :"Monster armour cannot be broken below 25%" or such.

If you deal phys damage only, it's an annoyance/makes the run harder, but you don't have to end it. Perhaps better would be something like +25% phys damage reduction, so that armour can still be broken for builds that rely/might rely on it.

Just throwing my 2 cents here and bringing visibility :)

Yeah, some of these "minor" afflictions are actually pretty funny! 😆 When I was new to the trials, I went in with my Ranger, fully built around evasion defense. I picked what I thought was a "minor" affliction, and it turned out to be "No Evasion." As you can imagine, since evasion was my only defense... it was GG! 😅

I think some of these afflictions should either be renamed to "major afflictions" to better reflect their impact or at least have a clearer warning. Another option could be adding a detailed list in-game, showing exactly what effects each affliction can have, so players can make more informed decisions instead of getting completely blindsided.

afflictions should just go away in general
it is so easy to loose a run out of pure bad luck
you just get locked into a path with no way to escape it that locks you into nonsense like
loose water on hit
fountains are empty (or give less or smth i dont remember)
enemies dont drop water
makes you just unable to ever restore your honour if you get hit like 3 times in between shrines
and as i said sometimes you just dont get to decide if you wanna even take those or not
bc the choice is between loose water on hit or reduced movement speed
or enemies dont drop water with the other choice being a cursed shrine that also gives you spiked shell and probably also shoves your mom down a flight of stairs or smth
it is such a braindead mechanic, you just play with risk aversion in your mind and nothing else just for the game to tell you to kindly eat a bag of dicks sometimes

You can avoid getting any affliction, just plan your Trial run better..

First they want to remove honour now they want to remove afflictions as well


Man what a game these people want

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

First they want to remove honour now they want to remove afflictions as well


Man what a game these people want

I vote for an "I Win Button" MTX for your hideout. You push it and it sets off fireworks and a giant "You Win!" sign appears. That should meet all of their requirements for "fun" right?

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masikam#3962 wrote:

You can avoid getting any affliction, just plan your Trial run better..

Not at all. It's not uncommon for the initial opening of the Trial Map to show all-affliction rooms. Perhaps something could be implemented to prevent such RNG.

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LeFlesh#9979 wrote:

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masikam#3962 wrote:

You can avoid getting any affliction, just plan your Trial run better..

Not at all. It's not uncommon for the initial opening of the Trial Map to show all-affliction rooms. Perhaps something could be implemented to prevent such RNG.

And the odds of all 3 of them being something that will brick your specific build are... yeah, like winning the reverse lotto. Even if that were to happen, oh well you lost about 30 seconds of time and an easy to replace (or in the case of the first, infinitely free) entry token.