Considering Leaving Because Of Trial of Sekhemas

I'm level 83 and I have lost my patience and will in the Trial of Sekhemas (trying to reach the third ascendancy). I cannot believe why they have implemented the honour system.

Something hit me for 800 honor 50% in in the third trial, and then it was over. I couldn't see what really happened. I was playing Djinn Barya (lvl 69) as a summoner, trying to stay way back at all times and dodging incoming projectiles.

I'm not making any more tries. That's it.

Honour is based on your life and defenses. If you lost half of your honor to one hit, then it sounds like your defenses are in a very bad state and should be addressed. I'm a summoner main as well, by the way.

Additionally, try getting relics that give honour resistance. It caps at 75% and it alone makes a MASSIVE difference in how easily you can run trials. Trust me on this, it's an absolute miracle.

This happened to me in 0.1 and 0.2 too. I couldn't get the 3rd trial done, losing all my progress in some of the frustrating ways & ended up quitting. Locking character identity/power behind something like that is stupid to me and always will be. It just drives people to put the game down.

Now that being said, I came back in 0.3, and not only got it down in 1st attempt but I also did my 4th ascendancy for the first time, first attempt!

I will say this, I 1000% prefer Trial of Chaos for the 4th ascendancy. Not only does it seem to be much easier (at least for me) but it isn't as time consuming as Sekhemas.

But both 'trials' suck IMO & should be reworked/scrapped. Totally don't blame ya for wanting to quit.

Also, use increase maximum honour relics. Resistance and increase max can appear on the same relic. More honour and losing less per hit, a few of these make a world of difference.

I just did the same, lvl 87 and on my second attempt failed again. I'm done. Won't touch the game now until 0.4 end game patch. Hopefully this will also be addressed, but probably not.
it's a shame really, I like the game (didn't play POE1), but Trial of Suckmyass needs to disappear.

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Pizzarugi#6258 เขียน:

Honour is based on your life and defenses. If you lost half of your honor to one hit, then it sounds like your defenses are in a very bad state and should be addressed. I'm a summoner main as well, by the way.

Additionally, try getting relics that give honour resistance. It caps at 75% and it alone makes a MASSIVE difference in how easily you can run trials. Trust me on this, it's an absolute miracle.

I have about 1500 life, 1200 ES and 1100 mana (Mind Over Matter). I'm doing t14-t15 maps without any issues.

I guess the honour system (and Trial Of Sekhemas) is not for me.

You must be wearing the shittiest gear available. You are 14 levels over the area level, in the current state of the game you should be able to oneshot everything in the trial, I can't see how anything could damage you for that much except a map boss, so I guess maybe that's what you meant when you said you got hit in the third trial -- the third boss encounter? What is your chaos resistance? How much ES/life have you got?

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AssaultUnit#6080 เขียน:

You must be wearing the shittiest gear available. You are 14 levels over the area level, in the current state of the game you should be able to oneshot everything in the trial, I can't see how anything could damage you for that much except a map boss, so I guess maybe that's what you meant when you said you got hit in the third trial -- the third boss encounter? What is your chaos resistance? How much ES/life have you got?

No, something from an ordinary mob (like a projectile) hit me in one of those rooms before the third boss fight (might have been in Gauntlet),

I'm using Prism Guardian, Alpha's Howl, Waveshaper, some (imo) decent rare jewelry and a rare sceptre. My resists are 75/75/75/0 (chaos).

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TheSlayer#7040 เขียน:

Something hit me for 800 honor 50% in in the third trial, and then it was over. I couldn't see what really happened. I was playing Djinn Barya (lvl 69) as a summoner, trying to stay way back at all times and dodging incoming projectiles.

Is it possible you picked "Hungry Fangs"? That shit can ruin your run very quickly.

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TheSlayer#7040 เขียน:

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AssaultUnit#6080 เขียน:

You must be wearing the shittiest gear available. You are 14 levels over the area level, in the current state of the game you should be able to oneshot everything in the trial, I can't see how anything could damage you for that much except a map boss, so I guess maybe that's what you meant when you said you got hit in the third trial -- the third boss encounter? What is your chaos resistance? How much ES/life have you got?

No, something from an ordinary mob (like a projectile) hit me in one of those rooms before the third boss fight (might have been in Gauntlet),

I'm using Prism Guardian, Alpha's Howl, Waveshaper, some (imo) decent rare jewelry and a rare sceptre. My resists are 75/75/75/0 (chaos).

Basic mob hitting you for 50% honour does indeed sound like a bug. In any case, you should really get chaos res, I'm surprised you didn't die to abyss before reaching such a high lvl, or even the scorpion boss in the trial.