Trial of Chaos

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Aggedon#4911 schrieb:

Big load of white knight-quality death by block of text

Nobody really believes you liked ultimatums, sorry.

The ONLY people saying they LIKE them are people that insecure and trying to prove something with the whole "my skillz ard on-point!" thing.

IT's a broken mechanic, it has no place as a test for ascendancy since it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the class or ascendancy it's supposed to be testing and it's simply hot garbage as content especially when you consider you have to farm to even be able to do it and if you die once, you have to RE-FARM again.

So much of this game is based around frustratingly pointless mechanics right now. Sticking up for it isn't helping anything.

Ah, it seems you've misunderstood my post, I am not in favour of them being linked to Ascending, I am evaluating them as an end game activity. I think at the level they are introduced during the campaign they are definitely unreasonably challenging. Also agree that having to farm for the entry tokens to ascend is very frustrating with only one attempt per run.

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Aggedon#4911 schrieb:

Ah, it seems you've misunderstood my post, I am not in favour of them being linked to Ascending, I am evaluating them as an end game activity. I think at the level they are introduced during the campaign they are unreasonably challenging.

I wouldn't call the trials "challenging" when RNG has such a large part to play in whether or not you succeed.

That's just lazy content.

My experience has been that once you have capped resistances and your build is a bit more advanced most of the modifiers are manageable, some definitely more difficult for certain builds, and some just in general a bit more overtuned than others for sure.

As for the RNG, it can lead to solid replayability, it is why roguelikes have become so popular as a genre in recent years.

Simply raging about things being unfair I don't think is likely to produce a better end result, no matter whether it may be true or not. The whole point of early access is so that we can provide constructive feedback about these sorts of issues so that when the game does release it's in a better state and people have a better experience!

Okey after beating Sekhemas 4th floor I thought it is time for Trialmaster. It was the worst experience so far I had playing this game. I will never go the Chaos Trial again except the first 4 trials to gain 2nd ascendancy. Half of the random debufs are totally fine, half are either build breaking or total garbage, like the shade that follows me and hitting me while standing on the elevator or placing cores? Some debuffs combined are total mess. Maybe if I can choose from 5 at least, but out of 10 trials you get unlucky 2 times and you can just end the trial. If at least the challenges were fun, but the only one I enjoy is the one I need to survive for a certain time. I actually like Sekhemas, you can also get unlucky there but you have ways to mitigate it. Here, you get unlucky and its gg. No fun at all. I don't even mind the overtuned bosses here, never had a problem with that and I like boss fights in general, but combined with the unlucky afflictions - those have to be totally re-worked and the challenges made faster and more fun. Terrible experience.

Otherwise I love the game.

The wind bird is a real issue. The amount of time it is invulnerable while also doing enough damage to one shot most players is absolutely insane. I can put the boss to 10hp then have no ability to hit it for 2 minutes while I dodge attacks.

ToC is not bad, just needs tweaks. Some debuffs are just a 100% skip. For example, you don't want death circles, ever. What's the point having them then?
And the tornado boss needs to get its telegraphing/offscreen kills fixed.

I used to dislike ultimatum when I was trying to ascend. But recently I've done probably a 100+ runs trying to get the adorned to drop from the trialmaster (still hasn't dropped for me yet, have killed him 20+ times at this point). And I kind of enjoy it now.

I know which debuffs to pick and which to avoid. And I find the trials pretty easy and enjoyable to run now while I watch a podcast. Probably my favorite area to farm.