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This comment will contain feedback for your editor. This is meant as constructive feedback and is no personal attack to him. Mostly, I'll be talking about timings and how a few things felt off and caused attrition to the viewer, but overall he did a fantastic job at following your usual format. I will provide timestamps and explanations for most things, to keep this as constructive as possible, I hope this helps. First one is that the timings for all of the various texts and elements that slided into screen lacked a lot of easing (specifically the sliding ones). Often times they came into the screen too aggressively and sometimes they faded out of the screen way too fast (this is particularly noticeable on the sentences like 2:25, because in that timestamp there is text in the b-roll , which is the Runic Seal, and the viewer might have been reading that text when they suddenly had a text box coming from the bottom). It is important to note that some of Ziggy's viewers might not be native english speakers, so they probably need a bit more than 5 seconds to read multi-line sentences. And also, if the text is presenting an information that is different from what Ziggy is saying then you also need need a bit more time to absorb the information, as it is hard to read one thing while a person says an entirely different sentence into your ears. Also, there is some edits that felt "too active" on screen. An example of that would be the pulsing relics at 3:45, where they enter the screen very aggressively, all from different directions, then they pulse and leave. I think that the editor tried to make them feel like some juicy, pulsating treasures, but it didn't work. Pulsing in general feels a bit jarring outside of highlights videos. Its good on videos that are fast and snappy like clips, but on normal videos you would rather composite something on top of your effect rather than doing the same animation backwards, because going backwards creates a pattern and some patterns can be a bit distracting. Back to the relics though, something more gentle like fading the object in and slowly increasing in size would've felt better (like how the editor did when showing the Orb of Augmentation or Balbala's Barya earlier in the video), although I understand that sometimes an editor is worried that they are re-using a simple effect too many times, especially if they are working for a new client. In some cases, like at 6:20, Ziggy explains the Honor mechanic and the editor does zoom in on the honor bar, but he zooms out of it in the middle of Ziggy's sentence, before his train of thought was even finished. I think that this is a tiny pacing/timing mistake. There are other examples of mistimings that are similar to this. For example, at 8:10 Ziggy starts a sentence by talking about navigation being important, and the editor slides in a text box that starts by talking about about boons, which IS what Ziggy is about to talk about, but the editor was a few seconds too early and the viewer had a bit of attrition there, because they had to process 2 different things before the text box actually made sense in the context of what they were hearing. Positives: 10:54 and 12:23 Whenever the editor had a long list or text that the viewer had to read through, he did did blur the background to make the viewer focus their attention on the element that he is pushing to the forefront of the video. He also made sure to not make the video dull by making the long text slowly scale in size or by making the blur not completely overtake the b-roll in the bullet point list. In both of those cases, this was good editing. 12:55 the way that he introduced afflictions felt very smooth and the timings for each one were perfect with ziggy's voice. It seems like this editor has some experience showing websites, quotes and screenshots, so this makes sense (I looked at his most recent video in the middle of typing this) 28:06 Unlike the previous text explanations that came and went too fast, the explanation on which types of damage the boss does DID stay on screen for a very good amount of time. This one felt like it lasted 12 seconds instead of the 5 or 4 that other text boxes in the video had.
@@einhasad7 This is really incredible detailed feedback mate, thanks for going to the effort! It's nuanced pacing notes that would've even helped my editing in the past!
Two nice tips #1 If you know you screwed up and are going to fail the time freeze phase on the floor 4 boss you can quickly exit to character screen before he one shots you. That way you only have to restart the fight and not start a whole new run #2 if you have a friend in trade that can kill the floor 4 boss with you in there as well you can get all of your ascendancy as early as act 2 they just need to keep in mind that any missing honor they have will be applied to you when you enter so they have to have close to a full honor bar and than not take basically any hits on the boss or it will kill you
same. Made it to 4 th boss but his HP is like x10 time bigger than of 3rd one. Smn said I needed like 500 dam wep at the very least, but hard to get it in SSF..
Im lvl 90 and tried test of time yesterday, i couldnt generate powercharges against the boss so i kinda gave up, had plenty of honor but not nearly enough dmg bc lack of charges...
I miss Izaro. Thanks GGG for making ascending so wretched that I clamor for Izaro. Have done the 3 floor variant 10x now and every one has basically been a forced no hit run. I get it done, it’s completely devoid of fun though. If GGG released a “you need to live stream grating your balls on a cheese grater to ascend”, I’d strongly consider it.
The first ascension was so painful. I died ten times before I said fuck it and leveled up 15 more levels and went back. The first ascension comes early on a fresh, no gear, character. So early you are zero defense and no offense. The POE 1 system is so much better.
One thing about the final fight's instant kill mechanic. Always start your route from the furthest ones away. If you get the cluster of ones that are close first and then immediatley path farther away, even with 40+% movement speed, you'll run out of time. By doing the far ones sooner, you're getting maximum uptime on your movement speed. And as you grab hourglass, it gives you a little more, thus, by prioritizing the far ones, you'll less likely to go so long without touching one that you freeze.
Tip for Zarokh (last boss): Try get as much MS as possible before hand. When doing the time slow phase, get the furthest hourglasses first. DONT dodge roll, it slows you down! Only dodge to the last one. If you see that you wont make it, hit ESC and log out quickly. It wont pause the game so you will have to be quick. This way you get one more try at the last boss.
I too died to that. Was doing a lowish one, smashing every bloody mob to smithereens, thought I had enough power to just wallop the boss and... hey what is that whirlwi-. Oh. I is ded.
Also a good tip for the zarokh time stop is to prioritize the longest distances first, when you have the most speed to deal with the larger gaps. You actually did this in the vid, so nice work haha.
My tip. Wait until GGG nerf trails so they're easy to do. Making access to such an important aspect to any build so difficult and frustrating is unforgivable.
Personal experience and correct me if I'm wrong: for trial of chaos, after you complete a floor, you can TP out, otherwise TPs are disabled. For the quest in act3, you only need to go to five rounds to finish it and get your 3rd and 4th ascendancy points.
Nice vid. I failed the first time I tried to get to my 3rd ascension, then watched this and passed it with ease. To be fair I had leveled and geared up a good bit between, but still. Focusing on good boons really made a massive difference and I felt pretty untouchable by the end.
Awesome video. Just wanted to add that the Trial of Chaos stalking shade is awful for melee characters on the chimera boss… unless you’re just so OP that you’re 1-shotting everything anyways.
Mainly a point for SSF, but I noticed that item level matters a ton on relics. Like an absurd amount. To give an example for honour resist: In act 2, you will typically find about 5% honour resistance per slot, so a 2-slot relic will have about 10% honour resistance. But for your third ascendancy points, you will typically want to upgrade them to relics that are as efficient as about 10% honour resistance per slot. And they scale even higher than that.
I'm craving act 4 and the third ascendancy method. First time through Chaos on two charas I had the bad luck to meet the tornado-conjo. I really enjoy floors 3 and 4 for adding thrill and difficulty. Feels so much more engaging and interesting when everything but endgame is no longer something you can speedrun with ease on any build. /goes back to building his ultimate no-uniques-required build
At around lvl20, once I've killed the boss that drops the 1st trial quest item, I go to TFT and look in the trial carry channel and buy a 4th trial boost, which is usually around 40ex, u get all 8 points and you can level through the campaign with your fully spec'd out ascendancy, which is especially OP as a Gemling, having 2000life in Act2/3 is amazing :D
Personally I think doing a trial master is way easier than the other boss just becusee of the time investment but it does cost a little to buy the fragments you need
Not sure if you mentioned it in the video and just missed, but you don't have to do trial of chaos at all. Once you get a set of decent relics you can just run sanctums, where 2nd floor will give you second ascendancy points and so one. Plus you can fully ascend running one sekhemas, getting set of points each floor.
I have to point out Myriad Aspersions (get a random affliction every time you get an affliction) as a must avoid as well, it's worse than purple smoke IMO. I'd also say avoid anything that messes with your merchant in the first couple floors (merchant offers one choice especially.)
The "lose 5% of health, shield, mana on hit" minor affliction is one to avoid as well, if doing a longer run. I've had that interact badly with the jeweled scarabs on the second floor. A single hit from them reduced me to 5% of each, rather than taking the tiny amount. At which point, any hit can easily kill you, leading to a loss. Oh, Sekhamas for ascendancy, how I hate you.
It's an iffy one, for most enemies it has zero impact and is a free modifier - but there are the occasional multi hit barrage abilities on certain enemies (the living Urns for another example) that make it super dangerous. You can take it if you know the enemies well and know what to avoid.
I hate Sekhemas so much. On all 3 my characters I tried ascending doing the lvl 60 Sekhemas. And on 2 of them I somehow ended up getting routed to the affliction that "hides afflictions" on the 3rd room before the final Boss and on the last room before the Boss I managed to pick up "get a random minor affliction" And yea... good fun. It removed all energy shield from my witch and all evasion from my ranger. I run the Chaos trial now and I kill the trial master for people to help them ascend a 4th time.
@@cryptoutIf you can stay in a safe spot, I can carry through a full Chaos run which is insanely easier than Sekhemas. Edit: In game name is DUKEzors
First time trying Ascendancy, first room, walked in and saw a chest to the right. Walked over and clicked on it. Giant smoke cloud filled the room and rumbled. When the smoke cleared a few seconds later, my character was dead on the ground. Never saw a mob, literally took 3 steps, clicked a chest, and died. Haven't played since. Honestly, I was excited that the game was going to be tougher and slower paced. However, it felt like they made the game difficult just for the sake of punishment and frustration. Sorry, I play games for fun, not to be irritated and frustrated. Especially when the rewards for grinding it out are pretty shit or non-existent. Im sure I'll try it again eventually, so hopefully, some changes are made by then. If not, that's okay. Not every game is for everyone. I'm saving this video in case I need it when I come back.
I recently did my 4th ascendency via Trials and I genuinely enjoy the mechanic. Much preferable over Chaos because you have actual agency. An unpopular opinion but I don't personally have an issue with the 3rd and 4th points behind the harder trials, though the 1st and 2nd should be easier to do when you naturally encounter them. Afflictions do need better balancing though, you should never randomly brick your run from a single minor affliction.
Sorry but Sekehma is completely shit compared to ascending in POE 1. Fucking stupid that you have to gate this behind a mechanic that is isolated from the rest of the game.
@mattryan7124 I never played PoE1 and don't really intend to, so I don't really care for the comparison. I understand why PoE 1 players don't like the difference, but as a PoE2 player I do not mind it, aside from the issues I already mentioned. The devs clearly want to try something different, change is not always a bad thing, it can just depend on your perspective.
after failing the 4th boss 5 times, i got him at the 6th try. Although, I had insane luck. I got the good buffs plus, movespeed, +damage, +defences. I went with sacred waters everytime I got a chance. Got the 50% off prices. Purchased all in the vendor. The room before the 4th boss, is the merchant and she had the no damage taken in the next room. I was face tanking the boss without fear. But, the hourglass phase is the most difficult part, especially the 2nd one. I have 30% movespeed from boots and the +40% of the boon, still barely able to complete the 2nd hourglass
It might be many months before the next act comes out and people are struggling now. I can always make a follow up focused specifically on the new trial too (I plan to)!
This is an amazing guide, but to be perfectly honest this is all just way too much work for four points. I get they're ascendancy points and some can be far more valuable than regular nodes, but I'm just not willing to invest this kind of time and effort even for the best ones. I'm waiting for the third trial to come out and see how hard it is. Until then, all my characters are capped at four points.
Playing a Witch with Skeleton Snipers and just spamming Frost Wall and Shield Wall made Trials of Sekhama a joke. First time i ever completed a Trial without losing a single point of Honor. Having minions and the ability to create walls to protect you from hits is literal easy mode. Also, i highly recommend you use a shield. You can actually block hits without losing Honor. Doing Trials as a Warrior is not as hard as many may think as long as you use a shield.
I got to the final boss and got killed by his instant touch BS thing. Zero problems getting there, but what a waste of time. I hate that its a requirement to look everything up in order to not waste your time by dying to unknown mechanics. Shit like this makes me stop playing. Hopefully when I go back, I manage to beat it next time.
I had a good run in the 3rd ascendacy. In the 3rd section, 4th room, clicked on the pool to recover honour. It killed me. No monsters in the room. Only affliction was 50 percent less junk in the vendor. Now i just ignore the ascendacies.
That sounds like you used one of the "Recover X Honour, Random Affliction" shrines, I basically never use those because random afflictions are pretty risky. The only way I can conceive of you dying though is that you got reduced Defenses and were primarily Energy Shield-based, which meant your Honour lowered to the point where you would have already been dead. :( Unlucky
When talking about the must have boons, you mention that the 30% less max life is very good "especially if you already have sources of more damage from jewels". But aren't all more modifiers multiplicative with each other in poe2, instead of being additive with each other? (I remember this came up in a stream some time ago and chat was saying it was always multiplicative with each other except when coming from the same source)
I've been going crazy spinning in circles on this and it doesn't help that depending on how you phrase the question of multiplicative modifiers and diminishing returns you get different answers from both google results or AI. I think I'm finally arriving at (and correct me if I'm wrong!): - Stacking Multiplicitive modifiers results in *increasing* returns (1.5 * 1.5 = 2.25 More Damage) - so 100 damage would become 225. Making the marginal gain of 50% more if you already have 50% more 75 flat, or, indeed: 50%! - 30% less health is always 1.428x damage and so always = to 42.8% more. - And 50% more is always 50% more... Right? I feel like im going crazy haha. So end result is the 50% more damage is always a bit better than the 30% reduced health, but both are great... right?!! My head hurts.
Yeah if more is always multiplicative with each other then stacking them is better (1.5*1.5 = 2.25 vs 2 if the more multipliers are added together, as you said in the first point), my question was more whether do we know for sure whether they are multiplicative or additive with each other? But at the end of the day yeah both boons are great. @@ZiggyDGaming
I think I see it. Subtract your + of both and it scales multiplicative of your character’s flat. I have seen this with my honor boost going through Sekhemas.
Easiest way to get your last two ascending points is to pay 1 div, be done in 5 min. Or if you are broke. Do a citadel boss 300-400% increased waystone, kill the boss, loot fragments, sell fragments, get your divines.
Buying carries is a fine option to save time, but not a lot of players are keen to do trust based trading. And I prefer to "teach a person to fish" - or learn to fish myself in games.
@ZiggyDGaming You are absolutely correct, and I appreciate your work and content. My first character was your spark build many years ago. My intention was not to undermine your video but to inform less patient or skiled as myself of other possibilities.
I have no problem with trials, except Honour. Not fair for a warrior compared to a sorc/monk. 1 shot on my warrior can ruin a whole trial. They put Honour resistance/cap items because its BS from the beginning. Be so much better without.
So I'm stacking armour on my warrior, I was around 20k when I went for my 4th ascendancy, I got lustrous lacquer and was taking... I think 5 damage from the final boss' basic attack, and up to around 100 from some of the bigger hits. Basically nothing. So yeah, it works for any defense really.
That's awesome to hear that the armour was working so well! I did some texting on the take X damage afflictions and pledges and was pretty impressed even with moderate Armour + Honour Resistance - those would be free on such an Armour-stacked character haha.
@@tapp3r109 not ridiculous at all, you can get over 30k. The problem is - should you? In most cases - nope, there is more elemental damage which armour doesn't help against.
Run the trial of sekhemas outside hunting your ascendencies points; you will find it less stressful (no real stakes, just farming items and maybe relics to max your honour res) and you will learn the mechanics and the reward system. This trial is way less frustrating that lab in poe1, to me at least, but after a while.
BY FAR the easiest way to ascend: Pay 30-40ex carry fee. Wait. Enter boss room. Click altar. Profit. Won't work early in a league but if you are a more casual player and get a div to drop it lets you ignore trials completely until/if you want to farm them.
If you are not on your first character and not in SSF, just pay 40ex for a carry. You get all 8 points at level 20 in a minute or two and save a lot of time, more than enough to earn back the money in maps.
Ppl like you that tell otters to pay for help are just terrible What happened to just helping ppl just to help ppl Why does everybody and their mother ask for a payment
It's really counterintuitive that affixes such as "m Monsters deal 50% increased damage" affect bosses as well. I thought that was just the trash and not the bosses.
@@theshadowcult I guess it's just the average of however many choices there are at each juncture: 100% / 50/50 / 33/33/33. But YOU KNOW it's going to magnet you to the worst possible affliction when possible haha
@ZiggyDGaming oh for sure, its 100% going to send you to that one room that insta kills you. Buuuuut at least it will only do it right before the boss! :D
Great vid for an almost 70 year old guy ! I'm level 88 now ...do i get a xp penalty when dying at the the last trial ? i did the ones b4 without dying so i wouldn't know . Thx for the guide and greetings from Germany !
I tried that initial trial of chaos twice with 2 different characters, monk and warrior both were lvl 45 I didn't make it either time then after 6 tries each that was it, it wouldn't let me try again. P.S. that tornado bird, they didn't nerf jack on that thing, Silverback monkey either while i'm on the subject.
I’m in cruel act 3 and did the trial but I didn’t get any points. I skipped he chaos trial in normal Act 3…does the chaos trial need to be completed before i do the Act 2 Cruel Sekhemas 2nd trial?
I tried Sekhames couple of times and lost all my relics so now I can't even start the Trial :D What should I do or maybe the better question is: where I can find another relic to have a change try the Trial again?
I am just here farming trial of chaos. Around 15 Minutes per run. Super easy. If you not get fcked over tremendously. Much prefered then the sekhema bullshit.
not sure which projectile but zarokh hit me one time with 1400honor damage and thats with 75% honor resistance, instantly ending my run. for sure its not the lightning projectile that goes in circles. worst part is that its my ONLY barya that dropped and im already lv85 with the node that increases barya/ultimatum drop when mapping in desert area
That's actually what I love about Sekhemas (compared to Chaos), the RNG is very controlled and manageable with strategy. In Chaos you are at the mercy of the three very impactful and dangerous modifiers that appear each time, and quite often it's just picking the least worst option. Sekhemas you can manage things in advance with relics and you always have more options and can prioritize boons and afflictions to assist navigation strategy. Sure you have some amazing and some meh runs of Sekhemas, but In dozens of runs I've only had 1 run where I was truly screwed by bad RNG!
You should aim to have 30-35% Movement speed at endgame. I also recommend 5-10% extra movement speed on Relics for doing 4 Floor Sekhemas! There's also the "Harefoot" boon in Trials, which you should see most of the time using these strategies where you stack water early and visit lots of Balbala shops! It gives a bunch of extra movespeed for that run! Besides that my character has a % points of movespeed on the tree too (3% out of combat, another 7% on kill).
I find the Sekehemas Trial to be pure frustration and I can see why so many people are turned off by it. I like a good challenge, but when RNG suddenly gives me an affliction that takes away my energy shield without giving me any chance to avoid it, when my build depends on energy shield to survive, that's absolute bullshit and a monumental waste of my time.
The fact that there are paid carries that do trials for you means that they are a failure. People are happy to run incrementally more difficult maps and engage with the core mechanics of the game - but most don't care for this rng fest with it's distinct set of mechanics that frankly suck. It's like asking nascar drivers to compete on skateboards after every 3rd race. Personally I can't stand the combination of RNG and grind. One bad roll and you have to start over from the beginning, no you must first farm or buy the entrance token. And all this "strategy" is just reducing the chance of bad RNG, it's still a gamble. Why not give every currency item a 20% chance to destroy the item, this would be equally pointlessly punishing and hard resetting your progress. Why not force every player to play hardcore if losing a lot of progress is such a great thing. If the 3rd trial isn't an RNG fest, then 90% of players will do just that and if not most casuals will drop out for no good reason.
@@ZiggyDGaming its only super suttle and other recording have it it also i will listen on head phones and see if i can dail into it. never noticed it till today playing the video loudly
It's effectively a roguelike mode. But like most modern roguelikes you don't *really* start at the beginning, as you get stronger each time as you learn new things, upgrade your character, and upgrade your relics.
Nah, pay some tryhard using a busted meta build like 30-40ex for a whole carry. Takes like 2 minutes once they start. The game became 1000% more (that's more, not increased) fun once I had a way to stop worrying about the awful, terribly balanced RNG-fest that is ascension. The game lets you get to maps without ascending and it's not difficult to farm up a bit.
IMHO these honour mechanics are total bullshit and detrimental to not only a style of playing, but also some classes . What s the point of making a tanking class or regen characters if these survival part of built are negated by the trials. Same concept for melees, same for the armor . The concept get even more dumb as a warrior enter the room but cannot fight close combat . Then tell me what honour an incoming rogue give a s… to achieve his goals…
I dont understand all the complaints to be honest. I made a new summoner and with some random ass gear. At level 67 i got all 4 points in one go. Just made sure i had 75% honour resist, 25% movespeed boots and grabbed sacred water and went for merchants looking for 40% movespeed boon and 50% inc damage. Was a level 80 coin and i was level 67.
@@ZiggyDGaming Thanks. Skelly snipers are pretty busted for single target to be fair. Overall, hope your video helps people with the trials! Good stuff
I don't get the point of this video when all can be explained in 30 seconds. 1. Don't take afflictions that harm your build in Trial of Sekhemas, and avoid hits. 2. Take least harmful debuffs in Trial of Chaos for your build. 3. Last trial is not easy and not meant to be completed right after campaign.
If you really wanted a 30s explanation it'd be: - relics are crucial: get 75% honour resistance and max honour / life / defence + bonus movespeed or bossing combat buffs. - boon and affliction management is key: early water to farm merchants helps a lot. - navigation is how you control RNG and avoid bad afflictions. But I'll put it to you like this: ANYONE can make a little 30s summary. But what's the point of that? All it does is leave a bunch of people with unanswered follow up questions.. But what not many people can do is make a detailed long form guide that answers all of their questions! You may not need it because you already know the answers, but many others do need that extra resource.
You're fine if you only run out of honour. You're only actually dead if your life reaches 0. That means alternate fail condition like honour in Trial of Sekhema and ruin stacks in Trial of Chaos can make you fail without killing you.
Like LazyPanda says, running out of Honour just boots you from the trial but it doesn't kill you. It's not very dangerous to your character's overall life, it's balanced mainly around Honour attrition. That means it's great for XP in the late 80s and has made it a staple of Hardcore Solo Self found farming!
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This comment will contain feedback for your editor. This is meant as constructive feedback and is no personal attack to him. Mostly, I'll be talking about timings and how a few things felt off and caused attrition to the viewer, but overall he did a fantastic job at following your usual format. I will provide timestamps and explanations for most things, to keep this as constructive as possible, I hope this helps.
First one is that the timings for all of the various texts and elements that slided into screen lacked a lot of easing (specifically the sliding ones). Often times they came into the screen too aggressively and sometimes they faded out of the screen way too fast (this is particularly noticeable on the sentences like 2:25, because in that timestamp there is text in the b-roll , which is the Runic Seal, and the viewer might have been reading that text when they suddenly had a text box coming from the bottom). It is important to note that some of Ziggy's viewers might not be native english speakers, so they probably need a bit more than 5 seconds to read multi-line sentences. And also, if the text is presenting an information that is different from what Ziggy is saying then you also need need a bit more time to absorb the information, as it is hard to read one thing while a person says an entirely different sentence into your ears.
Also, there is some edits that felt "too active" on screen. An example of that would be the pulsing relics at 3:45, where they enter the screen very aggressively, all from different directions, then they pulse and leave. I think that the editor tried to make them feel like some juicy, pulsating treasures, but it didn't work. Pulsing in general feels a bit jarring outside of highlights videos. Its good on videos that are fast and snappy like clips, but on normal videos you would rather composite something on top of your effect rather than doing the same animation backwards, because going backwards creates a pattern and some patterns can be a bit distracting. Back to the relics though, something more gentle like fading the object in and slowly increasing in size would've felt better (like how the editor did when showing the Orb of Augmentation or Balbala's Barya earlier in the video), although I understand that sometimes an editor is worried that they are re-using a simple effect too many times, especially if they are working for a new client.
In some cases, like at 6:20, Ziggy explains the Honor mechanic and the editor does zoom in on the honor bar, but he zooms out of it in the middle of Ziggy's sentence, before his train of thought was even finished. I think that this is a tiny pacing/timing mistake. There are other examples of mistimings that are similar to this. For example, at 8:10 Ziggy starts a sentence by talking about navigation being important, and the editor slides in a text box that starts by talking about about boons, which IS what Ziggy is about to talk about, but the editor was a few seconds too early and the viewer had a bit of attrition there, because they had to process 2 different things before the text box actually made sense in the context of what they were hearing.
Positives:
10:54 and 12:23 Whenever the editor had a long list or text that the viewer had to read through, he did did blur the background to make the viewer focus their attention on the element that he is pushing to the forefront of the video. He also made sure to not make the video dull by making the long text slowly scale in size or by making the blur not completely overtake the b-roll in the bullet point list. In both of those cases, this was good editing.
12:55 the way that he introduced afflictions felt very smooth and the timings for each one were perfect with ziggy's voice. It seems like this editor has some experience showing websites, quotes and screenshots, so this makes sense (I looked at his most recent video in the middle of typing this)
28:06 Unlike the previous text explanations that came and went too fast, the explanation on which types of damage the boss does DID stay on screen for a very good amount of time. This one felt like it lasted 12 seconds instead of the 5 or 4 that other text boxes in the video had.
You do know you can do it even faster by skipping them all and just doing the last trial of chaos and get all 4 at the same time
I'm by no means an editor, but the production quality is 🔥
I still hate trails 🙂
@@einhasad7 This is really incredible detailed feedback mate, thanks for going to the effort! It's nuanced pacing notes that would've even helped my editing in the past!
Two nice tips
#1 If you know you screwed up and are going to fail the time freeze phase on the floor 4 boss you can quickly exit to character screen before he one shots you. That way you only have to restart the fight and not start a whole new run
#2 if you have a friend in trade that can kill the floor 4 boss with you in there as well you can get all of your ascendancy as early as act 2 they just need to keep in mind that any missing honor they have will be applied to you when you enter so they have to have close to a full honor bar and than not take basically any hits on the boss or it will kill you
I'm level 88, clearing t15 maps easily, and only have 6 of the points. The trials are easily the worst part of this game.
same. Made it to 4 th boss but his HP is like x10 time bigger than of 3rd one. Smn said I needed like 500 dam wep at the very least, but hard to get it in SSF..
Im lvl 90 and tried test of time yesterday, i couldnt generate powercharges against the boss so i kinda gave up, had plenty of honor but not nearly enough dmg bc lack of charges...
At level 89 with 4 points. Cant see why I have to start from the beginning each time. Terrible design.
I couldn't finish floor 4 as lvl 91 so I just paid 1 div to get carried
Get rid of Honor and make it based on health....it will still be hard...but doable!
I miss Izaro. Thanks GGG for making ascending so wretched that I clamor for Izaro.
Have done the 3 floor variant 10x now and every one has basically been a forced no hit run. I get it done, it’s completely devoid of fun though.
If GGG released a “you need to live stream grating your balls on a cheese grater to ascend”, I’d strongly consider it.
Type 3 fun is The Vision.
The first ascension was so painful. I died ten times before I said fuck it and leveled up 15 more levels and went back. The first ascension comes early on a fresh, no gear, character. So early you are zero defense and no offense. The POE 1 system is so much better.
@@LlenadeMalothe first ascension is the easiest for most people. I think you just had a really bad build.
if you need to no hit run to get through floor 3 you have some SERIOUS build issues. The mechanic scales off your defenses 100%, it isnt like sanctum.
Floor 3 is 10x easier than floor 4 lol
Perfect timing, I've been procrastinating on my last two ascendancies, cheers
One thing about the final fight's instant kill mechanic.
Always start your route from the furthest ones away. If you get the cluster of ones that are close first and then immediatley path farther away, even with 40+% movement speed, you'll run out of time.
By doing the far ones sooner, you're getting maximum uptime on your movement speed. And as you grab hourglass, it gives you a little more, thus, by prioritizing the far ones, you'll less likely to go so long without touching one that you freeze.
Really appreciate you doing this, I've failed right at the trial 4 boss enough times that I was --this-- close to giving up.
whoever you are… THANK YOU!!! this video literally got me my 3rd Ascendancy today.
@@ha55ie I'm glad to hear it mate! Next stop: 4th!
And G'day, I'm ZiggyD, I make beginner friendly PoE content!
Tip for Zarokh (last boss):
Try get as much MS as possible before hand. When doing the time slow phase, get the furthest hourglasses first. DONT dodge roll, it slows you down! Only dodge to the last one. If you see that you wont make it, hit ESC and log out quickly. It wont pause the game so you will have to be quick. This way you get one more try at the last boss.
Awesome vid as usual Zig! Glad you got an editor and are psyched for it! Shoot for the moon man!!!
I got " take no damage in the next room " just before the final boss room on my first try.
Haha the dream!
you can exploit the first barya being redoable by failing the boss fight a few times to farm relics.
Nice one Ziggy! Such a great video mate, thank you very much!!!!!!!!
Haha, that dive straight into the tornado. Ziggy really is one of us.
I too died to that. Was doing a lowish one, smashing every bloody mob to smithereens, thought I had enough power to just wallop the boss and... hey what is that whirlwi-. Oh. I is ded.
Most relatable PoE content creator 😂
Also a good tip for the zarokh time stop is to prioritize the longest distances first, when you have the most speed to deal with the larger gaps. You actually did this in the vid, so nice work haha.
Thanks for all of the hard work Ziggy! We appreciate you!
My tip. Wait until GGG nerf trails so they're easy to do. Making access to such an important aspect to any build so difficult and frustrating is unforgivable.
Personal experience and correct me if I'm wrong: for trial of chaos, after you complete a floor, you can TP out, otherwise TPs are disabled. For the quest in act3, you only need to go to five rounds to finish it and get your 3rd and 4th ascendancy points.
Nice vid. I failed the first time I tried to get to my 3rd ascension, then watched this and passed it with ease. To be fair I had leveled and geared up a good bit between, but still. Focusing on good boons really made a massive difference and I felt pretty untouchable by the end.
Shout out that one Moment's Peace I got right before the floor three boss when I had
Kudos to the editor! ❤️
Awesome video.
Just wanted to add that the Trial of Chaos stalking shade is awful for melee characters on the chimera boss… unless you’re just so OP that you’re 1-shotting everything anyways.
Chimera boss is SO bad on melee, they definitely need to rune that one some more!
Mainly a point for SSF, but I noticed that item level matters a ton on relics. Like an absurd amount.
To give an example for honour resist: In act 2, you will typically find about 5% honour resistance per slot, so a 2-slot relic will have about 10% honour resistance. But for your third ascendancy points, you will typically want to upgrade them to relics that are as efficient as about 10% honour resistance per slot. And they scale even higher than that.
I'm craving act 4 and the third ascendancy method. First time through Chaos on two charas I had the bad luck to meet the tornado-conjo. I really enjoy floors 3 and 4 for adding thrill and difficulty. Feels so much more engaging and interesting when everything but endgame is no longer something you can speedrun with ease on any build. /goes back to building his ultimate no-uniques-required build
Thank you for the tips!
Glad I snapped a screenshot after the first successful clear with my Sorc .. Honour: 20 / 11.651 lol
Phew! Nice clutch!
Or, just get a carry for all 4 points - many tedious hours of your life saved and you can get back to playing the ARPG you started playing at lvl 1
Yep. Eff these trash trials. Pay for carry, get back to playing game.
At around lvl20, once I've killed the boss that drops the 1st trial quest item, I go to TFT and look in the trial carry channel and buy a 4th trial boost, which is usually around 40ex, u get all 8 points and you can level through the campaign with your fully spec'd out ascendancy, which is especially OP as a Gemling, having 2000life in Act2/3 is amazing :D
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Personally I think doing a trial master is way easier than the other boss just becusee of the time investment but it does cost a little to buy the fragments you need
Tyvm for the vid!
Not sure if you mentioned it in the video and just missed, but you don't have to do trial of chaos at all. Once you get a set of decent relics you can just run sanctums, where 2nd floor will give you second ascendancy points and so one. Plus you can fully ascend running one sekhemas, getting set of points each floor.
I have to point out Myriad Aspersions (get a random affliction every time you get an affliction) as a must avoid as well, it's worse than purple smoke IMO. I'd also say avoid anything that messes with your merchant in the first couple floors (merchant offers one choice especially.)
The "lose 5% of health, shield, mana on hit" minor affliction is one to avoid as well, if doing a longer run. I've had that interact badly with the jeweled scarabs on the second floor. A single hit from them reduced me to 5% of each, rather than taking the tiny amount. At which point, any hit can easily kill you, leading to a loss. Oh, Sekhamas for ascendancy, how I hate you.
It's an iffy one, for most enemies it has zero impact and is a free modifier - but there are the occasional multi hit barrage abilities on certain enemies (the living Urns for another example) that make it super dangerous. You can take it if you know the enemies well and know what to avoid.
I hate Sekhemas so much. On all 3 my characters I tried ascending doing the lvl 60 Sekhemas. And on 2 of them I somehow ended up getting routed to the affliction that "hides afflictions" on the 3rd room before the final Boss and on the last room before the Boss I managed to pick up "get a random minor affliction" And yea... good fun. It removed all energy shield from my witch and all evasion from my ranger. I run the Chaos trial now and I kill the trial master for people to help them ascend a 4th time.
Friend quit the game cause of the ascension system being so awful.
I can understand that, at lvl 90 and still did not get the last two points hahah, I won't give up!
@@cryptoutIf you can stay in a safe spot, I can carry through a full Chaos run which is insanely easier than Sekhemas.
Edit: In game name is DUKEzors
@@DUKEzors Thanks for the offer, I play ssf though :-) I'll manage eventually hahah
You didn't mention the importance of merchant relics. The more boons you buy makes your run way easier.
I did around 30:20 but it bears repeating, the Merchant is amazing! And pairing that with early Water focus in your navigation is a big deal.
First time trying Ascendancy, first room, walked in and saw a chest to the right. Walked over and clicked on it. Giant smoke cloud filled the room and rumbled. When the smoke cleared a few seconds later, my character was dead on the ground. Never saw a mob, literally took 3 steps, clicked a chest, and died. Haven't played since. Honestly, I was excited that the game was going to be tougher and slower paced. However, it felt like they made the game difficult just for the sake of punishment and frustration. Sorry, I play games for fun, not to be irritated and frustrated. Especially when the rewards for grinding it out are pretty shit or non-existent. Im sure I'll try it again eventually, so hopefully, some changes are made by then. If not, that's okay. Not every game is for everyone. I'm saving this video in case I need it when I come back.
I recently did my 4th ascendency via Trials and I genuinely enjoy the mechanic. Much preferable over Chaos because you have actual agency. An unpopular opinion but I don't personally have an issue with the 3rd and 4th points behind the harder trials, though the 1st and 2nd should be easier to do when you naturally encounter them.
Afflictions do need better balancing though, you should never randomly brick your run from a single minor affliction.
Sorry but Sekehma is completely shit compared to ascending in POE 1.
Fucking stupid that you have to gate this behind a mechanic that is isolated from the rest of the game.
@mattryan7124 I never played PoE1 and don't really intend to, so I don't really care for the comparison. I understand why PoE 1 players don't like the difference, but as a PoE2 player I do not mind it, aside from the issues I already mentioned. The devs clearly want to try something different, change is not always a bad thing, it can just depend on your perspective.
you can skip the green trial of chaos outright, just do a 2 floor one once you feel up to power.
after failing the 4th boss 5 times, i got him at the 6th try. Although, I had insane luck. I got the good buffs plus, movespeed, +damage, +defences. I went with sacred waters everytime I got a chance. Got the 50% off prices. Purchased all in the vendor. The room before the 4th boss, is the merchant and she had the no damage taken in the next room. I was face tanking the boss without fear. But, the hourglass phase is the most difficult part, especially the 2nd one. I have 30% movespeed from boots and the +40% of the boon, still barely able to complete the 2nd hourglass
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This is great! But I'm wondering: why did you decide to put this video out now before the third ascendancy trial was released?
It might be many months before the next act comes out and people are struggling now. I can always make a follow up focused specifically on the new trial too (I plan to)!
This is an amazing guide, but to be perfectly honest this is all just way too much work for four points. I get they're ascendancy points and some can be far more valuable than regular nodes, but I'm just not willing to invest this kind of time and effort even for the best ones. I'm waiting for the third trial to come out and see how hard it is. Until then, all my characters are capped at four points.
It takes like 20-30 minutes to do the trial of chaos your first time, and like an hour to do the sekhema your first time
Playing a Witch with Skeleton Snipers and just spamming Frost Wall and Shield Wall made Trials of Sekhama a joke. First time i ever completed a Trial without losing a single point of Honor. Having minions and the ability to create walls to protect you from hits is literal easy mode. Also, i highly recommend you use a shield. You can actually block hits without losing Honor. Doing Trials as a Warrior is not as hard as many may think as long as you use a shield.
I got to the final boss and got killed by his instant touch BS thing. Zero problems getting there, but what a waste of time. I hate that its a requirement to look everything up in order to not waste your time by dying to unknown mechanics. Shit like this makes me stop playing. Hopefully when I go back, I manage to beat it next time.
I use to be a trial hater but now im running trials to farm trial of time baryas to sell by stacking relics with merchants give additional options.
Can you explain?
Still haven't done third and fourth on my Day 1 character. Just been running lab in Settlers instead. 😎
For the 4 flour if you do not have blink or high damage. The Escape and hourglass, could be pretty rough. Better to do other ones, if possible.
I had a good run in the 3rd ascendacy. In the 3rd section, 4th room, clicked on the pool to recover honour. It killed me.
No monsters in the room.
Only affliction was 50 percent less junk in the vendor.
Now i just ignore the ascendacies.
That sounds like you used one of the "Recover X Honour, Random Affliction" shrines, I basically never use those because random afflictions are pretty risky. The only way I can conceive of you dying though is that you got reduced Defenses and were primarily Energy Shield-based, which meant your Honour lowered to the point where you would have already been dead. :( Unlucky
When talking about the must have boons, you mention that the 30% less max life is very good "especially if you already have sources of more damage from jewels". But aren't all more modifiers multiplicative with each other in poe2, instead of being additive with each other? (I remember this came up in a stream some time ago and chat was saying it was always multiplicative with each other except when coming from the same source)
I've been going crazy spinning in circles on this and it doesn't help that depending on how you phrase the question of multiplicative modifiers and diminishing returns you get different answers from both google results or AI. I think I'm finally arriving at (and correct me if I'm wrong!):
- Stacking Multiplicitive modifiers results in *increasing* returns (1.5 * 1.5 = 2.25 More Damage)
- so 100 damage would become 225. Making the marginal gain of 50% more if you already have 50% more 75 flat, or, indeed: 50%!
- 30% less health is always 1.428x damage and so always = to 42.8% more.
- And 50% more is always 50% more...
Right? I feel like im going crazy haha.
So end result is the 50% more damage is always a bit better than the 30% reduced health, but both are great... right?!! My head hurts.
Yeah if more is always multiplicative with each other then stacking them is better (1.5*1.5 = 2.25 vs 2 if the more multipliers are added together, as you said in the first point), my question was more whether do we know for sure whether they are multiplicative or additive with each other?
But at the end of the day yeah both boons are great.
@@ZiggyDGaming
I think I see it. Subtract your + of both and it scales multiplicative of your character’s flat. I have seen this with my honor boost going through Sekhemas.
For trial 3 & 4 go to The Forbidden Trove and buy a carry for 40 Exalts. Save yourself the pain and bordom.
GG ZiggyD i was the Worn Sandals
Easiest way to get your last two ascending points is to pay 1 div, be done in 5 min. Or if you are broke. Do a citadel boss 300-400% increased waystone, kill the boss, loot fragments, sell fragments, get your divines.
Buying carries is a fine option to save time, but not a lot of players are keen to do trust based trading. And I prefer to "teach a person to fish" - or learn to fish myself in games.
@ZiggyDGaming You are absolutely correct, and I appreciate your work and content. My first character was your spark build many years ago. My intention was not to undermine your video but to inform less patient or skiled as myself of other possibilities.
I have no problem with trials, except Honour. Not fair for a warrior compared to a sorc/monk. 1 shot on my warrior can ruin a whole trial. They put Honour resistance/cap items because its BS from the beginning. Be so much better without.
So I'm stacking armour on my warrior, I was around 20k when I went for my 4th ascendancy, I got lustrous lacquer and was taking... I think 5 damage from the final boss' basic attack, and up to around 100 from some of the bigger hits. Basically nothing. So yeah, it works for any defense really.
That's awesome to hear that the armour was working so well! I did some texting on the take X damage afflictions and pledges and was pretty impressed even with moderate Armour + Honour Resistance - those would be free on such an Armour-stacked character haha.
That's a ridiculous amount of armour, what level were you?
@@tapp3r109 Can't remember tbh, I think 80 something.
@@tapp3r109 not ridiculous at all, you can get over 30k.
The problem is - should you? In most cases - nope, there is more elemental damage which armour doesn't help against.
Run the trial of sekhemas outside hunting your ascendencies points; you will find it less stressful (no real stakes, just farming items and maybe relics to max your honour res) and you will learn the mechanics and the reward system. This trial is way less frustrating that lab in poe1, to me at least, but after a while.
This indeed. It's not nearly as scary as we all made out it to be at launch. Though, the less said about Trial of Chaos, the better :P
BY FAR the easiest way to ascend:
Pay 30-40ex carry fee. Wait. Enter boss room. Click altar. Profit.
Won't work early in a league but if you are a more casual player and get a div to drop it lets you ignore trials completely until/if you want to farm them.
If you are not on your first character and not in SSF, just pay 40ex for a carry. You get all 8 points at level 20 in a minute or two and save a lot of time, more than enough to earn back the money in maps.
Ppl like you that tell otters to pay for help are just terrible
What happened to just helping ppl just to help ppl
Why does everybody and their mother ask for a payment
You’re not fooling us ZiggyD we know this is Rhys Darby
It's really counterintuitive that affixes such as "m Monsters deal 50% increased damage" affect bosses as well. I thought that was just the trash and not the bosses.
The chances to be taken to the wrong room are actually pretty low. Its still bad to take, but its not as bad as many other afflictions.
@@theshadowcult I guess it's just the average of however many choices there are at each juncture: 100% / 50/50 / 33/33/33. But YOU KNOW it's going to magnet you to the worst possible affliction when possible haha
@ZiggyDGaming oh for sure, its 100% going to send you to that one room that insta kills you. Buuuuut at least it will only do it right before the boss! :D
What's that dive rolling you are doing as a Mercenary? I'm level 73 and that seems like a very useful ability!
Everyone can do that right from level 1! Spacebar on PC. Dodgeroll is a core game mechanic.
Making it to 73 without dodging is nuts
Great vid for an almost 70 year old guy ! I'm level 88 now ...do i get a xp penalty when dying at the the last trial ? i did the ones b4 without dying so i wouldn't know . Thx for the guide and greetings from Germany !
Can you farm the keys in lower level areas? I would rather have one 10 levels lower. ;)
I get why people dislike the system, but man does ascendaning feel cool in 2.
I tried that initial trial of chaos twice with 2 different characters, monk and warrior both were lvl 45 I didn't make it either time then after 6 tries each that was it, it wouldn't let me try again. P.S. that tornado bird, they didn't nerf jack on that thing, Silverback monkey either while i'm on the subject.
Great
I do wonder if we did not have the context of poe lab, would people still hate trails so much.
I’m in cruel act 3 and did the trial but I didn’t get any points. I skipped he chaos trial in normal Act 3…does the chaos trial need to be completed before i do the Act 2 Cruel Sekhemas 2nd trial?
I tried Sekhames couple of times and lost all my relics so now I can't even start the Trial :D What should I do or maybe the better question is: where I can find another relic to have a change try the Trial again?
@@Kettupaini the Djinn Barya keys are random drops (after the quest). You can also buy them on trade for an exalt or two.
How do I get to the 3rd trial, like physically get there? Do I just go to the first one on regular act 2?
Because I do not have one on act 2 cruel.
@@dandromeda1 act 2 in either difficulty works, you just need an appropriate level key to put in the relic altar.
@ZiggyDGaming omg thank you dude, I got a lvl 60 one and did not want to risk wasting it lol.
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I am just here farming trial of chaos. Around 15 Minutes per run. Super easy. If you not get fcked over tremendously. Much prefered then the sekhema bullshit.
not sure which projectile but zarokh hit me one time with 1400honor damage and thats with 75% honor resistance, instantly ending my run. for sure its not the lightning projectile that goes in circles.
worst part is that its my ONLY barya that dropped and im already lv85 with the node that increases barya/ultimatum drop when mapping in desert area
Sooo, to have good luck?
That's actually what I love about Sekhemas (compared to Chaos), the RNG is very controlled and manageable with strategy. In Chaos you are at the mercy of the three very impactful and dangerous modifiers that appear each time, and quite often it's just picking the least worst option. Sekhemas you can manage things in advance with relics and you always have more options and can prioritize boons and afflictions to assist navigation strategy.
Sure you have some amazing and some meh runs of Sekhemas, but In dozens of runs I've only had 1 run where I was truly screwed by bad RNG!
How is your character moving so fast? I have boots at 25% movement speed, am I missing something?
You should aim to have 30-35% Movement speed at endgame. I also recommend 5-10% extra movement speed on Relics for doing 4 Floor Sekhemas!
There's also the "Harefoot" boon in Trials, which you should see most of the time using these strategies where you stack water early and visit lots of Balbala shops! It gives a bunch of extra movespeed for that run!
Besides that my character has a % points of movespeed on the tree too (3% out of combat, another 7% on kill).
I find the Sekehemas Trial to be pure frustration and I can see why so many people are turned off by it. I like a good challenge, but when RNG suddenly gives me an affliction that takes away my energy shield without giving me any chance to avoid it, when my build depends on energy shield to survive, that's absolute bullshit and a monumental waste of my time.
Farm 1 div, pay for a carry, fast and headache free
Its a waste of a div and your comment sucks
Nobody should need to pay for something like this
It shows how toxic poe community is
@ cope
The fact that there are paid carries that do trials for you means that they are a failure. People are happy to run incrementally more difficult maps and engage with the core mechanics of the game - but most don't care for this rng fest with it's distinct set of mechanics that frankly suck. It's like asking nascar drivers to compete on skateboards after every 3rd race.
Personally I can't stand the combination of RNG and grind. One bad roll and you have to start over from the beginning, no you must first farm or buy the entrance token. And all this "strategy" is just reducing the chance of bad RNG, it's still a gamble. Why not give every currency item a 20% chance to destroy the item, this would be equally pointlessly punishing and hard resetting your progress. Why not force every player to play hardcore if losing a lot of progress is such a great thing.
If the 3rd trial isn't an RNG fest, then 90% of players will do just that and if not most casuals will drop out for no good reason.
the voice over sounds weird, not crisp base 2 high?
Does it sound different to my other videos? I can't tell, seems pretty much the same.
@@ZiggyDGaming its only super suttle and other recording have it it also i will listen on head phones and see if i can dail into it. never noticed it till today playing the video loudly
Tyty
You are showing your game play with thousands of honour. How do you go through a trial with 700 honour without grinding?
I cannot understand why you have to start from the beginning each time.
It's effectively a roguelike mode. But like most modern roguelikes you don't *really* start at the beginning, as you get stronger each time as you learn new things, upgrade your character, and upgrade your relics.
So easy my fire/physical spells sorc could barely to a lvl 38 trial of chaos at lvl 51.😅😂😢
Fire and Phys do have it a bit tougher, Fire at least can be resolved with curses/exposure/penetration to deal with resistant bosses.
@ I’ll have a look, thanks for the tip! 👍👏🫡❤️
Watching this guide is all the attention I'm giving the ass trials modes. They suck.
You call this mid tier in the video?! Let me give you my sorc with my bad rng, lol.
Nah, pay some tryhard using a busted meta build like 30-40ex for a whole carry. Takes like 2 minutes once they start. The game became 1000% more (that's more, not increased) fun once I had a way to stop worrying about the awful, terribly balanced RNG-fest that is ascension. The game lets you get to maps without ascending and it's not difficult to farm up a bit.
IMHO these honour mechanics are total bullshit and detrimental to not only a style of playing, but also some classes . What s the point of making a tanking class or regen characters if these survival part of built are negated by the trials. Same concept for melees, same for the armor . The concept get even more dumb as a warrior enter the room but cannot fight close combat . Then tell me what honour an incoming rogue give a s… to achieve his goals…
I dont understand all the complaints to be honest. I made a new summoner and with some random ass gear. At level 67 i got all 4 points in one go. Just made sure i had 75% honour resist, 25% movespeed boots and grabbed sacred water and went for merchants looking for 40% movespeed boon and 50% inc damage. Was a level 80 coin and i was level 67.
@@ianrumbaoa2596 that's a very impressive effort mate!
@@ZiggyDGaming Thanks. Skelly snipers are pretty busted for single target to be fair. Overall, hope your video helps people with the trials! Good stuff
1st lets go!
My favorite ascendency moment was when I decided to stop playing POE2 :D
A turtle puncher would quit. Everything.
It's not an airport we don't need announcements when you're leaving.
What a weird comment. You must be a very unhappy man.
I’m almost there. I don’t understand why all the punishment for dying in all every area of the game. It’s hard core without call it so. 😢😅😂
I truly despise this part of the game.
I don't get the point of this video when all can be explained in 30 seconds.
1. Don't take afflictions that harm your build in Trial of Sekhemas, and avoid hits.
2. Take least harmful debuffs in Trial of Chaos for your build.
3. Last trial is not easy and not meant to be completed right after campaign.
I don't get the point of these complicated steps when all can be explained by "don't get hit."
If you really wanted a 30s explanation it'd be:
- relics are crucial: get 75% honour resistance and max honour / life / defence + bonus movespeed or bossing combat buffs.
- boon and affliction management is key: early water to farm merchants helps a lot.
- navigation is how you control RNG and avoid bad afflictions.
But I'll put it to you like this: ANYONE can make a little 30s summary. But what's the point of that? All it does is leave a bunch of people with unanswered follow up questions.. But what not many people can do is make a detailed long form guide that answers all of their questions! You may not need it because you already know the answers, but many others do need that extra resource.
Question!: Does your character die in HC and move into softcore if you run out of Honour?
You're fine if you only run out of honour. You're only actually dead if your life reaches 0. That means alternate fail condition like honour in Trial of Sekhema and ruin stacks in Trial of Chaos can make you fail without killing you.
Like LazyPanda says, running out of Honour just boots you from the trial but it doesn't kill you. It's not very dangerous to your character's overall life, it's balanced mainly around Honour attrition. That means it's great for XP in the late 80s and has made it a staple of Hardcore Solo Self found farming!
@@ZiggyDGaming @LazyPandaBum Thanks for replies and insight! I didnt dare to test it myself for obvious reasons :D