Path of Exile 2

The quest parts of the trials (first 2 points) are great ways to introduce players to those "league" mechanics and ascend their character. The 3rd and 4th is bullshit. They're way too long and most new characters slime out. I hope they eventually have 2 new unique mechanics for 3rd and 4th points.

Trials CAN be fun when you get decent relics for 75% resist and max honor. Even then you can get absolutely fucked if you can't see enough rooms ahead and brick your whole run. If you're not going for a no-hit it's pretty trivial with good movement speed/shield block. I ran a few for fun last league and it was cool getting time-lost jewels, but my 4th ascendancy run this league I got something like 11 silver keys and 0 gold and that fucking sucked.

Shield Raise is a big cheat for 90% of traps though for those struggling. You can just raise shield and walk through most all traps unaffected.

mkopec said:

The vaal shit is too time consuming to build up for those juicy rewards. Youre talking about RNG and 30-60 hrs to build a temple that will produce currency or will it after the nerf?

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i'm not super experienced at the game. but i 'finished hte temple'. killed queen Four-tits and all. got my 6 points and folded up the temple. then from there. i did 2 temple runs (one to spawn the architect. my temple wouldn't allow it otherwise) and a second to get into her treasure room. doing that room yielded 3 divines and like 15 other assorted exalt/chaos. that seemed worth it, but i was also running 2 vaal lighbulb pad tablets to make juicing it up back to back.

though that may not be the currency fountain you meant by that. i haven't done an ultra optomized vaal temple yet.

I really should sort more relics into my sekema and do runs of that some time. i'm a bit shy about charging folks since i haven't done payed runs before, but i effortlessly did the 4th trial the other day (prior to getting like 8 levels and a lot of gear optimization). being able to kill the final boss before he can move makes it not so bad. though i may have had a 'lucky' run where i minimized penalties and got 3 rando merchants who i emptied out. I'll have to run it f or some RL homies and test before i go offering it to errybody.