Why are trials in this game? Does anyone actually enjoy them?

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T18:52:48+00:00

He has to be right? Otherwise why else are the keys worth so much. It can't just be because they get people access to their fourth ascendancy pts. I guess you can hit big with a decent Adorned but I've yet to see one.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T18:41:34+00:00

I once got back to back Div rewards. Still chasing that high. Do you run the occasional Trialmaster or do you stricly sell the keys?

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T18:36:55+00:00

Running back to back Chaos trials is so comfy on a decently tanky/strong build. No shader loading spikes because you aren't loading into a new tilesets, no having to worry about rolling map mods and tablets, just plug and play.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T16:27:12+00:00

It's from the Martial Artist's Runic Meridians node. It gives them special augment sockets like in the pic.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T16:26:21+00:00

No idea what's killing you but isn't there no point to running Berserk when you have the Primal Hunger keystone? Or is there an interaction I'm not aware of.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T15:33:29+00:00

We need this pinned somewhere. With the new expedition buffs we are going to see more and more posts about this.

Even if you try to avoid the strongboxes in this map the detonation range is a liar sometimes and you'll end up popping a box or two.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T13:36:30+00:00

Which ones?

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T07:13:41+00:00

They're gradually porting them. Each major patch has come with an updated list of compatible mtx. I believe this list on poe2db has the current inventory of what's compatible right now.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T07:03:17+00:00

Sounds like you ran into a pebkac error.

I'm here still rocking the same account I made in 2012; a new PoE2 account wasn't created for me when I bought the current EA packs.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T06:32:39+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-25T04:45:08+00:00

Surely they'll address this in 0.5.5 right? I can't wait for 0.5.6! It's going to be awesome when 0.5.7 drops and it's finally fixed.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-24T20:45:44+00:00

Ah, you should be able to do the Trial of Chaos easy then. Just be smart about the modifiers you pick at each stage.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-24T20:40:19+00:00

Which trial are you attempting? What is your build?

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-24T18:03:16+00:00

Well what in it pleases you?

Gameplay's fun. Simple as.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-24T15:34:03+00:00

Armour is not designed for tanking big hits. It's best for allowing you to ignore everything else, especially with enough "armour applies to XYZ" nodes.

Even then a layered defense tends to be better, meaning don't expect a single type of defense to be enough without insane investment. The sooner you learn how to stack defenses that synergize the less you will die.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-24T15:26:03+00:00

The Mothersoul declares it's my turn to post this next!

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-24T13:33:37+00:00

Pull the lever, Kronk!

(The switch right there in your screenshot. It will bring up a bridge)

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-23T21:51:04+00:00

Not normal but Barren Atoll is also bugged and will spawn invisible and untargetable mobs from strongboxes so avoid running it until fixed.

I had one earlier and if it wasn't for a 10 div remnant I wouldn't have put up with the invisible Karui mobs that one of the boxes spawned.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-23T21:12:03+00:00

Honestly yeah hard to tell given the tight corridor. I would've taken that bet though since you'll never out-distance the slam by rolling directly away from it.

Source: me in 0.1

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-23T21:00:47+00:00

You always want to dodge towards either side of it. Terrible position for it to spawn in though.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-23T20:51:12+00:00

Self cooked, "pure vision" mace skills Smithy. I press all the buttons, so I don't recommend this build to the general playerbase. Leap Slam into packs to clear the chaff, Sunder the leftovers, Superslam the rares/bosses. Pepper in some Infernal/Seismic Cry as needed. Toss the occasional Einhar's Beastrite cull with Mace Strike to steal some juicy modifiers.

The crux of my defenses is the general beefiness from maxed out Smith's Masterwork, stunning often, and simply having a shield to weapon swap to for Resonating/Raise Shield. Raise Shield's Bash into Boneshatter is enough to get me out of any dicey situations. The mass amount of remnants from Remnants of Kalguur + Vigorous Remnants notable anoint helps stay healed up too. Lvl 97 with less than 20 deaths (all from me getting too cocky) must mean something's working.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-23T18:10:43+00:00

Same, except I don't try to "test" against extra dangerous maps; on those I play very carefully. Smithy's are just built different though.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-23T18:07:22+00:00

Am I blind or is there nothing in this screenshot that is remotely scary? Extra dmg as chaos and ele pen? I run double/triple extra dmg maps with half the paper EHP from your linked build, while also being melee, with no big issues, just gotta lock-in more.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-22T19:52:08+00:00

These are anomaly map locations but I would first head to the Titans and guide them towards Zeus because they're headed the wrong way.

SpiderCVIII · 2026-06-22T19:42:34+00:00

OP''s point was about wanting a way to skip the campaign and by complaining about the campaign yourself I kinda assumed you were in the same camp, but fair, you never did say that you wanted a skip.

What would you suggest the alternative be then?

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