My frustration in trying to get all the ascendancy points.
I just reached the final boss of Djinn Barya for the first time and died when the boss was at 30% health. Spending an hour hoping I don’t get terrible debuffs just to reach the final boss again and only get one try to kill it is incredibly frustrating. I've tried it with a level 80 stone, and I think if I try it more times using level 75 stones, I'll eventually get it. But I dont want to do it, its no funny.
I don’t understand why this boss, which is mandatory to do if you want all the ascendancies, is so poorly designed. You should either be able to try it as many times as you want once you reach it, or it just shouldn’t be absurdly difficult. Especially if you decided to play the class you enjoy, with a build you enjoy, and without looking up guides—because discovering the game for yourself is what you love. Now I feel like I chose the wrong character and I should reroll just to be able to do all the content, since I feel like my character can’t handle it. That, or pay someone using one of the broken builds to rush the boss for you—which just makes the whole thing worse. At this point, I think I’m going to abandon the season. If I see things have changed in the next one, maybe I’ll come back. Because leveling the character you love to level 90 only to find out you need to reroll to kill everything with the meta build of the moment makes you feel like you wasted your time. Last bumped18 апр. 2025 г., 17:56:43
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If you're playing the 'meta' which I assume you've seen shown to be viable by more than one player of killing this boss .. maybe it's not a 'game' problem?
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" I played both sekhemas and chaos multiple times to get all points for witch hunter, yeah its hard, even harder when my gear is not optimized, my health was about 1300ish, elemental resistance all below 0, idk how many times i tried, but i prefer it this way. witch hunter is not the meta build in the current patch, soo . . |
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My problem is having to waste another hour just trying to reach the final boss, only to get a single try—and this is a required step if you want to get all 8 ascendancy points. I wouldn’t mind if this was optional content that I could skip. I can assure you that if it weren’t for the ascendancy, I wouldn’t have touched it again after my first experience with it at level 25.
It’s frustrating content that you feel forced to do. It’s not fun at all. |
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I'd like to see at least a couple of additional ways to ascend.
1. Maybe a "new" version of the PoE1 lab. Maybe lots of traps, DoTs, status effects, etc. Make it similar to the old lab BUT something that doesn't stress the exact same things as Chaos or Sekhemas stresses?? 2. Maybe something completely off the board like a highly modified ToTA where you go through a "tournament" and build up a team of minions whose job is to destroy the enemy base while defending their own base. As far as I'm concerned let the player control one or more minions and have it be more of a mental challenge (stressing synergizing various elements) This way you have the following things to test the character (player?): 1. Burst damage, speed, timing, use of dodge & avoidance, ... Sekhemas 2. Good DPS, strong migtigation & recovery. Dealing with many varied enemies and situations at once. Chaos 3. Ailment migtigation, avoidance, recovery, speed and curated combat with a boss at the end. Labs 4. The "mental" part of the game. A highly modified ToTA. |
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Not to mention the time it takes to get another coin just to try again.
I have (so far) gone 3 days without getting a djinn barya. |
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" What do you mean 'not meta'? You shouldn't be PREVENTED FROM PLAYING OR ENJOYING THE GAME, just because your build is 'not meta'. Ideally, every build should be able to clear everything up to pinnacle bosses. I think most people would agree that like the very high end content, is fine to basically be locked to very high end bossing builds and so on. But ascendancies historically have always been something anyone can grab, and in my view anyone SHOULD be able to access. It is ludicrous to lock parts of your build away and just say hey, you're not even allowed to IMPROVE your build, go away. |
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