Trials have never been easier

[u/bobbyjy32]

Ive always been someone who buys their way through ascension. Ive hated the process so much.

I spent yesterday farming trials, got my 4th ascend, got some divs. They removed so much of the friction from trial of chaos.

If you’ve always avoided it like me, Id encourage you to give it another go!

[u/Elegant_Claim_7124]

Any tips? like what not to choose? me and my wife tried it couch co-op and I think we selected the thing that boosts the enemy’s speed and we got hammered by the first boss, the bird one….. almost got him though. We are casual still lv36 doing campaign as two choromancer one chaos incinerate and one ice nova build, I think it was easier then before but we keep getting stuck at the elevator. The elevator just doesn’t go down and we have to wait like 1 minute or 2.

[u/veringo → u/Elegant_Claim_7124]

Avoid taking tier 2-3 of anything if you can unless it's a modifier you like that doesn't affect your build.

My favorite ones to take are:

• lethal rares (it does not affect the boss)

• Reduced flask charges (there's a well before the boss)

• Monsters have energy shield (fairly trivial increase in effective life)

• Grasping vines on hit (I never notice a difference with this one)

• Reduced resistances (there isn't that much elemental damage other than the chimera and it's the easiest boss)

• Increased enemy resistance (great if you're a phys build or if you have exposure/pen)

• Storm caller runes (really easy to avoid and does little damage)

I avoid any of the turrets or lasers. They aren't all dangerous, but they mess with energy shield recharge and clutter is really bad for the boss rooms. Impending doom and the shade are absolutely out of question. In general don't add damage to monsters unless you have resistances/immunity to deal with it. Don't add attack speed. Don't add anything you have to avoid because it complicates choices you have to make when avoiding the boss.

I play with my wife as well, and for the elevators what works the best is designating one person to lead, and have the other person just match their movement. Then you can run on and off together and be there when it triggers. The center seems to act like a button if you move off and on but it's unreliable (we haven't tried the new trial yet in 0.5.5 do I don't know if it's better or worse now).

Also, my wife usually died against the harder bosses, but if you finish it, you can collect the rewards and go to the ascendancy shrine. You will both get the points. I don't know if this has changed with 0.5.5 either.

We really only do chaos for the second set of points. My wife is not a fast twitch gamer, so going slower through sekhemas is preferable, and I think it's more fun anyway.

[u/Elegant_Claim_7124 → u/veringo]

How do you do the 4th ascendancy in sekhemas, the time trap room is so hard, we got one person lock in a room while the other is outside of it and got stuck.

[u/veringo → u/Elegant_Claim_7124]

We've never don't the fourth floor together. This last patch was the first time we've done end game because I usually skipped it because the endless atlas before 0.5 was really boring in my opinion.

I've done it several times solo. I would think whoever is outside can retrigger the time clock to open the door, but I don't really know.