Trial of Sekhemas is complete ASS as a Warrior.

It's ass in general.

You need to stack the honor resistance and max honor. I managed to do it on both acends but you NEED to MAX resists and max honor w/ extra honor restored

Ah yes the Trial of Suckass

How much only you lose is based on how much damage you take, so armor 100% contributes.

The zarokh fight is the only places armour felt usefull, ever.

Reducing the unicycle wheels to almost no dmg, felt great.

Get 75% honour res and enough dmg to kill him before flaks problems, avoid tempchain, use shieldcharge.

You could try ES? I use Atziri’s Disdain and have about 15k honour, couple of increase defense relics and max honour/honour resist and barely take any damage

I'm running an Acrobatics Monk and generally avoid getting hit obviously. I'm 80% evasion, with added trial defences I can get close to 90. Doesn't matter, when I do get hit I evade maybe 10% of the time and 90 get hit, it's inverted in trials. I guess it would be too broken but then it makes you think why invest in a mechanic? It doesn't matter against pinacles either, 9/10 you will just get one shot. Shame as I invested a lot in it (and before someone says, it depends on foes accuracy, yes, I know, point stands, though). More arguments for ES, as if it needed it.

Sukma gets easier if you are doing 4th ascendency though you might be 10 levels too low at 70

You gotta look at it from a different angle. The Trial is built to be like a roguelike. Roguelikes start hard where things feel impossible... until you start getting meta-progress. That metaprogress IS the relic system. And its easily manipulated:

Get 75% Honor res and as much max honor as you can. After that, get move speed, rares do less damage, take more damage, whatever makes the runs easier. But 75% honor res is basically mandatory.

do a few runs where you expect to not make it, just get as far as you can, kill as much as you can, click clickables as much as you can, etc to get get all the relics you can. If they only have one mod, add another with currency. If it doesnt have honor res or max honor (both is best at first)... when you get three "not good" ones... put them in the bench to reroll. Even with mid luck, in a few runs you'll have 75% honor res at a minimum and every run from there just keep upgrading.

Once you have 75 honor res and like 25-50% max honor, the trials are joke and a half even with junk builds or on alts that havent come online yet.

I got all the way up to the thrift trial boss and died. I've done this 5 times. Level 80 geared ro 78 item level and still can't do it.

i think the armor reduce de dmg to honour.

I generally agree but I must also add that shield block also blocks hits to honor. The only thing that hits me is mostly traps and boss aoe.

Melee just got absolutely shit on for this game. They spent several patches in poe1 making it really good only to revert everything for this.

Was actually easier on my warrior than my sorc.

Im a level 93 Monk and I can kill T4 Xesht, T2 king of the mist, T2 arbitor, and trial master with my Monk, but I can't kill Zarokh because of the stupid honour system. I even have max honour resist, and I have about 60% max honour in relics. It's a horrible system for melee. What makes it worse is that one bad affliction makes the boss impossible for melee. I gave up completely on sekhemas yesterday after I had perfect boons two doors away from the boss and I did a killing palm straight into one of those frost wraiths. I was frozen immediately, and 2 attacks took my 10,000 honour down to 0. I was in disbelief. 75% honour resist and 2 attacks take down 10,000 honour.

I found it pretty easy on my warrior? Usually earth quake dodge, perfect strike (rares / bosses) 1-2 shots them early on. I am HC ssf, honor resist, and a relic with maximum honor helps a ton.

Honour loss is actually reduced based on proximity, which was a purposeful change made a while ago in order to make it less punishing for melee. Armour also significantly reduces Honour loss when it comes to physical damage. If you Honour Resistance cap via Relics, you should rarely fail due to this mechanic once you've learned what everything does.

Yeah it's true that it's super punishing for true melees. I think this is the reason why they have added the ultimatum trial which is relatively melee friendly (plenty of armor migitated debuffs). Plus, there's one more trial we haven't yet seen.

It's not that it's not possible, but it's so much harder :-/

It’s painfully easy when you’ve done it a few times, even on melee.

Trial of sak ma ass | Trial of scammaz

The trials suck for everyone, but for melee its insanely unfun, how did this make it through? Now that the honeymoon stage is over, I’m seeing glaring issues with this game that make me not wanna play it

Sekhemas is a joke on warrior. Just make your totems do the work and don't get hit not once ever

It's just a small currency check.

You pay someone 40ex or something to unlock a part of your build.

Life's too short for shitty gameplay, especially when good gameplay is available.

You're 2 months late on this post. Everyone has figured out how to make the trial piss easy by now. Try searching for guides. Hint: relics

Not much better as a monk.

Well... My first few attempts, yes it was. But then I had relics that gave me honour resistance (I think 75% is cap like res) and increased max honour. I was able to complete a 3 floor trial with a thorns build. Yes. Worst experience.

Just finished 4th set of points (7-8), with my Titan warrior, for my relics buffs, i overmaxed my honor resist up to 80% honor resist, 10% increase movement speed, 20% chance to double water from monsters, and 45% increase to max honour,

IM SOO DONE, never gonna have to go through that ordeal again Jesus Christ that was annoying.

PS yes i know i could just pay someone a divine to run me through the trials, but i really wanted to do it myself lol

If you don't tank every hit, it's never really an issue, you can just breeze through it all as warrior. If you're truly struggling for some weird reason, just stack honor resistance relics and tank everything anyways.

Honour system is the stupidest thing GGG has ever done.

Create pseudo range but getting a lot of AOE. My earth quake can destroy everything within 4 meters of me. Maybe that’ll help a little. Stay strong warrior!

What are your relics?

Buy carry off trade chat for one Div. If you got any spare.

8k armor + 75% honour res makes you almost immortal in sekhemas.

Get some move speed to make trial quicker and you are good to go, some max res and you can do sekhemas while watching your favorite furry porn.

Doesn't engage with the mechanic > comes crying to reddit =D

I’m a titan and love sanctum, it’s super easy man. Send me a message i’ll be happy to help you with your build :)

Yeah. Its mechanics are inherently biased against the warrior playstyle. I prefer the trial of chaos by far, and still do runs after getting my 4th ascendancy because most runs can turn out 100-150ex for relatively little time commitment. Much easier on the warrior class, tho still pretty obnoxious. I would have preferred a new labyrinth type thing for ascendancies.

I call it Trial of SuckMyAss.

3rd ascendency there is very easy long as you have honor resist. Is it the 4th ascendency you're struggling on?

Trial of Sekhemas is just complete ass full stop.

Don't listen to the people saying it's easy. My titan is 95, 88/89/90/75 resists, max honor resist, can bonk any pinnacle boss easily, 5.5k health, high block etc. STILL can't beat Sek, especially the fourth floor. It's ridiculous. You put yourself in danger every single time you charge an enemy. You are at a complete disadvantage when some other classes have 10k+ honor and can kill enemies from the corners of the screen. Do yourself a favor and just do chaos. The trialmaster is really easy. 

Sekhemas is great! I get that if you truly just wanna build a tank, its kinda shitty way to ascend but every character should do some sort of AoE or Ranged. Its not as bad as you make it sound imo. Pick better rooms, those that give back honour, dont tank the spikes or the rotating fires. play better. I know its tough if you come from poe1 to have actual mechanics that challenge you but youll get there

As a warrior, I disagree.

You’ll be a better player for learning it

Gave up on my 4th ascendency as a warrior. Just farmed maps and collected 40 exalts, look for a sekhema farmer and paid him to join for the last room.

Never ganna farm sekhema as a warrior. I just farm trial of chaos cos armor stacking is useful vs the chaos trial.

Armor massively reduces honor dmg taken.

any decent geared warrior level 80 can just legit afk in zarkoths face and it takes zarkoth like an hour to kill him.

Resistance relics + other good max honor relics and it's basically free though. Really. I've managed the 4 floor one with 3% movement speed on final boss due to an affliction...so it's definitely doable

I mean if you have proper defenses I found the trials easier than other classes as a warrior.

First two floors are ok.

Third floor is just human exhaustion. And that scorpion boss...you either kill it fast or you just wasted an hour.

I honestly prefer the trials of chaos for set 3 and 4. Definitely set 4.

It's a tremendous feeling of accomplishment to do the third floor as a warrior...

But time is better spent on trials. Less time spent.

Put totem in your skills. Have it apply slow or stun +aoe.

Enemies attack totem instead of you = no damage.

This is also how you deal with corridor maps with boosted af mods.

If you can get blink. Blink is good for warriors.

Don't worry, reality is it's ass as even ranged characters

Yeah, ranged has an easier time with the honor mechanic, but it NEVER gets enjoyable to try and endgame farm it. Its just perpetually tedious and way too easy to get run bricking debuffs.

Fwiw tho, damage reduction (including armor) does reduce honor loss. You just ALSO need rescap honor res (and increases to rescap etc)

You just desperately need honour res as a melee character, if you cap it trials are very easy as anything. People are saying merchant relics but you need a really good combination of merchant relics for them to consistently help you. Yeah its better long-term if you’re literally farming trials but if ur playing warrior ur just trying to get it over with. Maxing honour res is really easy and consistent

It was really funny when my buddy and I did my first trial together. I was playing merc and he was warrior and he didn't realize we had a shared honor pool. We went through like 4 attempts before he realized and then I just did it solo. It's definitely a system that could use some work.