Path of Exile 2's Trial of Sekhem: How to Get There and It

Sekhem's Test Path of Exile 2 — a complex challenging dungeon with a set of different rooms and a boss at the end. During the age, you will have to test your character control skills to overcome traps, fight monsters and solve simple puzzles. Find a way out of the dungeon to gain access to many rewards and the Ascension altar with a choice of specialization for your hero.

In this guide we will tell you how to get into the Sekhem trial in PoE 2, what rooms and rewards await inside, and also give some tips on ing and fighting bosses.

Where is Sekhem's Trial in PoE 2

The quest to find the Trial of Sekhem will first appear after receiving a special coin in Act II, which drops from an optional boss in one of the desert dungeons. After receiving the quest "Rise to Power", return to the caravan and direct it to the Sekhem Trial using the desert map.

How to get Challenge Coins

To open the age to the trial, you need to place the mined coin in the altar of relics at the entrance to the dungeon. First, Baria Balbala, awarded for defeating the optional boss - Balbaloy the Traitor. After receiving the coin, take this item to the Sekhem Trial. Click LMB to listen to Balbala and proceed to the dungeon. After defeating the boss, access to the character's ascension will open, and the ability to invest two points in the Ascension tree.

Later, during the process of clearing locations, mobs will sometimes drop Bari Ginna — coins that open access to a higher-level trial. Although they can also be used to enter the dungeon, they do not give Ascension points. The opportunity to continue pumping the specialization will appear later, during the age of the third act.

To get the remaining Ascension points, you will need to return to the Sekhem Trial in Act 5. To further level up your ive skills, you will need to find:

Baria Djinn level 60 and above, with the number of tests: 3.
Baria Djinn level 75 and above, with the number of tests: 4.

The number in the item description below the level indicates the number of floors that must be completed to successfully complete the test. Pay attention to inscription in the middle item descriptions. If the coin can be used to obtain Ascension points, it will be highlighted in yellow.

How to Complete the Trial of Sekhem in Path of Exile 2: General Tips

The Sekhem Trial is a roguelike with unique mechanics that are not found in the main game. During the game, you will have to choose different rooms, for completing tasks in which you can get a variety of loot, auxiliary resources, as well as blessings and curses. To make the trial easier and get the most rewards, follow these tips:

Give preference to relics, which increase maximum honor and thus provide an increase in survival.
During the age, try to collect as many keys as possible different types to open the reward chests at the end.
Use ranged attacks whenever possible to make it easier to avoid enemy damage.
Don't try to destroy all the enemies in the room. To it, it is enough to complete the main objectives of the test.

How does the honor resource work?

Honor in the Trials of Sekhem is a special resource, the complete loss of which means a loss and the loss of the coin used. A certain percentage of damage received from enemies will reduce the honor scale. The amount of the resource is made up of maximum health and energy shield, but is not connected to them in any way and is additionally subtracted when receiving damage. During the trial, you can completely lose both health and honor. In both cases, a loss will be counted.

Honor cannot be restored during combat using flasks or HP regeneration abilities, as it is a separate resource. The spent part of the scale can only be replenished at special altars at the end of rooms with the corresponding reward. Due to the difficulty of restoration, the amount of honor should be constantly monitored and unnecessary damage should be avoided during the trial. The more resources remain for the battle with the boss, the greater the chances of victory.

How to use the relic altar

The Altar of Relics is the first thing you encounter when entering the Trial of Sekhem. Its cells contain special items that provide a boost for the duration of the dungeon. Relic bonuses are written in the same way as equipment modifiers. They can increase maximum health, reduce damage to honor, or allow you to get more resources.

The number of relic slots on the altar is limited, so choose the most useful ones. Additional slots can be unlocked by defeating trial bosses and opening certain chests for keys. Initially, 12 of the 18 slots are available on the altar.

Relics differ from each other not only in modifiers, but also in shape and the number of cells they occupy. If necessary, these items can be given positive effects using Enhancement Orbs.

Navigation on the map Trials of Sekhem

To navigate the dungeon and choose the next challenge, a map is used, which can be interacted with at the end of each room. It is necessary to plot a route from the starting location on the left side to the arena with the boss on the right. From each room, you can access the neighboring one, to which it is connected using arrows. In challenges with more than one floor, you will have to go through several such maps, one for each floor.

After interacting with the map, you can see the challenges you've already completed and the rooms available for visiting. When you hover over each of them, a short summary pops up with the type of challenge, the reward at the end, and the buffs and debuffs applied.

For more convenient route planning, the map has the ability to view rooms one step ahead. Thus, when choosing a challenge, you can immediately plan which one will be next.

Types of tests in the Sekhem rooms

There are five different types of challenges available in the Sekhem dungeon, which are selected in advance using the map:

Testing the bowl - Fill the vessel with blood by defeating rare monsters. After activating the bowl, pointers fly out from it, showing the approximate location of the targets.
Escape Trial - sequentially turn off the required number of crystals. After activating each of them, the path to the next one is shown with the help of a flying pointer.
Hourglass Test - Survive a certain amount of time while defending against waves of enemies. Killing rare monsters reduces the timer.
Testing the Glove - find a way out of the labyrinth with traps. To open doors, you need to activate levers of a certain color.
Testing the Ritual — Stop the monster summoning ritual by destroying the summoners standing next to the portals. The longer the gates are open, the more monsters will appear on the map. When the summoners die, all the monsters die.

Types of rewards in rooms

For completing the challenges at the end of each room, a certain reward is given. It can also be viewed in advance on the map. Depending on the choice made, for completing the goals of the challenge, you can receive:

Keys three different types (bronze, silver, gold). Needed to open chests after completing all challenge rooms.
Fountain with holy water. Used to replenish currency that can be exchanged for honor or goods in the Challenge Shop.
Altar that restores honor. Can be normal, with a random curse or blessing, or replacing a debuff with a random buff. Consumes holy water.
Dealer. Allows you to exchange accumulated holy water for relics, keys or blessings.

How to defeat floor bosses in Sekhem Trial

At the end of each floor of the Sekhem Trial, there is a boss that must be defeated to progress further or successfully complete the trial. Due to the inability to restore honor during combat, battles with them can seem difficult. In order to successfully complete the boss room, it is extremely important to arrive with a full honor bar and strong blessings. When advancing to the final enemy, it is best to try to avoid debuffs that greatly strengthen enemies or weaken the character.

Thunderclast Earthshaker

Thunderbone Earthshaker is the boss of the first floor of the Sekhem Trial. A large four-legged golem that actively uses fire AoE attacks and creates many small volcanoes in the arena that spit out exploding spheres around themselves. Here are some tips for defeating the enemy:

Use your equipment to the maximum possible extent fire resistant.
The boss has increased vulnerability to cold, so to kill him it is advisable to use weapons and skills that deal ice damage.
Try do not use against the boss shock и fire, since the golem has resistance to these elements.
Move as far away as possible when the monster charges its AoE burst attack. It covers quite a large part of the arena. Before the creature uses it, Balbala will appear and warn about it.
At the second half of health, Thunderbone gains a new attack that drops stone spikes from the cave ceiling. The Advisor also warns about this.

Thunderbone has an increased chance to drop rare items, as well as keys and relics for the Sekhem Trial. Additionally, for killing this boss for the first time, you will receive your first set of Ascendancy skill points.

Hadi and Rafik

At the end of the second floor of the Sekhem Trial, you will encounter two dangerous opponents at once - Hadi of the Flaming River and Rafiq of the Frozen Spring. Their main difficulty lies in their different resistances. Hadi has increased resistance to fire, and Rafiq - to cold. At the same time, their attacks are also of opposite elements. Here are some tips that can help in battle:

Defeating one of the Guardians creates damaging areas on the map based on the defeated enemy's element. A smarter solution would be First defeat Hadi and create burning zones that will simply deal damage. Killing Rafik will create icy areas that, in addition to damage, will slow the character down, making him vulnerable to Hadi's attacks.
To increase your survivability in this fight, use equipment with the highest resistance to fire and cold.
Use abilities with when possible different elemental damage to kill each of the guards (Hadi is killed cold, and Rafik - by fire). You can also attack with shock or chaos, since both bosses have neither resistance nor vulnerability to these elements.

Hadi and Rafiq drop a number of equipment, keys, and relics. Rare item drop rates are increased. The first time you defeat the Terracotta Guardians, you'll also receive a second set of Ascendancy skill points.

Ashar Mother of Sand

Ashar Sandmother is the boss of the third floor of the Sekhem Trial. A huge scorpion that can burrow underground and move quickly, jumping out and causing damage. Can cause poisoning. To make the fight with the boss easier, use the following tips:

Avoid squares push s in the arena. They activate traps that summon a large number of bugs.
Use equipment that provides maximum physical protection and has chaos damage resistance.
It is best to attack the boss with ice attacks, since Ashar has reduced cold resistance.
Do not use in combat. physical, fiery и power attacks.

Killing the boss of the third floor of the Sekhem Trial will reward you with equipment, keys, and relics with an increased chance of rare items. In addition, defeating Ashar Sandmother for the first time will give you a third set of Ascendancy skill points.

The Eternal Vow

Zarok the Eternal is the final boss of the Trial of Sekhem, encountered on the fourth floor of the dungeon. A chronomancer with the ability to control time and speed of action. To make the fight with the enemy easier, use the following tips:

Try to get as many as possible movement speed on equipment and as blessings.
Avoid the spheres that the boss periodically creates throughout the arena. If you touch them, the character will freeze and will not be able to fight.
In the second half of the fight, the boss will sometimes disappear. Go to the glowing point in the center to start a mini-game of collecting hourglasses that appear in random places. At the same time, the character's speed will be significantly reduced.

As a reward for killing the fourth floor boss and fully completing the Trial of Sehem, you will receive equipment items, keys and relics, as well as fourth set of Ascension skill points.

Rewards for completing the Trial of Sehem

After killing the final boss in the Sekhem trial, before returning to the main game, you will find yourself in a room with rewards. Here you can spend the keys accumulated during the age to open bronze, silver and gold chests with rewards. In total, there are 10 chests of varying rarity in the room:

4 bronze - contain 3 items each;
4 silver - contain more than three items;
2 gold - contains the largest number of rewards.

In addition, chests are divided by the type of contents:

Equipment caches (armor cache, helmet cache, gloves cache, shields cache) - contain armor elements of the corresponding type.
Weapon caches (warrior's cache, mage's cache) - a chest with magical and normal weapons.
Relic Cache - a cache of relics from the Sekhem Trials.
Jewellery Cache - a chest with gems for the skill tree.
Time-lost Cache - Contains unique gems lost in time that can only be found in the Sekhem Trial.
Arcanist's Cache - a cache of basic currency.
Hoarder's Cache - a chest with random rewards.

In addition to the chests at the end of the Trial of Sekhem, there is an Ascension Altar where you can choose a specialization after the first run. You can also trade with Balbala the Advisor, buying relics from her for holy water. The rest of the unused liquid is best turned into keys using the Ket Forge. Otherwise, it will disappear as soon as you leave the dungeon.

We hope this guide helped you learn how to complete the Trial of Sehem in PoE 2, as well as all the mechanics and bosses of the dungeon. Write comments, if you encounter any difficulties during the process, we will definitely respond and try to help. Read other Path of Exile 2 guides in the appropriate section of the site.