Before the sun sets on Shadowlands, I would like to ask Blizzard to reduce the difficulty on the Path of Ascension battles, particularly the Trials of Wisdom and Humility. I have spent a tremendous amount of free time trying to best these, read the forums, used the buffs, watched the Youtube videos, tried and tried again. I don’t have the hand eye coordination nor the best connection so even the smallest error tends to end it badly. The other covenants I have gotten to 80 renown with didn’t have their nicer transmog sets linked to such a difficult ordeal. Please before the next expansion, reduce the difficulty markedly so those of us that can’t get the timing down perfectly can still enjoy the xmog gear.
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I couldn’t even be bothered so I cheesed it using the teeter totter bug.
What is that?
If you used a toy you could glitch the character and use your character to kill the bosses. Made things so easy.
Tried that, they patched it. Can’t use toys anymore in the Path scenarios.
Darn. That sucks.
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Fun detected. Patch it out.
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I’m not sure if this still helps, but the Versatility you have on you character also buffs the soulbind you use for the match. Try to equip the most versatility that you can beforehand.
They don’t want us to join the forsworn. 
Yeah, this is the best reason to make it more normalized.
I have to agree with this.
Mind, I have not tried it after I got level 5.
But the first forays in to the content were so spectacularly frustrating, I felt it could only get worse so why pursue it.
The Venthyr parties don’t interest me, but I amd enjoying Abom Stiching so far (research for level 5 finishes today, finally).
I’d like to try the Path Of Ascension, but right now, it’s just blunt force trauma to the head followed by concussion protocols for me.
Some of you people are insufferable. Outright cheating isn’t “fun”. You know what’s fun? Getting good and doing the thing.
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It is a clever use of mechanics! Also, the world first types do this all the time.
Remember the motto: Exploit early and exploit often!
Still cheating.
The high-end of competitive bodybuilding is dominated by steroid usage. That doesn’t mean you’re free to use steroids or have the right to whine when you get caught.
Just because cheating is common doesn’t mean it isn’t cheating and doesn’t mean it is okay.
It’s cheating.
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That’s not fun, that’s quite explicitly an exploit.
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I know only the world first types get away with it. You and I would be banned suspended.
I would say cheating would be a modification to the game itself, such as a hack. Taking advantage of an oversight the developers left in the game isn’t cheating, its simply being more clever than the people that made it to begin with.
You would be wrong.
But when a design is that bad… No, I don’t condone cheating. But i Look at the path of Ascension vs the garden I got with little effort or the tea party and build a bear events for the same tier of rewards?
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I’d also like to add that they should fix the path too. Even at renown 80 I still can’t use any soulbind except pelagos, its frustrating especially when the weekly pops up and it requires me to use kleia to win but it won’t let me.
In regards to cheats or exploits. I could care less what people do in regards to that. Doesn’t affect me.