Use your favourite features in-game with our Desktop AppPoE 1 Ascendancies are incredibly powerful, and it's important to make sure you're doing your Labyrinth when you're able to, to get access to this massive power spike as soon as possible.
Today's guide will provide the location of all Lab Trials, some general tips on running your Labs, as well as suggestions on when to do them
The Lord's Labyrinth is a challenge that features a series of connected rooms that players must complete to unlock access to their Ascendancy and additional Ascendancy Points. While in the Lab, you'll face the Boss, Izaro three times along the way and after defeating him for the third time, you'll gain access to your Ascendancy or additional Ascendancy Points at the Ascendancy Altar. The Lab is full of unique challenges such as Traps, hidden buffs, secret rooms and has set daily layouts that change every 24 hours.
Location: The Eternal Labyrinth can be accessed in The City of Sarn (the Town in Act 3).
Access: In order to gain access to the Labyrinth, you'll need to complete a series of Trials of Ascendancy scattered throughout the campaign. These will be listed below
Navigation: At the side of each door to the next area, players can find a Plinth that will show them their progress within the Labyrinth and how each discovered and adjacent room connects to one another. This can be helpful for selecting the quickest path throughout the Lab and avoiding dead-ends
Difficulties: There are four difficulties of the Eternal Labyrinth (simply referred to as "Lab" by most players), which each unlock an additional two Ascendancy Skill Points per completion
Trials are very short challenges that players need to complete while in the campaign. These often involve dodging traps, fighting monsters before finally clicking the Trial of Ascendancy Plaque. Make sure you're doing these as you go so that you don't have to backtrack later on!
It is recommended that you do your first Lab after completing the final Trial in Act 3, The Imperial Gardens, or after defeating the Act 3 boss and reaching the Act 4 town.
Don't worry, if you fail, you can immediately try again or level up some more and try again a bit later (but don't wait too long!)
It's recommended to do your second Lab either after completing the third Trial or after completing Act 7 and reaching the Act 8 town
Follow the same tips as above, but also:
It is recommended you complete your Merciless Lab after completing the Ossuary Trial, before defeating the Act 10 boss. Completing the campaign will permanently reduce your Resistances by another -30%, making it harder to cap your Resistances and complete the Merc Lab if you don't do it first.
Follow the same tips as above, but also:
The Merciless Lab can be a huge challenge for new players, especially early on. If you make sure you have enough Life, Resistances, Damage and Life Recovery from your Flasks. It's totally normal to fail a few times, but if you follow the advice in the guide, you should be fine!
The Eternal Labyrinth can be accessed after finding an Offering to the Goddess item in the endgame and is sometimes referred to as "Uber Lab". These Offerings can be located from various sources, but the most common will be a Labyrinth Trial within a Map. After completing the Trial, which will be a much bigger challenge than those found in the Campaign, you will be granted an Offering to the Goddess after clicking the Trial Plaque.
Some of these Trials are more difficult than others, but if you take your time, use your Flasks, plan ahead and don't panic, you should be fine. The Six Endgame Trials, which can be found in Tier 6+ Maps are:
You do not need to complete all of these Trials to gain access to the Eternal Labyrinth - in fact, you don't need to complete any so long as you have an Offering to the Goddess. However, if you fail your Eternal Lab, you'll need to acquire a new Offering to the Goddess to try again
Within the Lord's Labyrinth, players can find special challenges, puzzles, hidden rooms, secret passages, but also Darkshrines, which can provide permanent Shrine Buffs to characters, reduced difficulty and additional rewards.
Locating Dark Shrines is the trickiest part as they are often hidden behind walls that can only be opened by clicking hidden switches on nearby walls. These inaccessible rooms can be seen on your Minimap, so if you ever see a location that is seemingly inaccessible, it's worth hovering your mouse until you see a highlighted Switch.
After defeating Izaro for the third time in each Labyrinth, players will gain access to the Ascendancy Chamber with some special rewards that include the Divine Font, Izaro's Treasure, and access to the Altar of Ascendancy where players can choose their Ascendancy or allocate additional Points.
In case you want to change your Ascendancy, you can simply remove any Points you have allocated on your current Ascendancy, then complete a Lab of any difficulty to gain access to the Altar of Ascendancy where you will be offered the option to change your Ascendancy.
Respeccing your Ascendancy Points will cost 5x as much Gold, or 5x as many Respec Points as usual, so can be quite pricy, but this is usually a fairly inconsequential amount in the endgame
