The Trial Of Sekhemas

The Trial of Sekhemas has a total of 4 floors. They are always in the same order. The first time you encounter the Trial Of Sekhemas is after killing Balbala, The Traitor in Act 2 during the Campaign. It is an optional boss, in terms of the campaign, but beating the Trial Quest will unlock your Ascendancy Class.
With increasing item level the Trial gets more and more floors with more and more loot and unlocking new Ascendancy Skill Points.

Why Clear The Trial After Unlocking All Ascendency Points?

Well first of all it's the best way to unlock Jewels. Later you will get the chance to obtain more powerful Time-Lost Jewels and eventually killing the Final boss will unlock Unique Relics. Using These Relics will change the Trials and unlock some Uniques only obtainable in this trial.

Modifying The Trials

There are a couple of ways to add modifiers to the Trials.

• Relics
• Rooms
• Balbala - the Vendor

Relics

Within During the Trial some specific items, called Relics, will drop. These relics can be used to add modifiers to the Trial. When you click on the altar in the room before the Trials, you first get to insert a Coin to start the Trials. Once the coin is placed, there is a small "stash" where you can put in a few relics. The modifiers of the Relics put in the altar will be effective during the trial.

Which Relics Should You Use?

New And/Or Bad Gear?

If you're new to the Trials Of Sekhema and/or lack gear you should go with Honor Resistance, Maximum Life and Maximum Honour. These modifiers allow you to get some more hits, since you have more Honor and lose less Honour when you take damage. These technically work like Waystones without being consumes, except explicitly stated in the relic.

Confident And/Or Geared

The arguably best ones will be increased Movement Speed, increased Quantity of Relics dropped and reduced Vendor Prices along Honour Resistance. This will increase your clear speed since you run faster, can buy more Boons from Balbala, which further increases your clear speed as well as improving the chances on clearing (if you're not running a 1-shot boss build).

Rooms

Whenever you enter a new room, you get either an Affliction, at the very beginning or a Boon, a Fountain, a Pledge, a Vendor or a key once the room is completed. These will ultimately alter your trial, to the point (we're writing the dat 2025-0-22 and the patch 0.2.0h) where you might need to cancle the trial. (e.g. a Build using Chaos Inoculation is almost guaranteed to fail when he has to face the affliction, which removes the energy shield.) The "rewards" of the rooms are random, so be careful which route you will pick.

The Loot - Chest Focus

One you cleared the final Room in the Floor, which contains one or two Bosses, you get access to a chamber with some chests. each Chest contains other kinds of items. Here is a list of Chests: