When you fail a Barya Trial, such as the Trial of the Sekhemas in Path of Exile 2, several rewards and risks come into play that impact your progression and future attempts:
What Happens When You Fail a Barya Trial?
- Loss of Honour and Trial End
Your Honour acts as a trial-specific health pool. Taking damage reduces Honour, and hitting zero Honour means you fail the trial. Running out of Honour or dying causes the trial to immediately end. - Retry Options Vary by Barya Type
- Balbala’s Barya: You can interact with Balbala to try the trial again at no extra cost, allowing repeated attempts to succeed.
- Djinn Barya: Failure here means the trial ends permanently for that attempt, and you cannot re-enter using the same Barya, meaning you lose that charge and must acquire another to retry.
- Reward Impact
Failing a trial means you forfeit the chance at higher-tier rewards that come with completing deeper floors or bosses. This includes access to powerful loot caches, relic upgrades, and ascendancy progression. - Carryover and Progression
While you lose the current trial progress on failure, some progress elements or pieces of gear/currency gathered prior to failure remain. However, you must restart the trial from scratch with a new attempt. - Risks of Afflictions and Penalties
Certain afflictions or negative trial modifiers activated during runs can increase challenge and risk of failure, such as no Honour recovery, increased trap damage, or crippled healing. Failing under these harsher conditions is more likely. - Market and Resource Considerations
Acquiring new Baryas or trial attempts may require trading, farming, or resource investment. Frequent failures can increase this cost over time, emphasizing the need for well-prepared builds and strategies.