VMA Leaderboards

gamerguy757

I have a couple questions regarding the VMA Leaderboards.
After so many hours of practice and dog-embracing, I finally broke 400k on the VMA score. However, I do not show up on the weekly leaderboards. I did DC before Vault of Umbrage. Does DC'ing during the run deny leaderboard placement? Also, which leaderboard gives you awards in the mail? Is it Weekly or just Maelstrom Arena Leaderboard?

Bofrari

If you were gone more than 7 mins or something along them lines it saves to avoid just don't take the quest and if your gone to long it'll reset I know it's a long run but I'd rather redo the whole run then get upto round 7 which is roughly 40 mins into the run then loose the spoT on the boards.

DannyLV702

You gotta do it on a single run to be on the leaderboards. If you use the save feature it won't count.

gamerguy757

No no I think you guys misunderstood. I didn't leave the arena, the game crashed right before Umbrage.

code65536

There are two separate leaderboards.

The weekly leaderboard closes every Monday at 00:00 UTC and reopens (and is wiped clean) at 12:00 UTC. Any scores obtained between 00:00 and 12:00 UTC on Mondays will not count for the weekly (though it can appear on the all-time, if it's high enough).

Rewards come only from the weekly leaderboard, and they are automatically mailed the next time you log onto that character after the 00:00 UTC board close.

The all-time is just there for bragging rights.

If you disconnect or zone out of the instance, you have 5 minutes to get back in. If you do not, it will count as resuming from a save, and you will not get a score. Since you did receive a score, I don't think that this was the problem.

Also, both boards show only the top 100 scores. And it usually take a few minutes before a score shows up on the leaderboard.

gamerguy757

@code65536 Thank you for your input! I did receive a score and when I checked the leaderboards again, I was #49!!!!! You were right, it takes a few minutes to show up! This is the WEIRDEST ADRENALINE RUSH EVER!

DRXHarbinger

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Samphaa

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

DRXHarbinger

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

code65536

Last week, NA/PC's lowest sorc score was 148K. The week before that, the sorc boards didn't even fill up (just 99 scores). In contrast, last week, the nightblade board's lowest was 377K.

It used to be that the sorc board was harder to get onto and you'd need around 400K or more on NA/PC, but for about a month or more now, the sorc board was been quieter than the nightblade board (and even had weeks when it didn'f fill).

Strange how it's the opposite on console...

(And having completed vMA on both a magsorc and magblade, I think the sorc is harder. But it could also be that I've only done it twice with a sorc...)

willymchilybily

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

sure wont. last week i got my 1st flawless sorc run. 1h. 18min. Only used sigils to speed up round end boss fights and once on R5 ice stage.

Didnt even show up on overall PS4 leader boards. Came rank 87 or something for the weekly. its getting tougher. and the week before was worse didn't even get a weekly reward and had 440- 450k score. Someone needs to tell me the secret to speed runs. is it just pick up the damage sigil every round. Every mini boss round, every last boss round (which is what i do). Or pump out more DPS, constantly drop pots for regen? atm I'm not potting dont want to waste the pots when I dont need them for the completion (except on stage 9). But I'm beginning to reconsider.

or is it time to finish the last round boss on my DK save and start running DK for maelstrom rewards?

Samphaa

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

Samphaa

willymchilybily wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

sure wont. last week i got my 1st flawless sorc run. 1h. 18min. Only used sigils to speed up round end boss fights and once on R5 ice stage.

Didnt even show up on overall PS4 leader boards. Came rank 87 or something for the weekly. its getting tougher. and the week before was worse didn't even get a weekly reward and had 440- 450k score. Someone needs to tell me the secret to speed runs. is it just pick up the damage sigil every round. Every mini boss round, every last boss round (which is what i do). Or pump out more DPS, constantly drop pots for regen? atm I'm not potting dont want to waste the pots when I dont need them for the completion (except on stage 9). But I'm beginning to reconsider.

or is it time to finish the last round boss on my DK save and start running DK for maelstrom rewards?

I pick up the power sigil on every final boss fight, just for a little more deeps, defense sigil and ignoring adds (stage 3, stage 5, stage 8) will help a bit with time aswell. Though I think I've nearly reached my peak with a sorc, had 492k 3 times in a row on the weekend.

Valrien

willymchilybily wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

sure wont. last week i got my 1st flawless sorc run. 1h. 18min. Only used sigils to speed up round end boss fights and once on R5 ice stage.

Didnt even show up on overall PS4 leader boards. Came rank 87 or something for the weekly. its getting tougher. and the week before was worse didn't even get a weekly reward and had 440- 450k score. Someone needs to tell me the secret to speed runs. is it just pick up the damage sigil every round. Every mini boss round, every last boss round (which is what i do). Or pump out more DPS, constantly drop pots for regen? atm I'm not potting dont want to waste the pots when I dont need them for the completion (except on stage 9). But I'm beginning to reconsider.

or is it time to finish the last round boss on my DK save and start running DK for maelstrom rewards?

Use Elemental Drain on the mobs if you're a Sorcerer and use the occasional trash potion for some spare magicka. Open each round with a heavy attack as they come out of the portals.

DRXHarbinger

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm going for it tonight. Got a good score so going to use every sigil possible from 5 onwards and just sweat it out. Round 9 today was stupidly easily. Just want the title now. It's like right there in front of me waiting for me to take it.

Valrien

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm probably going to do a run on my Sorcerer where I take all the sigils of defense on round 5...often the only round where I die.

Samphaa

Valrien wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm probably going to do a run on my Sorcerer where I take all the sigils of defense on round 5...often the only round where I die.

Round 7 is the one that always kills me, just silly things like getting 1 shot by the wamasu or getting bitten by the boss for 23k+. Have recently started struggling with the flame knight is stage 8 round 4 aswell. Dunno why, she just fu**s me over. Do you use proxy on sorc? Helps alot with stages 4 and 5.

Samphaa

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm going for it tonight. Got a good score so going to use every sigil possible from 5 onwards and just sweat it out. Round 9 today was stupidly easily. Just want the title now. It's like right there in front of me waiting for me to take it.

Good luck man, just keep reminding yourself, sigils, sigils, sigils. Pick up the power every round if you want lol

Valrien

Samphaa wrote: »

Valrien wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm probably going to do a run on my Sorcerer where I take all the sigils of defense on round 5...often the only round where I die.

Round 7 is the one that always kills me, just silly things like getting 1 shot by the wamasu or getting bitten by the boss for 23k+. Have recently started struggling with the flame knight is stage 8 round 4 aswell. Dunno why, she just fu**s me over. Do you use proxy on sorc? Helps alot with stages 4 and 5.

Never found a need for Proximity Det. Often I can kill the mobs quite easily, especially if they stay in my Wall and LL. I could probably do the arena flawlessly without sigils IF I get lucky as most of my deaths are random BS like getting launched by the final boss while a frost mage is up and I can't reshield so I die in midair >.> Hopefully sigils in round 5 will mitigate the chance that happens and it'll be smooth sailing from there onward.

Samphaa

Valrien wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

Valrien wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm probably going to do a run on my Sorcerer where I take all the sigils of defense on round 5...often the only round where I die.

Round 7 is the one that always kills me, just silly things like getting 1 shot by the wamasu or getting bitten by the boss for 23k+. Have recently started struggling with the flame knight is stage 8 round 4 aswell. Dunno why, she just fu**s me over. Do you use proxy on sorc? Helps alot with stages 4 and 5.

Never found a need for Proximity Det. Often I can kill the mobs quite easily, especially if they stay in my Wall and LL. I could probably do the arena flawlessly without sigils IF I get lucky as most of my deaths are random BS like getting launched by the final boss while a frost mage is up and I can't reshield so I die in midair >.> Hopefully sigils in round 5 will mitigate the chance that happens and it'll be smooth sailing from there onward.

Ahh you use WoE. Hadn't considered that tbh. What's your set up then?

I use ward, frags, Endless fury, inner light, crushing shock.

Harness Magicka (could probably replace it tbh) power surge, proxy, boundless storm, LL

gamerguy757

Lol loving these discussions. As of last night, there was only 75 people on the Leaderboard. With the lowest score being 387. Not 387k, a solid 387. I didn't know that was possible....

Jsmalls

willymchilybily wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

sure wont. last week i got my 1st flawless sorc run. 1h. 18min. Only used sigils to speed up round end boss fights and once on R5 ice stage.

Didnt even show up on overall PS4 leader boards. Came rank 87 or something for the weekly. its getting tougher. and the week before was worse didn't even get a weekly reward and had 440- 450k score. Someone needs to tell me the secret to speed runs. is it just pick up the damage sigil every round. Every mini boss round, every last boss round (which is what i do). Or pump out more DPS, constantly drop pots for regen? atm I'm not potting dont want to waste the pots when I dont need them for the completion (except on stage 9). But I'm beginning to reconsider.

or is it time to finish the last round boss on my DK save and start running DK for maelstrom rewards?

From experience it's learning the spawns and getting a solid kill order going, and trying very hard not to be put on the defensive because you lose a good amount of time from it. I only use the power sigil on the boss on stage 8 (killing her just dropping one set of wards is nice), the Titan and last boss on stage 9.

Hit 522k last night with my first flawless conq clocking in at 58 minutes.

Xbox/NA and for that server you need 460k minimum to stay on the leaderboards most of the times.

DRXHarbinger

gamerguy757 wrote: »

Lol loving these discussions. As of last night, there was only 75 people on the Leaderboard. With the lowest score being 387. Not 387k, a solid 387. I didn't know that was possible....

387 is like dying hundred times and using every sigil. On boss rounds they take off like 15k from your score everytime. So wipe a lot and your score is gone.

AOECAPS

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

You mean the non easy mode classes compared to sorc and NB?

Samphaa

AOECAPS wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

You mean the non easy mode classes compared to sorc and NB?

No mate, I mean what I said

Valrien

Samphaa wrote: »

Valrien wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

Valrien wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm probably going to do a run on my Sorcerer where I take all the sigils of defense on round 5...often the only round where I die.

Round 7 is the one that always kills me, just silly things like getting 1 shot by the wamasu or getting bitten by the boss for 23k+. Have recently started struggling with the flame knight is stage 8 round 4 aswell. Dunno why, she just fu**s me over. Do you use proxy on sorc? Helps alot with stages 4 and 5.

Never found a need for Proximity Det. Often I can kill the mobs quite easily, especially if they stay in my Wall and LL. I could probably do the arena flawlessly without sigils IF I get lucky as most of my deaths are random BS like getting launched by the final boss while a frost mage is up and I can't reshield so I die in midair >.> Hopefully sigils in round 5 will mitigate the chance that happens and it'll be smooth sailing from there onward.

Ahh you use WoE. Hadn't considered that tbh. What's your set up then?

I use ward, frags, Endless fury, inner light, crushing shock.

Harness Magicka (could probably replace it tbh) power surge, proxy, boundless storm, LL

Force Pulse, Frags (this is where Wall goes, still trying to decide what I like more), Elemental Drain, and Shooting Star on Bar 1 with fire staff.

Hardened Ward, Power Surge, Liquid Lightning, and Energy Overload on Bar 2 with Dual Swords. Overload bar is the same thing.

I slot Inner Light and Bound Aegis on all 3 bars.

The gear is basically DPS gear. 5 Juli, 3 Willpower, 2 Kena, 2 Torug's Pact/Maelstrom Staff (Nirn inferno is what I'm actually using). This build melts through everything regardless of whether I use Frags or Wall.

AOECAPS

Samphaa wrote: »

AOECAPS wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

You mean the non easy mode classes compared to sorc and NB?

No mate, I mean what I said

Sorc and NB are easy mode compared to the other classes it's not because they have some magical mlg ability if you can't complete maelstrom with a sorc you need to go play a different game.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Wow, I am actually impressed that the Xbox leaderboard is that much more competitive than PC. 440-460k is a pretty safe score, even on a sorc.

In other news, I feel you guys on that no death. For a while I was refusing to grab any sigil, but I am starting to do the same thing and just grab every sigil I see. I swear though, round 7 always seems to get me at least once. Its either an unlucky poison, or that darned Wamasu. I dont remember him being that much of an issue, but he has ruined a no-death twice for me now. I am sure its just frustration, but once I die, it is almost always followed by a second death. My issue is that I cant tell if I am being snared in round 7 or if my game is slowing down. It happens often and it's like the whole game slows down. Anyway, flawless will hopefully happen one day...

Samphaa

AOECAPS wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

AOECAPS wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Aren't you on console? You may need another run dude. Last week's bottom score was something stupid like 420k. Getting hard going now to get on there.

Yeah 400k won't keep you on the weekly sorc leaderboard. 440k might. I think nightblades are getting better, a couple of 300-350 scores at the bottom. Guaranteed to get on there just completing it as a templar or dk.

You mean the non easy mode classes compared to sorc and NB?

No mate, I mean what I said

Sorc and NB are easy mode compared to the other classes it's not because they have some magical mlg ability if you can't complete maelstrom with a sorc you need to go play a different game.

I've done flawless with a sorc and am 2nd EP on the board on nightblade. Beaten all of my friends scores on the same class and 2 of them have completed in on a templar. If I had another class levelled, I'd do it with them, it's just practise, it's not hard to get a completion.

DRXHarbinger

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm going for it tonight. Got a good score so going to use every sigil possible from 5 onwards and just sweat it out. Round 9 today was stupidly easily. Just want the title now. It's like right there in front of me waiting for me to take it.

Good luck man, just keep reminding yourself, sigils, sigils, sigils. Pick up the power every round if you want lol

Like a boss. 2nd attempt after a cheese death on 8th round boss (ignored the flame dude thinking I'd burn it quick enough and didn't ) so 1hr and 17 mins later....Flawless. game done just need that grand overlord title now.

Samphaa

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Samphaa wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Just done 486k. 2 cheese deaths. Massive lag spike on round 5 and killed by everything spawning at once and then I accidently used crushing shock on the argonian. Flawless one day. Stupid challenge.

Dude if you can consistently beat it with 2-4 deaths you can get flawless, just pick up every sigil in every round, even if there's no point, just take it. I did flawless on Monday, finished on 470k, 58 mins. My fastest run by 6 mins, but 22k less than my top score. (Used alot of sigils) I actually have a higher score on my nightblade, 494k, but flawless might be a little harder on that.

I'm going for it tonight. Got a good score so going to use every sigil possible from 5 onwards and just sweat it out. Round 9 today was stupidly easily. Just want the title now. It's like right there in front of me waiting for me to take it.

Good luck man, just keep reminding yourself, sigils, sigils, sigils. Pick up the power every round if you want lol

Like a boss. 2nd attempt after a cheese death on 8th round boss (ignored the flame dude thinking I'd burn it quick enough and didn't ) so 1hr and 17 mins later....Flawless. game done just need that grand overlord title now.

Niceeee, well done dude.