@Ch4mpTW It's interesting you mention the damage to shields. I can regularly (95% of the time) get to stage 7 with no deaths. The last time I played vma 3 or 4 days ago I actually quit a run in stage 4 because I died 5 times running up to that point. I just assumed I was having a bad day but you got me thinking now; I do remember thinking to myself "wtf is up with my ward". I plan to run it when I get back from work so I will report back.

Same...

Had 11 deaths in a run other day right after the hot fix... thought I just had a bad run, but noticing a lot of weird crap happening in there lately. Enemies that use WB seem to be able to insta-cast it sometimes now. Stage 8 with insta-WB->critical rush=gg in less than a second.

Nothing in the patch notes about "tuning" but a lot of stuff that is just... off...

The new lag isn't too enjoyable either.

runagate wrote: »

Something Very Wrong Is Happening?

Are you getting hair in places you didn't used to have hair? I think I know what it is...

Maybe there was a stealth "shield stacking negates the strength of one shield by the other's strength."

Could ZoS be that cruel to sorcs?

Who uses more than one ward in vma? lol

Ok so I just ran it once and didn't notice anything up with my ward. I tend to only use my ward when low health just to give surge a chance to heal me back up before I take any more damage, and also when I'm snared in red stuff, and it seemed to do it's job as good as usual.

I died 10 times with a score of 512k but all of the deaths were explainable. I died first in the ice stage, twice to shatter which hits me for 13k and I only have 15k hp, but it was my fault (if I had to whinge I would say I could have sworn I was behind her). Then she decided to destroy the 3rd platform before I had killed her which hasn't happened for ages, I died to the water wave as my last overload killed her. That was the only slightly peculiar thing cos I thought my dps was doing good, but clearly not.

I died once in the spider stage, again my fault. I just lost concentration and got overwhelmed. I survived the argonian stage with no deaths which is unusual for me. I died 3 or 4 times in stage 8 because I usually do lol (fire + vamp), although once was because I got double crit charged because I strayed too far from them. And then the rest of the deaths were in the last stage cos I was getting tired and hungry and annoyed at my previous deaths (I really hate the titan). Most of the deaths were avoidable if I had been more in the zone, 1 or 2 were the usual rng bs in the final round with the ghost spawns, but none were unexplainable and my ward held up good.

However, I did notice the messed up spawns. Stuff is spawning much earlier than it used to for sure. And I also noticed that it felt slightly more sluggish, not the usual spiking lag but a constant lag like bluetooth lag making everything feel slightly delayed. Those spawn though lol, I can't believe that was intentional by zos.

IzakiBrotheSs wrote: »

Uppercuts in stage 8 go through block... Yes I did have enough stam for it.

I noticed the same, but I also noticed that if I make a thing of blocking early it works, it's only when I try to block late (but still in time on my screen) the game doesn't register it. vMA need so much attention, it's borked. I know it's been said before but there's no reason I can think of why a solo instance should be so unresponsive. Makes me wonder if they have (extra) background software running to keep an eye on people in there.