VMA stage two

Spearshard

I was wondering if anyone has run the second stage and noticed if the spinning blades are not being mitigated by harness magica ward reliably. I grinded normal on an alt to level, and the shield always blocked the blades. However, I started to try and run Vet for the first time this morning. It seemed as though my blazing shield and harness shield were only blocking the damage sporadically. Did they change the blade mechanic? I died over and over eve though my shields were up due to the blades. Just curious if anyone had any info on it.

Paulington

They changed the blades from magic damage to physical damage a few patches ago.

Sallington

Spearshard wrote: »

I was wondering if anyone has run the second stage and noticed if the spinning blades are not being mitigated by harness magica ward reliably. I grinded normal on an alt to level, and the shield always blocked the blades. However, I started to try and run Vet for the first time this morning. It seemed as though my blazing shield and harness shield were only blocking the damage sporadically. Did they change the blade mechanic? I died over and over eve though my shields were up due to the blades. Just curious if anyone had any info on it.

They "fixed" this so that the blades do physical damage now. harness magic has no effect on them now.

Spearshard

Well that's just mean.

DRXHarbinger

Spearshard wrote: »

Well that's just mean.

They changed that in January.

sirrmattus

Spearshard wrote: »

Well that's just mean.

Its only fair

Spearshard

Yeah yeah I know its a blade it makes sense it be physical dmg. It just sucks trying it as a tamp and the only mag shield is blazing and it scales off health, so it blocks jack. Ah well gotta practice dodge.

WatchYourSixx

healing ward resto staff

LiquidSchwartz

WatchYourSixx wrote: »

healing ward resto staff

hardened ward op class

Spearshard

Yeah, I wanted to give it a try on my temp since he's v16 (and leaderboard competition is a lot less, only 50 ppl on it), but I may grind out the last 7 vet lvls on my sorc. Sigh. Oh well yay cake!

Joy_Division

Spearshard wrote: »

Yeah yeah I know its a blade it makes sense it be physical dmg. It just sucks trying it as a tamp and the only mag shield is blazing and it scales off health, so it blocks jack. Ah well gotta practice dodge.

Don't dodge them. They go too fast and in different directions and sometimes dodge/run in the same direction as the blades which is the worst thing you can do.

As a templar, all you need to do is run rapid regeneration and hit Breath/healing ward if your health falls below 50%. It shouldnt very often because puncturing sweeps + rapid regen will outheal the blades if you remain relatively stationary.

DRXHarbinger

Don't go in circles either. Go back and forth towards the centre. You'll miss a lot more of them.

Spearshard

Joy_Division wrote: »

Spearshard wrote: »

Yeah yeah I know its a blade it makes sense it be physical dmg. It just sucks trying it as a tamp and the only mag shield is blazing and it scales off health, so it blocks jack. Ah well gotta practice dodge.

Don't dodge them. They go too fast and in different directions and sometimes dodge/run in the same direction as the blades which is the worst thing you can do.

As a templar, all you need to do is run rapid regeneration and hit Breath/healing ward if your health falls below 50%. It shouldnt very often because puncturing sweeps + rapid regen will outheal the blades if you remain relatively stationary.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try.

Destyran

Spearshard wrote: »

Yeah yeah I know its a blade it makes sense it be physical dmg. It just sucks trying it as a tamp and the only mag shield is blazing and it scales off health, so it blocks jack. Ah well gotta practice dodge.

Use blade cloak gives mobility and reduces aoe damage and since you are a temp your dual weild should already be leveled. it works great for me !

code65536

Spearshard wrote: »

Yeah, I wanted to give it a try on my temp since he's v16 (and leaderboard competition is a lot less, only 50 ppl on it), but I may grind out the last 7 vet lvls on my sorc. Sigh. Oh well yay cake!

Shockingly, the sorc boards haven't been filling up recently on NA/PC. This past week, there were only 99 characters, so any completion would've sufficed.