vMA "Rewards"

Solariken

ZOS, the vMA reward scheme needs to be addressed. It's really discouraging to beat my head against this arena for several hours, kill the last boss, and have nothing to show for it but a gold deficit and a pair of Winterborn Breeches. I've completed it several times now and haven't seen any weapons (which isn't surprising, I know some people have done it MANY times without a weapon).

All I'm looking for is a simple token system, wherein if you beat it, say, 10 times you can use your tokens to buy an item you want. I want to spend my time in PvP, I'm really not a fan of vMA but I'm willing to do it a reasonable number of times to get those sexy weapons. Please consider changing this with the DB update!

sirrmattus

I'd rather not get a weapon than get sword and board

Derra

You won´t get a token system but atleast the dropchance for weapons in the final chest will be increased to 50%.

Solariken

Derra wrote: »

You won´t get a token system but atleast the dropchance for weapons in the final chest will be increased to 50%.

I don't think that is true - I think they are upping the chance in the leaderboard chests but the final chest will remain the same. I don't see myself landing a spot on the leaderboard.

I'm nervous about the update though - I'm really going to struggle with vMA after ability costs are increased...

dagonbeer

sirrmattus wrote: »

I'd rather not get a weapon than get sword and board

You don't like getting an extra mastic with your grain solvent?

kadar

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Solariken wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

You won´t get a token system but atleast the dropchance for weapons in the final chest will be increased to 50%.

I don't think that is true - I think they are upping the chance in the leaderboard chests but the final chest will remain the same. I don't see myself landing a spot on the leaderboard.

I'm nervous about the update though - I'm really going to struggle with vMA after ability costs are increased...

I'll go dig it up...

We increased the set item drops in Maelstrom Arena to remove the chance of completing an arena and not getting a set piece. That was the take away from this change.

The Final Arena loot chest will drop a Weapon 50% of the time and a piece of Jewelry 50% of the time.

The Leaderboard reward will be a weapon 100% of the time AND a piece of Jewelry 50% of the time.

Hope that clears things up!

Morbash

Solariken wrote: »

ZOS, the vMA reward scheme needs to be addressed. It's really discouraging to beat my head against this arena for several hours, kill the last boss, and have nothing to show for it but a gold deficit and a pair of Winterborn Breeches. I've completed it several times now and haven't seen any weapons (which isn't surprising, I know some people have done it MANY times without a weapon).

All I'm looking for is a simple token system, wherein if you beat it, say, 10 times you can use your tokens to buy an item you want. I want to spend my time in PvP, I'm really not a fan of vMA but I'm willing to do it a reasonable number of times to get those sexy weapons. Please consider changing this with the DB update!

This.

It took me 2 hours to complete it last night. And for what? A well-fitted winterborn jerkin. When a dungeon is this rage-inducing, takes 2 hours to complete, and is a massive gold sink...yeah, I feel a little entitled to something more worthwhile than decon trash. I didn't purchase Orsinium so I could shout profanities at my monitor in the middle of the night. If I wanted cheesy, broken one-shot mechanics, I would have bought Dark Souls 3 instead.

Ghundy

Got a precise flame staff on my first try, so lucky is really going to help me run it in the future. Also make sure you get onto the leader board for the weeklies so you for sure get a Maelstrom weapon.

Raghul

i got precise fire staff and precise greatsword my first 2 weekly rewards

krr_zeta

My 1st vMA , there is a flame staff in the chest. I'm so excited ....its "defending" ;<
My 2nd run, there is a Ice staff in there...." defending again ? " ...pfff
Did about 10 more runs since then , have not seen any weapons anymore.
but its ok , ill get there eventually.

that "perfect items hunt" remind me of Diablo 2
you get unique boots " its War Travalers! \o/ ...baaaa , crap only 32% MF "

OrphanHelgen

they said chest reward increase somewhere on the forum, I dont remember where. Patch notes doesnt say it clearly tho

Shadesofkin

Yeah the grind blows, but that's why after I secure a high enough score I just do the Arena over the course of two days rather than hammer against it again and again for an hour or so.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

This official ZoS posting by ZoS_Finn is what you are looking for. When DB comes out, the final chest will have a weapon 50% of the time, and Leaderboards will give a weapon 100% of the time. (The chance of getting jewelry drops will also be higher).