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Two years ago, back when vMA was actually "difficult" <.<
You mean on infinite sheild and 1000 overload sorcs that teleported to alikr for ulti?
I wish.
I've played mostly stamblade in PvE since the game launched in 2014 and let me tell you, vMA was hell back in 2015
These days, it's a fairly casual affair: you can get hit by AoE without getting one shot, lurchers at stage 9 can't hit you with all 3 firewaves if you're in melee, there's more CPs & more dmg to skip mechanics even more easily than back then etc.
I got flawless on my stamsorc pre-morrowind sustain nerfs (and many more after with no signals). I got flawless back to back runs on my magsorc post nerfs, it didn't give me the title the first time (quest bug). Still prefer stamsorc.
I struggled with it for too long before just deciding to use my crit magsorc build. That worked like a charm since as long as it's doing crit damage it heals. And since you're always doing crit...well.
Can't get it on my stamblade though. Need more CPs x)
EDIT : Was running 5x Mother's Sorrow + 5x Vampire Lord, any staff or 5x Mother's Sorrow +3x Spell Power Cure + 3xVampire Lord /w Divines and Thief Mundus. I'm not sure which of these combinations I used but I think it was the latter. It was a while ago...
In some rounds concentrating on picking up the sigils was more likely to get me killed than just not worrying about them and doing my thing. But certainly on harder rounds I would pick them up when it made sense to (e.g. defensive sigil on last boss). I didn't really care about the score at all so no reason not to just pick up a sigil I happened to be near or knew could help.
I can't manage to avoid dying randomly during the Spider Daedra stage though. So yeah, rng.
Edited by DivinityDay on July 10, 2017 5:22PM
@AmariaNaria's chars:
NA - PC Divinity Day Sorc DPS - AD Amaria Day DK TANK - AD WW Talia Shade NB BOW/DW - AD WW Amaria Naria NB 2H/DW - AD WW Kali Day Magplar - AD VAMP Dekaria Bombblade AD
Only used sigils on stage 5 and 7 ...
stage 5: frozen arena use haste sigil because you die in one hit if she breaks the island and you are too close.
stage 7: Umbrage arena used everything because the RNG BS on that level..
First flawless did with sigils, then the next time I did no sigil + flawless. I have currently the weapons so after that I haven't bothered much since my goal was no death + no sigil. Not a high score chaser here.
I generally don't use sigils except in the oh *** moments (round 4 stage 8, final round stage 9 I take shield and power both and one shield sigil in the poison round when three archers spawn together).
First Flawless was on my mag sorc at around 350-400 cp. The old 1000 ultimate overload sorc blasted through everything lol.
All of my other flawless ones happened ~2 years ago. Only class I don't have flawless on currently is necromancer. There's not really a point to do VMA anymore.
Basically it comes down to repetition and effort. Watch some people run through it and take advice from them when you're struggling. Get a good build for in there and get to work. Use sigils at the points you know you need to. So for me, if I was pushing flawless I'd take the sigils on the second to last stage when all of the fire shooters would pop up at the same time to reflect their damage.
Eventually you won't need to, but take advantage of them. That's what they're there for.
i did vma one time three years ago and won an ice staff. it was too boring and tedious. ive never been there since that time and i hope i never will and i dont use titles at all. also i want an option to remove an alliance rank sign so i can pretend a newbie
I have Flawless on most of my main damage dealers. Working on my Templar and Necromancer, but I'm in not hurry. I usually use sigils if I'm in a pinch, but otherwise I don't. I like vma, it's good fun.
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first time ever a flawless run i dont remember if I used any sigils; last char that got the achievement i used one sigil at endboss; i was going for a scorerun on a char but accidentally ended up at endboss without deaths and didnt want to mess up. Most flawless runs i did without sigils and sometimes i pick up a sigil by accident
I got it on my stamina nightblade without actively trying to get it on my 15th or so run. I was using sigils in the ''normal spots,'' like defence at the end of 5th stage boss and damage at the key burn points for every main boss.
I also got it on my magicka dragonknight WITH actively trying to get it on my 5th run. It was so much harder than stamina nightblade for me by doing the same sigil strats. I kept trying to play defensive with the DK (like using magma shell as much as possible), especially since I was purposely going for flawless, but ended up realizing more damage is way more safe.
Overall stam is a lot easier for me than mag but I had to do mag DK for rp reasons, and I wanted the title for my mag DK for rp reasons too. I don't think I will ever actively try to get the achievement again. It's a lot more stressful which messes me up