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Was Maelstrom Arena nerfed?
MrBrownstone
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I did the arena for the first time 2 years ago. It was so hard that I couldn't beat the final boss and my friend did it for me. Did it a couple of times, got my staves and bow, never did it again. Only did it once last year on normal, to show the arena to a friend
Yesterday I decided to give it another try since currently it gives decent rewards, also I could use a second bow since I have 2 Stamina characters and tired of banking the bow.
I thought I started it on normal accidentally. It was that easy. I didn't try hard and finished it with 550k score. Yeah it's easier with Sorcerer but I remember having a 25k shield the last time I ran it, now shields are nerfed. I realized that it's not the defense, it's my offense that's gotten better. People always complain about Crematorial Guards and I killed them before they got a chance to spit fire.
Then I realized that no, the arena wasn't nerfed, I was buffed. Yeah, "Power Creep". It started to make even vMA easy. Imagine people doing it like they're doing normal dungeons. Do you want that? We became too powerful and it should stop. I'm not saying let's nerf the players, just don't make them any stronger.
Yesterday I decided to give it another try since currently it gives decent rewards, also I could use a second bow since I have 2 Stamina characters and tired of banking the bow.
I thought I started it on normal accidentally. It was that easy. I didn't try hard and finished it with 550k score. Yeah it's easier with Sorcerer but I remember having a 25k shield the last time I ran it, now shields are nerfed. I realized that it's not the defense, it's my offense that's gotten better. People always complain about Crematorial Guards and I killed them before they got a chance to spit fire.
Then I realized that no, the arena wasn't nerfed, I was buffed. Yeah, "Power Creep". It started to make even vMA easy. Imagine people doing it like they're doing normal dungeons. Do you want that? We became too powerful and it should stop. I'm not saying let's nerf the players, just don't make them any stronger.
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Lord_Eomer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭MrBumblefoot wrote: »I did the arena for the first time 2 years ago. It was so hard that I couldn't beat the final boss and my friend did it for me. Did it a couple of times, got my staves and bow, never did it again. Only did it once last year on normal, to show the arena to a friend
Yesterday I decided to give it another try since currently it gives decent rewards, also I could use a second bow since I have 2 Stamina characters and tired of banking the bow.
I thought I started it on normal accidentally. It was that easy. I didn't try hard and finished it with 550k score. Yeah it's easier with Sorcerer but I remember having a 25k shield the last time I ran it, now shields are nerfed. I realized that it's not the defense, it's my offense that's gotten better. People always complain about Crematorial Guards and I killed them before they got a chance to spit fire.
Then I realized that no, the arena wasn't nerfed, I was buffed. Yeah, "Power Creep". It started to make even vMA easy. Imagine people doing it like they're doing normal dungeons. Do you want that? We became too powerful and it should stop. I'm not saying let's nerf the players, just don't make them any stronger.
550k is pretty descent score, running after years and still pretty good with VMA mechanics?0 -
HappyLittleTree✭✭✭✭✭
✭No just skills/sets got better and probably you have gotten better too
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Lord_Eomer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭HappyLittleTree wrote: »No just skills/sets got better and probably you have gotten better too
Accidentally doing VMA and scoring 550k, some mechanics are pretty tricky in VMA.
550k is most likely a flawless run!0 -
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How could I forget the mechanics, I remember appreciating them, especially the Spider stage, despite getting frustrated a lot in the past, I really loved that place. I wish there were more like it.Lord_Eomer wrote: »550k is pretty descent score, running after years and still pretty good with VMA mechanics?1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Lord_Eomer wrote: »HappyLittleTree wrote: »No just skills/sets got better and probably you have gotten better too
Accidentally doing VMA and scoring 550k, some mechanics are pretty tricky in VMA.
550k is most likely a flawless run!
550k is like 5-6 deaths0 -
Lord_Eomer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭MLGProPlayer wrote: »Lord_Eomer wrote: »HappyLittleTree wrote: »No just skills/sets got better and probably you have gotten better too
Accidentally doing VMA and scoring 550k, some mechanics are pretty tricky in VMA.
550k is most likely a flawless run!
550k is like 5-6 deaths
Lol, 5-6 deaths and 550k? Can not believe you as most of time is lost in re-running round!Edited by Lord_Eomer on August 12, 2019 10:32AM1 -
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✭He's right I died like 5-6 times. And almost all of them in the frozen stage, thanks to absurdly high dps I messed that up.
I could use the defensive sigil against ranged add swarm but wanted to do it without using them.Edited by MrBrownstone on August 12, 2019 10:36AM0 -
LadyNalcarya✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭It wasn't nerfed, we were buffed.
Back in Orsinium patch, the best gear you could get was something like Julianos+Kena+Willpower, and cp limit used to be at around 500 I think. Of course it's much easier now with better gear and 800 cp.Dro-m'Athra Destroyer | Divayth Fyr's Coadjutor | Voice of Reason
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cyberjanet✭✭✭✭✭You have probably learned how to do it. Everyone says it's easier the second time you do it, and someone in our guild got flawless on his 10th run through.
I have not learned how to do it and have yet to complete it. Been stuck on the final boss since before January.
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I remember running VMA with TBS, Kena and Willpower.LadyNalcarya wrote: »It wasn't nerfed, we were buffed.
Back in Orsinium patch, the best gear you could get was something like Julianos+Kena+Willpower, and cp limit used to be at around 500 I think. Of course it's much easier now with better gear and 800 cp.Your friendly neighborhood crazy cat lady of ESO
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de_la_Dude✭✭✭I ran it Friday in just over an hour with two deaths and got a score just under 500k. How does one die 5-6 times and still get 550k?
What am I missing here? I'm still trying to improve.0 -
NolaArch✭✭✭✭✭de_la_Dude wrote: »I ran it Friday in just over an hour with two deaths and got a score just under 500k. How does one die 5-6 times and still get 550k?
What am I missing here? I'm still trying to improve.
Sigils, I’m guessing. I had a flawless run yesterday and had just under 500k. But I used sigils I probably didn’t need to use out of pure “I want to live.”
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norrisnick✭✭✭de_la_Dude wrote: »I ran it Friday in just over an hour with two deaths and got a score just under 500k. How does one die 5-6 times and still get 550k?
What am I missing here? I'm still trying to improve.
Time has way more to do with score than deaths in vMA.
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✭✭✭MLGProPlayer wrote: »Lord_Eomer wrote: »HappyLittleTree wrote: »No just skills/sets got better and probably you have gotten better too
Accidentally doing VMA and scoring 550k, some mechanics are pretty tricky in VMA.
550k is most likely a flawless run!
550k is like 5-6 deaths
It really depends. My Flawless run only scored 545k and I didn't use any sigils (approximately a 50 minute run). It seems that time really plays into the score more substantially than deaths or even sigils because I scored higher on a later run with a death but a few minutes faster.PC/NAMountain God | Leave No Bone Unbroken | Apex Predator | Pure Lunacy | Depths Defier | No Rest for the Wicked | In Defiance of DeathMeet my characters :
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✭de_la_Dude wrote: »I ran it Friday in just over an hour with two deaths and got a score just under 500k. How does one die 5-6 times and still get 550k?
What am I missing here? I'm still trying to improve.
Don't use sigils.0
