Spent allready many hours in vMsa, tried it with magicka templar, magicka nightblade and magicka sorcerer (yes the class everyone says its easymode but its my least played v16 char) all with legendary gear and only a few points from cp cap.

I have made it toward stage 3 round 3 (were the hag mini boss and the stranglers rubberbanding you in the air to death while you also take shock damage from the water below)

Some mechanics, bugs or intended will kill you in one or two hits while not be able to do something at all (see above) hardest hit i received was 38k!!!

For now vMsa is only for the elite players, but grats to everyone who completed it.

pdebie64b16_ESO wrote: »

I have made it toward stage 3 round 3....

....hardest hit i received was 38k!!!

Doubt it. Not in Arenas 1-3 unless you were standing in the red (or electrified water) and the dot damage got rolled up in your death recap.

Later on though those numbers are entirely possible in single hits by enraged bosses.

Cuyler wrote: »

Ted_Mosby_Architect wrote: »

Cuyler wrote: »

Went in there only once to take a serious stab at it. I didn't even know the mechanics, had never seen it before and got to round 6. Haven't gone back yet. First, it's a gold pit and second I just don't care that much to spend all that time learning the last 3 arenas just for one mediocre master's weapon.

I'd like to see some parses with these weapons or feedback as to the dps increase they provide...maybe that will spark some interest again but right now it just feels like a suck on time and resources. whens the next dlc?

Cuyler,

Next time we go into sanctum I'll show you a manti parse. I only have the one staff on my back bar for the wall of elements enchant and I've gotten about a 1-1.5k increase in dps. Since I've changed my gear over to julianos and using the staff instead of the old martial knowledge I've been using since forever.

On another note, the arena is a big challenge. I understand a lot of people are having trouble with it but it's only the second week and people are giving up entirely. Some people just have such a bad mindset for it and tbh I think a big part of it is that it's a solo arena and they have no one to blame but themselves so people get frustrated.

Even if you just go in and master the first 5 arenas for a few days, it will make learning the last 4 easier since you can get to that point much much faster with practice. I spent 6 hours on just the last boss and now I can do it in 2 tries max. Round 7 boss is the one that I hate the most, it's still giving me trouble.

Thanks Ted, yeah would like to see some damage reports. Personally finding time to do this is the hard part. The few hours I have a night I'm usually pulled to do group stuff and feel weird telling people no I'm going to *** by myself in the arena. I'm hoping I get a sharpened inferno on my first few clears like someone we know! What a lucky *** LOL

I know right! So lucky! I have my inferno in defending and still have a pretty sizable increase in dps even with a dead staff on the front bar. So with another staff with hopefully good traits, I think that the dos with this setup will dramatically increase the dps of dk's.

I've finished it 7 or 8 times now, and can consistently make 1.5 - 2.0 hour runs with ~10 deaths. I'm really just waiting to farm up some mats and gold to try it with a couple of different sets, and with the good potions. My best run so far was no death until the final boss. I ended up dying with the boss at 5% =(.

Right now i'm using 5x spell power cure, 3x will power, 1x molag kena, and 3/2x torug's pact (3 on DW, 2 on staff), and I only use the junk v15 magicka potions. Hopefully upgrading to the v15 crafted potions (for the extra initial magicka, and the increased regen duration) will keep my magicka up better so that I can use 3x spell damage glyphs on my jewelry on all rounds. Maybe using TBS, julianos, scathing mage, or overwhelming would be better than spell power cure? It's worth testing at least.

I've gotten 2x Maelstrom axes with sharpened, so i'm looking forward to trying those on my stam NB, if I ever pull her out of retirement. Other than that, it's the same junk: maces, defending lightning staffs, and charged/defending resto staffs.

Me and the ol stamplar are getting closer to beating it. Maybe next week. Maybe not.

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

....Stupid considering each clear costs me ~2 hours and 15K gold and the last weapon I got was a defending bow.

On the bolded part...how? I'm no pro, I also do it in <2hrs and averaging 10 deaths and my cost is usually around 3k per run.

Deathless runs should cost about one full repair so...maybe 1.8-2k?

On my deathless run I repaired once on stage 8 using kits and then probably used 20-30 pots throughout the entire run and most of them were potions so I could go faster since I was going for score as well. Just to top off my health instead of swapping g to my back bar and shielding. When I really start to push times and am using pots on cool down that's when it will start to get expensive.

Cleared it twice. Once for each weekly and wont run it again until its weekly again. Ive got my sharpened 2h mace :]

I've even not completed the normal mode either. Being too busy playing with lowbies in Orsinium :P

Done the normal mode few times. It was really enjoyable for me especially once I figure it out what to do. I wish I could say the same for veteran mode.

Just did it on my dk, Not as hard as everyone makes it out to be

couldve got a better score but a friend came back to the game as I was in arena so I was talking to him