Vet Maelstrom round 7

ButtersEP · January 2016

Is this arena glitched? Must have died here about 50 times yesterday and most of them came from what seemed to be very broken mechanics, when the argonian behemoth does his stomp the waves he creates are pretty much invisible unless he does them in the dirt, not complaining or asking for a nerd just wondering how others have gotten past this.

LadyNalcarya · January 2016

Yeah sometimes they hit you even when you're not standing in them. Broken hitboxes.

Joy_Division · January 2016

Noticed his stomp attacks can one-shot when it gets low on health. Harness magicka will mitigate the stomps, keep that up at all times and it will prevent the one-shot.

timidobserver · January 2016

If he stomps at the same time that he enters enrage, the stomps get the enrage damage. I always wait for a stomp before killing one of the Sorcs.

Septimus_Magna · January 2016

This round is pretty broken, random poison hits when you're outside the red circles can also be very annoying.

What I usually do when the boss spawns two adds is kill the one that is near a plume.

Now the boss goes into rage phase, you must not interrupt the boss at this point.
If you have Crushing Shock for example dont use it or the boss will stop his rage phase.

During the rage phase you need to go to the bubble created by the remaining add.
If this add is near a plume you can get hit by and have a big chance to wipe.

When you're inside the bubble you can safely dps the boss until his rage phase is over.
If you're a sorc this is a good time to Overload the boss because it does high dps and it doesnt interrupt the boss.

After the rage phase is over you can kill the add and continue the process.

Note, if you have a lof of plumes in the middle you can set them off without getting hit by running near them with a speed buff.
This is sometimes needed when both adds spawn near plumes.

ButtersEP · January 2016

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

This round is pretty broken, random poison hits when you're outside the red circles can also be very annoying.

What I usually do when the boss spawns two adds is kill the one that is near a plume.

Now the boss goes into rage phase, you must not interrupt the boss at this point.
If you have Crushing Shock for example dont use it or the boss will stop his rage phase.

During the rage phase you need to go to the bubble created by the remaining add.
If this add is near a plume you can get hit by and have a big chance to wipe.

When you're inside the bubble you can safely dps the boss until his rage phase is over.
If you're a sorc this is a good time to Overload the boss because it does high dps and it doesnt interrupt the boss.

After the rage phase is over you can kill the add and continue the process.

Note, if you have a lof of plumes in the middle you can set them off without getting hit by running near them with a speed buff.
This is sometimes needed when both adds spawn near plumes.

Thanks I beat him within 3 try after this

damtotb16_ESO · January 2016

I play stamina classes and it seems I die more than before in stage 7 so something feels different, but worst is stage 9 due to horrid lag

Alcast · January 2016

I got a video guide in case you wanna check it out, it is pretty long tho, so maybe just skip to the bossfight if you have issues there

https://youtu.be/TpWhYPgTI9I
Full Guide(All Stages) can be found here: https://youtu.be/uS1YYuP3FDs

Oreyn_Bearclaw · January 2016

ButtersEP wrote: »

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

This round is pretty broken, random poison hits when you're outside the red circles can also be very annoying.

What I usually do when the boss spawns two adds is kill the one that is near a plume.

Now the boss goes into rage phase, you must not interrupt the boss at this point.
If you have Crushing Shock for example dont use it or the boss will stop his rage phase.

During the rage phase you need to go to the bubble created by the remaining add.
If this add is near a plume you can get hit by and have a big chance to wipe.

When you're inside the bubble you can safely dps the boss until his rage phase is over.
If you're a sorc this is a good time to Overload the boss because it does high dps and it doesnt interrupt the boss.

After the rage phase is over you can kill the add and continue the process.

Note, if you have a lof of plumes in the middle you can set them off without getting hit by running near them with a speed buff.
This is sometimes needed when both adds spawn near plumes.

Thanks I beat him within 3 try after this

Glad you got him. This fight is mechanic and RNG heavy. I got stuck here for a while as well. My guess is it doesnt take you more than 2-3 tries for you from here on out.

s7732425ub17_ESO · January 2016

I've run VMA 20+ times now. I've finally gotten to the point where I don't get a single poison flower the entire arena. But do note that I am 100% ranged, so those are probably easier to avoid than melee characters.

As for the boss, it's a bit of RNG where the adds spawn and how many poison flowers are nearby. It's also crap that the bug still exists where the ground stomp conal attack gets enraged damage if you kill an add after the ability has been activated. But it's something we have to live with, and it makes the arena more technically challenging.