AltusVenifus wrote: »

Destruent wrote: »

AltusVenifus wrote: »

I would say don't nerf it, but I want the weapons and don't want to do the content.

Your problem, nothing else. Stop complaining about difficulty in a stupidly easy game! All Group content is nerfed so hard, it's sometimes no more fun to do, just plain stupid AoE-Bombing and bursting everything down.

Pretty sure my post was specific... I've done VMSA and gotten the gear I want out of it... Well mostly. It was not fun or hard... It just takes learning dumb spawn timers and attacks... Everyone in the forum could do it if they spent 3 hours a day doing it for 2- 3 weeks. But the vast majority just want the gear... And don't want to or care if they beat it.

My grip is with gear gates in what I consider a pvp game, if u truly liked the content and not the elitism and competitive advantage it brings then suggest having malstrum weapons after every stage... That way u could play the way u want, and I could play the way o want...

It's definitely not a pvp game, there are some more aspects of this game. Solo-PvE, Group-PvE even Roleplaying or trading are parts of TESO. I mostly don't pvp and play since beta.
And btw. play as you want doesn't mean: Play as you want and get everything you want...that's a big difference.
Want those Weapons? Play Arena
Want proximity-detonation? do pvp
Want Skillpoints? Do quests/collect skyshards
Want trial-sets? do those trials

and so on...it's all "play as you want" and there's nothing wrong with it.
I don't understand all this rage about the weapons. You don't need them for pvp and even for some pve-speccs they aren't best in slot. has anyone raged about sanctum-hm beeing to hard one year ago (when vicious ophidian was actually good)?

Oh yeah nerf vMA so it can be as boring as vdsa, yes it has bugs and not very good mechanics which can be fixed and improved but because of that you wanted the content to be nerfed?
I bet some have only tried it once or twice and gave up and now they cry about it

Shadesofkin wrote: »

There's no denying that both Templar and DK need a bit of a buff to allow for lower tier players to have a chance at beating vMSA without constant hours of practice, but that's all they need. The arena's themselves don't need nerfed (though there are a few issues I've sent /feedback about, including how often it seems certain villains can do certain abilities).

It doesn't matter which class you play...all of them need hours of practice. For me it's even easier on my templar then on my NB.

I think vMA doesn't need to be nerfed, but some mechanics need change (stage 7 - poison plants random spawn is bad design IMHO), also vMA needs save progress function. And crap traits for Maelstrom Weapons (like defending on staves) must be removed from RNG.

CoA and WGT are 10 times easier to beat as a stamina player than VMSA is and they are nerfing both those dungeons so hell yeah nerf the shi* out of VMSA and increase the weapon drop rate while your at it or introduce a token system ffs....

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

I haven't gotten too far on Vet mode but I'd like there to be incredible challenges in the game still

They only need to allow two ppl to do it.
Basically, any and all solo-only encounters need to be opened up for duo participation. All regardless and that fixes this for some but allows it to be solo able still

EsoRecon wrote: »

I haven't even gotten past the second stage in vMSA and I don't want it to be nerfed. The weapons you get from there are good and so only good players should get them. The truth hurts. (And I know I just called myself a bad player.)

This. I am in the same position and I don't want a nerf either. I will just keep on trying until I make it.

bloodenragedb14_ESO wrote: »

If they continue to nerf the classes as drastically as they have been, yes, yes they should

lol...healing ward is all you need. Combine this with your class abilities to heal and you'll be fine. Stambuilds can use vigor/boneshield combo and are fine aswell.

I've never even beaten it and I don't want it nerfed(but I have tried). I think vmsa is something cool to aspire to as a challenging piece of content. But... Buff the maelstrom drop rates for when i do finally succeed maybe? :^)

ZoS leave it alone. Look at the votes:

LEAVE
IT
ALONE

OP you went in there as sorc and got to arena 5 on first try? That took me weeks to get that far. It took me a total of 5 weeks of almost every night of massive fails to get it completed but I did and I have ping like you. Always on the 200s. Best advice to give is to reduce graphics to medium to increase frames and the ping is less significant. It really helped me.

But your biggest problem OP as far as I am concerned is that you actually haven't tried really hard. You have failed once and you feel you are great player so you should walk it first time because you have gold gear and can finish vCoA. Maybe the pugs were carrying you as remember you were a pug to them too.

For me Maelstrom is the great leveller of great players. There is no one to help you. You are on your own and no amount of video watching is going to help you understand the spawn points and spawn timings (very pertinent on the level you currently are stuck). There is no one there to help you like the guys who carried you through vCoA. It's all up to you and maybe you are realising you are not as good as you think you are and actually you need more than great gear and great party members that can cover your mistakes. You must have an intimate understanding of your class and maybe you don't have that cos the videos you watched told you what skills to use for the whole thing so you don't know how to change them to adapt to different arenas where required because maybe you don't understand those skills you are getting spoon-fed.

And btw I don't think I am great. I have finished it twice only and cannot finish it in a single sitting to get in leaderboards so I am not saying I am great. I am saying those that can get on leaderboards deserve serious respect and it shouldn't be any other way.

Your gear is not right for there either. Try more sustain and use skills that also give you sustain. Seducer an option. Maybe transmutation.

Come back in 5 weeks when you have spent 4 hours a night on it and still haven't finished it and maybe I will take you seriously because till then you don't take vet Maelstrom Arena seriously.

Oh lol those is an old thread. Rant for nothing.

I wonder if OP finished it yet.

Slayyer-AUS wrote: »

just nerf it its boring as hell and i just want my gear

True, it's boring and I just do it for the gear aswell. xD

But still they shouldn't nerf it. And they are not going to nerf it so.

It doesn't really matter - next patch will see you farming poison ingredients instead of Maelstrom Weapons.