vMA weapon drop rate 100%??

UltimaJoe777 · July 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Well no one ever said no tag backs

That's a good point @UltimaJoe777

juhasman · July 2016

@ZOS_RichLambert please confirm also charged trait will vanish from loot table and powered will drop only with resto staffs

Vaoh · July 2016

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Doncellius wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Well no one ever said no tag backs

That's a good point @UltimaJoe777

SanTii.92 · July 2016

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Martol wrote: »

Hey all, a friend of mine told me that the weapon drop rate for vMA in the SoH patch will be increased to 100%.

Please confirm!!!

Confirmed.

T.T

TYYYYYYYYYY

ZOS_RichLambert · July 2016

ckbud wrote: »

@ZOS_RichLambert What will the weapon drop rate be for vDSA?

Should be 100% as well. I'll have to double check in the morning.

PurifedBladez · July 2016

Great news, only problem is the sour taste I have in my mouth for vma.. I just hate it. So boring. Now I'm gonna have to play it again. No excuses. Lol.

Ch4mpTW · July 2016

PurifedBladez wrote: »

Great news, only problem is the sour taste I have in my mouth for vma.. I just hate it. So boring. Now I'm gonna have to play it again. No excuses. Lol.

Just turn on your favorite genre of music, and have at it. That's the key to farming VMA, or any rather challenging content. After a while you become tranced, and it's a breeze. Trust me, I'm beyond 120 runs of it personally. And after a while, you become numb to it. Like pain.

PurifedBladez · July 2016

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

PurifedBladez wrote: »

Great news, only problem is the sour taste I have in my mouth for vma.. I just hate it. So boring. Now I'm gonna have to play it again. No excuses. Lol.

Just turn on your favorite genre of music, and have at it. That's the key to farming VMA, or any rather challenging content. After a while you become tranced, and it's a breeze. Trust me, I'm beyond 120 runs of it personally. And after a while, you become numb to it. Like pain.

Its that sound when the arena starts. Makes me hate the idea of playing through the next arenas no matter how easy they've gotten, ya know? That sound is seriously enough to make me shut the xbox off lol. I'm so sick of hearing it.

I don't know maybe I'm just losing intrest in eso altogether, which kinda sucks because it's like the only game I still want to play.

Either way this change was much needed, my opinions could of been much different if it was implented sooner.

GreatWhite000 · July 2016

Preyfar wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Martol wrote: »

Hey all, a friend of mine told me that the weapon drop rate for vMA in the SoH patch will be increased to 100%.

Please confirm!!!

Confirmed.

I could kiss you, Rich. But that would be weird. You just made me so, so, sooooo happy.

I doubt he likes getting kissed by dirty lizard people!!

Destyran · July 2016

The traits should only be infused sharpened precise and defending. Thats it. And it should be a choice of wreapon at the end. Me getting my weapon i want isnt going to make people quit. Doing maelstrom 100+ times and not getting things will!!

Chilla_Deluxe · July 2016

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Doncellius wrote: »

@ZOS_RichLambert Were there any changes that would lower/increase the difficulty of the arena?

Just curious, as someone's posted that the arena was ninja nerfed on PTS

Newp, no changes were made to difficulty.

Thanks alot, please do not make vma easier ever.

Vildebill wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Martol wrote: »

Hey all, a friend of mine told me that the weapon drop rate for vMA in the SoH patch will be increased to 100%.

Please confirm!!!

Confirmed.

FINALLY!!! After months of rant and crappy rings Thanks a bunch!

Just a question, will you keep the "bad" traits in the loot pool or roll back to what we had pre-DB?

Man no more complaints the 100% drop rate is good even with bad traits. At least we won't have to do 100 runs for a single sharpened weapon. Arena was good pre DB , people complained and then they added tard traits. Now theyre making it better, dont complain!!!

Chilla_Deluxe · July 2016

Destyran wrote: »

The traits should only be infused sharpened precise and defending. Thats it. And it should be a choice of wreapon at the end. Me getting my weapon i want isnt going to make people quit. Doing maelstrom 100+ times and not getting things will!!

Why don't we just hand you your weapon of choice before you even start the arena? Seems to me you don't want to do anything to earn it.

Ch4mpTW · July 2016

Honestly guys, even with the relatively mediocre traits in the loot pool — in satisfied with the devs way of going about vDSA and vMA. I genuinely am. At least now if I have to do the content over 100 times for the drops I need, I'll walk away with a weapon. Something to show for my efforts of value, instead of a robust Succession ring or arcane ring of The Hunt.

dereck_phantom · July 2016

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Martol wrote: »

Hey all, a friend of mine told me that the weapon drop rate for vMA in the SoH patch will be increased to 100%.

Please confirm!!!

Confirmed.

Yes

SoulKing32 · July 2016

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Martol wrote: »

Hey all, a friend of mine told me that the weapon drop rate for vMA in the SoH patch will be increased to 100%.

Please confirm!!!

Confirmed.

Thank you so much!!

Destruent · July 2016

Get ready for tons of charged, defending and training staffs and daggers

Anyway, good change

Jsmalls · July 2016

Eh I have numerous runs with a leaderboard spot every week, still have yet to get what I want. And even upping it to a 1% chance doesn't give me much hope. 100% drop rate is great and all but a token system would be amazing... I don't care if I have to complete 20 to 30 runs to get enough tokens, I just need SOMETHING that isn't a 1 in 100 chance of getting my sharpened inferno staff.

Hell why can't a reward system be based on your score... Achieve 550k and get a weapon of your choice. If you're scoring that high running vMA isn't the problem, it's RNG.

Preyfar · July 2016

Destruent wrote: »

Get ready for tons of charged, defending and training staffs and daggers

Anyway, good change

I can cope with bad traits on weapons. But after a 20 ring streak, I can't stomach NOT getting a weapon. This at least gives me hope

HoolDog · July 2016

Preyfar wrote: »

Destruent wrote: »

Get ready for tons of charged, defending and training staffs and daggers

Anyway, good change

I can cope with bad traits on weapons. But after a 20 ring streak, I can't stomach NOT getting a weapon. This at least gives me hope

I thought the 13 ring streak I hit was bad. Feel for you bud, here's hoping it's a weapon with a good trait for you next.

DRXHarbinger · July 2016

How soon after the next patch for us all to complain we keep getting defending inferno and charged bows. I'll give it 2 days.

Chilla_Deluxe · July 2016

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

How soon after the next patch for us all to complain we keep getting defending inferno and charged bows. I'll give it 2 days.

People are never happy, fact of life. Id say revert the changes back to pre - DB, those were the best. After 30 runs you were guaranteed a sharpened 2 hander or 1 hander. Only issue was the inferno sharpened(which seemed to rarely drop) Leaderboards were awesome also. Sucks to barely have learned VMA post DB.

But anyway Im way happier with the 100% drop rate now.

boldscot · July 2016

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

How soon after the next patch for us all to complain we keep getting defending inferno and charged bows. I'll give it 2 days.

I'll give it the 1st few completions, the loot table is so heavily diluted now that we still won't be getting what we want from the chest.

Think of the undaunted chest, is it a divines shoulder much?, nope have some prosperous warden shoulders.

Instead of that healthy succession ring we'll be getting powered resto staves.

It will be nice to see a weapon everytime but I think people are getting a little carried away, the chance of getting the weapons and trait you want is still pretty low.

tist · July 2016

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Martol wrote: »

Hey all, a friend of mine told me that the weapon drop rate for vMA in the SoH patch will be increased to 100%.

Please confirm!!!

Confirmed.

Good man. I look forward to not getting 9 rings in a row.

Oreyn_Bearclaw · July 2016

@ZOS_RichLambert

The community really does thank you for this and apologizes for clogging up your inbox. I realize that most of the new traits will still be in the loot table, but I would request that the Devs take a few seconds to see if some of this stuff passes the smell test. Some of these new trait/weapon combos just dont make any sense. I am not asking for sharpened on every drop, but lets be honest, that is what most of us are after that have been in here for close to a year.

What if the leader board only dropped sharpened and precise? Oh man that would be awesome.

While we are talking about things passing the smell test, I have to say, the sword and shield combo doesn't make any sense. I dont know of any tank that uses this. It doesnt match, nor does it fit into any build. If these stopped dropping from the weeklies, there would be much rejoicing in Tamriel.

firerapture · July 2016

Sweet

HoolDog · July 2016

Seen as it's going to be 100% in the chest it would be nice if the leaderboards now dropped only sharpened, precise and defending which someone said earlier... Good idea!

Keeps the leaderboards relevant and keeps people wanting to get on it.

A token system is the answer but at least this is a step in the right direction.

Leogon · July 2016

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Martol wrote: »

Hey all, a friend of mine told me that the weapon drop rate for vMA in the SoH patch will be increased to 100%.

Please confirm!!!

Confirmed.

and so do I!

Minute_Waltz · July 2016

Did some basic math, and then realised that if you are farming for a specific weapon&trait, and you are able to compete for weekly, even with 100% drop rate is still worse than pre DB drops until you reach a break-even number of runs.

Lets say you want an inferno sharpen, next patch drop rate will be 1/84 (100% chance, 12 weapons, 7 traits, training and prosperous not part of the drops). Chance to score one from weekly is also 1/84.

Pre DB, drop rate is 1/108 (30% chance, 12 weapons, 3 traits). However weekly is 1/36.

Now, if you plug these numbers in a spreadsheet, you will find that break even for 1 character on weekly is exactly 6 runs. If you manage to run vma more than 6 times per week, then you will be better off in the next patch.

Using same method, 2 alts = 12 run breakeven, 3 alts = 18 .. and so on.

Personally I don't need any weapons anymore, however it does make sense to review the traits you can obtain on weekly rewards.

Swarog · July 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

Just curious, as someone's posted that the arena was ninja nerfed on PTS

Post the link, please.

Jaronking · July 2016

Swarog wrote: »

Doncellius wrote: »

Just curious, as someone's posted that the arena was ninja nerfed on PTS

Post the link, please.

It'd not nerfed they just changed some sets bonuses so sets like Vicious ophidian they allow you to deal more damage to multiple mobs.