imnotanother wrote: »I am an Imperial Stam Nightblade trying to finish the last boss in the arena.
I am struggling with the Crystal phase and looking for some tips from any fellow stam blades.
My problem is I am running out of Stamina. My regen is just over 1,100 and my stamina is 38k. I am running siphoning attacks so I am not sure why I am having a hard time.
I get down to the last crystal with 25% but the DoT is so strong and the wall is always spawned so close so I have to run with it. Killing my resources and leaving me no stamina to use Vigor.
Damage doesn't seem to be the issue, just resources.
If that's the case I say forget about the wall and just burn it down.More than likely you have good DPs you will be Able to destroy the crystal before he done with the wall cycle slam thing.So I say just forget about the wall on the last go and just destroy it .You will be knocked down and be on the finally phase.I usually use the shield sigil than and while he do the spear thing and throw your dots on him and pick up the gold ghosts.he take damage while your free to kill the adds.Keep getting the ghost and when the crem guard comes stun him and burst him down keep picking up the ghost while your fighting the boss and your be fine.imnotanother wrote: »I am an Imperial Stam Nightblade trying to finish the last boss in the arena.
I am struggling with the Crystal phase and looking for some tips from any fellow stam blades.
My problem is I am running out of Stamina. My regen is just over 1,100 and my stamina is 38k. I am running siphoning attacks so I am not sure why I am having a hard time.
I get down to the last crystal with 25% but the DoT is so strong and the wall is always spawned so close so I have to run with it. Killing my resources and leaving me no stamina to use Vigor.
Damage doesn't seem to be the issue, just resources.
@imnotanother Looks pretty good, I run a similar setup myself. Just a few things I'm thinking off the bat:imnotanother wrote: »Thanks for these tips everyone.
I am wearing 5x TBS, 5x Vipers Sting, and 1x Bllodspawn, 1x Kena.
Bar 1: vigor, teleport strike, surprise attack, killers blade, steel tornado with veil of blades.
Bar 2: vigor, focused aim, siphon attacks, arrow barrage, caltrops, veil of blades.
You can try changing your mundus to stamina regen. Its an easy change and can make a difference.
Run allways counter clockwise to catch the walls, use to be faster. You have acces to major expedition using double take at magicka cost, that can help. Usually you kill 1 crystal before each explosion, if you are slower dot get too strong and walls go very fast. You can jump down to reset the dot and the wall velocity, but you will need to kill the crematorial and a priest while dodging aoe on your feet.
While you are up, drop your dots on the crystals while you are runing behind the wall. Caltrops, endles hail, twin slashes, poison injection... That way you keep doing dmg even moving.
All this are general recomendations, i finished just once on my stamblade for having the title, i run it with stam dk (easier with vicious ophidian), mag dk and mag templar.
EDIT: I wouldnt recomend blocking as stamina build, dodge use to be quite cheap and you dont loose your stamina regen.
LadyLethalla wrote: »I completed Normal on Saturday, with no deaths in the last two rounds. Can someone please tell me, what's the difference between Normal and Vet MA? I know it 's harder but how, exactly? Is it number of enemies? More health points? Both? Different mechanics?
Also what would you suggest is the minimum CP for Vet?
Thanks
That's... not true. I recently replaced my Hundings 5 pc with TBS. TBS using Thief/Shadow provides higher crit than Hundings (~7% at legendary quality), and the same Stamina + extra Health and Magicka, useful in vMA. While you're right it's better in Trials, my DPS has not gone down since switching.Bisenberger96 wrote: »(tbs is only good in organized 12 man raids, otherwise it is one of the worst dps sets you can have
The_Outsider wrote: »That's... not true. I recently replaced my Hundings 5 pc with TBS. TBS using Thief/Shadow provides higher crit than Hundings (~7% at legendary quality), and the same Stamina + extra Health and Magicka, useful in vMA. While you're right it's better in Trials, my DPS has not gone down since switching.Bisenberger96 wrote: »(tbs is only good in organized 12 man raids, otherwise it is one of the worst dps sets you can have
LadyLethalla wrote: »
But if Normal is "barely" prep for Vet, surely repeating it will help me learn the mechanics?
Bisenberger96 wrote: »The_Outsider wrote: »That's... not true. I recently replaced my Hundings 5 pc with TBS. TBS using Thief/Shadow provides higher crit than Hundings (~7% at legendary quality), and the same Stamina + extra Health and Magicka, useful in vMA. While you're right it's better in Trials, my DPS has not gone down since switching.Bisenberger96 wrote: »(tbs is only good in organized 12 man raids, otherwise it is one of the worst dps sets you can have
Run a few self-buffed blood spawn tests using hunding's and twice born star separately. Hunding's will outperform. The health and magicka boost tbs offers are wasted set bonuses for stam compared to the weapon crit, stamina boost, and 300 weapon damage HR offers when it comes to dps (and dps in vma is king; the faster you kill things, the less time they have to kill you ) . The only justification for using tbs in vma would be to allow vigor or other self heals to crit more often.
The reason why tbs is effective in trials is because of aggressive warhorn, which increases crit strike damage by an immense amount, adding enough value to tbs to outperform hunding's or other sets that don't offer group buffs. This is why tbs is not good in solo and questionable in 4 man situations, as there is no constant aggressive warhorn going out. In addition to this, tbs is only bis if alkosh, night mother's, sunderflame, and morag tong are being used by other raid party members already, as these sets offer support for the group as a whole and will allow for more group dps than if everyone ran tbs.
Regardless of all this (and to get the thread back on track again), neither hunding's nor tbs are as good as night mother's when running vma, which is what I recommended in the first place. Nm puts out a bit more dps than hunding's, which does in fact outperform tbs in solo situations such as vma.