The difficulty comes entirely from how buggy it is in there. The double CC's are especially fun, or the fears that take too long to break out of. I do not do VMA because I cannot tolerate this kind of gameplay. It has been like this since it came out and it disgusts me that they continue to allow such low quality gameplay through with no intent to fix or improve it.

The first week it came out I did it for 9hrs, then rage quit the game for 3months because of this same BS, and back then it had a memory leak so it slowly got worse and worse. It's like entering a dungeon where ZOS gets to slap you in the face, poke you in the eye, and disrespect you for the low chance at a good weapon and the certain chance to lose a lot of resources trying.

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

NyPetiwowp wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

NyPetiwowp wrote: »

l2p issue pls

Lol, say what now? How?

One rapid strike takes 0.6s, you were killed in that long time! If you are an experienced player in vMSA you should have known that this boss will do this attack!
You also start this miniboss-fight with 80% HP! Buff your vigor always when you are not on 100%! And sometime even that is not enough, when you start hearing the sound of the enemy rapid strikes dodge or block! Use your caltrops, endless hail and trap before the boss is in front of you, not after; and then use your dps rotation dots on your stam dk!

...? O_O

What don't you understand? I know my english isn't always 100% grammatically correct, but I think it's very understandable!

Oh yeah this is the dungeon where I realized that there is no longer a negative feed back section within the game. There are 2 positive feedback sections though. Here is the list.

• Crash/Blocks Progress
• Exploit
• Impairs Functionality
• Delays Progress
• Cosmetic
• Pleasant Surprise
• That's Awesome!

This is pretty common. A lot of the NPC attacks in VMA appear to do their damage the moment the enemy performs their attack. There's a few enemies, especially on that stage and on stage 9, that kill me without ever performing an attack. It's not lag, it's just that the damage is applied before the animation.

And it sucks.

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

You know, I think you may be onto something with that. Because honest to goodness, I've had weird deaths both in VMA and outside of VMA alike. And it just seemed as though I got melted, while the enemy appeared to do nothing but spawn or walk in my direction. As I said previously, people in a VAA run earlier got merked from axes that just managed to appear and float by. They made no swinging motions or any of that, and bodies just dropped. Lmao.

Yeah. I started to rage long ago. I've done VMA a ridiculous amount of times (80+ at least) and I started noticing on some really questionable deaths that, time and time again, I'd just take a crapload of damage instantly and die. I started recording runs to try to figure out what was killing me, and each time the enemy flinched... and I just died. And that's what I started to realize that the damage was being applied before the animation was finished.

But VMA is weird in particular. It doesn't appear to be lag, but I've died some deaths that just make me want to scream (e.g. I'm in DEAD CENTER of the cleanse field on stage 7, yet I still died from a poison mushroom?).

Armitas wrote: »

Oh yeah this is the dungeon where I realized that there is no longer a negative feed back section within the game. There are 2 positive feedback sections though. Here is the list.

• Crash/Blocks Progress
• Exploit
• Impairs Functionality
• Delays Progress
• Cosmetic
• Pleasant Surprise
• That's Awesome!

Yeah, I laughed when I saw this change the first time. I saw it for exactly what it was, and it's sad to be on the other side of it. I've worked for a few tech companies that employed these strategies to improve customer service numbers. The intent is not to improve actual customer service (clearly), but merely to improve the metrics that get reported to the board. It's what happens when you want it to look like your product quality has improved, without actually putting the effort into improving anything.

Goal 1: reduce new ticket count. Easily accomplished by: making it more difficult for customers to report issues. Reduce the methods of opening tickets (zeni did this by removing the phone line to report), and/or make the remaining processes more difficult to navigate. I've personally implemented zeni's method of removing the categories associated with most known issues. I'm not proud, but it's effective.

Goal 2: reduce average ticket resolution time. Easily accomplished by: launching auto close functionality with a robust keyword index that inserts common knowledge base passages. Acknowledging that the "resolution" will address 25% or less of the issues, but less than half of the people who got bad answers will bother to reopen their ticket. Many will be so turned off by the experience that they won't bother to open tickets for new issues that come up, furthering progress on goal 1.

The logic for how to deal with people who do reopen their issue depends on which of the two goals is the client's highest priority. If the ticket count reduction is key, tickets will be reopened on request. If time-to-close reduction is the top goal, the reopen- request will result in a new ticket instead, allowing the fast "resolution" time of the initial ticket to stand.

Again, these are the actions of a company looking to improve their image within the company, to higher management. These are not the actions of a company looking to improve their image with their customers or the general public, nor those of a company looking to provide a higher quality product than they currently do.

It's both funny and more than a little sad.