vMA... A typical death [video]

SublimeSparo · August 2016

https://youtu.be/fuvl0l0L32s
Laugh, Cringe or Cry.

Erasure · August 2016

Ah yes, right up there with the old favorite: Still poisoned after the boss on round 7 is defeated, but his death causes the curing pools to despawn.

Or maybe the excellent, get struck on round 3 with lamia attacks while the hagraven pulls you across the map, only to have your position slowly slide back, fully out of your control.

Or the ever popular, Solkyn requiring 20-200k more damage to die than his health bar implies.

NoMoreChillies · August 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVr8S1c1eps

Vaoh · August 2016

Ah yes. vMA... so many great memories

1:00 - End

https://youtu.be/_nBuKJpzQgA

1:12 - 3:47

https://youtu.be/_nBuKJpzQgA

RAGUNAnoOne · August 2016

I practically have this bookmarked:

forgottengd · August 2016

They will never fix it cause vMA doable for 3-4% players only. Better give casuals one more pet or mount.

Gilliamtherogue · August 2016

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVr8S1c1eps

I get that this is a bit of a satirical post, but a lot of these deaths are actually player error.

While some of these are lag (you have ~250 ms in most of these, so you'd have to react much faster to expect to live), you're also dying to a few "intentional" deaths. Your first death to the DK mini boss is from Engulfing Flames' DoT, which is extremely powerful if you don't block.

Your desynced death to the Crematorial Guard is caused by the fact that these mobs often "pre-load" Jagged Claw WHILE doing Firey Breath, meaning if you don't dodge roll the second breath ends, you will get hit, but the server will read you as alive until the attack should normally go off. Not so much lag, just a desynced attack.

Necrotic Stab (Lich Crystal) cannot be dodge rolled, as it is a magic AoE. Magic dealing AoE attacks cannot be dodge rolled in this game, similar to how you died to Daedric Explosion from round 6 boss. Same with the comets on the final boss. Dodge rolling does not have updating frames, meaning the server reads your position as wherever your origin point of the dodge roll is, and will not update until you completely finish the animation. Dodge rolling out of red is *usually* a bad idea, unless you react extremely quickly with low latency.

zerosingularity · August 2016

I think EVERYONE who has done vMA has horror stories, though I will say it is much improved from the early days of infinite HP titans and last boss.

DocFrost72 · August 2016

Sounds like my experience last night. Get the boss to half health, prep a straight burn, he starts screaming, hop into the shield and...

Poison under my feet.

If the adds have to protect themselves from the scream and I have to protect myself from the scream, why doesn't the summoner?!

OdinForge · August 2016

*** like this has turned me cold, the BS deaths.

VMA has ruined me.

SublimeSparo · August 2016

Gilliamtherogue wrote: »

Necrotic Stab (Lich Crystal) cannot be dodge rolled, as it is a magic AoE. Magic dealing AoE attacks cannot be dodge rolled in this game, similar to how you died to Daedric Explosion from round 6 boss. Same with the comets on the final boss. Dodge rolling does not have updating frames, meaning the server reads your position as wherever your origin point of the dodge roll is, and will not update until you completely finish the animation. Dodge rolling out of red is *usually* a bad idea, unless you react extremely quickly with low latency.

I know about the dodgerolling out of those attacks late, but many many times i have run/ walked out of those aoes, a clear 3-5ft and still been hit by them, same with the poison aoes in round 7, then on other occasions i have clearly been standing in the red and not been poisoned/ take damage. Don't know if it's lag/ desync or dodgy hit box detection.
I give up with Flawless Conquerer, it should be renamed LowPing, Lucky Conquerer lol