Problems with VMA

hesobad · February 2017

This contents reward / difficulty is WAY unbalanced. So I want VMA daggers with sharpened for my stamblade. ok so Stamblades do pretty low damage in comparison to magic sorcs without VMA daggers and VMA bow, I'll go magic sorc for grinding VMA. Ok so now comes the farm, I'm CP 481 with all CP 160 gear, bi stat food, max lv 3 tier potions and running a very good build with Julianos, Illambris, and Willpower some gold pieces most purple. I'm hitting hard, completing the content but it is very difficult. Takes me a few hours or 1-3 days to complete a full VMA run depending on how much patience I have. Get to the end and get something completely different than what I been farming for..

In my opion, VMA should allow you to chose your reward rather than random. This content is WAY too hard for the reward to be completely random. The chances of me getting a sharpened VMA dagger is so extremely low, I will not kill myself doing this. MAKE THIS REWARD A CHOICE, REMOVE THE RNG. Such terrible content, I've legit never had a worse experience in any other game before in my entire life.

This content is not fun, its too hard and its extremely frusturating not getting the weapon you want after hours / days / weeks / months of farming. I will stop VMA farming until this is changed.

Lukums1 · February 2017

I think you need to investigate your builds and how you play as a player.

A lot of people now get this done in 1 hr, - 1 hr 30 min easily.

You mentioned Stam Blades hit weak? I can promise you they hit harder than a magicka sorc

lol.

I've cleared it and (leaderboard it) on all classes now days.

This is my damage list (my personal opinion)

1. Stam NB
2. Stam DK
3. Stam Sorc
4. Magicka NB
5. Magicka Sorc
6. Stam TEMP

Haven't done it on anything else so can't comment.

I like to re-frame from the term L2P, but you need to invest some serious time into learning the arena and working out better ways to clear saving you valueable time.
It seems like you've done it a couple times and you're complaining about the difficultly, come on matey we have all been doing vMA for over a year now and for months it took us to "git gud" I don't think it should be any different for you.

I believe you think you're some what entitled after doing a few runs that you "want" sharpen daggers but matey.. you need to grow up a little. There are plenty of good guides out there now and I promise with some application of those methods you'll see yourself clearing much faster and be able to really (farm weapons)

1-3 days is not a farm nor should it be treated as such, you're new sit down... shut up... and learn the content properly...

Sorry if that all sounds a bit harsh but it's 100% accurate.

Luke

Danksta · February 2017

I agree there should be a token system, but I don't think one clear should give you the weapon of you choice. It does get much easier the more you clear it.

willlienellson · February 2017

VMA is a profoundly unpleasant experience.

It's worse than work. I'd rather work for free than get paid to play VMA.

Danksta · February 2017

willlienellson wrote: »

VMA is a profoundly unpleasant experience.

It's worse than work. I'd rather work for free than get paid to play VMA.

It's not that bad. I actually enjoy it sometimes.

Lukums1 · February 2017

Danksta wrote: »

willlienellson wrote: »

VMA is a profoundly unpleasant experience.

It's worse than work. I'd rather work for free than get paid to play VMA.

It's not that bad. I actually enjoy it sometimes.

LOL this is me. I go in it after a progression run to - Cool down - hahaha! Relaxing.

brandonv516 · February 2017

3 sharpened vMA swords in a row a couple runs ago.

Why would I ever need more than 1 when the enchantment only benefits 1h + shield?

It's equally frustrating that the jewelry in MA drops in all 3 attributes. I don't need Succession jewelry in Stamina.

Update 13 is supposed to change something with how RNG is handled so until then...

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO · February 2017

Yea, the RnG is killling me. All I wanted is a sharpened bow. Instead I have sharpened daggers and inferno staff that will rarely be used

It would be good if we could swap them for another irem

Skinzz · February 2017

I run it on 4 classes. Still trying to get sharpened maul...

Pallio · February 2017

Got a sharp maul, stamplar holding it waiting for an effective 2hd build.

DHale · February 2017

Many other people have earned their desired reward. You want stuff but do not need it keep on keeping on.