vma boss nukes

Ep1kMalware · March 2017

I'm not extremely experienced with vma, I'm definitely no lukums or xdrumnbassx. However, after enough runs I've figured out that once you're familiar with the mechanics you can just burn down the bosses.

This isn't for leaderboard advice, I'm just offering a few tips to people struggling with vma.

Stage 3: I just grab defensive/power sigil and face tank/burn the boss
Stage 4 exact same thing as stage 3 pretty much
Stage 5 on last platform grab def/power sigil burn boss
Stage 6 grab def/power sigil and just straight burn the boss. If the lurker makes you uncomfortable play the mechanics until lurcher comes out, stun boss amd just keep dpsing till she dies.
Stage 7 only boss I struggle to burn rly. Idk I just can't see his tells fkr those god damned stuns. And I'm horrid at minding thr minders. I just kite this guy.
Stage 9 after crystals I just ignore ghosts and kill boss. If I'm a little laggy I'll play out the mechanics. But pretty much I just slot vma weapons and burn.

Ep1kMalware · March 2017

Also my loadout is 5spriggans 5vicious ophidian 2 Molag Kena.
Last boss I go 5 spriggans 3vicious ophidian 1 Molag Kena / 1 kr'aghs

Sometimes if I'm lagging, which I do very often living in Alaska on this god forbidden game- I tend to waste an incredible amount of resources on last boss due to my rotation breaking. Say whatever you want but you know what never fails to work? Freaking 2 piece engine guardian. If game isn't performing like crap resources aren;t an issue. But 80% of the time I play this trash at peak hours and my rotation is sloppy, I cast caltops because my bow bar didn't flip over, I have ro dodgeroll a bunch because vigor refuses to pop and now I'm just screwed.

Engine guardian.

Ep1kMalware · March 2017

Doing vma in between lag spikes (stage 9 now)

My strategy for stage 7 boss is to fight him near the poison pools. I grab defense/power sigil right away and pump him full of dots like I'm in vmaw. Soon as the minders spawn I hoof it to the one furthest and kill it. Often the other one is near the boss. I drop whatever I can on the boss and burn doen the minder as soon as screaming stops. Between minders I just kite the boss in a big square around the room ocassionally doing trap beasts, poison injects, and light attacks. Occasionally I'll stop by a poison pool and toss some heaver dots. I repeat this while waiting for minders. Ince they're up I run to the furthest away and repeat.

The callers are usually dispatched eith an endless hail and poison inject. If it looks sketch I'll keep near a pool until it dies. Avoid using crit rush if you can help it, speaking from experiemce it's killed me way too much. Prioritize minders. I learned how to do this fight on a stamplar, with 16k health at the time. I know it sucks. Try to kite it as much as you can to keep resources amd stay alive.

Honestly if it takes you 20 min to kill it, at least you killed it. Once you get it down it gets much easier and much faster.

clocksstoppe · March 2017

Ep1kMalware wrote: »

Doing vma in between lag spikes

Is this a vMA problem? I'm also getting lagspikes sometimes there, but nowhere else.

Beardimus · March 2017

vMSA can be laggy. Certainly in peak times, I swear I die less when i'm out of peak hours

I notice the most with bar swaps, archers pew pewing me and suddenly dead, and lag getting in / out of Overload.

Other days its mint and you feel like a super hero

Ep1kMalware · March 2017

clocksstoppe wrote: »

Ep1kMalware wrote: »

Doing vma in between lag spikes

Is this a vMA problem? I'm also getting lagspikes sometimes there, but nowhere else.

I'll gettem in dungeons too. It's weird they just come from nowhere and ur pretty mucn just locked up for 5-10 min. I'll rezz ever now amd then, doing *** in between.

Ep1kMalware · March 2017

Beardimus wrote: »

vMSA can be laggy. Certainly in peak times, I swear I die less when i'm out of peak hours I notice the most with bar swaps, archers pew pewing me and suddenly dead, and lag getting in / out of Overload.

Other days its mint and you feel like a super hero

Yeh, last wed/thurs the gamplay was so fantastic I nearly got flawless! (channeling glitch).