OPENING THE CHEST and while at the same time praying with all your will for not a next charged/ powered or any other crap trait destro/ 1h/2h weps

These are some of the most challenging things in VMA for me:

- The getting-stuck-in-sprint bug where I can't use any skill, can't dodge-roll, can't block, can't use any potion, can't do anything except for walking until I sprint and stop sprinting again. Happens about 5 times per VMA run for me.
- The interrupt bug, where an enemy's position is displayed incorrectly so interrupt doesn't work. Happens sometimes in stage 8 with Dremora Kyngalds (when they lift up their staff) and also with Voriak Solkyn in stage 9. Every time this bug happens it's pretty much a guaranteed death for me.
- Any split-second of slightly increased latency can cause ground-based AoE effects to show up too late. It usually means automatic death for Stamina builds when that happens.
- On medium and low settings I can hardly see the visual effects of Shatter attacks from giants - including Matriarch Runa - in stage 5, as well as Shattering Stomp from the Argonian Behemoth in stage 7. I often die to these attacks when I'm 100% sure I stood between the waves (I always block now, even when I'm sure I'm nowhere near any wave).
- Huntsmen Chillbane in stage 5 will one-hit kill me (or almost) with Frostbreath whenever I approach them for more than a second. This Frostbreath attack deals damage before it's visible on my screen and the cone-shaped AoE flips around to always go in my direction so that I cannot dodge it in any way. I'm not sure that's intended (the huntsman chillbane is spinning around at light speed and the cone first appears facing another direction but then it spins around to hit me).
- In stage 7, when I perform a dodge-roll, a poison spore sometimes spawns on top of me and is immediately activated -> dead (unless Magma Shell is ready, but even that is often too slow to save me since there is a casting delay of about 1 second). In general, these spores spawn so randomly that situations can occur where you just die as a Stamina build (can't be avoided in any way) even though you haven't made any mistake. You just had bad luck.
- The Flameknight in stage 8, round 4 can reach peaks of unavoidable damage (that hits through block and dodge-rolls) of more than 18k in a single second (and I have 18k Health ).

As for stages, I find 5 and 7 the hardest

I die more often on stage 2 and 4 than the entire arena. Lmao

The Hardest part (other than the constant RNG deaths) is lagging out once u finish and not getting your Maelstrom Weapons...I cant go thru that again...

But Frozen is bad the 1st time you do it but once u got it down u got it done....Shadows has to many RNG elements (1shot spider swarm, Lightning barrages, and webspinners) and should have more votes in my opinion.

Rink is such a pain sometimes. If you forget to kill the mobs in the water especially the ones that spam ice arrow at you it can be overwhelming and on top of that the round 4 mobs can fear you into about 5 ice arrows while your in the water taking an unnecessary DoT. Not having stam as a mag class in Rink is certain death half the time.

CheepsNSalsa wrote: »

Callous2208 wrote: »

I vote abbreviating it properly. What is vmsa? Veteran Maelstrom Sexual Arena? I thought we agreed a long time ago it was VMA.

That bugs me as well. Its VMA people!

Callous2208 wrote: »

I vote abbreviating it properly. What is vmsa? Veteran Maelstrom Sexual Arena? I thought we agreed a long time ago it was VMA.

Yep, better not let that giant Argonian get a hold of you!!

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The atros and giants rounds in stage 5 can still get me, but that's my own fault. The RNG poison plants from stage 7 is just BS out of my control. Seriously, a poison plant spawns and blooms right next to the bubble mob when the boss is screaming. WTF am I supposed to do then!?

Beside that stage vMsa is a pure joke

Especially the last 2 stages, I really don't remember the last time I died in one of those stages they're ridiculously easy and the last one you just have to open YouTube to see what to do and you can complete it very fast.

But this stage here will make you struggle even after hundreds of hours of experience into vMsa, too many ads and unpredictable damage.

Necro thread.

LOL at any answer that did not pick the last boss. The first time you made it there Voriack Solkyn and his CGs killed you 100s and 100s of times, and made you swear you were going to quit ESO. You were in that damn arena for hours and hours upon end. The giant boss on the Ice flows did not have you begging in your guild chat for someone to make you some tri-pots.