So has anyone beat VMA with only full heavy?

sneakymitchell · May 2017

I know I have. I tried few times getting no death run but I had to deal with lag and was just done doing it over and over getting killed by that or some mechanic. Oh I was using sword and board and dual wield as well.

Taylor_MB · May 2017

My first vMA clear was on a 45k HP Blazplar with 5x Leeching Plate, 2x Grothdarr, 5x Soulshine on DW bar, 2x Endurance on shield bar. Was pretty easy way to deal with 300-350 ping and stupid deaths that result from that on a squishier toon. No no death run yet, only did it around 5 times before I got bored, might go back on magicka sorc if I need anything from it.

My monster helm and shoulder were light and medium for undaunted mettle, unsure if that disqualifies me from your question XD.

sneakymitchell · May 2017

Taylor_MB wrote: »

My first vMA clear was on a 45k HP Blazplar with 5x Leeching Plate, 2x Grothdarr, 5x Soulshine on DW bar, 2x Endurance on shield bar. Was pretty easy way to deal with 300-350 ping and stupid deaths that result from that on a squishier toon. No no death run yet, only did it around 5 times before I got bored, might go back on magicka sorc if I need anything from it.

My monster helm and shoulder were light and medium for undaunted mettle, unsure if that disqualifies me from your question XD.

Well at least u did it on sun shield build. U mostly do is what spam ur sun shield skill? And probably the final boss with the crystals took a while.

Taylor_MB · May 2017

sneakymitchell wrote: »

Taylor_MB wrote: »

My first vMA clear was on a 45k HP Blazplar with 5x Leeching Plate, 2x Grothdarr, 5x Soulshine on DW bar, 2x Endurance on shield bar. Was pretty easy way to deal with 300-350 ping and stupid deaths that result from that on a squishier toon. No no death run yet, only did it around 5 times before I got bored, might go back on magicka sorc if I need anything from it.

My monster helm and shoulder were light and medium for undaunted mettle, unsure if that disqualifies me from your question XD.

Well at least u did it on sun shield build. U mostly do is what spam ur sun shield skill? And probably the final boss with the crystals took a while.

Most damage was still done with dark flare, soul assault and radiant oppression. vMA is setup super weird in my opinion, there are so few times when you have multiple targets to deal with (Ice Rink, Igneous Cistern and last round have the most? (the poison island one also but the damage in there is super low)).

Final boss is actually laughably easy on Blazplar, all the mechanics work to your advantage
1) Crem Gaurds - bring them to whatever you want to kill and just reflect all that damage out
2) Crystals - normal skills when environmental damage is low, blazing shield when it gets higher (I do usually do the top section in 2 goes though, cause the wall gets too fast XD)
3) Summoners / Bone Colossus - a few of my clears I actually failed to kill both summoners and the Colossus spawned, healing and/or defense sigil and Blazplar is unkillable long enough to drop the Colossus and finish the boss.

I guess #3 highlights the builds primary drawback also, it does lack on demand dps. Passes Ice Rink dps check fine, and final stage dps check isn't a "you lose" cause you can comfortably kill the Colossus XD.

GrigorijMalahevich · May 2017

Did it on my stamsorc in impen blackrose, purple vma dual wield, purple vma bow on back bar, bloodspawn monster helm for undauted. Didn't bother trying to do flawless with that build, as had only one try, but it wasn't hard or anything.

DeHei · May 2017

sneakymitchell wrote: »

I know I have. I tried few times getting no death run but I had to deal with lag and was just done doing it over and over getting killed by that or some mechanic. Oh I was using sword and board and dual wield as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HePW6SQ_zFQ

Its a bit time ago, that i did that, but it should work well anymore.

Fischblut · May 2017

Two characters, same gear: 7 heavy, Blackrose + Bloodspawn, Agility jewelry. 100 points in stamina cost reduction. Lot of wipes, awful resource management during execute phases... But for unknown reason some players and developers think that resource management is currently very OP in this game, so it needs to be destroyed completely with morrowind

Few moments before wipe. Stamina bar wasn't showing, so I activated block to view it and screenshot how much stamina I had left:

A moment before wipe:

Vildebill · May 2017

Probably a lot of people has completed it on a mag toon with Rattlecage gear.

Jimbullbee85 · May 2017

Done it on an imperial blazplar with infernal guardian. Never thought it would work until I saw a vid of someone doing it on YouTube. Fastest ive done it. Gonna go for flawless with this build.

laksikus · May 2017

Taylor_MB wrote: »

sneakymitchell wrote: »

Taylor_MB wrote: »

My first vMA clear was on a 45k HP Blazplar with 5x Leeching Plate, 2x Grothdarr, 5x Soulshine on DW bar, 2x Endurance on shield bar. Was pretty easy way to deal with 300-350 ping and stupid deaths that result from that on a squishier toon. No no death run yet, only did it around 5 times before I got bored, might go back on magicka sorc if I need anything from it.

My monster helm and shoulder were light and medium for undaunted mettle, unsure if that disqualifies me from your question XD.

Well at least u did it on sun shield build. U mostly do is what spam ur sun shield skill? And probably the final boss with the crystals took a while.

Most damage was still done with dark flare, soul assault and radiant oppression. vMA is setup super weird in my opinion, there are so few times when you have multiple targets to deal with (Ice Rink, Igneous Cistern and last round have the most? (the poison island one also but the damage in there is super low)).

Final boss is actually laughably easy on Blazplar, all the mechanics work to your advantage
1) Crem Gaurds - bring them to whatever you want to kill and just reflect all that damage out
2) Crystals - normal skills when environmental damage is low, blazing shield when it gets higher (I do usually do the top section in 2 goes though, cause the wall gets too fast XD)
3) Summoners / Bone Colossus - a few of my clears I actually failed to kill both summoners and the Colossus spawned, healing and/or defense sigil and Blazplar is unkillable long enough to drop the Colossus and finish the boss.

I guess #3 highlights the builds primary drawback also, it does lack on demand dps. Passes Ice Rink dps check fine, and final stage dps check isn't a "you lose" cause you can comfortably kill the Colossus XD.

Lol didnt even know there spawns a second summoner.
Usually i just ignore The 1st and kill boss

nTranced · May 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZLnNOjyeS8

Skaffa did a flawless run with a heavy armor mDK Sword and Board.
Skoria x2, Tavas Favor x5, Willpower x3 and Torugs Pact x2

sneakymitchell · May 2017

nTranced wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZLnNOjyeS8

Skaffa did a flawless run with a heavy armor mDK Sword and Board.
Skoria x2, Tavas Favor x5, Willpower x3 and Torugs Pact x2

Cool. Too bad for next patch u have to run a staff.

sneakymitchell · May 2017

DeHei wrote: »

sneakymitchell wrote: »

I know I have. I tried few times getting no death run but I had to deal with lag and was just done doing it over and over getting killed by that or some mechanic. Oh I was using sword and board and dual wield as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HePW6SQ_zFQ

Its a bit time ago, that i did that, but it should work well anymore.

Nice substaining. U should use molten armaments instead of evil hunter. It helps out with heavy attacks or get rid of igneous for it since u already got good heals.

rustic_potato · May 2017

Thunderbug Leeching plate and Bloodspawn. Flawless run on my DK.