Stamsorc VMA help PLEASE!! Build advice? CP398

firefighterGONZO · February 2017

Cool I got an infused chest piece. Wearing infused chest and infused VO boots

Cimadon · February 2017

Lukums1 wrote: »

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

Hey so I decided to take a break from VMA and get geared up. I got all gold vicious ophidian jewelry and out two gold weapon damage enchants on to get my WD to 2590, and I got three pieces of VO not the best traits. Axe infused, boots infused and gloves reinforced. Right now I'm running
Velidreth helm well fitted
Velidreth shoulders heavy divines
NMG x4 divines
NMG dagger sharpened
VO axe infused
VO boots infused - stam enchant
And x3 gold VO jewelry with x2 WD enchants

Better?

Or am I giving up too much dps with an infused axe?

Hey Fire.

You need 5 NMG x 2 daggers
3 jewls VO
2 Armor VO
2 veli

This is the best setup.

Losing 2500 pen is not a good idea nor running axe is a good idea.

1. You lose pen.
2. You lose crit by running axe.

Unfortunately I'd do what is suggested above.

Luke

Hi @Lukums1. Iv'e only tried vMA on my main Stamblade (dw/bow, hundings/velidreth/leki/agility), made it to the end boss on the ice stage and quit because it was too hard. Got her down to 3% once but died to adds. (I have since learned that adds spawn on boss''s health). 6 months passed and now I wanna give it another shot. I have a Stamplar, a magsorc (who I could convert to stam) and my main stamblade.

Question is:
Do you still recommend the above gear sets for a guy that spend a week of blood sweat and tears (and alot of deaths) to reach lvl6 or should I try something else. The easiest and most forgiving setup is probably what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance. :-)

Lukums1 · February 2017

Cimadon wrote: »

Lukums1 wrote: »

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

Hey so I decided to take a break from VMA and get geared up. I got all gold vicious ophidian jewelry and out two gold weapon damage enchants on to get my WD to 2590, and I got three pieces of VO not the best traits. Axe infused, boots infused and gloves reinforced. Right now I'm running
Velidreth helm well fitted
Velidreth shoulders heavy divines
NMG x4 divines
NMG dagger sharpened
VO axe infused
VO boots infused - stam enchant
And x3 gold VO jewelry with x2 WD enchants

Better?

Or am I giving up too much dps with an infused axe?

Hey Fire.

You need 5 NMG x 2 daggers
3 jewls VO
2 Armor VO
2 veli

This is the best setup.

Losing 2500 pen is not a good idea nor running axe is a good idea.

1. You lose pen.
2. You lose crit by running axe.

Unfortunately I'd do what is suggested above.

Luke

Hi @Lukums1. Iv'e only tried vMA on my main Stamblade (dw/bow, hundings/velidreth/leki/agility), made it to the end boss on the ice stage and quit because it was too hard. Got her down to 3% once but died to adds. (I have since learned that adds spawn on boss''s health). 6 months passed and now I wanna give it another shot. I have a Stamplar, a magsorc (who I could convert to stam) and my main stamblade.

Question is:
Do you still recommend the above gear sets for a guy that spend a week of blood sweat and tears (and alot of deaths) to reach lvl6 or should I try something else. The easiest and most forgiving setup is probably what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance. :-)

My latest guide mate vma bible # 2 will be perfect for you! Le tme know how you go!

Luke

Cimadon · February 2017

Lukums1 wrote: »

Cimadon wrote: »

Lukums1 wrote: »

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

Hey so I decided to take a break from VMA and get geared up. I got all gold vicious ophidian jewelry and out two gold weapon damage enchants on to get my WD to 2590, and I got three pieces of VO not the best traits. Axe infused, boots infused and gloves reinforced. Right now I'm running
Velidreth helm well fitted
Velidreth shoulders heavy divines
NMG x4 divines
NMG dagger sharpened
VO axe infused
VO boots infused - stam enchant
And x3 gold VO jewelry with x2 WD enchants

Better?

Or am I giving up too much dps with an infused axe?

Hey Fire.

You need 5 NMG x 2 daggers
3 jewls VO
2 Armor VO
2 veli

This is the best setup.

Losing 2500 pen is not a good idea nor running axe is a good idea.

1. You lose pen.
2. You lose crit by running axe.

Unfortunately I'd do what is suggested above.

Luke

Hi @Lukums1. Iv'e only tried vMA on my main Stamblade (dw/bow, hundings/velidreth/leki/agility), made it to the end boss on the ice stage and quit because it was too hard. Got her down to 3% once but died to adds. (I have since learned that adds spawn on boss''s health). 6 months passed and now I wanna give it another shot. I have a Stamplar, a magsorc (who I could convert to stam) and my main stamblade.

Question is:
Do you still recommend the above gear sets for a guy that spend a week of blood sweat and tears (and alot of deaths) to reach lvl6 or should I try something else. The easiest and most forgiving setup is probably what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance. :-)

My latest guide mate vma bible # 2 will be perfect for you! Le tme know how you go!

Luke

Thanks! Some of the audio is muted though. And can't seem to find a gear guide.

Race: Redguard
Class: Sorcerer
Boon: ?
DW/Bow
2 daggers, 3 armor pieces NMG? (sharpened/divines?)
2 velidreth armor pieces (divines?)
3 VO jewelry (Robust?)
2 VO armor pieces (divines?)
bow: NMG?

Lukums1 · February 2017

Cimadon wrote: »

Lukums1 wrote: »

Cimadon wrote: »

Lukums1 wrote: »

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

Hey so I decided to take a break from VMA and get geared up. I got all gold vicious ophidian jewelry and out two gold weapon damage enchants on to get my WD to 2590, and I got three pieces of VO not the best traits. Axe infused, boots infused and gloves reinforced. Right now I'm running
Velidreth helm well fitted
Velidreth shoulders heavy divines
NMG x4 divines
NMG dagger sharpened
VO axe infused
VO boots infused - stam enchant
And x3 gold VO jewelry with x2 WD enchants

Better?

Or am I giving up too much dps with an infused axe?

Hey Fire.

You need 5 NMG x 2 daggers
3 jewls VO
2 Armor VO
2 veli

This is the best setup.

Losing 2500 pen is not a good idea nor running axe is a good idea.

1. You lose pen.
2. You lose crit by running axe.

Unfortunately I'd do what is suggested above.

Luke

Hi @Lukums1. Iv'e only tried vMA on my main Stamblade (dw/bow, hundings/velidreth/leki/agility), made it to the end boss on the ice stage and quit because it was too hard. Got her down to 3% once but died to adds. (I have since learned that adds spawn on boss''s health). 6 months passed and now I wanna give it another shot. I have a Stamplar, a magsorc (who I could convert to stam) and my main stamblade.

Question is:
Do you still recommend the above gear sets for a guy that spend a week of blood sweat and tears (and alot of deaths) to reach lvl6 or should I try something else. The easiest and most forgiving setup is probably what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance. :-)

My latest guide mate vma bible # 2 will be perfect for you! Le tme know how you go!

Luke

Thanks! Some of the audio is muted though. And can't seem to find a gear guide.

Race: Redguard
Class: Sorcerer
Boon: ?
DW/Bow
2 daggers, 3 armor pieces NMG? (sharpened/divines?)
2 velidreth armor pieces (divines?)
3 VO jewelry (Robust?)
2 VO armor pieces (divines?)
bow: NMG?

First round and a little of 2nd sorry about that (nothing major explained). The guide really starts there.

Red guard a must
Sorc
Theif
2 daggers nmg 3 body
3 vo jewl
2 vo body
bow NMG

Cimadon · February 2017

Lukums1 wrote: »

Cimadon wrote: »

Lukums1 wrote: »

Cimadon wrote: »

Lukums1 wrote: »

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

Hey so I decided to take a break from VMA and get geared up. I got all gold vicious ophidian jewelry and out two gold weapon damage enchants on to get my WD to 2590, and I got three pieces of VO not the best traits. Axe infused, boots infused and gloves reinforced. Right now I'm running
Velidreth helm well fitted
Velidreth shoulders heavy divines
NMG x4 divines
NMG dagger sharpened
VO axe infused
VO boots infused - stam enchant
And x3 gold VO jewelry with x2 WD enchants

Better?

Or am I giving up too much dps with an infused axe?

Hey Fire.

You need 5 NMG x 2 daggers
3 jewls VO
2 Armor VO
2 veli

This is the best setup.

Losing 2500 pen is not a good idea nor running axe is a good idea.

1. You lose pen.
2. You lose crit by running axe.

Unfortunately I'd do what is suggested above.

Luke

Hi @Lukums1. Iv'e only tried vMA on my main Stamblade (dw/bow, hundings/velidreth/leki/agility), made it to the end boss on the ice stage and quit because it was too hard. Got her down to 3% once but died to adds. (I have since learned that adds spawn on boss''s health). 6 months passed and now I wanna give it another shot. I have a Stamplar, a magsorc (who I could convert to stam) and my main stamblade.

Question is:
Do you still recommend the above gear sets for a guy that spend a week of blood sweat and tears (and alot of deaths) to reach lvl6 or should I try something else. The easiest and most forgiving setup is probably what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance. :-)

My latest guide mate vma bible # 2 will be perfect for you! Le tme know how you go!

Luke

Thanks! Some of the audio is muted though. And can't seem to find a gear guide.

Race: Redguard
Class: Sorcerer
Boon: ?
DW/Bow
2 daggers, 3 armor pieces NMG? (sharpened/divines?)
2 velidreth armor pieces (divines?)
3 VO jewelry (Robust?)
2 VO armor pieces (divines?)
bow: NMG?

First round and a little of 2nd sorry about that (nothing major explained). The guide really starts there.

Red guard a must
Sorc
Theif
2 daggers nmg 3 body
3 vo jewl
2 vo body
bow NMG

Yeah, no problem at all, i have a hard time at the later levels aswell. A couple of questions:

-What food do you recommend?
-What glyphs should i use?
-What traits?

Lukums1 · February 2017

For starters max health / regen food
weapon glypjhs
all divines if you can help it

Pallio · February 2017

Vma is crazy hard at the moment, with bugs in addition to nerfs from this patch. Incoming damage is much higher it is either ignoring CP resistance or armor or both. On top of our damage output being lower for some reason, physical pen. seems bugged... hopefully these get figured out soon.

Cimadon · February 2017

Pallio wrote: »

Vma is crazy hard at the moment, with bugs in addition to nerfs from this patch. Incoming damage is much higher it is either ignoring CP resistance or armor or both. On top of our damage output being lower for some reason, physical pen. seems bugged... hopefully these get figured out soon.

Also on consoles? I'm on xbox.

Lukums1 · February 2017

It's no on console wouldn't worry.

Will be fixed by the time we get homestead.

It effects trials also so it will be an urgent fix

firefighterGONZO · March 2017

Lukumms im getting smoked by the CG on the final boss in stage 9!! I want this first clear bad lol what do I do

Lukums1 · March 2017

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

Lukumms im getting smoked by the CG on the final boss in stage 9!! I want this first clear bad lol what do I do

LUKUMS activate!!!

Alright easy mate.

On the backbar equip - Suppression Field which nullifies the ability of the CG to breath fire!
So you only get hit by his claw which hits 3-4k

ENJOY

Also you can trap, endless, heavy and rapid he should die also.

But yeah Suppression field ftw.

firefighterGONZO · March 2017

Why did I not think of that????!!!!!!

firefighterGONZO · March 2017

I've been running that on my back bar this entire time like you said

Lukums1 · March 2017

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

I've been running that on my back bar this entire time like you said

I gave you a huge detailed response in your other thread too.

Enjoy

And you're welcome.

firefighterGONZO · March 2017

Thank you buddy

glitchmaster999 · March 2017

Drop nmg and run the flat 4k pen set instead, and leviathan is really bad for stam builds particularly in vMA as stam builds get plenty of crit as it is so at a certain point it becomes pointless so I would swap the leviathan out for automatons maybe? Obviously get viscious ophidian if you can. A lot of people also use the alchemical set in vMA as it gives a you a massive amount of burst damage to take out priority targets.

glitchmaster999 · March 2017

Gerenally crrit chance is only run in pve content over wepon damage and max stats only because it increases the effect warhorn has on your dps. If you dont have access to major crit damage you are better off running weapon damage/ max stam.

firefighterGONZO · March 2017

Hey glitch thank you for the reply. But I think you may have missed the first part of this thread. This has been a progression for me, Luke/Lukumms has been helping me the entire time, I ended up with Veli, NMG, Vicious Ophidian everything divines. Some of it golded out - also not sure if you have played stam sorc but it is vastly different from other stam builds, we basically use crit surge to maintain health, high crit keeps a stam sorc alive, if I was closer to 50% rather than 70% crit I noticed personally that I was a dead stamsorc.

This next part is for Luke

Dude thank you so much for helping me along the way

I stayed up late last night and waited for the lag to go away. Then died about 100 more times before I completed my first run in Maelstrom. Thank you so much brotha. I got a defending battle axe, but I've never felt happier about one lol, that was definitely a process. And if anyone is reading this, check out Lukums twitch, I basically watched a few of those and kept my laptop in front of me and watched, played, won. Again thank u!! Definately crackin a beer. Cheers boys!

Lukums1 · March 2017

firefighterGONZO wrote: »

Hey glitch thank you for the reply. But I think you may have missed the first part of this thread. This has been a progression for me, Luke/Lukumms has been helping me the entire time, I ended up with Veli, NMG, Vicious Ophidian everything divines. Some of it golded out - also not sure if you have played stam sorc but it is vastly different from other stam builds, we basically use crit surge to maintain health, high crit keeps a stam sorc alive, if I was closer to 50% rather than 70% crit I noticed personally that I was a dead stamsorc.

This next part is for Luke

Dude thank you so much for helping me along the way

I stayed up late last night and waited for the lag to go away. Then died about 100 more times before I completed my first run in Maelstrom. Thank you so much brotha. I got a defending battle axe, but I've never felt happier about one lol, that was definitely a process. And if anyone is reading this, check out Lukums twitch, I basically watched a few of those and kept my laptop in front of me and watched, played, won. Again thank u!! Definately crackin a beer. Cheers boys!

Boom gg

I'll be adding you to my twitch thank list

if you don't mind

Bobby_V_Rockit · April 2017

Heya, why weapon damage on both dual hands? Also, what stats are doable? I've watched the first part of the twicth clip but want to be prepared, currently on 19254 health and 32401 stamina, but i'm just trying to opt my gear, enchants, cp, etc. appropriately.

p.s: I have all gold VO (3x jewellery 2x divines armour) 5x nmg and Kra'gh monster set, 6x medium 1x heavy. Same skill setup (more or less).

Cheers!

Lukums1 · April 2017

Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »

Heya, why weapon damage on both dual hands? Also, what stats are doable? I've watched the first part of the twicth clip but want to be prepared, currently on 19254 health and 32401 stamina, but i'm just trying to opt my gear, enchants, cp, etc. appropriately.

p.s: I have all gold VO (3x jewellery 2x divines armour) 5x nmg and Kra'gh monster set, 6x medium 1x heavy. Same skill setup (more or less).

Cheers!

Can't honestly tell you I've always ran it that way and it seems solid.

19.2 is a little high 18.5 is perfectly fine for HP it will keep you alive through double cleave from ice giants and smacks from lurkers at around 10-13k.

vo + nmg + khrags is fine !

Go get it done bud.

R0C95 · May 2017

Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »

Heya, why weapon damage on both dual hands? Also, what stats are doable? I've watched the first part of the twicth clip but want to be prepared, currently on 19254 health and 32401 stamina, but i'm just trying to opt my gear, enchants, cp, etc. appropriately.

p.s: I have all gold VO (3x jewellery 2x divines armour) 5x nmg and Kra'gh monster set, 6x medium 1x heavy. Same skill setup (more or less).

Cheers!

You mentioned that your gear is mostly gold. Be sure that the weapons are definitely Gold.

I run 5vo/ 5nmg including daggers / vma bow on back bar/ and 2 velidreth on my stam sorc. I am an orc, with 18.2k health and 37k stam. I call this character my "easy mode" vma character.

CultOfMMO · May 2017

Danksta wrote: »

Golding out your weapons will give you about 200 extra weapon damage. You can switch Blood Craze for the other morph because you get plenty of healing through crit surge and vigor. As said above VO is very nice for vMA, not really a must have, but it does make things way easier.

rending slashes does like less than 1k more dmg ON HIT, and SAME dmg as blood craze for the DoT. Unless you're spamming the skill its a grand total dps loss of less than 100, and that's if you refresh the DoT religiously. The heal from blood craze is decent, and it just might keep you alive for you to do your other 20 or 30k dps, as opposed to 0 when you're dead.

theres quite literally not a single reason to use rending slashes, ever. Not even outside of vMA.

Morbash · May 2017

CultOfMMO wrote: »

Danksta wrote: »

Golding out your weapons will give you about 200 extra weapon damage. You can switch Blood Craze for the other morph because you get plenty of healing through crit surge and vigor. As said above VO is very nice for vMA, not really a must have, but it does make things way easier.

rending slashes does like less than 1k more dmg ON HIT, and SAME dmg as blood craze for the DoT. Unless you're spamming the skill its a grand total dps loss of less than 100, and that's if you refresh the DoT religiously. The heal from blood craze is decent, and it just might keep you alive for you to do your other 20 or 30k dps, as opposed to 0 when you're dead.

theres quite literally not a single reason to use rending slashes, ever. Not even outside of vMA.

This ^

I really don't understand the obsession with rending slashes. The extra damage it offers is far too miniscule. Even as an experienced player, I'd rather have the additional heal.