Another Maelstrom thread *sigh*...(am I right xD)
But this one is a little different from the others that you are used to see, because I`m not going to talk about the maelstrom weapons. Lately I´ve been thinking about the other sets that drop in Maelstrom Arena, and how the way the "drops" works for these sets differs a lot compared to how it works for other trialinstances (maelstrom arena is considered a trial after all. With One Tamriel rings/necklace and weapons/Shields were added for all existing sets (with appropriate traits). For some reason the Orsinium loot table in generall, and the Maelstrom arena loot more specificly, were somehow left out of these changes.
Aside for the Maelstrom Weapons dropping from the veteran version of the dungeon there´re a few other sets that can be obtained from Maelstrom arena.
* Elemental Succession
* Winterborn
* Hunt Leader
* Para Bellum
* Glorious defender
* Permafrost
You can obtain set-pieces from "Chest of Champions" after each round from stage 1-8 (also after stage 9 if you complete nMaelstrom arena, but on veteran you get a maelstrom weapon instead). Now there´re some things that bothers me regarding they way the drops for these sets work:
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Traits:First of all that these sets doesn´t come in all traits when it comes to the body parts. They don´t exist in Impenetrable or sturdy (they don´t exist in prosperous or training either but I think that´s a good thing).
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Jewlery:Another thing that bothers me is the fact that there exist no Epic/purple quality rings of these sets. In vMSA on some stages (think stage 7-8) you can drop a purple quality necklace. On normal MSA you can get a blue jewelpiece from the chest on stage 9 (last boss). You can also get a golden/legendary ring from the weekly rewards. But I haven´t seen any purple ring in the sets named above after One Tamriel. So in conclussion you can get blue, purple and gold necklace, but only gold and blue rings.
In other trials (Hel-Ra, AA, SO, MoL, HoF) the only way to get Purple rings is to get them from the weekly coffer. In vDSA you can get Purple rings from chests after each round. Since there´s no such thing as a weekly coffer in vMA, Purple rings are un-obtainable at the moment.
Some of you may think that these sets are so bad that they don´t deserve this attention, but that´s not the point here. How good/bad the sets are is a matter of another disscussion/thread.
My Suggestions
* Add Impenetrable and Sturdy as available traits for these sets. Also add weapons/Shields to the loottable for these sets. Make them drop on last boss both in veteran and normal (On veteran this drops in addition to the maelstrom weapon). This goes very well hand-in-hand with the "One Tamriel spirit" where all sets should be available for every item slot.
* Make purple rings drop on vetaran MSA in addition to the maelstrom weapon. Makes no sense that rings only comes in blue and golden quality, but necklace can come in blue, purple and golden quality. Another suggestion is to add a weekly coffer after completing vMA the first in a week on a character, with the coffer having a 100% chance to drop rings or weapons of the sets that can be found in the "Chest of Champions".
Since I´ve no idea who´s responsible for these kind of things I´ll tag the devs that I know sneaks around these forums
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom