Hi guys! As I said I finished it and I wanted share my thoughts on it for other players...

Since there was a double drop week because of orsinium anniversary, I tried to take on VMA. I had finished normal and played 1 or 2 stages on veteran but it was destined to this week for me to finish it from the beginning. Of course, I had a lot of complains about maelstorm arena about being hard, annoying, *beeeeeep* etc... so I expected dying a lot. I mean A LOT

Also I am a mag dragonknight and I was using Alteration + seducer + 1 monster mask, jewelry on full spell power since I had nice regen + reduced cost. Well, it didnt work for VMA as you could guess... Since I was a dk I also knew I'll have a really hard time in VMA until I learn to play. From all the videos I watched, I always found sorcerer to be more easier to play for VMA but that became a little bit subjective now for me.

I started to play and except for 1st stage, I started to suffer a lot of deaths and thus, rages! %50 of them was because of Lag, I stay in a hotel and I use its Wifi. It is good but you know, few seconds of lag freeze is unforgiving in VMA. It was very, very demoralizing

After some point I ( in the end ) accepted I need more power so I changed to Julianos + willpower + Skoria sets. I didnt have any other Master staff or such so I used Julianos staff as default. It really turned table to me and I went on till last stage and I managed to finish it. So things I'd like to say to those who wants to take VMA.

- I died 220+ times. I may have broken a record of dying (???) It may sound like I am joking but be patient. ( Yes, I 'emotionally' memorialized Zos team members that participated in VMA designing, not denying.)
- I watched every stage on Youtube carefully, though it seems I didnt learn anything
- Fetch a good enough set you can use in VMA, my normal fantasy build obviously didnt work.
- If you are gonna finish it for the first time, IT WİLL BE the hardest, admit it and play to learn its mechanics
- I was as stubborn as a goat for not using power ups... I started using on last stages but why... I dont know Because sometimes you need to be fast, powerfull or stronger to finish the bosses.
- Of course, there was also my mistakes which I didnt realize and change immidiately.
- VMA is like a scripted program, one way or another you have to act accordingly its way. Learn which mobs to be killed first and fast, tanked or disoriented. Especially archers when you are a mag build.
- Practice makes perfect. You'll see you'll perform way better when you play VMA for 2nd time.

So btw what did I get when I finished? 1 mael sword, 1 mael axe and most important Nirnhorned Lightning Staff. Suppose I deserved it ? I guess I got 3 mael weapons for finishing first time ?

Also I can say that there are some wierd mechanics and such that didnt work for me:
- Even if I rolldodged out of aeo perfectly, I died a lot of times. Pİng? I dont think it is always the reason.
- I find its difficulty too much unforgiving, 1 secs of freeze kills you.
- Yeah, it is a solo dungeon for rewarding good players but what about other players? For this perspective at least, NMA is very useless, not rewarding.

Lastly, I started VMA again today and reached that frozen stage and died only 5 times. All those were lag spikes which makes me very happy. as I said practice.
I know I may have written a bit long but I wanted to encourage other players ( After they see 220+ death, hell yeah ) and wanted to share my story

Good hunting!