bhagwad wrote: »

5 days ago, I got my first vMA completion. I died over 400 times to the final boss.

I went back in again (I'm an idiot). And this time I died just 6 times to him! Here's the short 4 min video of the last run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-dzVFXaZ8

I got two Maelstrom axes (Why am I getting two? Event is over already. During the event I got three!) So far, of 5 weapons I have:

1. Maelstrom Bow (infused)
2. Maelstrom Axe (sharpened)
3. Maelstrom Axe (charged)
4. Maelstrom Axe (infused)

I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something with these drops. Is there a stamina build with 2 Maelstrom axes and 1 Maelstrom bow? I did vMA again hoping for a lighting staff. But nothing so far. Just stam weapons.

I don't have VO, but bought the 3-set piece called "Vengeance of the Leech". Perhaps I could use that set with the axes and bow?

After first clear - last boss becomes the easiest level in vMA. Considering how low you get on stamina, I would take 3 stat food before starting last boss, if I was you. Didn’t understand why did you jump down after second crystal?

P.S. watched it on phone, potentially just blind

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

5 days ago, I got my first vMA completion. I died over 400 times to the final boss.

I went back in again (I'm an idiot). And this time I died just 6 times to him! Here's the short 4 min video of the last run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-dzVFXaZ8

I got two Maelstrom axes (Why am I getting two? Event is over already. During the event I got three!) So far, of 5 weapons I have:

1. Maelstrom Bow (infused)
2. Maelstrom Axe (sharpened)
3. Maelstrom Axe (charged)
4. Maelstrom Axe (infused)

I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something with these drops. Is there a stamina build with 2 Maelstrom axes and 1 Maelstrom bow? I did vMA again hoping for a lighting staff. But nothing so far. Just stam weapons.

I don't have VO, but bought the 3-set piece called "Vengeance of the Leech". Perhaps I could use that set with the axes and bow?

After first clear - last boss becomes the easiest level in vMA. Considering how low you get on stamina, I would take 3 stat food before starting last boss, if I was you. Didn’t understand why did you jump down after second crystal?

P.S. watched it on phone, potentially just blind

Just not risking gettin pwned byt the dot up there

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

5 days ago, I got my first vMA completion. I died over 400 times to the final boss.

I went back in again (I'm an idiot). And this time I died just 6 times to him! Here's the short 4 min video of the last run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-dzVFXaZ8

I got two Maelstrom axes (Why am I getting two? Event is over already. During the event I got three!) So far, of 5 weapons I have:

1. Maelstrom Bow (infused)
2. Maelstrom Axe (sharpened)
3. Maelstrom Axe (charged)
4. Maelstrom Axe (infused)

I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something with these drops. Is there a stamina build with 2 Maelstrom axes and 1 Maelstrom bow? I did vMA again hoping for a lighting staff. But nothing so far. Just stam weapons.

I don't have VO, but bought the 3-set piece called "Vengeance of the Leech". Perhaps I could use that set with the axes and bow?

After first clear - last boss becomes the easiest level in vMA. Considering how low you get on stamina, I would take 3 stat food before starting last boss, if I was you. Didn’t understand why did you jump down after second crystal?

P.S. watched it on phone, potentially just blind

I switch to stamina pots for the last boss. Tri pots are a bit too expensive and I'm cheap

I jumped down because I'm not confident in my ability to get the last crystal before he explodes again, and before soulchurn damage kills me!

Keep your harness magicka up all the time during crystal phase and you will have full magicka and no damage from soul-churn.

I didn't mean tri stat potions, but tri stat food

I would be more scared from crematorium guard than from third circle of crystal phase

Ah, tri stat food, sorry. I misread! And yeah, that crematoriam guard is so dangerous. Which is why I save the healing sigil for him when I jump down, and don't take the sigil at the start. But that means I need my destro ult up before the boss fight. If I don't have the destro ult up, then I will be forced to use the healing sigil to kill the first crematorium guard, and will also be forced to try and kill all three crystals in the first round, since I can't stay alive against the second guard if I drop down early.

But if I have my destro ult up before boss fight, I can down the guard with the healing sigil, allowing me to play it safe after killing two crystals, knowing that the healing sigil is there for me.

Dying 400 times to one boss, teaches you a lot! Hard won knowledge

About the food, the thing is, I need the magicka recovery. Without Witchmother's, I'm left struggling for resources and have to rely too much on heavy attacks. This would be fine if I was a sorcerer, because they have surge that heals them off critical hits. Unfortunately, the only way for me to heal up with doing damage is with puncturing sweeps. And that uses hella magicka! Hence the need for magicka recovery and witchmother's...

In regular dungeons with a healer, I run blue max magicka + max health (Solitude Salmon), since I can rely on the healer to restore my health when I heavy attack. I don't have that luxury in vMA , so I need to keep sweeping.

That's also why I run Valkyn Skoria. Witchmother's gives me lower health than Salmon. I need to make up for that in some way, and so I'm forced to run Valkyn.

I'm actually planning to run Rattlecage soon. There are unique jewelry pieces with arcane enchants. I just need one more ring. I can run the chest and another piece and still keep my 5 piece light bonus. Unfortunately I will lose 2% undaunted passive. But in return, I get a constant 20% major sorcery buff, and extra health which means I can switch out Skoria for Illambris, Grothdarr, or even two 1 piece sets. Also, a little more tanky due to the one additional piece of heavy armor.

Ideally, I would run 2 Rattlecage lightning lightning staffs, so I can keep the undaunted passives. But those are hard to find.

Sorry for the digression. Got caught up theory crafting!

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

5 days ago, I got my first vMA completion. I died over 400 times to the final boss.

I went back in again (I'm an idiot). And this time I died just 6 times to him! Here's the short 4 min video of the last run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-dzVFXaZ8

I got two Maelstrom axes (Why am I getting two? Event is over already. During the event I got three!) So far, of 5 weapons I have:

1. Maelstrom Bow (infused)
2. Maelstrom Axe (sharpened)
3. Maelstrom Axe (charged)
4. Maelstrom Axe (infused)

I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something with these drops. Is there a stamina build with 2 Maelstrom axes and 1 Maelstrom bow? I did vMA again hoping for a lighting staff. But nothing so far. Just stam weapons.

I don't have VO, but bought the 3-set piece called "Vengeance of the Leech". Perhaps I could use that set with the axes and bow?

After first clear - last boss becomes the easiest level in vMA. Considering how low you get on stamina, I would take 3 stat food before starting last boss, if I was you. Didn’t understand why did you jump down after second crystal?

P.S. watched it on phone, potentially just blind

I switch to stamina pots for the last boss. Tri pots are a bit too expensive and I'm cheap

I jumped down because I'm not confident in my ability to get the last crystal before he explodes again, and before soulchurn damage kills me!

Keep your harness magicka up all the time during crystal phase and you will have full magicka and no damage from soul-churn.

I didn't mean tri stat potions, but tri stat food

I would be more scared from crematorium guard than from third circle of crystal phase

Ah, tri stat food, sorry. I misread! And yeah, that crematoriam guard is so dangerous. Which is why I save the healing sigil for him when I jump down, and don't take the sigil at the start. But that means I need my destro ult up before the boss fight. If I don't have the destro ult up, then I will be forced to use the healing sigil to kill the first crematorium guard, and will also be forced to try and kill all three crystals in the first round, since I can't stay alive against the second guard if I drop down early.

But if I have my destro ult up before boss fight, I can down the guard with the healing sigil, allowing me to play it safe after killing two crystals, knowing that the healing sigil is there for me.

Dying 400 times to one boss, teaches you a lot! Hard won knowledge

About the food, the thing is, I need the magicka recovery. Without Witchmother's, I'm left struggling for resources and have to rely too much on heavy attacks. This would be fine if I was a sorcerer, because they have surge that heals them off critical hits. Unfortunately, the only way for me to heal up with doing damage is with puncturing sweeps. And that uses hella magicka! Hence the need for magicka recovery and witchmother's...

In regular dungeons with a healer, I run blue max magicka + max health (Solitude Salmon), since I can rely on the healer to restore my health when I heavy attack. I don't have that luxury in vMA , so I need to keep sweeping.

That's also why I run Valkyn Skoria. Witchmother's gives me lower health than Salmon. I need to make up for that in some way, and so I'm forced to run Valkyn.

I'm actually planning to run Rattlecage soon. There are unique jewelry pieces with arcane enchants. I just need one more ring. I can run the chest and another piece and still keep my 5 piece light bonus. Unfortunately I will lose 2% undaunted passive. But in return, I get a constant 20% major sorcery buff, and extra health which means I can switch out Skoria for Illambris, Grothdarr, or even two 1 piece sets. Also, a little more tanky due to the one additional piece of heavy armor.

Ideally, I would run 2 Rattlecage lightning lightning staffs, so I can keep the undaunted passives. But those are hard to find.

Sorry for the digression. Got caught up theory crafting!

Well, I am no expert in magplar theorycrafting, but 2 out of 4 magplar vMA runs were Flawless - I can tell you what I use:
5 julianos, 4 aether 2 infernal/ice heart /skoria - backbar vMA lightning staff nirnhoned with crusher enchant, front bar julianos inferno staff infused with lightning enchant
Front bar - vampire bane, structured entropy, force shock, harness magicka, inner light - templar ult that gives minor force
Back bar - rune (that restores magicka), healing field (no idea what name, but it removes negative effects, heals and bla bla), ele blockade, ele drain, inner light - elemental fury
Blue food, on last stage I take tri food
Simple magicka potions, but really need them only on second arena boss fight... tri stat potion on last boss
Apprentice mundus

Problem with your sustain - you can things with templar skills - that doesn’t replenish magicka. I try to kill everything with medium/heavy weave force pulse and replenish magicka with destro passive. On everything above 100k hp I throw ele drain. On everything above 100k hp or something that must die asap I throw vampire bane first.

Very easy and never run out of magicka

If you still struggle - use vengence of the leech it is quite good for beginners

I see you don't have sweeps on your bar. Alcast has the same build on his Templar (without a video) that doesn't include sweeps. I have no idea how you can restore health fast enough without sweeps! The ritual only restores some 2-3k health every 2 seconds.How do you manage to survive a crematorial guard, or when you need to restore 15k health in seconds?

Also, I see you're using just one templar damage skill. Not even blazing spear! So you're losing 10% passive crit on both your bars...how does that work?

In Alcast's vMA videos, he uses sweeps, so I've never seen how it's possible to do vMA on a magplar and survive without the ability to heal...

bhagwad wrote: »

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

Valera Progib wrote: »

bhagwad wrote: »

5 days ago, I got my first vMA completion. I died over 400 times to the final boss.

I went back in again (I'm an idiot). And this time I died just 6 times to him! Here's the short 4 min video of the last run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-dzVFXaZ8

I got two Maelstrom axes (Why am I getting two? Event is over already. During the event I got three!) So far, of 5 weapons I have:

1. Maelstrom Bow (infused)
2. Maelstrom Axe (sharpened)
3. Maelstrom Axe (charged)
4. Maelstrom Axe (infused)

I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something with these drops. Is there a stamina build with 2 Maelstrom axes and 1 Maelstrom bow? I did vMA again hoping for a lighting staff. But nothing so far. Just stam weapons.

I don't have VO, but bought the 3-set piece called "Vengeance of the Leech". Perhaps I could use that set with the axes and bow?

After first clear - last boss becomes the easiest level in vMA. Considering how low you get on stamina, I would take 3 stat food before starting last boss, if I was you. Didn’t understand why did you jump down after second crystal?

P.S. watched it on phone, potentially just blind

I switch to stamina pots for the last boss. Tri pots are a bit too expensive and I'm cheap

I jumped down because I'm not confident in my ability to get the last crystal before he explodes again, and before soulchurn damage kills me!

Keep your harness magicka up all the time during crystal phase and you will have full magicka and no damage from soul-churn.

I didn't mean tri stat potions, but tri stat food

I would be more scared from crematorium guard than from third circle of crystal phase

Ah, tri stat food, sorry. I misread! And yeah, that crematoriam guard is so dangerous. Which is why I save the healing sigil for him when I jump down, and don't take the sigil at the start. But that means I need my destro ult up before the boss fight. If I don't have the destro ult up, then I will be forced to use the healing sigil to kill the first crematorium guard, and will also be forced to try and kill all three crystals in the first round, since I can't stay alive against the second guard if I drop down early.

But if I have my destro ult up before boss fight, I can down the guard with the healing sigil, allowing me to play it safe after killing two crystals, knowing that the healing sigil is there for me.

Dying 400 times to one boss, teaches you a lot! Hard won knowledge

About the food, the thing is, I need the magicka recovery. Without Witchmother's, I'm left struggling for resources and have to rely too much on heavy attacks. This would be fine if I was a sorcerer, because they have surge that heals them off critical hits. Unfortunately, the only way for me to heal up with doing damage is with puncturing sweeps. And that uses hella magicka! Hence the need for magicka recovery and witchmother's...

In regular dungeons with a healer, I run blue max magicka + max health (Solitude Salmon), since I can rely on the healer to restore my health when I heavy attack. I don't have that luxury in vMA , so I need to keep sweeping.

That's also why I run Valkyn Skoria. Witchmother's gives me lower health than Salmon. I need to make up for that in some way, and so I'm forced to run Valkyn.

I'm actually planning to run Rattlecage soon. There are unique jewelry pieces with arcane enchants. I just need one more ring. I can run the chest and another piece and still keep my 5 piece light bonus. Unfortunately I will lose 2% undaunted passive. But in return, I get a constant 20% major sorcery buff, and extra health which means I can switch out Skoria for Illambris, Grothdarr, or even two 1 piece sets. Also, a little more tanky due to the one additional piece of heavy armor.

Ideally, I would run 2 Rattlecage lightning lightning staffs, so I can keep the undaunted passives. But those are hard to find.

Sorry for the digression. Got caught up theory crafting!

Well, I am no expert in magplar theorycrafting, but 2 out of 4 magplar vMA runs were Flawless - I can tell you what I use:
5 julianos, 4 aether 2 infernal/ice heart /skoria - backbar vMA lightning staff nirnhoned with crusher enchant, front bar julianos inferno staff infused with lightning enchant
Front bar - vampire bane, structured entropy, force shock, harness magicka, inner light - templar ult that gives minor force
Back bar - rune (that restores magicka), healing field (no idea what name, but it removes negative effects, heals and bla bla), ele blockade, ele drain, inner light - elemental fury
Blue food, on last stage I take tri food
Simple magicka potions, but really need them only on second arena boss fight... tri stat potion on last boss
Apprentice mundus

Problem with your sustain - you can things with templar skills - that doesn’t replenish magicka. I try to kill everything with medium/heavy weave force pulse and replenish magicka with destro passive. On everything above 100k hp I throw ele drain. On everything above 100k hp or something that must die asap I throw vampire bane first.

Very easy and never run out of magicka

If you still struggle - use vengence of the leech it is quite good for beginners

I see you don't have sweeps on your bar. Alcast has the same build on his Templar (without a video) that doesn't include sweeps. I have no idea how you can restore health fast enough without sweeps! The ritual only restores some 2-3k health every 2 seconds.How do you manage to survive a crematorial guard, or when you need to restore 15k health in seconds?

Also, I see you're using just one templar damage skill. Not even blazing spear! So you're losing 10% passive crit on both your bars...how does that work?

In Alcast's vMA videos, he uses sweeps, so I've never seen how it's possible to do vMA on a magplar and survive without the ability to heal...

To be honest, for me magplar is easiest class to do flawless in vMA (I haven’t done vMA on my magsorc since I’ve got flawless on it at 327cp). I use only ritual as heal and honestly, you shouldn’t need more, just constantly refresh your shield (harness or dumpen). If I wanted to do a high score on magplar, I would use spell crit, spell damage potions and replace structured entropy with spear, but 500k is more than enough to get to top100 weekly.

Crematorium guard has a slow turning angle, but turns 180degree instantly, your best bet if you engage in melee - go in slow circles around it just a bit faster then his turning speed.

Alcast has great build, but begginers in vMA need sustain, not DPS. I would choose sustain over DPS any day of the week and twice on Sunday's.

As I mentioned before, class skills in vMA are great, but you want to kill low hp mobs with destro staff skills or/and heavy attacks and kill high hp mobs with class skills if you applied ele drain on them.

P.S. just imho