Im starting to think, the game just knows what you want and gives you the complete opposite. I can fill up a quarter or my inventory with VMA bows that I got with my sorc.

AbysmalGhul wrote: »

I get bows...daggers...and poop

Not a single staff drop...ever. At this point, I would even rock the healing staff on my damage dealers

I actually had this particular problem myself in my farming of Maelstrom Weapons. It wasn’t until my clears in the 90’s that my first staff dropped. It was a sharpened restoration staff. Then a few runs after that, I got another restoration staff. I think precise was next. A few runs later, and my first destruction staff had dropped. An ice staff. An ice staff in infused. Lol. A hundred or so later, and my first inferno staff dropped. It wasn’t until a year later that I finally got my first lightning staff (from weekly leaderboard rewards). A nirnhoned one to boot, which at the time was useless as sharpened was still not nerfed, and precise was viewed as superior to nirnhoned.

Ready for the kicker...?

I probably have 700-ish clears (though I haven’t done VMA in months now), and I never once had a precise or sharpened inferno staff drop for me. Nor sharpened lightning staff. And that’s from both the final chest, as well as from weekly leaderboard rewards. I had to transmute 1 of my crappy old staves in order to obtain those staves in said traits.

VMA was always crappy to me regarding RNG. Because you see, originally it wasn’t a guarantee to have a weapon drop for you in Maelstrom Arena. And I originally only wanted staves, and didn’t care too much about the stamina weapons. And guess what the game decided to give me? Stamina weapons. And see, the original traits were: Defending, precise, and sharpened. Then when they made weapons a guaranteed drop, they introduced traits like: Infused, nirnhoned, etc. So by the time I had received my first destruction staff, I had already gotten pretty much every stamina weapon in every possible trait variation. Lol. Then in multiples to boot. And to this day, I have more stamina weapons than anything. But to be specific, bows and daggers. Bows and daggers dropped for me like candy.

I wish the arena would just reward you with weapons based on what you have equipped on your bars. The most simple solution of them all. Or give players tokens if you really want them to waste their time so bad. Just *** the RNG crap already.

Shhhh. I’m that guy. To be fair though, I have a mag and Stam version of every class, to they all can get used.

I’ve ran less than 20 times, but all Stam toons have a bow to call their own and I got a few lightning and Inferno. 2 S/B, 1 Frost, 1 resto, but most sadly only got 1 2H.

It might not even be that great anymore, but the Maelstrom 2H is the coolest looking weapon in the game IMO. I’d like to have a few more of them, but they drop the least for me.