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Give me a reason to not quit eso
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Neeno✭✭7 hours , you joking ?!
it took me a week of 5-6 hours per day to clear it 1st time as stamina nightblade and 2 days was just for last boss/round
i was same as you exactly but didn't think of quitting the game but quit trying MA , but i realized that MA is a game of self test of patience and focus, it is truly a solo challenge that i find very unique in ESO and couldnt find in any other MMO, also i've done vMA when i was CP690 because i tried it many times during cp300s 500s and i was always failing giving myself an excuse that i'm failing because i'm low on CP , as i said it is really a self test game, oh and i've done all vet trials except vHoF before i finished vMA , it cant be compared to anything in the game Maelstrom is Maelstrom ,
just have more patience and believe me after you clear it once , it become super easy until the point it will become as a routine inside and a bit boring.0 -
Vapirko✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭As far as the stage six boss is concerned she can be a little nasty, but the only thing that really hurts is the aoe. So make sure you keep your resources up, keep your aoe up on her all the time, deal with the adds as needed. Did you ever see the Mark Whalburg movie Shooter? In it he has this corny line when he’s trying to teach someone to shoot, “slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” A similar principle applies to vMA. Yes you need to be quick but you can’t be quick unless your heals are up and your resources are up and you can’t have that unless you’re following your rotation and it should better to go a little slower and keep yourself moving then to try and burn through it making mistakes.0 -
AddictionX✭✭✭✭huschdeguddzje wrote: »So I've been playing eso since November got 2 characters maxed out, a stamdk and a magblade at cp380. I'm able to hit 30K with both of them consistently.
The obvious next step was to go into vma and get the staff and bow.
And ***, this is hell, I've been trying for 7 hours and I'm still stuck at the boss of arena 6. I don't know why people say that the ice Lake is the hardest arena.
I was so hopefull that vma would get just a little easier after that she troll fell but no not for me.
On top of that vma made me realize how seriously infuriating the hitboxes are.
Being uppercutted by a guy 5 meters to your left? Or the dwemer steamwall hitting you at 10 meters range?What a jolly good time.
Now I like a challenge but this is just straight up ***. All for weapons I probably won't get anyway, but with are essential.
I'm not having fun anymore and if I even can't finish maelstrom I can forget the hard Mode trials anyway.
I really liked this game, so I hope some of you can reignite that spark.
Look for videos where your class is clearing vMA. Use the powerups in each arena.
The players that cleared it early mostly spent a ton of time in there before their first clear. Even today most players getting their first clear spend a great amount of time working on that goal. Heck, it was not that long ago that progression was not saved. Every day it was starting from the first arena.
You will get it. When you get frustrated, which happens, take a break.
progression is saved?!?!0 -
Neeno✭✭AddictionX wrote: »huschdeguddzje wrote: »So I've been playing eso since November got 2 characters maxed out, a stamdk and a magblade at cp380. I'm able to hit 30K with both of them consistently.
The obvious next step was to go into vma and get the staff and bow.
And ***, this is hell, I've been trying for 7 hours and I'm still stuck at the boss of arena 6. I don't know why people say that the ice Lake is the hardest arena.
I was so hopefull that vma would get just a little easier after that she troll fell but no not for me.
On top of that vma made me realize how seriously infuriating the hitboxes are.
Being uppercutted by a guy 5 meters to your left? Or the dwemer steamwall hitting you at 10 meters range?What a jolly good time.
Now I like a challenge but this is just straight up ***. All for weapons I probably won't get anyway, but with are essential.
I'm not having fun anymore and if I even can't finish maelstrom I can forget the hard Mode trials anyway.
I really liked this game, so I hope some of you can reignite that spark.
Look for videos where your class is clearing vMA. Use the powerups in each arena.
The players that cleared it early mostly spent a ton of time in there before their first clear. Even today most players getting their first clear spend a great amount of time working on that goal. Heck, it was not that long ago that progression was not saved. Every day it was starting from the first arena.
You will get it. When you get frustrated, which happens, take a break.
progression is saved?!?!
Yes Stages are saved as long as you have the quest active, but if you left the arena the round of the stage resets,
so when you come back you going to start from 1st round of last stage you've attempted.Edited by Neeno on February 12, 2018 4:44AM0 -
rikimm16_ESO✭✭✭KingYogi415 wrote: »Not everything is meant to be easy and handed to you instantly.
Maybe wait for 450-550 CP before you cry about not being able to beat the hardest single player content in the game.
And magsorc or stamsorc are known to be the best for it.
Don’t need 450 cp with a pet MagSorc... I have done it (vetMA) 3 times in the past week with only 250 CP.
To the OP, just roll a MagSorc if u r having too much trouble with other classes.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭vMA does this to everyone.
Literally everyone.
I got my first stamDK clear yesterday, just so i'd done it on that character and the last boss ... omg. I hate him so much.
But, in a lot of ways I think vMa is the best content in the game. It pushes you to know and understand your character and class and how it all hangs together.
Nothing taught me the importance of light attack weaving more than doing vMA on my stam-blade.
Nothing highlighted exactly how important hurricane and crit surge up times are like vMA did.
Embrace the pain and frustration. It's vMA telling you through sheer brute force where you need to improve, the weaknesses you gloss over in group content because you have a great healer or a solid tank looking out for you.0 -
Saint_Bud✭✭✭✭Cant belive it. There are still nerf vma treads. You invest 6-7 hours, thats nothing.PVP Saint-Bud magicka Templar: AR 49
PVE Lord Victarion mDK : dro'm-Athra-Destroyer pre Morrowind retired for crafting
PVE Ramsay-Bolton magicka NB: Voice of Reason Clockwork City Patch retired
VAA hm/ VHRC hm/ VSO hm/ VMOL hm/ VHOF hm/ VAS hm clear
Stop playing PVE because its boring, content not disigned for melee players and class balance and sustain is ***0 -
FakeFox✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭huschdeguddzje wrote: »If I even can't finish maelstrom I can forget the hard Mode trials anyway.
Well, yes. While trials and vMA are very different, they still require the same skills. Movement, knowledge and the ability to function under pressure.
Those traits are not learned by whining on the forums about how hard your life is, so stop it and get back in there.EU/PC (GER) - Healermain since 2014 - 50305 Achievement Points - Youtube (PvE Healing Guides, Builds & Gameplay)0 -
CompM4s✭✭✭✭✭Keep in mind Maelstrom weapons are great but are not absolutely neccessary to have. There are other set combinations that work very well. You could take a break from VMa before you lose your mind.0 -
eso_lags✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭huschdeguddzje wrote: »So I've been playing eso since November got 2 characters maxed out, a stamdk and a magblade at cp380. I'm able to hit 30K with both of them consistently.
The obvious next step was to go into vma and get the staff and bow.
And ***, this is hell, I've been trying for 7 hours and I'm still stuck at the boss of arena 6. I don't know why people say that the ice Lake is the hardest arena.
I was so hopefull that vma would get just a little easier after that she troll fell but no not for me.
On top of that vma made me realize how seriously infuriating the hitboxes are.
Being uppercutted by a guy 5 meters to your left? Or the dwemer steamwall hitting you at 10 meters range?What a jolly good time.
Now I like a challenge but this is just straight up ***. All for weapons I probably won't get anyway, but with are essential.
I'm not having fun anymore and if I even can't finish maelstrom I can forget the hard Mode trials anyway.
I really liked this game, so I hope some of you can reignite that spark.
Edit: I can't believe I actually have to say this, but yes I'm aware that there are vma guides, I am able to use google, I was hoping for your personal input
Man of all the reasons to quit this game. Alright, i started vma at 300 cp. did about half of it and then stopped, got 50 more cp and came back. Finally around the same CP as you i got to the last boss. I was stuck for a while. Finally one day i said, i am going to finish this and spent like 12 hours straight trying to kill him. Finally i did it. The thing i think that was getting me was that i wasnt killing the deadroth before i went up. I think it left a dot on me. Anyway the key to vma is to keep trying and make sure you are doing everything correctly. After that it comes down to try and try again.
Experience. You learn things like when certain sigils will benefit you. Certain strategies. Like on the last boss of the frost round i always start at the speed ice block, go to the healing one and grab it, and then finish the boss at the damage/reflect ice block. This allows me to grab the sigils right when shes at 50% and burn her without getting killed by range enemies. Little things can mess you up in vma. The best advice i can you is this;
Make sure you have a solid build. Make sure you arent running out of resources. Keep trying and learn strategies. And look at guides to make sure you arent missing things (yes i know you do this but sometimes you can miss things that are important on certain rounds)... Swap skills as needed. Stam dk and magblade arent the easiest class (like mag sorc or stam sorc) but they are both very high damage classes.
And on another note im currently leveling a PC NA char right now. So on my main account on Xbox i hopped on my stam sorc and took out all my cp besides like 54 for each tree (162).. Then it threw on spriggens and hundings (easy sets to get).. I did this to see if i could run vma on my new account with this build when i hit 160. I managed to get to round 7 with no issue before i got bored. The difference between me and a cp 162 player is i have run vma hundreds of times on this stam sorc.. Just keep trying and take breaks or you will burn yourself out.Edited by eso_lags on February 12, 2018 8:13AM1 -
Splattercat_83✭✭✭✭huschdeguddzje wrote: »And ***, this is hell, I've been trying for 7 hours and I'm still stuck at the boss of arena 6. I don't know why people say that the ice Lake is the hardest arena.
It's usually experienced people that say it's the hardest - and it is. If you know every spawn and are able to clear the arena with your eyes closed, and you wanna go for a 600k+ score - yes - the ice arena is the one that will annoy you most.
As for you, every new arena will seem harder, except arena 8, that one's a joke. Just take breaks and keep coming back. Do it on your Magblade, don't do it on DK. To be plain honest with you, you just have to die every death possible to know how you can die. Only then you can avoid all these deaths. So don't beat yourself up over it. Arena 6 is hard, it will take many tries, arena 7 will be harder, round 4 will be especially annoying. Arena 8 will be easier. Arena 9 will be hell. Last boss will be a lot harder. Back in my learning days, learning the last boss took me about as much as the whole rest of vMA. Be ready for it.
However, you do have tools now people didn't have when vMA came out. Destro ulti is extremely OP, CP are frontloaded, gear stats are higher.
You can do this!
LMAO, arena 8 is the one that gives me the fits. I can blow through 5,6,and 7 but I get to stage 8 and it always a ride on the ol' struggle bus in there. Stage 9 is a cake walk for me to. I've noticed its different arena's that give different people trouble. I watched a video Fengrush ( I know he's a PVPer, but none the less....) done in VMA and he hatesssssssssssssssss arena #2.0 -
efster✭✭✭✭✭VMA isn't just about high DPS. That's obviously a big deal too but you have to learn the mechanics, get used to them, and know how to survive. That just takes practice, like anything else. Most people spend hours on their first clear -- and you're doing it when you can actually save your progress and walk away for a bit if it gets to be too much. When vMA first dropped, that wasn't possible. You had to get it done in one go or quit and start again. Don't give up!AD is the best looking faction. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them.0 -
Bbsample197✭✭✭✭no we have no reason, soo... umm PC NA @bbsample197 heres my platform and server... in case you want to.. you know... leave your stuff to me while you take a break on the game.0 -
Knootewoot✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Why should we give you a reason not to quit ESO?
If you don't enjoy the game, take a break. If you get the urge to log in after a while, then try again. If not... well then the game is better to be left behind.٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
"I am a nightblade. Blending the disciplines of the stealthy agent and subtle wizard, I move unseen and undetected, foil locks and traps, and teleport to safety when threatened, or strike like a viper from ambush. The College of Illusion hides me and fuddles or pacifies my opponents. The College of Mysticism detects my object, reflects and dispels enemy spells, and makes good my escape. The key to a nightblade's success is avoidance, by spell or by stealth; with these skills, all things are possible."2 -
Hokiewa✭✭✭✭Honestly? I really cant at this point. I logged in ONCE this week, and that was to preview the horse ppl were whining about . Other than that , to me, the game has really hit a plateu and is going to crash soon. Too much focus on content with low QA and too much focus on the crown shop, too little focus on bug fixing, server upgrades, performance fixes, etc.
We are all aware how you feel. You've been predicting doom for eso for six months. If you are truly this unhappy then why do you stay? I know the answer and so do you.......
Stalker much?
Voicing critique about failing points of a game is not predicting gloom. Its just stating facts. If you have a problem with the facts. That's not my problem. I have already stated i adore the game, which is why its a shame that it falls so short in so many important areas.
Stalker really? Lol, voicing critique in virtually every thread you comment in is simply unnecessary and serves (as evident by my irrelevant responses) to distract from the topic at hand. Yet you know this and continue to do it. It's opinion, yours, not fact.
Whining incessantly for 6 months about the end of ESO, how disappointed/whatever you are has accomplished exactly nothing. At this point, you are only doing it because you like it.2 -
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✭LioraValkyrie wrote: »My advice on the stage 6 boss: ignore the boss. Focus entirely on the stun mechanic and killing the ads. Just drop a few dots on her when you get the chance. She will die all of a sudden and you'll be all shocked, like, huh I didn't even attack her!
Since the OP is obviously not bothered by using sigils, I would recommend he get save an ultimate for the boss, and have all but one of the obelisks uncovered (leave the one next to the power sigil). When the fight starts, uncover that last obelisk with the first horvor that spawns to stun the boss, grab the power sigil, drop any dots and ultimate on the boss. With decent damage this should get her between 30-50% health. Kill the webspinner that slows you next while keeping dots on the boss, and once the webspinner is dead just burn the boss. You may get a lurcher that spawns, but you can kite it in a circle around the boss as you are finishing the boss off. Fight should only take about 60-90 seconds, and you skip 90% of the mechanics.0 -
Gothren✭✭✭✭✭Stage 6 boss can be pretty annoying, it's one of the bosses that are very demanding that the mechanics be done, or else you eventually get one-shot regardless of DPS. It's easy to pay too much attention on the boss and not see the spider webbing up cleansed obelisks, the other spider who gradually slows you down to a fatal standstill if not dealt with for too long, and the hoarvers who despawn if they don't get aggro soon enough.
My advice would be to take that fight slow and look more to the background than the boss, outside of what's necessary to survive her own attacks. When you can start to balance keeping an eye on the background mechanics, then you can go back to burning her down.
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Niobium✭✭✭✭SilverIce58 wrote: »Honestly, if you need a random stranger on the internet to give you a reason to quit, it just means that you've already made your choice, and you're looking for attention. There's very little to no reason that anyone can give you that you won't disagree with.
Does this thread count as a "quitting thread", bc if it does inb4lock.
QFT
Not sure that anyone here can "give you a reason not to quit" .. you either want to play, or you don't.0 -
Lukums1✭✭✭✭Welcome to the long, bitter history of first ever vMA runs. Stam DK is probably the hardest stamina class to complete it on with stam sorc being the best. If you want to take a break and farm vicious ophidian gear that will make it a lot easier and you don’t need the weapons for vMA. It’s mostly the stam return and speed boost you’re looking for. Look at some of the good guides by @Joy_Division and @Lukums1 and keep trying. I think I spent about 4 hours on the first 8 stages, quit for over a month on the last and then eventually beat stage 9 after another 4 hours.
@Vapirko
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6 is pretty straight forward once you get some basic concepts down.
Leave pillars for round 3 mini boss - helps a ton - soon as his down defense sigil mitigates 3 ranger ads - things like that.
I would strongly advise you watch a guide I've done on my twitch page as it shows you each wave by wave and how to mitigate as much damage as humanly possible.
I've done hundreds of runs for people (shareplay) PS4 (it's within TOS as shown on their support page) - frowned upon but oh well.
If you're on PS4 I'm happy to advise / assist.
Let me know how you travel
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monktoasty✭✭✭✭✭Zos doesn't care about this game or you..just money.
Understanding that..you can still have fun in this game..just have fun doing what you like.1 -
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✭✭✭If you quit, you'd have to give me your stuff. And if you don't then you will live with the feeling of disappointment and self regret about not doing something nice. If you do, then you would feel sad that you can't come back.
Its a mental paradox.MagDK main. PC/EU @AK-ESO
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