LuxLunae wrote: »

What am I doing wrong?

It seems you've answered the question yourself:

LuxLunae wrote: »

I can't heal my low health.

Beating Vma requires healing and just as important shielding. If you don't have resolving vigor from the alliance line you need it; it's a stam based heal so it will be stronger and more efficient than your templar heals. Templar heals are all going to be very weak because they're magicka based.

For shielding, Bone shield from the undaunted line is stamina based so you'll be able to cast it more.

I’ve done plenty of flawless runs in vma using dw, so can attest that it works fine. 2h should be good as well as Priyasekarssk suggested, and stamplars even have an aoe class spammable so snb could work, too (you can use absorb magicka here as an additional defense+heal, as ranged mobs are typically the most dangerous). But as others have said, bow is really good to have on one bar, but the other can be your choice of any other stam weapon then. If you can be bothered to farm it, I’d recommend swapping out bone pirate for vicious ophidian. This should increase your damage and still give you pretty comparable sustain, especially with repentance. Dreugh king is another good option for increasing damage, but it won’t offer you the same sustain as bone pirate or vicious ophidian.
But the best general advice I can give is to respect mechanics (which you should learn thoroughly from the guides, or you can probably pick up on from running nma a few times and seeing what happens each round) and play a lot more on the offense than defense. The quicker things die, the shorter they’ll be around to damage you. Some stages even have wipe mechanics if you take too long, such as the freezing water on stage five and the boss enrage on stage six if you don’t stun her. I’ve also heard there’s one on stage four but haven’t seen it personally.

I'm not much of a stamina player nor vMA expert, so I'll throw out some ideas without claiming they're correct:

• How does Bloodthirst compare for damage to Sweeps?
• The Briarheart set should proc a lot on Bloodthirst or Sweeps alike, plus of course the bow DoTs.
• There isn't much hostile AoE in vMA, since the mobs are only trying to kill one opponent -- you. But are there any exceptions where Deadly Cloak could help?

Also if u have questipns regarding any specific arena feel free to pm me with questions

Two questions for you:

Have you beat MA on normal ?

What food are you using ?

With a bow you can you endless hail + caltrops for aoe damage. Damage as much as possible from range so they are low health when they get into your face.

About the build:
- Use either 2H/Bow or 2W/Bow. I recommend the former for easier survival (Brawler) and access to Major Brutality w/o potions (Rally), but bow is needed because Endless Hail is by far your highest damage skill.
- Drop the Morag Tong set and replace with a general damage oriented one, like Hunding's Rage, Mechanical Acuity or Night Mother's gaze; since Templar lacks access to Major Fracture I would actually recommend the later.
- Lord mundus doesn't make any sense in PvE outside of tanking, and in PvP its utility is further decreased by the 5K added by Battle Spirit. I would recommend either going for Warrior (more weapon damage) or Lover (more penetration), with the latter slightly better, for the same reason stated above.
- Bone Pirate is a decent set for PvP, but Vicious Ophidian performs more consistently in PvE and you can easily farm in normal Craglorn trials. The reason why it's better is that it allows you to run lower recovery and go with health+stamina blue food instead of Dubious Camoran Throne
- You don't say which monster set or weapon set are you using but I would recommend going with Stormfist, since it adds greatly with sustain; if you want to stay with your Pirate/Camoran combo you can use Valkyn Skoria instead, since it will add 1.5K health, putting you at a reasonable 17K HP even with Camoran on. It will proc off your Biting Jabs and other DoTs you are running: Rearming Trap, Poison Injection, Endless Hail, Razor Caltrops, Rending Slases/Blood Craze.

What I would run:
2 Stormfist or 2 Valkin Skoria medium divines with maximum stamina enchants (depending on consumables)
5 Night Mother's Gaze divines, heavy chest, light waist, medium legs maximum stamina enchants (or others, depending what pieces you have from dropped sets), nirnhoned dagger main hand, precise/sharp/infused off-hand or nirnhoned greatsword front bar: in that case you need to craft a shoulder and only run a monster head and vice versa since a 2H weapon still counts as one piece. Also craft a bow to use until you get Maelstrom.
5 Vicious Serpent or Bone Pirate 3 jewels with weapon damage enchant, 2 medium body pieces

For 2W setup your bars should be:
Front: Power of the Light | Rending Slashes | Biting Jabs | Deadly Cloak | Rearming Trap || Flawless/Smithing Dawnbreaker
Back: Razor Caltrops | Poison Injection | Endless Hail | Resolving Vigor | Repentance || Ballista or Crescent Sweep

Rotation: Power of the Light -> HA -> Rending Slashes -> HA -> Biting Jabs -> HA -> Deadly Cloak -> HA -> Rearming Trap -> LA -> Power of the Light -> Bar Swap -> Endless Hail -> LA -> Poison Injection -> LA -> Razor Caltrops [repeat, drink weapon power potion every 45 seconds to keep buffs up] Note that you need to have Alchemy leveled and 3/3 in Medicinal Use passive in order to achieve full uptime on potions.

For 2H setup your bars should be:
Front: Power of the Light | Brawler | Biting Jabs | Reverse Slice | Rearming Trap || Flawless/Smithing Dawnbreaker
Back: Razor Caltrops | Poison Injection | Endless Hail | Resolving Vigor | Repentance || Ballista or Crescent Sweep

Rotation: Power of the Light -> HA -> Brawler -> HA -> Biting Jabs -> HA -> Rearming Trap -> LA -> Power of the Light -> Bar Swap -> Endless Hail -> LA -> Poison Injection -> LA -> Razor Caltrops [repeat, refresh Rally every 2nd rotation] On enemies lower than ~30% use Reverse Slice weaved with HA for maximum damage instead of the usual skills.

The 2nd setup is safer, cheaper, better sustain, AoE, but slightly lower single target damage.

Red CP: 66 Ironclad, 14 Spell Shield, 48 Thick Skinned, 56 Elemental Defender, 56 Hardy
Blue CP: 56 Thaumaturge, 56 Precise Strikes, 56 Mighty, 35 Piercing, 37 Master at Arms
Green CP: 64 Mooncalf, 64 Arcanist, 48 Shadow Ward, 28 Tumbling, 31 Warlord, 5 Sprinter

You can vary those a bit, but don't put too much in one star and be sure to stop spending right after hitting an integer since those will be rounded down. The values above are designed to account for this. Having a lot in Ironclad si good since most of the damage in vMA is direct damage. Also having 35 CP in Piercing will give you 3.1K penetration. Night Mother's Gaze is 2.6K and your Power of the Light adds another 1.3K. Lover Mundus with full Divines is 4.2K. So with Warrior you will have 7K penetration, with Lover 11.2K. Most trash mobs have only 9K resistances so you will overpenetrate them but some of the bosses can have as high as 18K, so it's your choice whether you use Warrior or Lover. If you don't use NMG but Hunding or Mechanical Acuity always go with Lover.

I would not insist on mechanics since there are already a large number of guides on the Internet how to deal with them.

I definitely didn’t enjoy vma while first clearing it (and still hate the ice stage tbh) but the final boss fight in the theater of despair is probably now my favorite fight in this entire game.

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

In terms of sets, you cant beat Vicious Ophidian. It is not hard to farm on normal, and even blue jewelry is perfectly acceptable.

How do you "farm" that set? Dont you need a Raid for that?
Is there some kind of Dungeonfinder for Raids?

Vahrokh wrote: »

Uviryth wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

In terms of sets, you cant beat Vicious Ophidian. It is not hard to farm on normal, and even blue jewelry is perfectly acceptable.

How do you "farm" that set? Dont you need a Raid for that?
Is there some kind of Dungeonfinder for Raids?

Go to Craglorn, wait for one of many "LFM HRC x,y,z" a day

Why Craglorn? Is that some kind of Hub for LFG/LFR?
Plus what do you do while waiting.

Looking for Group in Chats, damn I hated that even 18 years ago.