Thank you for the guide, much appreciated. I just mean in general though not just boss 6. They could tweak it down a bit. I dont mean by a lot just a bit.

Doesn't need nerf.

It is as aeverybody said a L2P issue. Learn mechanics, don't just depend on dps, learn when to heal/shield etc.

I know and everyone before me knows that the first time you do vet it's hell on nirn.

But you get better eventually and then after you've beaten it it's just a walk in the park.

I wish you good luck and recommend you'll read some guides or watch some videos if you're struggling.

L2P issue

Lol... i wanted to write a post like this when i was struggling through my first vMA experience. Changed my build l, watched you tube clips religiously and just persisted, one arena at a time. All advice i got was 'just keep going, you'll get there'. It never helped, but its the only thing that matters in the end... just persist and you will get there.

Oh and try not to break stuff .. vMA is expensive enough as it is without breaking your real [removed profanity].

... and wait till Stage 7, and then the boss on Stage 9... Stage 6 is a cakewalk in comparison

But, yep, you guessed it... 'you'll get there'!!!!!!

Looks at Joydivisions guide in the guide section here on the forums. Sigils are your friend if just going for a clear. Plus knowing the mechanics are more important than DPS here.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/381682/joys-new-and-improved-guide-to-beating-maelstrom-arena

First vMA clear took me like four hours on cp160 stamsorc. I did know the mechanics beforehand, Ive watched other people complete it (IRL, so I was able to ask questions, etc.). The first clear is a brutal and furstrating experience, but it gets easier very quickly. Second run took about half the time, soon I wasn't even thinking about it, just playing. To me vMA is just a complicated choreography you have to learn. When and where to kill what and in which order. That's pretty much all about it.

Now consider this. vMA has already been nerfed (directly or indirectly) multiple times. It was much harder at release. Ask veterans here.

just outa curiosity, if you leave the Arena and come back does it save your spot or do you have to start the whole thing over?

FlyLionel wrote: »

At the time of its release it dropped thee best weapons in the game for most builds, like the first person said; all it really is at the end of the day is a damage per second check, you have the damage and the brain that understands mechanics its a clear.

You ask for a nerf, 'just a bit' is that for you to just get your complete or are you looking at this objectively? I dont mind old content being tweaked; for I have no use of it and many others. Understand that since orsiniums release the damage cap and set options have been increased by a tremendous amount, so much so that now that piece of content is viewed as modest at worst case scenario. Your time to catch up, remember this is an mmo; old content is content content in the devs eyes. Good luck.

There's not a single hard DPS check in the entire arena.

Edit: I estimate that my DPS was about 20k when I beat vMA for the first time.

L2P issue.

Your first time through VMA will be absolute torture. There are punishing mechanics that will kill you. It takes time. It's so frustrating at times. I struggled through the whole thing... but once I beat it once, it got loads easier. I've been through 5 times so far (first complete a few weeks ago). My last run I finished with 8 vitality. First time I've finished with any, because it gets easier each time as long as you stick with it always pick up the quest that way you can leave when it gets to be too much.

First run is hell, second run is a lot easier, then it just keeps getting easier after that.

Just keep trying. It is literally the most frustrating and challenging solo thing in this game. You will do it one day though, just keep trying, read the guides like others have said, learn the mechanics, make sure you can survive

ForsakenSin wrote: »

As someone who took 8 months on and off to finish VMSA nearly broke my controller and throw the dam controller through the TV i say HELL NO

This is the only content that gives gives you any good challenge and improves you as a overall player.

If anybody is not able to finish it rethink your build , read guides trust me on this once when you finish it you will get amazing sense of achievement and it WILL make you better player and make you fell proud to get the title.

No nerf not even by 1%

Glad I'm not the only one who flipped out in some way xD I think I possibly broke my hand the night I eventually did complete vMA, died to some rubbish in the ice round, and I thumped the table really hard in my frustration, my god did it hurt, didn't mean to hit it that hard

Clearing vMA requires a solid build, experience and skill. There are plenty of builds to be found on the internet. Experience comes with time, skills can be developed by practising.
If someone on a potato pc can clear it on a stamdk without trialsets with only 213 cp im pretty sure anyone willing to put the time and effort in, will be able to complete vMA.

I however do agree that the difficulty gap between this games normal and vet content is something completely out of wack.

I breezed through normal MA, then I remember dying immediately in the first round of VMA and thinking, you have to be kidding me. I worked for several days just to clear stage 2.

Then I realized I needed to build a whole toon for it. Not everyone does, but I did. I work a lot, so that process took me months.

I banged on it again, got to stage 5 and had another serious you have to be kidding me experience.

I spent more weeks on rotations, potions, in optimizing every single thing I could.

Then I had some vacation and decided I WOULD beat it. Stage 6 was damned frustrating. For me, Stage 7 was even worse (lots say its easier but 7 and 9 the hardest ones for me still). Every round, every attempt my hands would be shaking from adrenaline. Especially last round of stage 9. Hundreds of deaths. So many of them agonizingly close. There were a couple of them I felt overcome practically with bleakness.

But I would not be denied. Perservered.

And brother, when you finally win - it is worth it. Any victory you can relish was hard fought, and I still relish it.

And the second full run I did in its entirety in a couple of hours immediately after. You learn.

Everyone but the most gifted experiences this process, in some timeline. And I’ll bet every one of us will remember the experience forever. Been playing these games since the beta of Ultima Online. Very few things have given me the same sense of accomplishment.

In this game, being among the first 2-3 people outside of Zos to walk up and see Elden Root in the pre closed beta only comes close. VMA is one of the things they have gotten spot on right in my opinion. Id love to see a 2 man arena, even harder, and to rock it with someone who has beaten VMA. Be some fine gaming right there.

Vma is one of the few if not only in game challenges that truly prepares solo players 4 group content if you can beat vet mas you understand mechanics have atleast 20k dps and understand getting out of aoe's is more important than dps