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Vet Malstrom Arean

  • ragingruby1991
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    Just my two cents here:

    Siroria is not that great here. Try Necro, Juli, Ilambris or Necro, Spinner, Ilambris for a petsorc. Whoever said Ilambris is bad in VMA is just wrong. Ilambris on a sorc that uses a fire and lightning staff is pretty frickin good, especially if you can kite other adds into the aoe. No need to gold out your armor, but you should gold out your weapons.

    Also use your sigils. Unless you are going for top 100 for a weekly reward there is no reason not to use them. I have beaten vma over 75 times and still use the sigils on some rounds because why not LOL.

    And I might have missed it but what is your CP?
  • TheInfernalRage
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    eso_nya wrote: »
    siroria? thats not good in there, is not like u can stand still for more than a second. drop it for julianos.

    Here's the clue. Probably copied a build without knowing its weakness simply because BiS.
  • Hostee
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    You’re a pet sorc with literally the strongest shield in the game. If you can’t figure out how to spam your shields long enough to stay alive then unfortunately your not a good player....
  • Maggi12
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    HEY ZOS VMA .........!!
    . and still.. year after year... never finished VMA.

    I thought i am extremely noob, because i struggled ice arena whole night (not good time, i know), then i had problems on poison arena (was not able to detect sneaky mages pretty fast), and then i died 100 times on spider boss, and on last boss too... but i completed that arena 3 times and got fire staff and 2 bows (dont hate me pls).
    High elf pet sorc, julianos/ilambris/necro (cheap drop magicka potions), almost no sigils, because i thought that i am Chuck Norris xD (but it was fun and challenge).
  • SirLeeMinion
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    OP, I struggled similarly - Pet sorc (necro + julianos+ illambris).

    tl;dr Use offensive sigils and potions for much higher damage up top.

    Changing the color of the damage circles helped me immeasurably; I no longer got blind sided and pinned down on the upper ring. As a result, I could switch to spell crit potions because I only used stam to block and sprint.

    I have higher ping, hit the wrong keys a lot, and ftc generally tells me my DPS on this last phase is only 15K or even less. But, this has worked for me: Start last stage, hit my buffs, drop AoEs, pop a spell crit potion. Die to something stupid 4 of 5 times. One in 5 times, the healer, guard and boss are all at the same place and I didn't back into a ghost... adds die in AoE, boss goes up.

    Drop AoEs on glowing portal, light attack clannfear, it dies. Get speed and power sigil. Refresh power surge and boundless storm. Go up. (2 in 3 times I die to a ping surprise but when I don't...) Drop blockade and liq light on nearest crystal and trigger familiar, run clockwise (the way the wall moves) a little bit. Block. Go clockwise further to next crystal. Pop spell crit potion and drop destro ultimate on it. Hit boundless again and run like mad counter clockwise to meet the wall, renew power surge and light attack plus AoE the first crystal as you go by (use matriarch heal, too, as needed). Wall explodes and two of the three crystals are gone or very low health. Unload whatever AoEs you have on the third crystal while moving to avoid damage and blocking 2 skulls. Hit boundless storm and power surge. Run Counter clockwise to meet wall and destroy whatever is handy with light attacks. After second wall explosion there should be one crystal left with a little bit of health. Boundless storm, power surge, light attack, heal while running to it. Drop AoEs, on it jump into lava. Crystal dies, boss comes down, yay.

    Die 3 out of 4 times in third phase. Finally finish.

    Due to internet ping and my own incompetence, it still takes me about 6 hours to get through all of VMA and this last boss often takes me a half hour. I generally force a disconnect every hour or so because of a weird graphics lag that results in inexplicable deaths. Still, I died literally hundreds of times to that very last boss on my first clear. You will get it.
  • MJallday
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    Pretty much all of the above. I spent 6 months on and off on a stamplar trying to clear it and failed. , so spent 3 months properly on a pb sorc which was infinitely easier . I swear I cried a bit on my first clear and yes I did get a sheild

    Last boss is a b***h but here’s how I do it

    1) go into fight with a destro ulti
    2) boss appears , send pets in, drop aoe, block when he skulls you
    3) he teleports, interrupt him ASAP then gtfo away lobbing aoe in
    4) cream appears kite crem to where boss teleports to and drop ulti
    5) you should be at 70% now. If not then wtf are you doing
    6) clanfear appears, heavy attack him onto the portal and go
    Upstairs
    7) pop a immovable pot. Nuke down crystal with pet and aoe and heavy attack . Hide behind sheild walls and stay out of aoe. Don’t stop moving
    8) If you get bundled downstairs kite crem to centre and drop ulti . The clan may die but it’ll respawn before another crem comes.
    9) repeat 7 and 8 until crystals down
    10) get downstairs, pop every sigil especially the defence first , this will reflect the bosses attack back at him.
    11) stay near the boss collect the ghosts. Focus on boss and nuke him
    12) don’t drop ulti until crem appears, put crem near boss and ulti them to death. Ignore everything else

    That’s it. If you follow that.you should be good
    I use 5 torug. 5 infal and 2 llambrus

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