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Are vMA weapons still worth using for PvE?

skyhawk002
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With recent changes to wall of elements and volley, will people still use vMA weapons on the backbar or switch to something else in PvE?

Patch notes

Volley:
This ability and its morphs now deal damage every second, rather than every half second, and increased the damage per tick by approximately 11%. This will result in an overall damage loss.
Reduced the base cost to 2808 from 3510.
The range on all morphs is now 28 meters.

Arrow Barrage (morph): This morph no longer extends the duration, but increased the damage per tick by approximately 20%.

Endless Hail (morph): This morph no longer grants cost reduction, but now lasts 9 seconds and ranks to 12 seconds at Rank IV, rather than gaining 1.1% damage per tank.


Wall of Elements:
Increased the duration of this ability and its morphs to 8 seconds from 6 seconds.
These abilities will now rank up in damage per rank, rather than cost reduction.
Decreased the cost to 3024 from 3510.
Decreased the damage per tick by approximately 33%.

Elemental Blockade (morph):
Increased the duration from this ability to 9 seconds from 8 seconds, which ranks up to 12 seconds. It also no longer reduces in cost per rank.

Unstable Wall of Elements (morph):
This morph no longer reduces in cost per rank, but increases in explosion damage.
Increased the damage of the explosion by approximately 94%.
Fixed an issue where the final DoT tick was being consumed by the explosion.
Edited by skyhawk002 on July 7, 2019 4:25AM
  • redspecter23
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    Master destro staff just got a lot sexier. Might go start buffing that up in anticipation
  • Pevey
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    No
  • Nevasca
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    Reading the patch notes, looks like vMA bow shouldn't suffer noticeable DPS loss. Blockade I'd assume it would still be worth using since it adds so much DPS (way more than the 1k tooltip from vMA staff due to how the math works behind the scenes)
  • Čičiliusku
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    I will use master architect now. Sad, as I used my free time to farm the vma staff.
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  • stickenstein
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    Wouldn't the decrease in volley ticks (0.5s -> 1.0s) affect the damage of the VMA bow quite a bit? Whereas the staff wasn't really directly nerfed -- just the ability it was tied to to some extent, i.e. light/heavy attacks are still the same and one could possibly stay on front bar a little longer now due to the longer duration of blockade.
    Edited by stickenstein on July 7, 2019 5:05AM
  • AbysmalGhul
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    Any increased damage at this point is better than no increased damage
  • SienneYviete
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    Wouldn't the decrease in volley ticks (0.5s -> 1.0s) affect the damage of the VMA bow quite a bit? Whereas the staff wasn't really directly nerfed -- just the ability it was tied to to some extent, i.e. light/heavy attacks are still the same and one could possibly stay on front bar a little longer now due to the longer duration of blockade.

    They buffed the vma bow damage to compensate.
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  • stickenstein
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    Wouldn't the decrease in volley ticks (0.5s -> 1.0s) affect the damage of the VMA bow quite a bit? Whereas the staff wasn't really directly nerfed -- just the ability it was tied to to some extent, i.e. light/heavy attacks are still the same and one could possibly stay on front bar a little longer now due to the longer duration of blockade.

    They buffed the vma bow damage to compensate.

    Well there you go, so I don't see why these weapons still won't be very good.
  • AbysmalGhul
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    I'm still going to use them. The extra dps is definitely nice regardless of the future nerfs
  • skyhawk002
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    Wouldn't the decrease in volley ticks (0.5s -> 1.0s) affect the damage of the VMA bow quite a bit? Whereas the staff wasn't really directly nerfed -- just the ability it was tied to to some extent, i.e. light/heavy attacks are still the same and one could possibly stay on front bar a little longer now due to the longer duration of blockade.

    They buffed the vma bow damage to compensate.

    By how much? I didn’t catch that bit on my read through
  • TheEverword
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    skyhawk002 wrote: »

    By how much? I didn’t catch that bit on my read through



    Thunderous Volley: Increased the damage bonus of this set to be nearly double the original value, since Volley and its morphs only tick once every 1 second, instead of every half second. The values are slightly less than double, since they are now on prettier numbers.
    Edited by TheEverword on July 7, 2019 5:56AM
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