Brandon
The Downfall of NA
updated
EXP value is with EXP reamp + trade bonus as this was on an alternate character
As you can see, I stray from the recommended route. Due to the original video being upload prior to strings nerf there are a lot of gyms with in my opinion stronger solves that you would not have time to hit. I try to increase consistency in the route by skipping gyms that work less often for me in favor of hitting consistent gyms later on. I don't have fire patches on either of my Typhlosions as you can see in the first few seconds of the video so there are some situations where I could have more success with flash fire typhlosions but I opt for different leads. When not focusing on the rerun I generally get 25 gyms + PI Carlos but I noticed I was having some decent success early on so I decided to try a few things out this run and they ended up being fairly successful, I'd venture to say 28 gyms + PI carlos is doable, even 29 gyms with more optimization.
This is not a guide to the rerun but rather a showcase of its potential following the strings nerf.
Original Video and strategy by JinxedBoon: youtube.com/watch?v=Ijk39ccNsdg&t
server is folkvangr
Waking Flame
PC/NA
Calamity
This was streamed live at twitch.tv/brenaneso
PC/NA
Blackwood
This was streamed live at twitch.tv/brenaneso
Gear & Parse
imgur.com/a/tXGgP4D
CMX parse: imgur.com/a/y7ybIoR
Gear: Bahsei Medusa Kilt 1x Slimecraw
CP: Backstabber Fighting Finesse Master-at-Arms Deadly Aim
This was streamed live at twitch.tv/brenaneso
Calamity
Blackwood
This was streamed live at twitch.tv/brenaneso
The rockgrove specific addons:
ody support icon + rockgrove helper + codes combat alerts
Hello, I don't really know how to start off this description as I'm still just coming off the rush of adrenaline, but here we go. HELLO, Calamity begun progressing Rockgrove on the PTS, 5 week prior to its release on live, upon release, after a long 4 weeks we've knocked out Planesbreaker and of course also unlocked Daedric Bane to get the mount. The strats we've landed on, I feel are about as efficient as Rockgrove can be pushed while maximizing our survivability.
Some honorable mentions of what we did to make no deathing this trial as consistent as can be:
- We used guard on Oaxiltso to assist people kiting the longest with poison, additionally we used saxheel barriers throughout the fight between warhorns to both maximize our major force, and provide a 55k shield which came in handy to a lot of different one shot combos.
- On Bahsei we stopped damage during portals to give our OT time to channel the sigil, the healers were backup sigil incase it spawned behind, but the OT generally grabbed the sigils in front, and if it spawned anywhere to the side of the group, the DPS would grab them, in execute, we full focused Fire Behemoths at 25 and 20% as these are the two that spawn closest to eachother and can tear through a tank, through mist form.
- Our callouts for Nova on Xalvakka were about as efficient as we could make it. From the POV of the entrance to the floor, a DPS would check the left spawn, one healer would check the entrance, and one would check the right side; however in execute we had the healer who checked entrance stay in group. For this to work, we had the healer on right either call out "right" or "maybe entrance", the reason these callouts worked was because if they called "maybe entrance", the DPS checking the left side can easily make the callout of whether its left side, or by process of elimination, tell everyone to move to entrance. This kept as many people stacked together as possible during nova.
Everything else was just doing a lot of damage, sorry.
Gear:
1x Slimecraw
1x Hunter's Wading Kilt
5x Bahsei (Body)
5x Medusa (Front bar & Jewels)
I used this gear on all encounters including trash, on trash I used an inferno staff because if you remember back in our patch record of vMoL in Flames of Ambition, it was found by my pure laziness of not wanting to farm a lightning staff of medusa, that a Pulsar setup with an inferno staff is the strongest a trash setup can get. This is both due to Encratis + Engulfing, the Pulsar Afterburn damage (Flame staff only), and the incredible amount of burning DPS added on all targets.
On bosses I was forced to keep up Siphoning to be able to sustain after the removal of the Minor Magickasteal bug where every time it was refreshed, the internal cooldown of Magickasteal would also reset. I used force pulse on Bahsei for cleaving the secondary targets, however I used Swallow soul on both Oaxiltso and Xalvakka for both safety and passive ult regen.
CP on Boss:
Backstabber, Fighting Finesse, Deadly Aim, Master at Arms
CP on Trash:
Thaumaturge, Fighting Finesse, Biting Aura, Master at Arms
I used dressing room to swap CP between trash and boss enemies.
Other POV
DK Tank - @Nario15 youtu.be/qAS6Mxa7x3I
Necro Tank - @Wondernuts youtu.be/FNyW3p-d0vM
Warden Healer - @stileanima youtu.be/U9n71mA4EA8
Templar Healer - @Ickypiggy youtu.be/O4YEzXMTKq8 (Boss mashup of multiple runs)
Necro - @kabs12 youtu.be/i2XhZ57tFn4
Necro - @Jayfillet
DK - @Veale youtu.be/qkia5SEmdkM
Sorc - @Zevorak youtu.be/6hKlpXRjVqA
NB - @Brenann youtu.be/c-jaxr3RarU
NB - @Inoculated youtu.be/9e_D3wbmibw
NB - @Swaggasm
NB - @hibiol youtu.be/Ry_VDzV10rg
I uh, think thats everything. Description will be updated with new information if I remember anything relevant.
0:00 Intro
0:19 Trash to Oaxiltso
1:45 Oaxiltso
6:18 Trash to Bahsei
8:35 Bahsei
15:23 Trash to Ash Titan
17:37 Xalvakka
24:59 Xalvakka dead and outro
Flames of Ambition
Calamity
Hey we got a pretty decent vMoL in 2 raid days, I played colossus necro but I think my damage was pretty fine. This run was like my worst performance on Rakkhat, but Zhaj and Twins were good
I had to pull this off my stream (twitch.tv/brenaneso) because I did not record. So the quality may be somewhat lower, but at least there's an input overlay which is cool :]
Gear:
5x Medusa
5x Mother's Sorrow
1x Slimecraw
1x Ring of the Pale Order
Blue CP:
Backstabber
Fighting Finesse
Thaumaturge
Biting Aura
Flames of Ambition
Calamity
Hello! We're back after our push in Asylum. This time we went to Cloudrest, and after 8 raids days we got a score we were comfortable with. We had many full vit runs but a lot of them had very apparent mistakes which is why we decided to continue in Cloudrest.
I tried a multitude of classes in here, which all performed very well, in some cases surprisingly so. Magicka Warden had the best performance in my opinion next to Magicka Necromancer. I felt like they had the same DPS ceiling, Magden felt easier to play; but it felt like I could make more mistakes on Magcro and still perform well. I also tried Magicka Templar, while I only tried it on the first couple of raids, its damage felt lackluster, I feel like it could have improved as our runs got smoother. I would rank it just under a full parse / z'en MagDK in damage potential in Cloudrest from my testing.
One other class we tested extensively was Stamsorc, its performance was surprisingly very good; but it was not good enough to warrant swapping to a stam comp, as it felt very clunky to play, and generally required being in melee for max potential. It has a slightly lower ceiling than Magplar, and it's much harder to reach that ceiling compared to any mag class.
TL;DR I tried a bunch of stuff, Magcro was the most consistent top DPS, with Magden just uh, bearly below it if not the same exact DPS.
Gear:
2x Zaan
5x Mother's Sorrow
5x Medusa (Frontbarred)
Maelstrom Perfected Inferno
Blue CP:
Backstabber
Fighting Finesse
Thaumaturge
Biting Aura
Other POVs:
Rhzolen: youtube.com/watch?v=K2nmHoIiba8
Zev: youtube.com/watch?v=xngIfMbMFGk&ab_channel=Zevorak
Nario: youtube.com/watch?v=qqSVcJyhElI&ab_channel=Naridukems
Song used was Ivan Torrent - Facing Fears, but it had a custom minor remix from 2:00 on since I wanted the song to fit the video more
With the release of Flames of Ambition, a lot of records are out of reach due to DPS nerfs. This score has a lot of room for improvement if we were to use toggle. But our current goal is not to post a bunch of records, but rather prepare for the new trials release. So we'll be moreso focusing on patch records rather than world records. Since world records are unreachable without the use of vampire toggle which also extends progressions by a large amount, It's near impossible to do a sweep of scores while using it.
Gear / CP:
2x Crit monster set
5x Mother's Sorrow
5x Medusa
We ended up finding that focusing on maximizing our crit was most beneficial with the crit nerfs. With this setup as nightblades we're around 75~% crit. Using the flanking crit damage + crit damage blue tree slottables, and being a Khajiit (12% crit damage), this puts a heavy strain on critting as our main source of dps. I believe high elfs and khajiit are near identical and in 90% of content you would never see a difference in dps unless you're straining for seconds in a fight.
also I suck, I ate 2 maims this pull and it was still not very close to my PB of 72k single this patch. Not even to mention my PB in other patches of 92k single, the DPS nerfs were pretty large sadge
Other POV:
youtube.com/watch?v=kvlRNifU_IM&ab_channel=stileanima
This GS took us about 2 hours since everyone in the group had previously gotten it and wanted it on different characters they don't usually play. My role as you can see I was MT and it was like my 5th time doing it so I had really bad debuffs but I was just trying to do mechanics well like proc'ing breath on lokk. This GS was pugged but selectively picked through OMP;
OMP/One More Pull is the largest trial guild discord that also acts as a community hub for PVE raiders. OMP hosts open prog/farming trials as well as cores with more selective rosters. There isn't a better place to meet and raid with a large variety of endgame PVE players.


