
So basically, make sure you have enough transmutation stones available to change at least one piece of gear. The staves are still fairly expensive, and if you have the wrong trait, your survivability in Maelstrom will suffer. If you don’t PvP and don’t have a huge stash of transmute stones on hand, you may need enough to transmute your lightning staff. Run Undaunted Dailies to get Transmutation Stones
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Image Description: In a trunk full of staves, an off-trait purple Plague Doctor’s Lightning Staff is highlighted. If you’re going for a pet sorc clear, start by visiting the Deshaan public dungeon and following the others who are farming there.Īnd if you don’t want to farm out the key pieces of Plague Doctor (cough, lightning staff), you can always go into Cyrodil and use AP to buy Deshaan’s boxes from the Regional Gear Vendor at the gate. You don’t need massive DPS, just some survivability and plenty of potions.

Perfecting your chosen build is the first step. My personal preference is Mistress of Apocrypha’s one-bar pet sorc build, which implements the Plague Doctor set for extra health and resistance. You can absolutely clear vMA before max CP, it just takes a bit of a workaround. This is especially true if you’re not CP810. My recommendations are – if you haven’t had success with “normal” meta builds – to try a one-bar build until you find your preferred two-bar build. Image Description: Mostly completed map of Wrothgar, with completed Arena: Maelstrom highlighted. It certainly makes things EASIER, but I say this as a disabled gamer: You can beat Maelstrom. The thing is, you don’t actually need 30k+ DPS to get through vMA. Not everyone prefers to DPS – and getting through difficult content on a healer or tank should be just as viable. If you struggle with it, I’m right there with you. Maelstrom is considered a “humbling” experience. I spent several hours on my first clear, with my husband coaching me on. The Elder Scrolls Online’s Orsinium event is rapidly approaching, and with it, double Vet Maelstrom drops! But if you’re like me, and you actually hate DPSing, clearing Maelstrom isn’t as easy as many make it sound.
