![]() Magicka > Stamina?įirst off, magicka characters generally have an easier time getting through the Maelstrom Arena. Here are some tips to make your Maelstrom Arena run much easier to overcome. When you deal damage with critical charge, it causes them to take 1784 bleed damage over 7 seconds, scaling with the higher of your spell or weapon damage. ![]() Cannot occur from simultaneous critical heals. When you critically heal with Regeneration, you restore 558 magicka. When you deal damage with Low Slash, your next fully charged heavy attack within 5 seconds restores 1904 more magicka and stamina. When you deal damage with Flurry, any damage over time skills you cast within 4 seconds gain 1690 spell and weapon damage. Your light and heavy attacks deal an additional 1353 damage to enemies in your Wall of Elements. This bonus increases by 143 every time it ticks, stacking to a max of 8 times. Increases the damage Volley deals by 430 each tick. The restoration staff, duel wield, and sword/shield are all lackluster in comparison to the items mentioned before. Stampede lays down its own ground AOE, so it constantly refreshes the bleed from Merciless Charge. ![]() Merciless Charge (2h) is another great item from here, as it causes enemies hit by Stampede to take bleed damage over time. Thunderous Volley increases the damage of each tick of Endless Hail, making it deal a lot more damage to enemies in its AOE and making stamina builds much stronger. Crushing Wall increases the damage of light attacks within your Wall of Elements, increasing your magicka DPS considerably. The best Maelstrom Arena items are Crushing Wall (inferno staff) and Thunderous Volley (bow). These bonuses include (but aren’t limited to) extra critical chance, penetration, and damage. Normal difficulty earns you standard weapons, and Veteran difficulty will give you perfected weapons with added bonuses. With Update 32, you’ll get each of the Maelstrom items in about fifteen runs. None of these sets are particularly groundbreaking - the real reward is the Maelstrom item you get from the final stage. Maelstrom Arena RewardsĮvery time you complete a round of the arena, you’ll receive a set piece from either Elemental Succession, Glorious Defender, Hunt Leader, Para Bellum, Permafrost, or Winterborn. Extra health, recoveries, and armor are especially important. As you get more slottable CPs equipped, you’ll see some noticeable increases to your survivability. You’ll probably want to be at least CP160 with fully-leveled gear before starting Vet - even then, it’ll be easier at CP300+. Make sure you have the right difficulty toggled - you don’t want to run the whole thing on easy when you were hoping for Veteran-level upgraded weapons! You can start the arena on Normal difficulty at any level, but will need to be at least Level 50 before trying Veteran mode. ![]() This is a solo arena (and a difficult one at that), meaning you can’t even bring a companion along for the ride. Between each stage, you can speak to Tutor Riparius to repair your gear, buy potions, or sell items you don’t want. (Note: If you’re a vampire, you’ll especially want to watch out for the fire damage from Stages 8 and 9.) You may need to change up your armor sets and strategy based on how a stage feels. The arena has nine stages, all with different enemy types of damage. Image: ZeniMax Online Studios via HGG / Angus Green You definitely don’t want to lose more progress than you have to! If you leave at Stage 5, Phase 3, you’ll come back at Stage 5, Phase 1. This will be important, as the arena already doesn’t remember what phase you’re in if you leave between stages. This quest effectively saves your progress at the start of each stage. ![]() You can start the arena quest by speaking to the Daedra Fa-Nuit-Hen. Note that if you don’t have the Orsinium expansion or ESO+, you won’t be able to play the arena. The Maelstrom Arena is located at the northeast side of the map, above the main city of Orsinium. These should help your runs go more smoothly, so let’s get right to it! Maelstrom Arena Basics: What Should You Expect? Instead, we’ll cover the basics to make your arena runs easier even at Veteran difficulty, and touch on some of the major mechanics you’ll need to know. There are already plenty of guides that break down how to face each enemy in the Maelstrom Arena, so we’ll do something a little different. To this day, most meta PVE builds use the Maelstrom inferno staff or bow on their backbar! It’s been around a while, but the weapons you earn as a reward are still relevant. The Maelstrom Arena and the Wrothgar zone were added to ESO in 2015 with the Orsinium DLC. ![]()
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