Mage Tower Detailed Strategy Guides For Every Class In Patch 9.1.5

Comment by Naturalbeef

on 2021-12-06T20:25:44-06:00

For those who tested this, what can we expect for difficulty level: Mythic, Heroic, Normal or LFR boss.

Comment by Saharad

on 2021-12-06T20:39:44-06:00

Hard to tell because 1. we could test it for what, 24h? month or so ago and that's it; 2. some challenges were buggy (I deffo enjoyed Infernals spawning and immediately yeeting me off the platform with no possible response to that since I was down on Gliders when I copied a character and there was none on PTR AH - dear old Kruul); 3. there was some unexpected behaviour, like Variss getting closer when Silenced via Avenger's Shield, being unable to pick up little Horrors no matter what (had to taunt them one by one, lol), also swirlies on God Queen HURT like hell for some reason. Nevermind some classes getting abilities that trivialize encounter (Touch of Death of Brewmaster, being able to Moonkin away as Bear), others losing some that make it much harder. Depends on whether they fixed the bugs above and accounted for loss of Covenants/Legendaries/Artifacts. But I think it should be liiiiike Heroic?

Comment by Skyrei

on 2021-12-06T20:43:12-06:00

I dont mind difficulty but I hope that gathering old gear and gems won't be necessary

Comment by Zket1499

on 2021-12-06T20:44:52-06:00

Some were like LFR (aff lock), some were Normal (Prot warr), some were Heroic (havoc dh, maybe even Mythic)and some were like OVERTUNED Mythic (bm hunter, ret pal), so yeah, you can expect overtuning and bugs in some fights (probably)

Comment by tmptfate

on 2021-12-06T20:59:46-06:00

I dont mind difficulty but I hope that gathering old gear and gems won't be necessaryOld gear scales better in the Mage Tower. So farming more and more optimized pieces from the BiS gear/gems/enchants is going to make it noticeably easier.And Legion Time Walking for Mage Tower is only available every 4.5 months, so you will have plenty of time after this first release to work on a BiS set from old content.

Comment by basebone

on 2021-12-06T21:11:31-06:00

man, I was excited for this 2 months ago but between the passing of time and all the bs surrounding blizz, I just don't care anymore. it's a shame

Comment by jackomack

on 2021-12-06T21:14:15-06:00

I saw it somewhere months ago, but is there a streamlined view on a class/spec list to getting the mount? IE, do Arms/Prot/Fury, XYZ and G

Comment by Tribune

on 2021-12-06T21:43:59-06:00

https://www.wowhead.com/guides/mage-tower-legion-timewalking#list-of-challengesTake one from each row. Not exactly what you asked for but close enough I think.

Comment by TheRedRogue

on 2021-12-06T21:55:07-06:00

I dont mind difficulty but I hope that gathering old gear and gems won't be necessary100% Not necessary at least for rogue as that's all I tested on PTR, but some items based on certain classes/specs can be very helpful if you have them/feel it's a bit too tough without them.

Comment by Soeroah

on 2021-12-06T22:54:56-06:00

I hope the healing challenge is more doable with my latency these days. That mount is the one I wanted but the healing challenge is the only one I was unable to do in Legion.

Comment by bastler

on 2021-12-07T00:02:32-06:00

Maybe I should have put my Legion Legendaries into the void storage...

Comment by CMOK34

on 2021-12-07T00:25:13-06:00

The three best classes to complete all 7 challenges for the mount are:....Hunter, Druid and Rogue. there is a video and chart showing that these 3 classes can do all 7 challenges.

Comment by CMOK34

on 2021-12-07T00:26:15-06:00

I saw it somewhere months ago, but is there a streamlined view on a class/spec list to getting the mount? IE, do Arms/Prot/Fury, XYZ and GHunter/Druid/Rogue are the 3 classes that can achieve the mount the easiest.

Comment by Providence

on 2021-12-07T00:55:54-06:00

Tough to say, really. I oneshot the paladin challenge and did around 5 tries until kill on frost mage, but the DK, assassination rogue were very hard to push enough DPS on with my connection from EU. I have 1000/1000 internet but the connection to the PTR is always > 250-300 MS for some reason.The disc priest one was impossible. You got in there with around 6500-7k HP iirc, and you took unhealable/unavoidable damage to that came close to around 9-11k during the mechanics. Fel Burst is his instant dot-applier that had an initial hit of ~6k on me and it could easily be cast together with the Sonic Scream which instantly kills you through shield too.

Comment by GameLeech666

on 2021-12-07T01:47:39-06:00

See, I want to know how they fixed things like the Warlock Affliction challenge because it REQUIRED Sacrolash's Dark Strike coupled with Seed of Corruption to slow the adds down long enough for them to not smash you, and there were other instances of such combos needed to complete the challenges. These weren't just rock up and do them if you feel like it tasks, they were actually challenging taking some people 100 runs to get it down. If you can just purchase old world creatable gear and gems and complete these in a couple of tries now i'll be disappointed. I don't think it should be impossible for most people but I'd like it to be harder than something just everyone can do.

Comment by PieceOfPanic

on 2021-12-07T02:44:15-06:00

Make a vendor for the rewards, like tokens system. 1 token = 1 gear set(including druid form, belonging to the challenge).-Otherswise the rewards disappear every season, creating FOMO effect.With vendor(s) you can keep several season's rewards in one place, so people can choose what they want.-e.g. you could add the original rewards there as well?That way you can also make new challenges, without ruining or remove the old challenges.-By making people choose a season, as they choose their challenge, at the NPC.Kind of like a training/test room, for both developers AND players at once.-Devs can test gear designs, scaling of old and new things, test encounter with new mechanics or developing ideas and concepts etc. In a semi-safe enviroment, that doesn't ruin the WHOLE game for EVERYONE, if something does't go as planned.

Comment by HarryPower

on 2021-12-07T04:46:30-06:00

Make a vendor for the rewards, like tokens system. 1 token = 1 gear set(including druid form, belonging to the challenge).-Otherswise the rewards disappear every season, creating FOMO effect.With vendor(s) you can keep several season's rewards in one place, so people can choose what they want.-e.g. you could add the original rewards there as well?That way you can also make new challenges, without ruining or remove the old challenges.-By making people choose a season, as they choose their challenge, at the NPC.Kind of like a training/test room, for both developers AND players at once.-Devs can test gear designs, scaling of old and new things, test encounter with new mechanics or developing ideas and concepts etc. In a semi-safe enviroment, that doesn't ruin the WHOLE game for EVERYONE, if something does't go as planned.I like this

Comment by MorganLake

on 2021-12-07T09:25:18-06:00

Make a vendor for the rewards, like tokens system. 1 token = 1 gear set(including druid form, belonging to the challenge).-Otherswise the rewards disappear every season, creating FOMO effect.With vendor(s) you can keep several season's rewards in one place, so people can choose what they want.-e.g. you could add the original rewards there as well?That way you can also make new challenges, without ruining or remove the old challenges.-By making people choose a season, as they choose their challenge, at the NPC.Kind of like a training/test room, for both developers AND players at once.-Devs can test gear designs, scaling of old and new things, test encounter with new mechanics or developing ideas and concepts etc. In a semi-safe enviroment, that doesn't ruin the WHOLE game for EVERYONE, if something does't go as planned.I like thisi dont even understand it. why do we need a vendor? what season? you do it and get it. original reward will not come back anyway. if there is a new challenge, the old one does not disappear? its not like we have limited amount of mage tower instances, just add it to the list. i am not 100% sure, but i will bet that there are better ways to test stuff. for example just put whatever you do on PTR/beta like always and in every game?

Comment by chasecheese

on 2021-12-07T10:23:56-06:00

but no form for the ferals :(

Comment by sassywriter

on 2021-12-07T13:30:22-06:00

I ran this and it sucks totally ... I was excited it would be fun with a little work but this is just the opposite...nooooo fun because it's way way too hard to do...and very unfair to not have any gear from any expansion work...