Is gear important for ret’s mage tower? I have about 210 ilvl atm and I’m not sure how the downscaling even works.
It kinda feels like I’m not dealing enought dmg, but I’m also not using consumables.
Can anyone give me a breakdown of what gear, consumables, enchants and so on I should go for?
I watched some guides on youtube, but I didn’t wanna go farm old raids and I didn’t have the gold for Chromie time weapons. I ended up using basically my full pvp set (versatility stacking) for survivability and more healing. I DID end up using the BFA Mechagon trinket that fires a beam, just to break the shield more reliably on the Runeseer guy, whenever I didn’t have burst ready or if I had to evade the Jarl too.
Consumables is a big thing, you wanna use flasks, pots and definitely drums for that 15 % haste. I also highly recommend using a focus target Repentance macro and set Sigryn as your focus target, so you don’t have to switch targets to repentance her when she casts Blood of the Father.
This is the guide I mainly used for inspiration and rotations:
NGL i also went with TW gear, however as mine wasnt ilvl 50 (was 47-48), i had a little bit less stamina and my dps didnt raise that much. In the end I switched and killed it with my raid gear and funnily enough, on my kill attempt i survived at 45 hp thanks to bonus stamina.
As long as you do tactics and have the dps check for interrupting the shield you would be fine. Some people even do a 9-10 minute encounter by almost perma CCing Sigryn. I was scarse on consumables as well ( legion pots and flask, no drums).
My biggest dps gain came from optimizing Wings cleave. First 2 AWs Jarl lost around 50% of his HP because i triple cleaved it. First cleave is easy at start, second you might wanna delay AV for a couple of seconds as it is Bladestorm + Blood of the Father. At around 3 minutes and 40 seconds (maybe a bit more depending on how much you optimized your dps) i was close to killing Jarl, so i perma repentaced Sigryn for her Blood cast at 3.50, ignored Shield + Valks with Divine shield and just pumped Jarl. Once you kill him it’s pretty much GG.
It is about maximizing cleave only, i burned drums+pot at start and just aoe them to around 80% hp, also for sygrin do not perma cc her you loose so much dmg that way. Survival was not an issue i pretty much toped myself everytime with wog. You do not need any tw gear for this just items with haste+mastery, and ofc equip items if you have sockets in them. For trinkets i used SL trinkets- sylvanas one+pvp insignia that has haste+proc main stat. Bubble should be saved for big overlap- valkyrs+runes+shield.
I went in with regular gear with a few exceptions. Had some gear with leech (ended up with 9% leech) and used different trinkets and weapon. For trinkets I used Convergence of Fates for more wings and Aman’Thul’s Vision (the proc is disabled so it’s basically just a stat stick, same exact stats as Arcano Crystal). The weapon I used was a WoD S3 PvP weapon at ilvl 47 that I enchanted Crusader on. They nerfed Crusader before my kill, but the healing is still insane and well worth it.
Tactic was just nuke all 3 and HoJ Sygryn when she casts blood of the father.
I specced for Sanctified Wrath, Divine Purpose, Zeal and HoJ cd reduction.
I did it!! Thanks for the tips guys!
For anyone still struggling:
I ended up getting a 50 ilvl heirloom weapon with Crusader enchant on it which made the most difference by far, and a few other pieces from the Nethershards vendor with sockets on them and mastery/haste stats. (Mastery for AoE holy dmg and Haste for Holy Power generation)
For consumables I used what ever flask/pot/runes/food I could afford and drums ofc.
Talents: I went with Blade of Wrath, Divine Purpose and Final Reckoning.
I did seem to have much worse stats than what I saw on youtube though.
My strat was to basically use all my dps cd’s on cooldown and deal with the shiel+cast mechanic without any cd’s, just doing TV’s on him which was a bit clutch.
On my third wings I used bubble to ignore the last round of enrages and finally killed Jarl, which got me the win.
I defintely feel like this fight is overtuned as I had to be lucky with procs, timers, rune locations and valkries locations to do as much dps to get it done.
Took me about 150-200 pulls, even though I could handle the mechanics after about 20-30 pulls, and it took me about 50-70 pulls to get my dps high enough (about 900).
I think they need to nerf Jarl’s HP by like 10% at least for it to be less random.
Anywas good luck to anyone still trying!
I did it in this gear and used 1 flask + shadowcore oil but managed to almost do it without anything so then I decided to get some just incase.
What I found helped was making macros to target sigryn and casting repent and targeting jarl casting slow or hammer and one to target caster and interupting. That way it was easier preventing sigryn to get empovered.
how the hell did you get past the end phase? no matter how i try it i always run into the double phases (shield + berserk). and not with much of a break. its like 5 seconds and the next shield is up. of course i cant keep up with that. its starting around 10-15% all the time. wouldnt i cc sygrin then all three would do it…
dont think i hit enrage at the 5 min mark either
edit: nvm dps was too slow. 344 str did it and it reached the final % like in that video with those talents 
Exactly like this!! I had tried enormous times, problem was always my DPS… I had shadowlands mythic gear… i did one change => got my 50 ilvl heirloom weapon with Crusader enchant just like this person mentioned… and ow my wasn’t it a beauty => second time got the achievement… I did lots and lots of tries with shadowlands gear and never got it even near (max was 24% on Sigrym but like + 6minutes which was really hard to keep up with all the mechanics)… with that heirloom + enchant it did the trick!!
THANK YOU Aerodan 
you made my day 
For whomever is questioning the talents and so on, I had:
Zeal
Empyrean Power
Repentance
Cavalier
Divine Purpose (for the extra ‘i did a mistake and need heals NOW’ cases + extra TVs on the shield phases)
Healing Hands
Final Reckoning
Got all the consumables i could just like Aerodan mentioned.
Only used Repentance to stop Blood of the Father casts, and as soon as it stopped i was back to cleaving all 3 of them. I kept on interrupting the spellcaster always as long as i knew a shield was not comming in the near 20secs future (used DBM for this of course)… so the caster was always always around me to be able to cleave all 3 at the same time.
Also used the macros, had already saw it in the wowhead guide comment so I stole all of them hehe (interrupt on Sear, rep on sig, hammer and slow on jarl)
Regarding the fight itself, I did as the following: start with SoV, then judgement on Sig, interrupt runesear and jump on jarl with wings and FR and all that I could, including drums (got him to 75% right before enrage).
Then when jarl started enrage, I stunned him, interrupted runsear and run to the middle while divine storming the 2 of them (sig and runesear) and when hammer was out I did HoH on jarl so he would not get to me before the runes popped.
Every time the runes popped i tried to put all 3 on me (so I could cleave while running) and started running to the runes, if they were near me, I didn’t use Divine Steed, if they were not, then I used it. Also some times I started on not using, but then blood of the father would come in, I had to stop running to cast repentance and then had to use the horse to get to the last rune before exploding…
DBM helped a lot, I was always checking the bars to know when the shield or Blood of the father was coming. I was sometimes lucky with the valkyrs, sometimes had to use divine steed to get to the place… like Aerodan mentioned, a lot of lucky stuff there really…
As last note, I did this on legion as well on my Ret (this character) and i felt that until i got this heirloom + enchant tip, in legion was way easier… i did on my 20 try at the time and i just had normal mythic+ gear…But in legion having Syg CCed was way better than now…
So for whomever is still trying, you can do it 
just cleave all 3, always interrupt runesear to be always with you and have fun
At the end of the day you get lucky, runes spawn in the right place, valkysr spot to be is where you are already and Jarl is dead and you do it 
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