Mage tower difficulty

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not going to do a big rant but a compacked one.

i tried to do the druid tank one…
how can describe it…
well, you must manage:
protect useless squishy vellen.
your hp.
try to kill the boss.
cancel drain life.
pull enemies and kill them fast enough or they will spam arcane explosion.
avoid getting yeeted to the void by eye mobs.
avoid getting too many debuffs while trying to kill the boss.
avoid and kill infernals.
heals yourself constantly.
and if you die, you need to wait for the monoloque to end, over and over and over again.

than if you managed all of this… THERE IS PHASE 2.

my soul feels empty, angry, dissapointed, feelings of blizzard eating my money while laughing at my face.
the thing is, getting felbear isn’t even worth it, the severe amount of difficult to unlock 1 BEAR, is not worth it.
Id rather wait in que for mythic raid with 180il alt, than do mage tower.

solution? don’t over tune old content.

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It’s not supposed to be easy.

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well its not supposed to mind ripping either.
im supposed to focus on myself, the mobs, the useless vellen, the boss, all at the sametime.
Like where is the trial of error.
this is not elden ring where you just, get good.
this is world of warcraft, with space demons nuking themselves while you jugle 6 other things at the sametime.

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Testify!
Indeed now that MT is a permanant feature, there is an argument to be had, that seasonally, Blizzard could make it harder, to keep it current.

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Mage tower is the definition of driving a car on ice with no spikes on your wheels while holding a hot cup of coffee, you can say that its possible to not to spill it while afterwards going to offroad,
but my god! is this soo unnecessarily difficult, to unlock one skin to your druid.

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Other can do it and you can’t. Nothing wrong with mage tower. But let’s blame something else

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You’re going to hate this but “git gud”.

There’s a druid that did this without going into bear form.

The bottom line is that most of these challenges just show the gap between how good people think they are and how good they really are and that’s a hard thing to accept for many.

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Exactly that, this is not a typically easy to finish quest in 10 minutes. People worked their as.s off i Legion to get these.

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they don’t even tell you obvious ques on the mage tower, how do you prepare for it?
its literally putting a ikea table, chair, couch and tv set with 0 instructions. the only instructions you get is from youtube or google.
Why do i need to play a game by learning it from outside sources.

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The biggest problem I did have with the guardian MT was that it doesn’t test you tanking skill at all. When I did the challenge were I mostly in boomkin form (balance aff). Otherwise is MT pretty fun and now I don’t have to rush the classes anymore. :slight_smile:

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Writing redundant crap just to make it look overcomplicated.

Which is basically a “on a timer” event that you can clearly see beforehand since portal all around the room spawn.

That is something you should manage at all times so idk how is this something that can be even considered.
And honestly for the entire phase 1, managing HP is totally stupid unless you sit in the pool for 200 hours and get oneshotted by the cast.

PRO TIP: I killed Varis full bear form(NO balance -since everyone was screeching that it is required) entering the pool only to refresh trash or kicking.

Yeah i mean, i suppose keeping 100% uptime on trash and moonfire is indeed a really hard task. :thinking:

Typhoon without even entering the pool if you wanna kepp both kick and charge in case you get stomped down the platform.

Don’t need to kill them fast, you can Incap Roar them and they do not recast quite immediatly, you have plenty of time to do so.

Just moonfire them once or twice or use a GG proc.

Which is the only “managing HP” kind of thing you have to do considering that everything else does basically low damage unless you have 12784239 stacks or decide not to disorient the mobs.

Run around Varis and moonfire them.

Which not only is false but is again redundant with getting many debuffs and managing your HP.
Just don’t sit in Varis pools and you will have an easier time.

Phase 2 is just a DPS check, which is quite harsh indeed and probably the hardest part of the challenge.
The rest is honestly just L2P.

Solution? Do like a Druid that asked me for tips back in december did and actually use your brain.
That person was horribly geared, and barely able to bring Varis to 80%. Tips and perseverance and after 10 days i got a message on Bnet thanking me for giving the guy tips because he was finally able to beat the boss.

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ah yes, this is what i needed in my life…
a tank challenge that you can complete without being a tank.

i wonder if i can eat hot soup with my hands.

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Challenge is a good thing, as is figuring out & executing a strategy based upon your knowledge of your class.

Why would they give you instructions on how to do it? You don’t roll up to a new raid and expect the game to explain the strategy, do you? :smiley:

I think solo challenges are a good thing, and there are very few of them in WoW. Perhaps just the Proving Grounds (Endless Wave achiev), Mage Tower & the Brawler’s Guild.

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No! But to be fair druid is a shapeshifter class you should be able to use the whole toolkit and MT test your knowledge about shapeshiftig more then just bear form.

No other challenge in WoW not even mythic+ test your shapeshifting skill like this :wink: I find it pretty cool since I had to use macros and key bind that I never used before. I did feel that I improved a lot as Druid under the progression!

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I did it in bear form, I found moonkin form too annoying.

-Get the Seed Pod from EN (a tip I got from someone here)
-Use Rejuve/Swiftmend to heal.
-Get the cheat death from CN, it lets you survive an extra annihilate and blows the adds away.
-If there are more than 3 internals in phase two do more dps in phase 1

Bonus
-Make your own oil/pots/flask so each run doesn’t cost money

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one thing at a time.
imma start with the gear.
there is soo many posts about people half gearing, people not even using bear form.
so now the first task is to get higher gear that gets leveled squished to level 45.
also, it took this man, 10 days… 10 days to beat mage tower.
10 days on subscription based video game.

people literally do it with dps.

so you could predict better and learn faster, there is literally tab in dungeon lists about every boss and their abilities, when you go to mage tower. there is none.

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It’s not like he was online 24/7 trying the mage tower, i simply stated that i got the message 10 days later.
Quite difference but hey, i get that you gotta complain.

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If the mage tower challenge is now active all the time, will we get these threads all the time as well?

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well i aint happy either, if you were trying to grind one cosmetic for 10 days while you could beat elden ring in that time.
than what in cosmic outburst is this.

good reminder, i need to prep flasks and buffs as well.

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It’s like most part of the game. Discovering, exploring, reading guides.
It’s thought I haven’t done mage tower also, my future goal. I will farm low level gear pieces with gem slots ect.