Mage Tower Druid- Maybe Unpopular Opinion

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So yesterday I did a post asking if it was doable without consumables, gems, etc, basically without twinking out your character and spending a whole load of gold. It was doable, but the consumables etc, made it easier.

I started attempting it yesterday and couldn’t see me ever doing it, got Kruul to 9% a couple of times. But 4th pull today I did it.

I watched loads of different guides, taking bits from each one. The best thing I noticed was in Sunes guide on YouTube, he was using the orbs to prolong the first Annihilate. I tried this and the first time I tried it, I did it.

I did it in mainly Shadowlands gear; I used the night fae covenant set, PvP rings, Heart of Azeroth, Claws of Ursoc, and Ravaged Seed Pod trinket, plus another trinket from Emerald Nightmare raid that gave me agility and chance for haste on hit (can’t remember its name).

I didn’t spend loads on consumables, it took me 96 pulls in total according to DBM, and I only made it to stage 2 24 times (based on the amount of drums I had left over). Only consumables I used were Potion of Unbridled Fury, Shadowcore Oil, Drums and Bear Tartare food.

It was hard, not gunna lie, but here’s the unpopular opinion… I’m glad it’s hard. It made me really work for it and once I got it, the feeling of elation I got was so worth it. Not felt that for a game in years! It felt even better because I’m not an elitist, I just play casually, and I only spent about 4k gold to do it. (Maybe a bit more on repairs actually, I think maybe closer to 6k in total).

But anyway if this helps anyone, great.

My top tips for doing this challenge would be;

  1. Get the Ravaged Seed Pod trinket.
  2. Prolong the first Annihilate with orbs, rather than trying to prolong the 4th, as near to the end of Kruuls casts as you can.
  3. Take a break and come back to it. I played about 4 hours and I ended up making silly mistakes. Didn’t play again until this evening and did it in 4 goes, thought I’d be there all night.
  4. If you have the gold, pop a Potion of Unbridled Fury just before you enter, you’ll get about 20 seconds of it on Phase 1 for extra damage, and it’s cooldown will reset when entering the mage tower so you still have it for Kruul. (I didn’t do this because I’m not rich enough). But the quicker you kill Variss the less infernals you have to deal with in phase 2.
  5. Watch different guides on YouTube and follow their positioning and almost pretend it’s you doing it… sounds silly but watching guides I felt like I had done it already. Honourable mentions;
  • Sune
  • BitTaniana

Link to Sunes ‘guide’: https://youtu.be/mZajPW57xCg

Link to BitTanianas guide:

Good Luck!

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Yeah I am glad it was hard too, spending time farming old Pots that’s badly scaled, or farm trinkets that shouldn’t be a need, sure loved the fact people needed socket gear from Timewalking to even get a better chance or “easier” time, not trying to be salty, but this Mage Tower scaling, it’s awful, I would rather find it more enjoyable if we all entered the tower with Legion Gear, same gear for each spec, than watching people with OP trinkets that my RNG would not let me have from Shadowlands etc, however Ravaged Seed Pod, love that one, probably the only trinket I could get, since I never got any good trinkets from LFR etc.

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Didn’t somebody complete the Guardian challenge without even using Bear Form?

Gz, nonetheless.

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Watch out Wow’s Karen is on the loose.

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I guess a short update in your older post would have been enough. But can feel the “Look at me I’m not a total noob” post from the druids :smiley:

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So just a repeat of what a thousand other people have said, you just needed to make a thread about it (again)?

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Difference between hard and fun is in my opinion everything you mentioned.

Almost any average joe who did it was using the following:

  • Ravaged Seed Pod
  • Legion weapon + double enchant
  • Legacy consumables

Those three alone made the fight trivial for me even with shadowlands gear, as the Pot (unbridled fury) made ~40% of kruuls life

call me insane but if a legacy pot does this much damage then something is off. Especially when you are not lucky to play on a realm where the prices are affordable.

This alone made the tower a fiesta. The bear form is nice, was it worth the sanity loss, though? Propbably not.

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I havent stayed up to date with forums recently tbh.

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I didn’t really lose my sanity, but then again it didn’t take me weeks, hundreds of attempts and hundreds of thousands of gold. Took me 2 days, 4.5 hours in the fight. I was surprised I managed it considering how everyone seems to be complaining about it.

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I was on your side regarding your first thread asking for help. But now u sound like an arrogant fool :smiley:

But kruul was already nerfed so I guess its not that hard anymore. 90 tries post nerf is kind of newbish

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Was just trying to help others with a few tips I found useful to do it, and in much less time it seems to be taking other people. So 96 attempts probably is newbish, I dont know. But when others have done over 300 attempts, and 1 person said they had over 600 attempts, I thought my tips could help.

I’m not being arrogant, it just felt good to do it, so I wanted to share the experience. Thanks for your input though, a real credit to the WoW forums :slight_smile:

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What enchant did you use? :slight_smile:

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The Enchants I used were by no means the best, I did it cheap. On one weapon I used Mark of shattered hand, because it was about 40g, and the other I used Lightless force. If you can afford it, I’d use force multipler instead, or even just celestial guidance would probably have been better xD
On chest I used Eternal Skirmish, boots I used agility, cloak I used Fortified Leech :slight_smile:

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Nice i have all profession full so that will be no problem xD I did just get the seed trinket. Did do some TW with it, man insane dps buff m8. Will craft myself an engineer trinket also :slight_smile: for that little extra dmg. Otherwise i will go full SL vers gear? You think that’s good idea or should i get some other gear? :stuck_out_tongue:

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So half the items and consumables you used were BIS / near-BIS from previous expansions. And that isn’t twinking out. Because reasons.

You seem like an a*s. Sorry if I’m blunt.

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yes go full versa and crit/haste

u can check my char for a quick idea of how cheap and fast u can get a char ready, plus what enchants u can get on each slot for lvl50 gear

remember a ilvl52 green boots have the same stats as a ilvl246 boots inside the mage tower, so u can focus on get stats like versa

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Ty! Nice i have plenty of pearls from Nazjatar to for gear. Did you use weakauras or DBM?

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there is a special DMB you can get (dbm challenges i think)

some macros

/cast Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc(Talent, Shapeshift)
/use Drums of Drums of Fury
/use Potion of Unbridled Fury

set variss as focus and u dont need to target him to interrupt
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Skull Bash

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Thanks appreciate all the help i can get :slight_smile: <3

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quoting myelft

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