I have been fighting the mage tower for about a week, thats 1000ish deaths combined on all 3 challanges for the warlock. Now i could sit here and rant about it being overtuned or demand / beg blizz to town it down.
But that isn’t going to get it down, no matter how much I rant and rave about it, its still going to be there trolling me.
So am going against my own advise, by asking you the community, for any help. Anything i havent tried anything I havent thought off to do ANY of the challanges. My gear is my profile and fully pots and food.
This is the last roll of the dice before I throw in the towel and admit old age as got its hooks into me and am just to slow.
I think your trinket they are hard to do, if you want to kite, your thing will need mobs to hit yiou because it looks you have to stay in there to get the leecher bonus, and the mobs have to stay in there to get the damage. Your alacrity trinket is hard to but is O K to have a trinket 1 passive trinket 2 active powerup very strong.
I’d wait until the talent trees are here. That’s at least my hope. I did the SP challenge after the release and almost went mad during that week… so much time wasted dying again and again. Maybe the talents will make up for the burrowed power we currently lose in the MT and will make it easier thereby when we get it back through talents.
Otherwise MT is just no fun to me. You don’t really learn to play your class, you learn one encounter with special talents / gear you usually wouldn’t use. All for one recolored mogg set (well, and a mount - that one hurts more). Don’t see the fun in that.
I’m no expert on MT but my mate was sooo many tries in and finally got it done last night and got the book mount… while dying at the same time as the last boss.
So iť’s doable but I could see him gradually losing his sanity
Make peace with the fact that Mage Tower is not for everyone. It’s totally optional content with cosmetic rewards.
I’d be interested to see what percentage of the playerbase managed it. I’d be surprised if it’s more than 20%.
It’s a shame they’ve kept it as scaled so that those of us who are not capable of completing it could out-gear it after 2 or 4 years but meh.
Well lucky for me its the wifes birthday so i had the week off so yep 12 hours and more in some cases…
Oh i can tell you why I die thats no issue… Ancestral knowledge 3 times back to back around 34%. Thats with all the other stuff going on as well at the same time, I can handle Angels, runes and the fears (most of the time) but everything all at once 3 times…Yeh naaaaa
Personally i would just focus on one challenge and not rotate them cause you just “reset” progress by changing encounters. And of all the 3 Lock challenges, the Destro one is prolly the less “frantic” in fact of things happening all at once so, personally, i would go for that one.
Once you kind of get how to rotate CCs on important thing you are done.
My issue with the Destro one is a issue on my part i guess, the spell curse of tongues. I apply it to the boss and keep it there, but when i try to fear him I end up with a fel blast to the face o_0 OR I manage to get the fear off and then when hes done being feard he just gose back to casting fel blast.
I know am doing something wrong, but for the life of me I cant work out what…
I don’t get what is the connection between Curse of Tongue and fearing the boss tho (?)
That’s just to give you more time during the casts, i tried right now and fearing the boss does not seem to make him re-cast Fel Blast straight away when he gets out of fear but i mean, if that is the case, you can fear again to delay for kick.
Ok, I die around the 4th kick… So first one i stun with infurnal, then I use Mortal coil (longer CD) then pet kick, then on the 4th kick my interupts are on CD So I seen you have to fear him, but the time to cast fear is longer than his cast time. So you use curse to be able to cast the fear, but 90% of the time I just end up take the blast to the face, its like am a second off, If I fear to early he just recasts to late and well am dead…
Am not saying its a bug or anything, I just can’t seem to get the boss past 1/2 health
So you need to do more damage. Look where you have lots of downtime and figure out how to improve that aspect. Back to back cssts of that are the soft enrage.
If it helps anything, my friend told me that the ghost iron dragonling is a pretty good trinket to use in mage tower.
Otherwise, if you are struggling with specific abilities I would look into what is causing you to lose focus of them: Do they overlap with other abilities? Are you getting delayed with target swapping? In case of the destro one if you need an interrupt asap it helps if you put the boss on focus, and use a macro that makes your interrupt interrupt your focus target (that only really works if you have one target to interrupt).
Do you use DBM? It used to have a separate portion of it that was designed for the mage tower which helps you keep track of upcoming abilities (can likely even set up an audio warning for a few seconds ahead of the interruptible cast happening).
It was a bit tongue and cheek, but no I wasnt asking for a nurf.
Well I managed to do it after some good advise from Athíyk, the ghost iron dragonling did make it a lot better downed it after 5 trys with the trinket so tyvm!
Congrats on making it!
Recently did warlock (demo) and rogue (outlaw) myself and they are definitely a challenge.
Needed a good bit of trial and error.
If you’re gonna try for more, then I can recommend the Ravaged Seed Pod from emerald nightmare first boss. Gives leech and does a good bit of damage!
Is also quite quick to try to get as well
Might give the ghost iron dragonling a try myself if I try out any more challenges
so yep 12 hours and more in some cases…