If memory serves, there is a very distinct glimmer where he is, and the bubbles the copies leave around are safe-zones
its funny that even cosmetic and transmog gear, that are supposed to be casual content, have all the âcomplex signatureâ of wow dev teamâŠ
Besides mage tower, I tried Path of Ascension (Kyrian) which is unbelievable grindy and difficult for something that should be a casual long term goal (transmog). Just fire the elitist jerk (Ion) or not even Ion family will left to play the game at the endâŠ
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to be honest, Path of Ascension was immensely overtuned compared to the other sanctum activities, and only very late got nerfed. Some encounters on Humility straight up couldnât be done without cheese strats
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oh so it was even more difficult? omg⊠even as it is now seems impossible for me. I am casual player, never cared or whined about my gear power⊠I play for transmog, cosmetics and story⊠but I find out that filthy casuals are not worthy of these anymoreâŠ
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Donât worry, Blizzard doesnât like it when youâre not Neurotypical either 
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Some challenges were downright unbeatable, even with mythic gear. I havenât tried it after the nerf to be fair, so I donât know the level of difficulty it is now, Iâd assume itâs still very tough.
but you fight with your soulbinds⊠does your gear matter? does it boost their abilities?
Oh sh*t, never mind, Iâve been doing too much mage tower recently and I am pretty sleep deprived atm⊠No you are completely right, your soulbinds donât get scaled by your gear.
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they were just unbeatable. I think I used Pelagos on every single challenge, but even with full uptime of the haste from the doubt manifestations, it was not doable before hitting enrage
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If you are doing this as assasination rogue. The challenge is The God-Queenâs Fury.
The very same piece of s i spend over 150 tries as retri pala back in the day (before it was easy @ end of the expansion).
Tbh The God-Queenâs Fury is maybe one of the hardest dps challenges if you donât do everything right. Can believe that sockets wont help much as its still overtuned for sure.
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Well, does cosmetic & transmog gear always have to be easy to obtain? The MOP & WOD challenge mode gear wasnât easy to obtain. I think itâs nice to have some rewarding, challenging solo content.
The MoP gear wasnât hard to obtain, it required doing it with people on voice chat for a few tries for every dungeon and then you had it nailed down.
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not touching this anymore till they nerf it ⊠just a waste of timeâŠ
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I was late to the party, but managed to get the MoP set back then for my mage in a couple of days. It was much less stress than farming 3 mage challenges now in the TW Mage Tower (which I have already done now, but it is exhausting and I donât know if I want to continue since all other encounters are nightsmares to me).
I was never done. I just cleaved and spammed victory rush. And then with full hp ran around first beam and with ignore pain+spell reflect charge through second to get him faster.
Got my spellbound tome last night. Some of the challenges were very difficult, to the point where really perfect play was needed. I think enhancement shaman challenge is around what all of them should be, for most people to complete them - it requires decent positioning and spatial awareness while also doing decent dps. Xylem (as frost dk) was absolutely brutal and took me by far the longest, both phases are very unforgiving; I actually tried it on a havoc DH first but after some 15 tries nope-d the hell out and switched to frost, where it still took me 50+ tries.
Iâm of two minds when it comes to nerfing this really. On one hand, some of them are way way too brutal compared to Legion, especially with all the class changes between then and now (cough shadow priest cough). On the other hand⊠it felt really good having some challenging solo content in this game. I agree with the poster far above at the start of this thread, sometimes having something that is more difficult is okay.
Also, none of them required some obscene gear pieces that no one can get. Iâve done most of them with Shadowlands gear. I did twins one on my level 51 frost mage with whatever blues I could craft (and without all the power ups you get from leveling 50-60), and the windwalker one with random mix of leveling greens and blues. I did use some things I donât usually use, such as frag belt during resto shaman challenge, and for Xylem I got seed pod trinket from the first boss of Emerald nightmare but if I were better at playing a DK that probs wouldnât have been needed.
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people apparently get really angry when they donât get rewards thrown after them.
for once there is something actually challenging in the game and people are mad about it xd
I am not even going to use the reward 
It is not about rewards.
And some challenges are way harder than others.
nothing is ever perfectly balanced in a game like this. one class is always better, one challenge always harder. deal with it.
I think people are definitely allowed to give feed back about the differences. And their thoughts about the MT in general.
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