Mage Tower Strat/Help Thread

[kheath812]

i cant believe people are whining that they cant do it right away. jesus christ.

[rda]

Plenty of people have done them already. Stop whining and git gud, I guess?

Tabulate their specs and ilvls.

[Shampro]

i cant believe people are whining that they cant do it right away. jesus christ.

WoW's playerbase is generally dogshit, and I say it as not being perticulary the best player out there. But they can't admit to it, that's the best part.

[Emerald Archer]

It's a matter of being the right spec and having the ilvl past the random point on which the challenge for that particular spec can be beaten.

Not at all, gear will get you past it yes, but skill will get you past it sooner, before hitting the ilvl which makes skill not matter as much.

This is a difficult challenge, if you've done it yet, it isn't just "High numbers of hp" there's a lot going on, a lot to do.

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Tabulate their specs and ilvls.

How about no?

[Charge me Doctor]

Not at all, gear will get you past it yes, but skill will get you past it sooner, before hitting the ilvl which makes skill not matter as much.

This is a difficult challenge, if you've done it yet, it isn't just "High numbers of hp" there's a lot going on, a lot to do.

what are you talking about, i just went into a challenge and that one dude hit me for 10 mil with one cast. What am i supposed to do how do i get more than 10 mil health? It's obviously all about numbers there is no fucking way i can somehow avoid getting hit for 10 mil when NPC finishes this long-ass cast.
kappa

[rda]

Not at all, gear will get you past it yes, but skill will get you past it sooner, before hitting the ilvl which makes skill not matter as much.

This is a difficult challenge, if you've done it yet, it isn't just "High numbers of hp" there's a lot going on, a lot to do.

Your "not at all" is not contradicting what I am saying. Yes, skill will get you past the challenge sooner, but it all exists in a gear window which is (a) small, and (b) positioned randomly according to your spec.

[Shampro]

what are you talking about, i just went into a challenge and that one dude hit me for 10 mil with one cast. What am i supposed to do how do i get more than 10 mil health? It's obviously all about numbers there is no fucking way i can somehow avoid getting hit for 10 mil when NPC finishes this long-ass cast.
kappa

I see what you did there.

[schwarzkopf]

Sounds like it'll be in-line with the difficulty of the solo portion Cata Legendary Staff quest in The Nexus...which was one of the most frustratingly difficult things I ever did in this game. ._.

I doubt it - my arcane mage did that without a hitch, this is a little more serious by a long shot.

[Emerald Archer]

It's been out for like an hour, so many specs haven't been done yet because it's meant to be a challenge. No one has the gear it's been designed for, the gear it's been designed for is where above average players will complete it, so right now, great players will work towards it and get it eventually, it will take TIME.

It's not a gear carry thing at all yet, because no one is at the level of gear where it would carry them through it yet.

Seriously, trash players blaming your gear for not 1-3 shotting it? Get good, and don't try to take away from other peoples achievements, if they completed it, good on them, they are a good player.

[Charge me Doctor]

Your "not at all" is not contradicting what I am saying. Yes, skill will get you past the challenge sooner, but it all exists in a gear window which is (a) small, and (b) positioned randomly according to your spec.

Tabulate gear window size and specs plz

[Ausr]

Highlord Kruul is throwing me for a loop. It just randomly changes.

[Emerald Archer]

Your "not at all" is not contradicting what I am saying. Yes, skill will get you past the challenge sooner, but it all exists in a gear window which is (a) small, and (b) positioned randomly according to your spec.

But what does that matter? Who cares? The better you are, the less gear you need to complete it, the more impressive it is? That's all there is to it.

[Nitros14]

It is quite obvious that you misplayed the encounter. The debuff for polymorph + the council mechanic makes it clear that you need to poly one guy, while dealing with the two others.

I cast polymorph, target was immune. Special debuff puts it on cooldown for 20 seconds. shrug.

[xcess]

For people who cant do it now just come back later at lvl 120 and one shot it

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Inb4 post reset ''LFM NH nm zerg AP/Leg farm zerg. Description : must have 7.2 appearance or get back in to LFR git gud nub''.

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For people who cant do it now just come back later at lvl 120 and one shot it

I hope these willl be Legion unique. It better be.

[Twilight Cultist]

Highlord Kruul is throwing me for a loop. It just randomly changes.

I've been doing it for a while. Best i've done is getting Variss to about 60% as a Ilvl 892 Prot Warrior. All of his mechanics are his hard hitting cast, Drain Life, Eyes, Infernos, Wraiths. He uses his ability is random orders.

[Charge me Doctor]

I cast polymorph, target was immune. Special debuff puts it on cooldown for 20 seconds. shrug.

To be fair, seeing the amount of health they have and that each damage is copied to council member, i would guess that you need to cleave as much as you possibly can, utilizing hard hitting abilities like the mark to hit all 3 targets and probably spam AE instead of AB (with perk that further boosts AE damage). Speccing into ABarr cleave talent would also help.
Can't try it myself yet, but it doesn't seem to have huge "gear gate".

The worst thing i can think of being "gear gate" are berserk (when you literally can't stall a fight to replenish resources by kiting) and, well, truck-like-hitting mobs that are meant to be tanked, aka "i have 2 mil health now, this mob hits for 700k, i am meant to have 22 mil health, so it's impossible for me to kill this mob"

[Emerald Archer]

I hope these willl be Legion unique. It better be.

It's an artifact skin, you can't get a transmogable version after legion, but if you get it beforehand it becomes transmogable.

[rda]

Tabulate gear window size and specs plz

From what I saw, guardian druids have it enormously easier than prot warriors, for example. I think we will have a full table in a week or so. Want to bet that some specs will not be able to beat the encounter at all, and the difficulty will vary wildly from spec to spec?