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Well, eu mage tower is down.

Well there we have it, 3 weeks until pre patch.

Originally Posted by Clozer

Well, eu mage tower is down.

You haven't had maintenance yet either.

Oh by the gods, please let it be active after maintenance tomorrow for us EU folks!

Mage tower permanently active, time to rage on multiple characters that don't have key legendaries to carry them through the tower fights!

The sacrificing our Artifact Weapons quest is live too.

Originally Posted by Beardedfreak

The sacrificing our Artifact Weapons quest is live too.

I wasn’t even paying attention, but is this a nerf to Antorus? My artifact jumped to level 126 but I wasn’t paying attention to see if the agi gain actually changed.

If the US Mage Tower is still active, are you able to contribute to the "building" of it, or has that been turned off since it looks to be up permanently? I have an alt that is 40/50 contributions and I'd like to finish the achievement.

Originally Posted by Beardedfreak

The sacrificing our Artifact Weapons quest is live too.

can you not do it and keep the artifact? lol

Originally Posted by Eapoe

I wasn’t even paying attention, but is this a nerf to Antorus? My artifact jumped to level 126 but I wasn’t paying attention to see if the agi gain actually changed.

If anything, it's rather direct nerf to Mage Tower. I don't think anyone care about Antorus 2 or 3 weeks before pre-patch.

Originally Posted by Ookami.kun

If the US Mage Tower is still active, are you able to contribute to the "building" of it, or has that been turned off since it looks to be up permanently? I have an alt that is 40/50 contributions and I'd like to finish the achievement.

On PTR Broken Shore building system still exist. Even if you can't contribute to MT now, it will likely get destroyed at the start of 8.0. Of course they will have to increase % from your contribution A LOT, since there is very little reason to do it after Legion (achievements, transmog from world bosses, pet from paragon mount, questline to craft legendary for collectors, I think that's about it).

Originally Posted by Ookami.kun

If the US Mage Tower is still active, are you able to contribute to the "building" of it, or has that been turned off since it looks to be up permanently? I have an alt that is 40/50 contributions and I'd like to finish the achievement.

If you can't I imagine the mage tower won't be going away come BfA (just the transmog from challenges) so you might have to wait till launch to continue contributions.

Originally Posted by Turaska

Mage tower permanently active, time to rage on multiple characters that don't have key legendaries to carry them through the tower fights!

Lol was thinking the same

Originally Posted by Beardedfreak

The sacrificing our Artifact Weapons quest is live too.

TBH, this seems unlikely. Pretty sure this is part of the pre-patch. Can anyone else confirm?

Originally Posted by Eternal-bany

can you not do it and keep the artifact? lol

Nope. Once the quest is available to sacrifice your artifact, your artifacts lose all their nifty abilities, regardless of when you get around to doing the quest.

Originally Posted by tyrlaan

Lol was thinking the same



TBH, this seems unlikely. Pretty sure this is part of the pre-patch. Can anyone else confirm?



Nope. Once the quest is available to sacrifice your artifact, your artifacts lose all their nifty abilities, regardless of when you get around to doing the quest.

I speculated in last few weeks that this quest will come before pre-patch, just like Magni "Azeroth warning" quest was tested on 7.3 PTR, but live few weeks before Argus. It doesn't make sense to "wake up" in 8.0 with artifact traits already burned out and message "this artifact power was used to stabilize Azeroth wound" before you do quest in Silithus.

And in 7.3.5 PTR there was some "unstable artifact" effect. So it should be like this - do quest-> artifact become unstable if you do it -> on pre-patch days all traits will be burned out, even if you don't complete quest.

Originally Posted by tyrlaan

Lol was thinking the same



TBH, this seems unlikely. Pretty sure this is part of the pre-patch. Can anyone else confirm?



Nope. Once the quest is available to sacrifice your artifact, your artifacts lose all their nifty abilities, regardless of when you get around to doing the quest.

Traits go away with the prepatch not the quest for obvious balancing reasons.

Originally Posted by Dracullus

If anything, it's rather direct nerf to Mage Tower. I don't think anyone care about Antorus 2 or 3 weeks before pre-patch.



On PTR Broken Shore building system still exist. Even if you can't contribute to MT now, it will likely get destroyed at the start of 8.0. Of course they will have to increase % from your contribution A LOT, since there is very little reason to do it after Legion (achievements, transmog from world bosses, pet from paragon mount, questline to craft legendary for collectors, I think that's about it).

It’s a nerf to everything now. Just tested it out and it does act as if your weapon is at lvl 126 with the appropriate buff.
As far as Antorus, there are still groups attempting to clear. If you want to look down on them that’s your business but not everyone is capable to clear at the same level of skill.

Originally Posted by Dracullus

I speculated in last few weeks that this quest will come before pre-patch, just like Magni "Azeroth warning" quest was tested on 7.3 PTR, but live few weeks before Argus. It doesn't make sense to "wake up" in 8.0 with artifact traits already burned out and message "this artifact power was used to stabilize Azeroth wound" before you do quest in Silithus.

And in 7.3.5 PTR there was some "unstable artifact" effect. So it should be like this - do quest-> artifact become unstable if you do it -> on pre-patch days all traits will be burned out, even if you don't complete quest.

Interesting theory. I could see that.

Originally Posted by leviathonlx

Traits go away with the prepatch not the quest for obvious balancing reasons.

Aye, that's what I was trying to say, coupled with my (now not as sure) belief that the quest appears when the prepatch hits.

Originally Posted by Eapoe

It’s a nerf to everything now. Just tested it out and it does act as if your weapon is at lvl 126 with the appropriate buff.
As far as Antorus, there are still groups attempting to clear. If you want to look down on them that’s your business but not everyone is capable to clear at the same level of skill.

Looking down? I just think more people cares about - at this moment (when time is running out - it's probably just 2 weeks!) Mage Tower (soon unobtainable cool transmog) - than Antorus (achievement - ok there is also mount for heroic version, but I think most people either done it already or bought a boost for gold). Of course nerf affect everything, but I believe they applied this with Mage Tower in mind - so people don't have to farm world quest for AP and focus on challenge.

Sneaky. Yup, little bit ago it was saying 2 hours until it was destroyed, now it just says active. Thank goodness. There was grumblings that they weren't going to follow through with what they said on the forums. I was kind of preparing for the worst case scenario anyway.

Now it looks like I can beat my head against the prot warrior challenge indefinitely until prepatch, woot.

Originally Posted by TwoShoedLou

Sneaky. Yup, little bit ago it was saying 2 hours until it was destroyed, now it just says active. Thank goodness. There was grumblings that they weren't going to follow through with what they said on the forums. I was kind of preparing for the worst case scenario anyway.

Now it looks like I can beat my head against the prot warrior challenge indefinitely until prepatch, woot.

I guess now people will focus on "not having right lego" as justification for not doing challenge, unless Blizzard handed them out too ;P.

Originally Posted by Dracullus

Looking down? I just think more people cares about - at this moment (when time is running out - it's probably just 2 weeks!) Mage Tower (soon unobtainable cool transmog) - than Antorus (achievement - ok there is also mount for heroic version, but I think most people either done it already or bought a boost for gold). Of course nerf affect everything, but I believe they applied this with Mage Tower in mind - so people don't have to farm world quest for AP and focus on challenge.

I think they did it for everything players are struggling with, not just the mage tower.
Yes, some people look down on other players for not having done Antorus full clear on mythic or even normal at this point. Some players just aren’t as skilled as others. I personally used to be in a guild that cleared current content in a timely manner, now I am not. I’m sorry if I conveyed that you do this as it wasn’t meant as a personal attack.