The Hardest Mage Tower Challenge is....

[Marmot]

It's not just you, Holy has to react to stuff way faster in the first phase due to their reliance on Shackle Undead to counter most of the critical mechanics. It's basically as if all of those abilities happen ~1.25 sec faster due to the cast time.

At least the final phase has some wiggle room thanks to angel form if you die.

[George Costanza]

I have gotten the ones i want (not doing MM or BM or affliction coz the appearances are awful and the specs look very boring in bfa, also my hunter just has insignia, i could probably do the MM one since it looks easier than the frost one)

Hardest Is hard to say I thought the tank challenges were hard but it was just hard first time and got easier over time, Prot paladin was definetly the easiest homever (it was my second tank spec i got-.... no that was warrior so prot was 3rd)

As for hardest.

Well probably frost mage or frost dk.

Arcane was just stupid amounts of easy.

just arcane blast and do mechanics.


Outlaw was very easy. But i enjoy the thunderfury appearance more.

Sub was abit annoying coz of the adds in void phase. (have to slow with combo points) but became easier after blinding an add

[Heladys]

I tried last night having zero experience with Brewmaster and it was not pretty. It's a shock coming off of paladin and DH. Their mitigation methods are really confusing to me and I'm still not used to their poor self healing. I'm debating whether or not to keep trying, especially since I'm not sure I like the spec enough to bother with a skin that'll be locked to it.

Unfortunately neither Paladin nor DH offer many similarities to explain how Brewmaster works. In some ways it's like playing a warrior with ignore pain. The point is to avoid taking the damage - in this case by having a big stagger pool and then clearing it before it hits your HP versus by having massive Ignore Pains up to soak.

When you do need the healing, which shouldn't be that often, the orbs are plenty.

If you're trying to heal through damage yourself you're in for a very rough ride. There just isn't enough you can do. Focus on understanding stagger and you'll get it soon.

[socialmaker]

Congrats on getting 36/36, but I have to disagree regarding Fury Warrior. Agatha is one of the easier challenges and I did it on my Warrior the first time Mage Tower was up in EU with 890 ilvl or so equipped.

Then it means I really suck at fury, besides some dmg windows I feel I couldn't do damage oh well not everyone can play all specs properly i guess

[LoLcano]

Imo tank ones was hardest and between 3 tanks i did the challenge on Prot pala was hardest for me .

[Dakara]

I've done:

Paladin - All
Monk - All
Druid - All
Mage - Fire & Frost

From the ones I've completed, BrM was the hardest... until I realized Niuzao had his Taunt turned off Then it would probably be Guardian because of no Lego's. Prot Pally wasn't so bad for me due to being the best geared.

Trying to get Arcane Mage done, but without the right Lego's and poorly optimized gear, it's giving me trouble.

[Th3Scourge]

Unfortunately neither Paladin nor DH offer many similarities to explain how Brewmaster works. In some ways it's like playing a warrior with ignore pain. The point is to avoid taking the damage - in this case by having a big stagger pool and then clearing it before it hits your HP versus by having massive Ignore Pains up to soak.

When you do need the healing, which shouldn't be that often, the orbs are plenty.

If you're trying to heal through damage yourself you're in for a very rough ride. There just isn't enough you can do. Focus on understanding stagger and you'll get it soon.

Working on BM Monk @ iLvL 920 atm, seems significantly harder than the other tanks. I got frustrated and switched to a 920 prot paladin (with holy legendaries) and 1-shot it. couldn't believe how much easier the prot paladin was compared to BM Monk.

Having said that the prot pally has one of the best skins of them all. Flails FTW

[Marxman]

I've got one left to do tomorrow (Assassination) and then I'll have finished all the ones I want. Ranking the ones I've done:

Hardest
Prot Pally
Guardian
Demo
Outlaw
Havoc
Balance
Elemental
MM
Survival
Enhancement
Retribution
Affliction (Mortal Coil cheese)
Destruction
Unholy
Windwalker
Feral
Beast Mastery
Easiest

The tank challenges were both significantly harder than any of the DPS challenges. Prot Pally was the one that took me the most tries at ~35. All of the Agatha and Feltotem challenges were 1-2 tries with the exception of Outlaw, which took closer to 10 due to Umbral Imps and Shield timings lining up in a strange way that wiped me 3-4 times. I didn't have that problem on any of the other specs, so no idea what the deal was with that. It didn't help that Outlaw's kit is fairly bad for the fight compared to, say, Unholy or Feral.

[Wildmoon]

Can I resub and just go faceroll Feral challenge today or it is too late? I want that skin.

[Rokom]

Can I resub and just go faceroll Feral challenge today or it is too late? I want that skin.

Yup, you've still got ~ 31 hours before maintenance.

[Kokolums]

Hardest is outlaw. My rogue is about 940 and cant even force Agatha to teleport once. Before dying.

[Wildmoon]

Yup, you've still got ~ 31 hours before maintenance.

My gear is not up to date though. Only around 880 I think.

[yetgdhfgh]

Ive gotten 22 done so far but i still havent completed a Tank or Healing challenge yet.

I simply dont know squat about tanking or healing though i will say iam slightly more better at tanking than healing but that isnt helping me out much.

DPS wise the hardest for me is the Frost and Arcane Mage and its only cause i simply dont have the healing legendary for Arcane or Sephuz for Frost that would help me out so much.

Well iam gonna be going balls to the walls tomorrow so lets see how many i end up with.

[Marxman]

Hardest is outlaw. My rogue is about 940 and cant even force Agatha to teleport once. Before dying.

All of the damage in P1 is avoidable if you do mechanics correctly, which basically consists of "kill imps, don't stand in purple swirls, use Gouge/Kick a lot". You should absolutely melt the imps with Mark for Death spam at 940. I did it at 910 with no legos and it wasn't that bad.

[pkm]

My gear is not up to date though. Only around 880 I think.

Still plenty of time to get gear.

[Dakara]

Ive gotten 22 done so far but i still havent completed a Tank or Healing challenge yet.

I simply dont know squat about tanking or healing though i will say iam slightly more better at tanking than healing but that isnt helping me out much.

DPS wise the hardest for me is the Frost and Arcane Mage and its only cause i simply dont have the healing legendary for Arcane or Sephuz for Frost that would help me out so much.

Well iam gonna be going balls to the walls tomorrow so lets see how many i end up with.

The tank challenge has very little to do with tanking... some mitigation in the phase 2 but that's about it.

[yetgdhfgh]

The tank challenge has very little to do with tanking... some mitigation in the phase 2 but that's about it.

Yeah i find i can almost nuke the guy with my CDs but then i Valen seems to die cause i was too busy killing the boss and killing the eyes.

I know i need to pick up the other adds but it seems when i do i dont seem to know which def CDS to use and either i get blasted or Valen does.

But its all about practice and tomorrow iam going balls to the wall to get at least Prot Pally and BDK.

[Dakara]

Yeah i find i can almost nuke the guy with my CDs but then i Valen seems to die cause i was too busy killing the boss and killing the eyes.

I know i need to pick up the other adds but it seems when i do i dont seem to know which def CDS to use and either i get blasted or Valen does.

But its all about practice and tomorrow iam going balls to the wall to get at least Prot Pally and BDK.

If you take too many stacks from the Inq Aura, then the adds will wreck you. Otherwise you don't really need def CD's in Phase 1, gather the adds and use and orb to heal up and stun them while cleaving them down. You can also pull Varis to the center of the platform at the beginning while helps pickup up the adds.

[yetgdhfgh]

If you take too many stacks from the Inq Aura, then the adds will wreck you. Otherwise you don't really need def CD's in Phase 1, gather the adds and use and orb to heal up and stun them while cleaving them down. You can also pull Varis to the center of the platform at the beginning while helps pickup up the adds.

Thanks for the advice i will try that tommorrow

[Mojo03]

I've done 7/7 of challenges, but not all specs. Mostly between 905-915 ilvl on my characters.

I found them all challenging and kind of annoyed how much specific legendaries trivialize them on some specs.

The ones I struggled most with were...

Resto druid
Outlaw
Prot pally
Guardian druid
Frost mage

The easiest were... like super, duper easier.

Unholy
Feral
Fire
Enhance

Currently stuck on Brewmaster because of their terrible self healing... Out of shards until tomorrow. Fingers crossed.