Just finished my 8 mask run and it honestly was extremely easy. I did it on my fury warrior and just took my time slow and steady. I think some people tend to rush because you see your sanity bar ticking away but with Gamon spawning so much due to one of your masks you basically never run out of sanity because you get 150 back each time you kill him. I didn’t even have to use an orb the entire run.
Also remember you don’t have to kill everything. I skipped an enormous amount of annoying trash packs with shadowmeld and invis pots. Really the only thing that could brick your run is just silly little mistakes So just relax and take things one at a time and you will get it done too!
I did 6 masks tonight and it took 44 minutes. I’m totally cool waiting another week. There is nothing you get for doing it now. Rexxar’s area wrecked me so many times, I really don’t want to do it on 8 masks right now.
Also a note on Gamon, he chain stunned me so much I couldn’t even get a glacial spike off, EVER. I resorted to running in circles and spamming ice lance and flurry. I know you get sanity from it but it’s really bad as a caster.
In the middle of casting. And it’s not always just him obviously. He’s always in melee, so if I move out I would never cast anything other than blinking out and casting while he’s whirl winding. Which sometimes works, but then closes again before it finishes. It’s a mess really. And he has killed me with a melee crit many times. It will be easier next week.
pretty much just waiting until I had all my CDs for him and face tanked it. You can afford to take a few hits of sanity loss because you just get it back when you kill him on top of gamon spawning soon after
I love people when they achieve something thinking that it was easy…
No, it is not easy, it is rng, it is easy until it is not.
Slow and steady wins for sure, but that’s not mean it is easy.
Yeah I don’t think “easy,” is the right word but his basic point is spot on.
I see people on stream trying to giga pull like it’s M+ then one bad stun and it’s over.
If you want to do 1-2 packs at a time you can but people feel the need to rush.
I haven’t started 8 attempts yet but 5 was absurdly easy and the masks I’ll be adding the only one that matters is the half sanity even that isn’t terrible with the recovery
I haven’t run an 8 mask vision yet, but as far as I know there’s quite a lot you can plan out (route, orb usage, kill count for gamon) to mitigate risks. The biggest threats seem to be a handful of fights that can take gigantic amounts of sanity if you make a mistake or don’t kill something fast enough.
I was with you for the first sentence but I’d replace the second sentence with “you found it easy”. People tend to think if something is easy for them then it must be easy for everyone.
The biggest threats are actually Blizzards bugs. I made a mistake last night and died to the Valley of Wisdom boss on a 7 mask attempt, and now that zone is permanently bugged on my character and the boss won’t spawn, locking me out of clearing it.
This and some classes and specs will have easier and harder times with the content, similar to all of the nemesis bosses for delves. It’s entirely doable, but its a case of due to the bolster and multitude masks, both of which can force some REALLY bad pulls on you. It makes for a very hard time for me at least as an ele, given I can only burst hard when I have ascendance, and when i’m outside it I struggle hard with some bosses and pulls. Followed by just getting chain CCed because blizzard also loaded visions with CC as well.
Not to mention Overlord stupid at times has gone off on her own adventure which causes a mass pull, and then in turn bolsters everything. Ultimately this is yet another RNG adventure that blizzard has created, and its sad this is the best they can do now.