They are quite literally some of the coolest looking weapon models Blizzard has ever put into the game. It seems like a complete waste to gate them behind the ability to get them if you were playing this game ~7 years ago.
Also, the artifact weapon questlines along with the class hall questlines aged super well if you go back and do them now, 10/10 content and I wish I could also do the Mage Tower and get the appearances from doing it still.
Please Blizzard, we just want more class themed weapons and armor
But that’s the thing, you literally cannot do the mage tower the exact same way they did, that is gone forever
So, it’s been years just hand them out
Plus most of the gate keepers of mage tower appearances probably got there’s during the end of legion when it was basically free anyway cuz there was no scaling
Here’s a highly upvoted Reddit thread from ~10 days ago showing that most people disagree with this and want the Mage Tower appearances to come back:
Imo, they should make a new “mage tower” entirely.
Just have some kind of lore appropriate newer version, with its own newer weapons and appearances. It was a very successful part of Legion, so why not bring back the same kind of mechanic, in a new way.
Bronze Dragonflight Chrono-tower or something like that, with specific iconic weapons from Warcraft history like Broxigar’s axe, Hammer of Twilight (Twilight’s Hammer), Umbra Crescent (Wardens’ Glaives), and updated versions of old favorites like Thunderfury, Shadowmourne, and Hand of Ragnaros.
Or, alternatively, different new versions of the mage tower weapons skins, even recolors or something, just different from what’s already been given out.
TLDR - New rewards entirely, namely weapon skins. New ones.
The old artifacts need to stay gone forever. Blizz should bring in new artifacts to
collect.
I wasnt playing enough to even step foot in the mage tower during Legion.
The old artifacts should not be brought back just because someone couldnt,
or decided not too, play back then.
I was looking at my artifact skins for shadow yesterday. Wondered what that sickle-looking one was (I haven’t played any of my priests since Legion). Turns out it was the appearance from the mage tower.
That’s how underwhelming the shadow one was, I didn’t even remember what the appearance looked like. I totally forgot that I even did it as shadow, though I vividly remember banging my head of that challenge as frost mage and aff lock.
Look at the disc priest one, that’s the one I want the most. There is even a tint to it that’s pink and there’s so few pink items let alone weapons in the game.
Sad thing is, I remember the disc priest challenge being BY FAR the easiest of all the challenges I did. Like, I barely knew what I was doing as disc, and it wasn’t even a healing challenge…
Only if you get them from doing the challenges they came from before, not some crap like buying them from the trading post or
At first, I was in the “they’ll never bring them back” camp, but that went out the window when they brought back the Mage Tower itself, and the current pattern of adding things in one expansion and removing them the next (MoP and WoD legendary item questlines, Mage Tower appearances, final boss AoTC mounts, Veilstrider title, etc.) is becoming increasingly arbitrary and archaic. I already got most of the few appearances I wanted, but wouldn’t say no to getting another chance to get the one for Holy paladin.
