Blunt Force Testing: Gobin Heritage Armor

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After the patch dropped, I logged into my Goblin Shadow Priest and thought I’d knock out my heritage armor set. I tried to down the lab assistant after a quick Korrak’s Revenge to 120, and no joy. I figured my low gear score was the problem… no worries, I’ll come back. I came back after putting my toon in full Benthic armor from Nazjatar… still no joy.

I’m having no problem downing mobs in Uldim or Vale of Blossoms for N’Zoth stuff, why is this quest so excruciatingly difficult? After several hour-long attempts at this, I think I’m done until the next xpac drops. Having multiple heritage armor sets (Belf and Velf) that were as simple as turn in a quest and you’re done, I’m not sure I understand if or why the difficulty of this questline is the intended result. I’d be curious as to what the stats are of the number of Goblins eligible have completed this questline… drilling down further to the number of Priests, and I’d be quite confident the numbers are low.

Can we see this nerfed/hotfixed, or am I stuck waiting till the next xpac?

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im having the same problem with my goblin mage, i know this is necro, but did you do it? :frowning: i fear im stuck to shadowlands too with this.

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The idiocy of this quest is that there is no way to detect what you need to use the armor button for and what you don’t. I am on my twelfth attempt because everything one-shots me.

Remember that everything scales, so no matter what, you will be one-shotted by every single special attack that the enemy has. There is absolutely no way to complete this except for luck.

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I’d like to share a number of thoughts after attempting this quest several times, in the hopes it will help others. Sorry for the long post - believe me this was originally much longer :wink:

On a freshly dinged 50 Mage in full heirlooms, I failed miserably. Came back later in full Nazjatar benthics, again failed. Most recently, I tried yesterday on post-squish Level 56 wearing ~iLevel 108 gear, for reference, that compares to pre-SL approx 445 (e.g., The Eternal Palace mythics or Ny’alotha normal drops). I did not deal significantly better hits, so again failed quickly. I usually spec Arcane though also tried Frost. I don’t mean to sound so hopeless, though thus far haven’t been able to complete the quest.

As Cordana and Astyanax observed, this quest appears to scale to your Level and iLevel, and it seems I am no better off with my current gear and higher level than where I was at 50, wearing the same gear most PvE will have starting this.

To be fair, I suspect for some classes (like a Paladin, Monk, Hunter, Warlock, or Priest, with “good” in-combat shields and heals), might fare better. As for me, as an arcane mage without significant heals or long-lasting shields, it seems impossible. If you’re an arcane mage and thought this was easy, please share tips, include your rotation, talents, levels, any special items used to survive.

One option I’ve seen (for mages) was to shimmer outside the room, then kite the boss around the building while pegging away over the next 10-15 minutes, until you eventually wear it down and defeat it (unless they one-shot you, of course). I tried this, though at random, one or more friendly ‘Mechanized Peacekeeper’ bots appear, driving the boss back into the building, resetting the quest.

As an aside, IMHO running a character from 1 to 50 normally without using a boost or race/faction change should merit acquisition of your heritage set, if not after an enjoyable acquisition quest (e.g., Blood Elf). This holds true for all the allied races, where you’re simply presented with the transmog set, done.

If Blizzard ultimately decides to be kind and nerf or change the parameters (and the following Galliwix battle) to make this, well, easier, I would be so grateful.

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As an update to my previous post (that’s me, Toggle, I’m just on my Belf right now in the forums), I just dinged 60 and have iLevel 139 gear now. The ‘boss’ scaled up along with me and is now a 60 Elite with 94.3k health compared to my 21.2k, I can only get it about half way down, hitting it with everything I got until I just basically die trying. This quest is STILL seriously over-tuned and broken. IMHO if you got this far, an average joe who naturally reached 50 without a boost or race/faction change, please let them have this armor, nerf or adjust this quest to be doable on a level 50 with normal PvE gear. This quest - it’s for a transmog set. Have a heart, please. I wouldn’t mind dying if the bot’s health went down and didn’t reset each time I die. At least that would mean progress for squishy toons like mine, give them a chance at success. Thanks for listening. Good luck everyone.

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As an update, I did in fact complete this today on my Level 60 Arcane Mage, having hit item level 153, I had enough firepower to take out the 1st mech, then complete the following stages in the scenario. Yes, I still died, however luckily the last boss (Galliwix) does not reset on death, so you’re able to beat him down until his Azerite armor recharge is depleted and finally take him out.

I still think this should be set at level 50 (earlier level 120) for a player spec’d with normal gear, especially squishy cloth wearers, to make it more fun. Though other sadists who enjoy abuse and being killed repeatedly may disagree, I feel it would not take away enjoyment to be able to run the scenario to completion without dying. Just my opinion.

I followed the advice posted on WoWhead for the remaining parts. https://www.wowhead.com/quest=57079/beat-the-crapopolis-outta-him

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Congrats! It’s definitely overtuned for sure. I recently dinged 50 on my Goblin Fire Mage in full heirloom gear with leveling enchants and ran through the questline as fast as I could, and had similar problems as you.

I refused to leave until I beat it, though (thinking I’d lose progress and have to reset the quest), so I stuck with it. I think it took me roughly five or six tries with a lot of kiting and doing my best to keep my shields up. Standing there and letting him wail on you like I did the first time is definitely not the way to go.

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So, i got it the 2nd try. Here’s what I did,

Evade the missiles and the flamethrower… when it says “Thermal stress test in progress” AND “explosives Test Initiated”, that’s when you pop your armor on. :slight_smile:

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Just tried this 5 times

I was never able to damage the bot. Died every time

Not worth the time

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Yeah it’s 2025 it’s absolutely insane how little Blizzard cares about older content it can be impossible or completely broken and it can forever stay that way as far as they’re concerned. This is near impossible on a non tank class.