Bring back Legion Mage Tower Artifacts

Could be worse. I quit right after the first raid tier of Legion due to legendary not dropping on two characters. I came back late and managed to get geared enough on my Elemental Shaman and now the only mage tower appearance I have is Ele shammy lol. What a terrible one to get too.

Eh. I’d be ok if they did. Some classes have very important appearances tied to them that may mean more than “just a transmog” (hunter quivers, Druid cat and bear forms).

I got what I wanted, which was just the feral ghost cat, so it’s not about getting another crack at anything in particular. Also know what it feels like to have something rare and exclusive “redistributed”, because my First Seargent title is from RBGs now or something. Just not a fan of people missing out on stuff.

You know what, lets entertain the idea of the premise like the challenge mode armors vs class hall apperances:

Prot Warrior: You get half the skull with no flames, and the handle of the flail, no flail.
Fury War: You get half the swords, crudley cut in half so the center has no texture, like old 3D games
Arms War: Same as Fury
Prot Paladin. You get the handle of the flail, and the center disk of the shield only.
Ret: You hold the hilt, and thats all.
Venh DH: You get the skulls from the glaives, no blades
Havoc DH: No flame effects, just glaive center
Guardian Druid: Old classic texture Furbolg

Along those lines

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PVP ladder is the only actual test of skill in this game.

  • Raiding is a test of patience

  • Grinding is a test of endurance

  • World quests are a test of focus

  • Mage Tower was a test of memorization

  • Sub fee is a test of IQ

Bring back mage tower

Yea but the PVP titles should have never been removed and they would add value and content to the game to this day if they were still in. You weren’t special because you managed to get First Sergeant from vanilla. You just happened to play the game and participate in very casual PVP to get a title. Mage Tower appearances had to be earned and comparing that with a legacy title from playing the game years ago hardly compares.

Why are people bothered by others having the cosmetics they have? It doesn’t matter when you started playing the game. I have the Uncorrupted Voidwing mount, and I’m working towards the Awakened Mindborer, and I don’t care if others get them in Shadowlands.

Am I special for completing the Mage Tower during Legion too, though? No.

There was no reason to take that out either.

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I think it has to do with the lack of “Feeling Special & Unique” in this game. Everyone who plays the same class has a similar look and similar transmogs, weapons and appearance. People want to feel unique and one less item that other plays can get helps them feel special.

Well you took the time during legion to gear a character up enough to do the mage tower and earn your weapon appearance so compared to others who don’t have it you are special.

You still have to get rating in RBG’s to get your PVP titles and good luck with that because nobody does RBG anymore. Both are pretty much out of the game.

Not everyone has everything. That was never the case and it never will be even if every single unobtainable thing comes back. You can feel special for having something rare ,like a low drop chance mount, but your feeling of uniqueness shouldn’t come at the expense of others. That’s not fair We all pay real money for the game after all.

I have a few unobtainable things, not a lot but a few, but I really don’t mind if others get them. I can still feel unique about my accomplishments.

I don’t care about the rewards. If they were announced as time-limited, they were time limited and should not be brought back.

But I would like to experience the content because I enjoy playing the game and do not need a special carrot for that.

i respect that you would like to see the content but it would need re balanced every single expansion which eats up development time. on top of that artifacts are no longer a thing how do you even begin to re-tool the challenges when those effects aren’t present in game anymore?

It’s not about everyone having everything. It’s about rewarding those who put in the extra time and effort to obtain rewards that other’s can’t just get by cheesing the game and earning something someone did at a time when it’s impossible to replicate now. Even if you scaled the Mage Tower it wouldn’t have the same challenge as it did when it was current.

I remember when I started this game back in WOTLK and saw someone with full ICC heroic gear with the Light of the Dawn title and I was so envious and amazed by them. Now that title means nothing and that gear from it means nothing. It’s just a free gimmick now that people farm once a week for a mount. Some things staying special aren’t always a bad thing.

tl;dr everyone getting everything provides no uniqueness to the game and takes away from the people who earned it.

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This. But people want things removed, they want their participation trophies. Then they wonder why the game has no soul or meaning…

I would only be okay with the Mage Tower forms being brought back if they still kept their sense of prestige. Make their requirements equally as difficult to achieve as they were in Legion. Don’t just give them away.

Alternatively, add unique weapon transmogs and druid forms to Torghast’s cosmetic rewards. Let’s get a Werebear druid form made out of souls, like this:

You said it was.

Who said anything about making it easy to cheese

How do you know that? Also, I heard it was easy with good Legion gear anyway.

The title indeed means nothing, and that’s a shame, but the gear doesn’t. It drops based on rng. They could scale the challenge to give the title more meaning.

Should they remove the mount too, since it was harder to get in Wrath? Think of all the things you have gotten easily that were harder to get before? Are you willing to give all of those up?

They don’t have to remove things for them to be special.

Again, that will never happen.

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I would love to see some sort of evergreen challenge mode added which allows a recolor of the skins, so at least people can use the cool models.
(spoken as someone who earned every mage tower appearance for every spec and class) I want people to be able to have more options, and having a way for them to earn an alt color seems like a good solution.

It should never have been removed in the first place.

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Nope sorry.