I got the laser cat and hulk bear on my first and 6th try on a freshly leveled HM tauren, the only 2 I thought really looked good enough to unlock. The only reason it took me 2 tries for the kitty was because one of the rocks did not spawn correctly so the model did not load and I got hit by empty air.
I would have no problem with Blizzard bringing the looks back so that other people could get them. It is not like the challenges were difficult to do at the end of the expac. I feel like the people that do not want them back are the type that think that LFR is legit end game content.
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That would take as much or more work than just creating a new challenge. Not a good use of dev time.
Nah, exclusive things are dumb. Because its artificial. Nothing is stopping Blizzard from letting you earn anything in the game. It is all data on my hard drive whether or not I own it. So itâs hardly âexclusiveâ when everyoneâs copy of the game puts the data on their PCâs. Otherwise the objects wouldnât be able to render on your screen if you didnât obtain the item.
I got all the mage tower appearances I wanted. Put in a lot of work to level and gear all the required alts and do the fights. Putting the fights back into the game and scaling the levels wouldnât bother me at all. Just so long as Blizzard is consistent with everything else they pointlessly removed from the game.
This game needs more content to do. More things to keep people busy. Every removal is only harming the game. If you want to feel special go ride some ugly mount with an ugly xmog on. Cause let me tell you, everything from the corrupted ashbringer, to the original epic mounts all the way to the MoP and WoD legendaries and mage tower appearances are hardly âspecialâ since you arenât the only one that has it.
The game doesnât need to cater to your special snowflake ego. If you want something that is really special go check out the legendary vanilla necklace that some GM accidentally gifted to a player. That is special. As would be the legendary dev tool that oneshots raid bosses back in ulduar if the person who got it wasnât dumb enough to abuse it and just quietly kept it in their bank.
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MT artifact looks are no different than Mythic raid gear. Let people farm them. I didnât get all of them but I did get 30/36. It really wouldnât bother me if others got the chance to have them as well.
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Scaling does not take as much work âor moreâ than creating a new challenge. How can you people write stuff that is so obviously objectively incorrect? Know what isnât a good use of dev time? Taking things out of the game.
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They really should just make something similar for SL. Some kind of solo challenge that you can get all new sweet cosmetics from. And solo, so no one can carry you, or spam the heck out of trade chat selling their dang carries.
Itâs not just scaling, a lot of specs needed certain legendary effects to do the challenges (at least with Nighthold gear). Also a lot of a the artifact traits were crucial in completing the challenges. The mage tower was designed for Legion systems, just scaling health/damage will not replicate the challenge whatsoever.
I would rather them just make a new mage tower with new rewards that are tailored to the current game systems. Seems like that makes way more sense than trying to tune 4 year old content for people who missed out.
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They should bring back the WW Monk mage tower challenge. That one was super easy.
this. seriously. as someone who came into the game at 8.2, i went back and got skins for this druid. it was alot of fun doing it. balance of power was a pain though lol. it was so rewarding to get these skins. it added a different layer of content for me to accomplish. mage tower sounds so much fun. if it was scaled up to our current power, it would give me something else to do. of course, gotta reward me with that sweet hulk bear 
edit: OP, too many people like their exclusive reward. they dont want others to have what they have. as far as druid goes, at least give me the freaking hulk bear. idc if i cant get the brown color skin. make that the exclusive part. the color, not the dang model. lol.
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Queen please. More like 5 attempts just with Tomb of Sargeras raidfinder gear.
I got most of them for every class and donât care either way if they bring it back.
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I would only be in favor of bringing back the Mage Tower skins if they also bring back MOP sets and WOD weapons. If you want to make the skins not rare anymore then go all in and bring back everything.
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Kruul on paladin or the healer challenge in 5 attempts?
Pressing F to doubt real hard.
Edit: Bring back the same mage tower?
The problem, as itâs been explained before is, the encounters were mostly designed with Legion class design, artifact, legendaries, set bonuses, talent loadout and later on netherlight crucible in mind. Scaling wouldnât work, and if it was made to work, it could break the scenarios to be a cakewalk. And me personally, I wouldnât want that. I never did the shadow or disc challenges, I would have loved to take a stab at them, but afaik both classes are very much changed by now.
So the other way to make revisiting the MT work would be by re-working the challenges themselves. And that would take enough work by Blizz, that I would rather they just make a NEW challenge with NEW rewards.
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Amazing how every end game activity is so easy for low level forum trolls.
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I, sadly, missed them. But I always iterate that I donât think they should be brought back.
I also continuously iterate that Blizzard is missing out by NOT creating new content that matches in the level of goodness that was the MT, with equally awesome NEW cosmetic rewards. Visions were the closest thing BFA got to it, and we got⊠what? 1 backpack?
Naaa I been down this rabbit hole before⊠thatâs bait for the amusement of hard core people that like to pick others apart for having hope.
Well seeing as Blizzard is bringing back an event they promised never to unleash on the player base again as our new prelaunch event, Iâd say Mage Tower skins returning in some way are an eventuality.
As an aggregate itâs pretty true yeah. Some classes you 1 shot the attempt (cheese affliction warlock for example). Healer challenge and Kruul you get used to. Also I remember the healer one only being difficult on one class but I may have tried it before 7.3.5
The only reasonable way this would happen is if they introduce similar, but not identical, appearances.
Make them similarly difficult to obtain and Iâm sold.
I think Mage tower was the last thing I had interest in doing in terms of endgame lul.
Now that I think of it, admittedly because it was going to be exclusive⊠huh⊠guess thatâs a +1 to your original point