Crusader Enchant in Mage Tower is a thing I guess

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I was throwing myself at Ret Pally Mage Tower today, constantly hitting the “hard enrage” and just constantly falling ever-so-slightly short of beating the fight. I was refining and optimizing but as it was basically my 5th alt I decided enough was enough and I was going to see what all the hubb-bubb was about these enchants.

Decided to finally pull the trigger on getting a crusader enchant and just… lolwut. This enchant is not only like a 25% DPS boost, but you can basically never die outside of 1-shot. Absurd.

Not only does this trivialize the fights (it felt so anticlimactic roflstomping the fight after getting the enchant), but it makes it so that suddenly there’s an arbitrary bottleneck for this enchant as any sane player who discovers just how strong this is, is obligated to use it (this isn’t “slight optimization” like getting gemmed gear, this is basically punch-card-tier imba and completely accessible off the AH for $$$).

I dunno. I’m not saying Blizzard needs to remove it at this point, I just hope Blizzard is paying attention to how all this goes down, and if they do evergreen content like Mage Tower again in the future (please do by the way, I’m having so much fun with Mage Tower), they consider stat templates. I’ve done several Mage Towers at this point and I have fun learning the encounters and getting good at them, and I feel like that aspect is something that players can share their experiences with others when the spirit of the encounter isn’t so easily violated.

Anywho, if you’re struggling with these fights and you’re a strength-based character, yeah, might as well just get a crusader enchant, lol. Actually nuts.

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There has always been a BiS list for all time walking events. It is such a shame however, that they aren’t allowing artifact weapons and not allowing Legion Legendaries.

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Any time when “skill” is touted as the primary means of success, stat templates should be present and assumed :+1:

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Yep. People do it with Shadowmourne, crusader, etc. and thinks it’s comparable to doing with with regular SL gear/enchants. Bonus points for using potions of unbridled fury.

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They already nerfed it hard.

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and they supposedly nerfed it hard… hmmm .

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You can use your artifact weapons. The procs are disabled, of course. But for guardian, you get to use 2 enchants rather than one, because it is dual fist weapons, which are not a type of weapon guardians have ever been able to use.

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It’s still fairly good post-nerf. Earlier knocked out the Fury Warrior tower in like less than 10 wipes, I had Crusader on both weapons.

Seemed like a pretty trivial encounter, so I don’t know how much Crusader contributed but I did notice myself getting pretty consistent heals from the procs.

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So everyone was saying.

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And you didn’t even enjoy Crusader at its fullest.

First two days on dual-wield. It was glorious. Still, its a solid enchant.

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I didn’t even use Crusader after the nerf. It isn’t anywhere near as good as you’re saying.

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