I pretty much went for straight up agility gems. Should I start swapping some of them out for versatility?
Good catch on that ring I didn’t see that it was strength.
I would yeah because the agi is nice but issue comes in you get to the point where you can’t take hits. Vers you can still deal good damage but take the hits later on. Inside I have about 12% vers (I’ve heard of some people having like 20% and it’s like how!?)
Edit: that method I stated earlier with the time walking vendor is 100% doable with the gear you have on and someone earlier said they can cut them for you if you’re on a specific server. =)
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As someone who doesn’t main tank and is not an experienced tank, let alone with Guardian: I still keep dying to the horrors. If I focus too much on DPS as chicken, I will have little to no rage for Ironfur, and Barskin + Ironfur combo doesnt happen always.
If I just wait for them to hop on Velen and sunfire to get them to me, most of the time they don’t and stay on him, killing him.
Sometimes the boss uses drain life with no warning at the same time the horrors come and I have to focus on them so they don’t kill Velen, just to find the boss mid drain life.
I’m not a tank main, but the challenge is not fun in the slightest.
Not to mention I am not buying too many gear. Seems I’ll have to get my hands on many potions and such or just wait and see what happens. THey should make this fight Trinket+Consumables independant and tune it around that, not having consumables and trinkets dictate your win.
Though, again, the Horrors are bothersome and the challenge is as fun as running for your life from an elephant.
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If its necessary to farm old gear to be successful then it’s not a skill test its a gear test, just a backwards one.
Requiring moonkin affinity to do enough damage to get through ph1 has nothing to do with tanking.
Even with moonfire and swipe on the 4 adds once they start casting they are stuck in one spot and if that spot is near you or velan it’s a wipe. 9 times out of 10 velan dies. So there is no tank positioning component with regard to them. So have to consume an orb to distract them and kill them.
The damage of the mobs is too high and for the most part 3 shots me.
My damage is too low (in 226 korthia gear) and its taking forever to kill anything (3 moonfires for an eye or waiting around for ticks to kill it)
Ultimately its a DPS race and I don’t have enough in my korthia gear to do enough. Not exactly sure how this is a tanking challenge at all.
All mage tower proves is that without borrowed power all the classes are completely gimped and are useless on their own without a combination of numerous archaic pieces of old gear, pots, drums, food, consumables, hacks and whatever other rediculous pseudo cheats people can come up with.
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trick with the adds is have them close enough to where you can smack the main boss with an interupt and be close enough to use disorienting roar in that cast. Also, cast regrowth while in chicken form and the adds will go to you right away.
I also use a diff voice pack, install the arnald voice pack for dbm and change the interrupt noise. Having Arnold yell STOP IT in your ear works. I would keep the other sounds the same though unless you wanna hear “get to the choppa” all the time. Also change the ano noise to his voice.
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I’ll try that later on. Thanks!
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yw, yeah I would go back through this thread see if there’s anything else for tips and tricks wise you can add to the mix. There are quite a few threads too of people posting how they cleared it prenerf and such so it may help with that too! It’s a tough challenge.
There’s another thing. I’ve never used any add-ons. My entire well career I’ve never used them I don’t even know how to install them lol
So it’s hardcore for me I guess lol. Basic wow interface lol
The fact of trying to beat it for over 40 hours shows it is not even worth doing.
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Oh all good. Yeah dbm def helps with that cause you can hear call outs and the voice packs allow you to change diff stuff around.
You can get addons from wowup or install the overwolf app although overwolf plays advertisements from what I heard. I like wow up better. You can then get the challenge mode section for it too. DBM is ready to go right out of the package if you download those two things. =)
I just want the fel bear 
I am not entirely sure if that makes the challenge easier… probably not. Take a break, go again O.O
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be healthy with it, a tired mind has higher chances of messing up too. that’s why I said earlier take breaks if you need to. Get rest all that. It definitely helps. I probably have like… 60 legit pulls between my 2 druids (I tried it a few times on my 60 with no dice).
I have to afk sometimes so if I gotta afk I jump off or if I mess up a pull it’s like “nope” jump off. LOL
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I’ve been up for 3 days straight before. Day 2 you start seeing funny colors.
well I guess I’ll get sleep then.
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it will be there waiting in the morning for ya. Sleep well =)
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Guardian druid had it easy in Legion due to how strong it was in general along with be able to trash the boss in phase 1 from outside the aura of decay thanks to a legendary.
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I’m actually doing better, but woa, I feel those horrors resist a bit. I am not going with all enchants, however.
I heard someone else mention that. I think one of the old guide videos too showed that.
Guardian was considered one of the harder ones during legion. Are you saying that by using the gear that was intended to be used originally they were “cheesing” it?