I’ve made close to 200 attempts at this point and I’m now realizing there is no way for me to win. I checked my damage logs and every single time, without fail, on his 3rd Annihilate cast Kruul does 8938 damage, while my max health is only 7330.
I quite literally cannot complete the challenge because of this.
I’m not sure what I could be doing different besides farming gear in past expansions to minmax as much as I can, but what that tells me is that the challenge is horrendously overtuned and unbalanced compared to what it once was like in 2017. I should not have to farm for hours every day trying to get some specific trinket or some 3 socket piece to drop just so I have a chance at completing it. I’m already using my mitigation tools like barkskin, frenzied regen, and survival instincts properly, I’m using food, pre pots, drums, battle pots, healing potions, and augment runes- and I honestly just don’t know what else I could be doing differently.
Every time I get to phase 2 I get him to around 26-29k health and then he oneshots me with Annihilate from or near 100% of my max hp. I don’t know who’s in charge of balancing this mess of a mage tower fight, but it’s not really a challenge if you cannot beat it without abusing stat scaling in this horrendous instance.
If anyone has advice on how to complete the challenge, I’m all ears, because at this point I’m at the end of my rope and I feel like I’m about to just give up until it gets nerfed because this is ridiculous.
I really hope they don’t nerf it. It’s supposed to be a challenge, and considering the amount of bears who’ve beaten it, I’d say it’s more than possible.
DPS harder. Grab orbs lock him down. When I did it, think he got off maybe 2 Anni’s? which didn’t have to schedule out my CD’s.
You can approach this as a tank and try to survive everything he throws at you, dodge all the mechanics, do everything right. Probably in spirit that it was intended? Pssh w/e
Or Approach it as a DPS…do everything in your power to increase your DPS thereby shorting the Phases and encounter, lessen room for mistakes. This made the Encounter easier for me pretty much trivializing it. I haven’t checked lately, but I’m sure the cost of all the consumables etc has gone down by this point? Given its perma open now?
It is 100% possible. I actually think you can live up to 5 annihilates to be honest.
I can’t recall exactly but you 100% can at least live 4. There’s been plenty of threads in this forum from when it came out the first time. You don’t need special gear. Search for them and you’ll find all the answers you need.
Yeah, I was around 13k when I got mine. Not sure how you’re only 8k. That doesn’t seem right.
Look into using Azerite gear. Any level works. Doesn’t matter where you get it. It has absurdly high Stam and agi to make up for the lack of secondary stats.
Theoretically possible to do up to 8 when I last looked, with incarnation/pulverize talents and an absorb/cheat death trinket for one of them. But you’d definitely run out of health to the regular damage at some point trying to do that (you need to orb before each one and they’re all doing like 9-10k pre-vers past the first few, so you don’t have much HP to deal with the rest of the phase), plus it’d be really hard to not kill Kruul by then just getting the rage for ironfurs.
6 is achievable without any extra defensive talents or trinkets as long as you’re good about Ironfur and using an orb before each one to top off. 5 is pretty free if you have a plan.
Annihilate is actually weirdly undertuned for the guardian tower compared to the other tanks. We’re exceptionally good at dealing with it yet it has the lowest base damage in our challenge for some reason.