I am once again returning to this kind of thread to announce I have all 36 mage tower weapons, and they should just be unlocked with new mage tower, for several reasons:
- new mage tower is harder than end of legion mage tower specifically due to gear. In legion you could go up to 980 or so ilvl and with lfr gear and bis legendaries from the vendor you already overgeared the mage tower in prepatch with prelfr gear as the mage tower was released in nighthold which was around ilvl 900 or so, ilvl was heavily inflated due to titanforging which is why the gap is massive. I can anecdotally give comparisons on specific ones that were also made much easier in legion due to certain legiondaries or talents existing. I specifically remember playing mage tower limbo to see how little investment into an alt was needed to complete the challenge and then move on to the next one.
- I can still unlock any of the recolors because I have the mage tower base ones. Despite this its a pain because some of my legion characters were supplanted by allied race characters of the same class, but THOSE characters can’t unlock the recolors so even with 36/36 it’s still a pita to deal with the restrictions. The only way legion recolors go the way of every other artifact weapon is if they fix this. And for real though I don’t want to do 10 rbgs on the 12 characters that I played in legion, they fixed balance of power for the same reason, but they can’t do this one because people will cry about it.
- The new mage tower missed the mark on what made it special before, having specific rewards tied to spec meant that you were incentivized to try the mage tower on all of your specs and beat the challenge. The new challenge just has you pick the easiest one for your class and call it a day, it’s shameful.