It’s healthier for the game if the Mage Tower skins don’t return. It is perfectly fine for some rewards to remain exclusive for players who earned them during a certain time period, especially since the overwhelming majority of rewards in this game are still obtainable. These skins shouldn’t return for the same reason why Scarab Lord, Hand of A’dal and Black Proto-Drake shouldn’t return: because their exclusivity makes them special. Earning a time-sensitive reward during its allotted time window is an accomplishment that shouldn’t be taken from players who made every effort to achieve it.
My greatest regret in this game is missing out on the MoP Challenge Mode Warlock set. Does that mean it should return? NO. It belongs to the players who earned it during MoP, and that’s fine. I made sure to get all 36 Mage Tower appearances because I knew they were going away forever. Yes, bringing them back would cheapen them because the whole point is that they were time-exclusive challenge rewards.
The solution is not for Blizzard to return the skins they explicitly stated were going away for good. The real solution is for new challenge skins to be made. People want the Mage Tower skins back so badly because Blizz hasn’t really done that sort of thing since then. There wouldn’t be a problem if Blizz periodically created more “mage tower” challenges with new skins going forward.
Regardless of whether or not it’s the popular decision, the mage tower skins should stay gone. Petition Blizzard to create new challenge skins. It’s time for Feral Druids to finally get a long-overdue Cat-Man skin, anyway.
My main probelm aswell ( as someone with a few mage tower skins) is that the current challenges dont drop anything nearly as cool.
Beat Zekvir or Underpin? Cool you get a lil backback, yippie. the mage tower skins are effectively an entire 1/6th of class artifact appearences. If blizz had cool weapons for these challenges each expansion I doubt so many people would be asking about mage tower.
The thing is Mage tower was the last time we got weapons as a solo challenge reward and that was 10 years ago. 12 years ago since the WOD challenge mode weapons.
Recolors should be added of the Mage Tower weapon skins along with werebear & spirit tiger.
The hilariously ironic part is the same players screaming for mage tower weps to come back would behave the same way the people that already have them would after remix was over.
‘No you didn’t earn it during remix too bad’
& then the cycle continues.
‘I didn’t play remix that’s not fair bring them back!’
Iwonder if Claws of Shirvallah will come back in Remix. Not sure if it was tied to the level-up nodes of the artifact weapon. And how all that is gonna play,
Ive heard rumors of no class halls… so no artifact weapons at all? No followers? no class armor sets? no class mounts? No class specific army at broken shore?
It will be interesting to see.
I agree with this complaint, but I think the solution isn’t to rehash the skins Blizz already said were going away. The solution is to move forward with new skins entirely. A new “mage tower” with its own rewards should happen periodically.
honestly I like this a lot. A new mage tower every expansion with its own expansion unique appearance would also do good with class design. A big problem I have with the Timewalking mage tower is they were built around artifact weapons and it never feels tuned like it was in legion.
If there was a mage tower for each expansion with its own unique weapon for each class, then players would always have the opportunity to earn something cool, while still perserving the value of already existing appearances! Then blizz could tune the expansion current mage tower around current class design.
Incorrect. The argument is Remix is a good opportunity to bring it back. They should have returned in Shadowlands. The problem lies with inconsistency in their decisions to bring back cosmetic rewards. Bring back it all, or nothing at all. Put them in MT after Remix, I don’t care. Let people earn them.