Last minute Mage Tower removal is in bad taste

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Blizz mentioned they are temporarily removing their “newly permanent content”, the Mage Tower(MT) challenge at the final hour before reset. This is yet another example of having no respect for the players.

My weekend was scheduled like a normal adult. There isn’t much to do during xpac pre-patches, so I made plans to do several MT challenges during the pre-patch down time with the new talent trees.

Yes, in addition to Hpaly interrupt, the DF talent trees will have some legendary effects making MT difficulty closer to Legion days, so I understand revisions being considered.

But Blizz couldn’t tell us they’re removing MT much sooner than the last possible weekend before pre-patch reset? I can’t even find the blue post on the MMO-C main page; there’s people who give MT a college try here or there who still don’t know.

I’m sure the in-game decision makers think this is super funny, showing us all the new ways we can min/max MT with DF talent trees, then taking that away without notice until they re-add it down the road with a higher difficulty(again).

As a long time professional, I often shake my head at Blizz employees actively deciding to make so many unprofessional decisions.

Maybe someone just forgot? “oh, what about MT with these talents?” Okay. Do you not have project managers? Do you not have teams and spreadsheets that cover content space like this? Does anyone have the passion for their game to even care anymore? Become professionals.

Yea, I’m sure blizz makes a tonne of scratch being the most populated cash shop MMO on the market, capitalizing on addiction, the human condition- no judgement there, it’s a business. But just imagine how much MORE money, and a more healthy/diverse player-base Blizz could bring back/bring in if they just made customer service based decisions with the player experience in mind.
Like, how am I suppose to sell this game to my friends beyond taking advantage of them being bored and into trying games?

Anyways, The Broken Shore/MT area was packed this weekend, and even though I had virtually no time to do MT, I did earn another MT transmog; so somehow I’ve won this time.

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Could they have told us sooner they are going to disable the MT to rebalance it sooner? Yes. I was looking forward to testing it out with the new talents during prepatch too. They reopen it at some point after they tune it. I’m also pretty sure it’s been disabled in beta and ptr.

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It needs to be rebalanced for the new skill trees they don’t want people farming it with unbalanced classes and getting achievements they did not deserve.

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:+1:

I would be more mad but I’ve been playing another game the last several days which has completely consumed my attention. I didn’t even do any beta testing this weekend I’ve been so sucked into it.

Going to be a bummer when I 100% the game and have to come back to playing WoW and have to acclimate to the nonsense that you only ever see in the “Live Service” genre.

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Then pivot like a normal adult. Surely you’re not claiming that a normal adult schedules a weekend around a video game and then can’t think of anything to do when the plan fails.

:laughing:

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This is correct. Before it was using the same talent tree that we had originally in Legion…and now they are moving to a completely new talent tree.

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You trolling? Read the whole post.

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This would actually be an example of them respecting players; specifically, the ones that already completed the tower, or those that want to preserve the challenge. Suddenly having legendary powers + covenant abilities might trivialize the encounters. I know some people were looking forward to that, but it’s not happening.

And yes, Blizzard sucks at communicating with players. Even after their “we hear you!” nonsense. Better, maybe, but still garbage.

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I too am part time professional

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idk if you knew this, but there were double leggo powers and a lot more player power available to players during Legion OG MT.

edit: I specifically remember cheesing Xylem with triple Leap leggo as Arms during Legion. That’s not a thing anymore, and for what it’s worth, I don’t think that’s in DF talent trees either.

Consumption for BDK back in Legion? That is a DF talent, but every iteration since Legion is merely a fraction of it’s power in Legion, a non-factor ability these days.

Just examples, brother.

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Seems respectful to me to make sure the thing works with the new talent system and gear scaling.

We’ve known for 3 days?

Maybe they should read the pinned message at the top of the official forum?

:roll_eyes:

Then why are you complaining?

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It was also tuned differently and didn’t scale your gear down. The tw version does, and that is the one they intend to be “evergreen” content, which is why they want to have it tuned according to the new talents/abilities.

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from the OP, brother.

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That’s kinda sad to hear, I boosted a priest Saturday, last mog set I needed, was still experimenting on which spec to finish it on, hadn’t started really going hard into it.

:roll_eyes:

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Oh lord stop complaining.

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lol I was going to post this ironically, but I guess dead-serious will work as well.

Yes, god forbid someone get an achievement they didn’t earn in this game they pay for.

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Will it have all of the same rewards (like the xmogs and the book mount) when it returns?

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It is designed to be challenging content. If they got it when it was under tuned they would be getting the opposite of what they paid for.

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Nothing changes, just rebalancing for new talent system and any gear changes.

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:roll_eyes:

So the players in Legion that could out gear the challenge. Did they get robbed?

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