That’s the great thing about the Mage Tower rewards: if they didn’t get it in patch 7.2, they did not work hard for it, and by patch 7.3 they were practically a participation award. It’s the worst kind of unobtainable, the kind where the only thing that merited the reward was simply being there in the window of time it was available. Work/school schedule didn’t give you enough time to play? %#@& you. Just had a kid and didn’t have time to play? %#@& you. Ran into some financial struggles and couldn’t justify the cost to play? %#@& you. Got diagnosed with cancer and decided to work as much overtime as possible to build up a little nest egg for your family in case the worst happened so you didn’t have time to play? %#@& you. All four of those things happened to you at the same time and World of Warcraft was the last thing on your mind? Well you get the idea.
If anyone thinks I seem angry about it, I invite you to take a wild guess which one of the above I was.