There’s like 50000000000x posts on the mage tower so I wanted to try to consolidate them all into a single mega thread for everyone to talk about the mage tower. PRO/CON, FOR/AGAINST, it’s all gravy here.
Here is my view:
Doing damage regardless of class/role/spec and having some form of damage check IS a mechanic.
Being able to survive via self heal, healing others, soaking damage, executing active mechanics, avoiding damage, etc is all important for any class/role/spec.
The mage tower is supposed to be a mixture of events that challenges your ability to multi task and use your entire toolkit. The challenges really can’t/shouldn’t be able to be mindlessly zerged down as it removes the spirit/intention of the challenge. That is why I think it’s great that it scales down like MOP challenge modes.
The challenges DO NOT require special gear or consumables at all. Yes, they can help but they aren’t needed. I did my challenge Week 1 with regular Shadowlands PvP gear. I didn’t use anything from any other expansion.
Yes I was frustrated for quite a few pulls, but once I realized my execution sucked I was able to get past the 1st phase no problem. For the 2nd and 3rd phases I went in with the mentality of treating it like phase 1 and after that it was very easy. I downed the 2nd phase like it was nothing and phase 3 didn’t take long to master either. If anything, phase 3 (at least for Holy Priest) seems under tuned in terms of healing/DPS requirements. Every post I’ve seen so far about the MT being impossible is from frustrated players who are ignoring mechanics and blaming DPS requirements. Just because YOU haven’t figured out a good strategy yet, doesn’t mean the MT is impossible. It’s supposed to be hard, it’s a SOLO CHALLENGE!
This is another comment that doesn’t need to be made. It’s obviously that gnomes are the superior race and deserve all of the power. We are here to discuss things that are not so obvious.
If you don’t like it don’t do it. It’s optional. Those are my views.
I like the 1800 sets from PVP. But I don’t like doing PVP. It’s too challenging for me. So I don’t do it. I don’t also then complain and try to get it nerfed or made easier for me.
In your mind I guess? Clearly that’s not the intention considering what was released. And as I’ve stated in past posts, there’s enough brain dead solo content. It’s nice to have solo content that is tuned higher.
No one is ignoring mechanics and blaming dps requirements. Some challenges are, objectively, WAY MORE strict in their success requirements than others are. Is that ok? Sure it is… if you don’t like balance.
Yes, I did get my mog in week 1. And I thought it was unforch about the overtuning at first. But as stated Blizzard made adjustments and nerfs to the tower. It’s very doable now to a much larger base of players. You can beat it by doing the right things now and properly using your class. Gimics aren’t needed like sockets or TW gear, but they can help which is good for those who want to do that.
Direct me to the forum you’re reading… because this is verifiably false if you’re talking about this one. This is not happening. I have never seen one post… not a single one… where anyone comes close to implying they’re ignoring mechanics.
