the triple barrier anima is amazing , add 40% to that (or more) and u are inmortal lol
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the mirror image when blink never worked for me 
Mages are ok. Just use a water elemental, and itâs enough to go pack by pack. Completed 2 Layers (both entrances) at lvl 148. Layer 3 was rough, thus I have been farming better gear for another try. Make or buy healing potions, flasks, food, etc. Reasonably easy in compare to Visions (in my opinion - I dont like timed events).
No, thatâs by far the easiest boss in there. No wonder you had an easy time. Cromwell is a Ventyr caster (which means he cannot be kited) with a nuke on a cooldown much lower than counterspell AND he has an uninterruptible AoE ability that has a huge range, you literally have to be max casting range to avoid. You have no choice but to eat half of his nukes and can only avoid the uninterruptible ability if you lucked out and got the anima trait that causes fire blast to knock targets up in the air (or talent into Super Nova which is a huge DPS loss that you canât really afford).
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It was broken if you had Arcane Momentum. They have since hot fixed it. And yeah, we all know which anima powers are the bees knees but there is no guarantee that you will get any of them as it is purely RNG based. There in lies the problem.
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Well, Iâm still fairly confident that everything there is doable. I know mages far below my mage in ilvl who still manage to do stuff. I had many repeat runs because I trying to find the champion to join my covenant for table missions and got a string of crappy anima powers and still managed
Of course it is, I never claimed otherwise. There just shouldnât be such a drastic disparity in the level of difficulty based solely on RNG elements that a player has no control over. A system that will span the entire length of the expansion and be mandatory should reward players for the time and dedication they put into the game based on their gear and skill level not a roll of the dice.
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I just cleared an Upper Reaches layer 3 Synod boss at ilvl 149, but I have no idea how it compares to some of the other bosses people faced. The first three floors kept giving me underwhelming powers. Near the end my luck changed and a few good powers became available. Iâm not sure I would have survived if not for that early 142k Arcane Blast.
The luck of the draw for available powers does not feel good.
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The boss definitely matters. Just did my second run through. The boss was down real quick on first try. The difficulty compared to the first boss⊠well it just wasnât comparable. It was a walk in the park.
Which is frustrating.
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So today I cleared the final 2 levels. My ilv170. Though honestly I donât think ilv makes that big a diff at this point.
A tip that I found completely changed things for me. Farm the entire run. Every mob and urn. Get all the stat buffs benefits and by the time I got to the boss I wrecked him. Was so much easier. It was slower because I had to clear all floors but totally worth it. Might work for you too.
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Yes and no, you could clear the entire layer from top to bottom and still not get the right anima powers, happened to me more than once. Thatâs the thing about rng.
Also pro tip: you donât need to destroy urns like a madmen only ones that are larger and have the same grayish glow as anima cells contain them. The reason this matters is because there is an anima power that can buff your next ability per urn you break to deal up to 1000% more damage and if you get it you will want to go back and destroy all the urns.
The very fact that you might have to rely on something as gimmicky as that in order to have a successful run is a clear testament to how terribly the whole thing was designed. I really hope that once more people inevitably encounter a ânightmareâ scenario in there rather than the breeze they lucked into this week they will sound off and Blizz might fix the rng madness that is Torghast.
Itâs sad that thatâs what it will take because I wouldnât wish it on my worst enemy to have to go through that frustrating ordeal but alas people donât learn until they get burned for themselves. At least I will rest easy knowing that I warned them regardless of whether or not they choose to listen.
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See the issue with your argument is this: you think you need ârightâ anima powers to clear Torghast. When really, thereâs no ârightâ anima power. You can make them all work depending on how you adjust your skills/abilities. I find it impossible to believe you completed runs without a single relevant âEpicâ or âRareâ power being offered to you.
The second thing, youâre playing a game where luck has played a part for the longest part, for both relevant content (like your luck with dungeon/raid drops) or
irrelevant content (like leveling up a side profession or hunting rares for mounts, etc.). Itâs part of the game.
Every single class relies on anima powers to solo Torghast. It seems your complain is coming down to âIâm not getting the anima powers I want, and thatâs annoying me because I donât want to adjust my playstyleâ
But take heart in the fact that you can eventually get items from Venari that give you better odds at anima powers.
Truth be told, Torghast is way more engaging and challenging than horrific visions ever were because once you had the route for horrific visions and the required ilvl/damage, you could basically rinse and repeat it all the time with the only things changing being the affixes per two weeks (since you swap between Org/SW each week) - which were completely nullified by your ilvl and the ability to just brute force your way through. It was absolutely a brain dead grind to get your gem sockets. That was indeed a horrible design.
Honestly, Iâm a competitive PvE player, but if a game drove me to this level of insanity Iâd step back and go for some ice-cream/coffee and a break. Maybe youâre overthinking it. Donât forget youâre playing a game. If itâs breaking you down like this, is it really worth playing it?
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Itâs really not that deep, I certainly didnât intend it to be. I am just trying to take the frustration out of it. And frankly while it hasnât annoyed me enough as yet if I have to put up with it as it is now for the entire expansion I donât think I will do it precisely for the reasons you list.
And no there are no ârightâ anima powers but there are those that require you to do absolutely nothing while allowing you to steamroll through the place and then there are those who give you little or no benefit at all. This would be fine if the bosses were balanced with that eventuality in mind but they are not.
Iâve experienced both sides of the coin which is why I talk about the disparity with such detail, Iâve seen how drastically different the experience can be first hand and I just donât agree with it. It shouldnât be a cakewalk half the time and a super frustrating experience the rest of the time. There has to be a middle ground. Thatâs all I am advocating for. 
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I have a issue with the time warp abilities being the some of the most powerful. I find both the time warp cool down and bosses on the third/sixth levels donât reset when you die.
Therefore, in order to use time warp a second time on a boss fight you have to stay in your corpse for ten minutes,
Its a fairly boring waitâŠ
Ok, I get it is supposed to vary based on the anima powers you get but the difference they make is crazy insane.
I said earlier that I could not beat a boss. I couldnât beat him on level 1.
I faced him again. Got the right anima, and I literally just one shot him.
Impossible on level 1 with the wrong anima. One shot on level 3.
That is insane.
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You 1 shot him? How did you manage to hit for that much?
In one of my runs, I got really lucky with two stacks of the +2000% damage Fireball-from-invis talent, +620% base damage from the jar-breaking power, then Rune of Power + Combustion + Invis let me blow the bossâs head off with a 725k Fireball crit.
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Very very lucky with my anima powers.
I got every single anima power that increases spell damage (that I know of) and I got some of them multiple times. As well as massive increases in intellect. I got the intellect buff where you get an extra 5% per level on floor 1 or 2. As well as another intellect buff.
I knew going in that it would be an easier fight but I was a bit shocked at what the fight was.
Edit: I thought I was in GD.
edit 2: I might find a list of the anima tomorrow and see if I can remember what I had. Try and work out how one-shotting was even possible. I am very liberal with food/potions etc. I make enough on the AH that if I think a fight might be hard I will pop everything.
I know i had:
2 rune cloth wrappings.
Another one that increased damage by I think 25% (I wonder if this worked to give me 25% of the 4000% - so 5000% not 4025%)
Probably had about a 10% buff from releasing the souls.
Not sure what I had by completing the process but I donât usually do that so it wouldnât have been much.
Critical strike from food
Got the chest and ring enchants (still got azeroth heart and hearth enchant on bracers)
Augment rune
I had 20 or 25% extra intellect from the floor guy
Standard intellect buff
Intellect flask
ilvl in the 150âs I think.
Then touch of the magi for 4 arcane charges - then arcane power - then invisible. Then down in one shot.
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Unless itâs the cleave boss that kills all of your images in 1 hitâŠ
Iâve had 0 problems as fire you guys just donât know how to play mage efficiently I havenât done the third yet. But our anima powers in there really carry us flame strike damage buffed by 800% fireball from invis power rofl my mirror images cast gpyro in there