These are my thoughts on the Guardian Druid Challenge for the Mage Tower.
If you click my profile, you can see I have other posts about nerfing the mage tower and me struggling hard doing it. After doing this challenge for multiple hours a day , I have finally beat Krull on April 8th, 2022, about 15 -20 minutes ago at the time of writing this which 10:12pm est. These are my main thoughts
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It is extremely difficult and very unforgiving if you make mistakes.
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The first phase is very easy once you try it a few times. Failing on phase 1 is just wrong positioning or getting super unlucky with an eye spawn.
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Krull is super annoying, and you need a perfect kite with him to beat him. One wrong direction after his first 2 annihilates and you are going to die even popping the right cool downs because you are nowhere near velen’s healing orbs and will be super slow in his pools of green.
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Buy consumables and enchant your gear. go to wowhead or icy veins and check out their guides because without those guides telling me what pots to buy or enchants to get for these fights I would not be writing this.
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You NEED to go do LFR/Normal/Heroic Legion raids they all have item level 50. Mythic emerald nightmare is ok too, but I don’t recommend anything else mythic after that since the items go above item level 50 which don’t let you use most enchants for them ( I did have some pieces that where item level 60 but it was fine due to good stats and one of them being a chest piece which can use +30 stats) . Get anything that has sockets in it. I had 15% crit, 6% haste 3% master and 3% vers.
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Get the sapling seed trinket from the first boss in Emerald nightmare and use it on The first phase as much as you can ( usually about twice with the right dps and gear check) Wait until 4 adds spawn and stack them with the boss then use it the adds will melt and it will do a huge amount of damage to Variss. Do not stand too long in the pool. 3-5 stacks is ok. ( also get dragonling trinket it has 3 gem slots which is super juicy)
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I was doing this with siege of orgrimmar gear thinking it was good but that was honestly probably my biggest down fall. I watched some YouTube video saying it was good but it honestly was not. The dps difference between gemmed legion gear and gemmed item level 45 gear was massive because everything under item level 50 scales down. My stupid mistake.
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Final thoughts. Does this need to be nerfed Like I was begging for in my older forum posts? No, it doesn’t. I honestly think with enough practice and good gear farming from older raids anyone can do it. I sucked bad at this the first couple days I was trying, and I ran to the forums to lash out like a baby. Follow the right guides and you will beat this too. Good luck and thanks for reading.
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P.s and yes I think going to older content to get gear to beat challenges is super cool and super fun plus you get good transmogs along the way.