i will be honest about myself on this one, as a person that did mage tower for most of the stuff that i actually wanted, maybe i regret not doing 1 or 2 specs but anyway…
i really dont have that feeling of “if blizzard gives mage tower rewards again to people, it will take away all of the special, exclusive reward feeling for my hard job in legion”, i dont feel about that at all, using the artifact mage tower skins are indeed like a moral trophy to me like it is for most people that did accomplished that content at the time, but to be fair even though it got all this status its not very different than using the anniversary mounts like the hellhound, obsidian (deathwing), the HoS exclusive mount the flaming tiger or whatever…
in all honestly, it doesnt feel like “oh god i am special” it doesnt, so for that reason i really dont mind blizzard bringing back mage tower for those that missed it out.
Its the same thing about the challenge modes, and reason being because its not like beating a mythic raid within the race timers so you get the “prestigious killer of blablabla”.
these rewards do not share that feeling, and i dont think i need to explain why they fail in that regard, and why i dont mind giving players that missed it out another chance.
The reason i made this thread primarily its because im not one of the players that missed out the mage tower, im one of them that DID the mage tower, for at least 6 specs.
Honestly Mage Tower is like Mythic Raiding, but solo, it was darn hard and rewarding.
If they bring it back I have no problem, if they don’t I have no problem aswel, I hope they do add more solo rewarding content…more unique mogs.
Mage Tower to me was equivalent to seeing a Mythic Raider/Pvp player with a unique mog, you’d be like damn they must be good.
Still remember seeing a Guardian Druid in Werebear and I was in awe, they must of been good!.
I don’t know about this one. Yes the fight were hard (to a certain extent) but the requirement to be able to do the challenge was a joke. A fresh level 110 at the end of Legion could gear up solo in a week or 2 and do the challenge. And it’s not really that hard when you can try 150 times a day.
Completing Mythic raids on the other hand required much better gear and a good raid group which is not something casuals can do unless they pay for carries.
its sad but you are right…
my druid was just fresh 110, and then i decided to gear him a little, with only easy stuff i got to like ilv 900 and then managed the feral and bear challenges.
mage tower was truly challenging when it was released however, before tomb of sargeras camed out i did it on my demon hunter, but it was really hard at the time, i was a heroic player and most of the players that managed mage tower in that period were mythic nighthold geared players
Feral was the easiest out of all 36. Most of them were pretty challenging and some even required specific legos.
Druid here, did all 4 appearances.
I have no problem with it, though I think people gear should be scaled down to keep the challenge.
nah, monk dps was the easiest, i never attempted it but just watching i can tell it…
but feral was really easy, i dont know how but i simple managed to do it like in less than 10 tries.
in most of those i was doing meh like 70% hp boss, and in the middle of those i was possessed by the feral druid god and managed quite easily.
The bear ON THE OTHER HAND, my god i really needed better gear and i didnt had time for that, i decided to do the druid challenges when time was about to run out… and man, Kruul was really hard to do because he had that ground mechanic that he pulls randomly and slow you down quite a lot and also does a lot of damage, it was very hard to beat him on bear because of this…when i managed to beat him, I DIED IN THAT FIGHT but then kruul moved to attack Velen and finish the run off but my Lunar Dot that was still on krull doing dmg managed to low his health enough to trigger the “im going to self destruct” event, which means i won the challenge… DEAD lol
Out of all the specs that did Agatha I found Fire mage the easiest 1 shot it on the fire mage. He melted the boss and adds. Fury was hardest. Once you got the hang of the mechanics tho all dps and tank fights were easy. I cant heal so I never got past p1 of the healer tower
(Commentary): Personally, I don’t mind the Mage Tower stuff that much myself. I don’t know if Druids got special forms from it; if so, then yeah, bring it back at least for them since they have few customization options for their forms.
(Opinion): What I want to see brought back are more story-related content like the MoP Cloak or the WoD Ring, and to see the Legion Artifacts brought back in full, and just not working in content past the Broken Isles.