Timewalking Mage Tower was a failure

[Wulm-aerie-peak (Wulm)]

@Flitaw-wyrmrest-accord

This was advertised as the main thing to tide during a content drought of grinds within grinds within grinds and it wasn’t fun, or enjoyable, for the majority of the player base.

Was it?

@Kaivax

While the Challenges were considered quite difficult for most of Legion, we’re tuning the encounters in Timewalking to normalize player power, with the intention of providing a meaningful level of difficulty to current players.

Reopening the Mage Tower with Legion Timewalking in 9.1.5

Soon after the Burning Legion invaded Azeroth at the Broken Shore, the Alliance and Horde began using the Mage Tower at Deliverance Point for high-end training of their most promising champions. When Sargeras was later defeated and dealt his final vengeful blow to Azeroth, the Mage Tower was shut, and it has been inaccessible ever since. In 9.1.5, Legion Timewalking will become available for the first time, and with Timewalking comes a wondrous way to return to the moments of heroism from the p…

I guess ‘meaningful level of difficulty’ is the sticky wicket, as that might mean ‘least common denominator’ for some, and ‘hard enough to preserve the spirit of the scenarios at release on 7.2’ for others. But I dunno that they billed it as the thing to do during a content drought. For one, how could it? It was originally only going to last two weeks.