Twisting Corridors fail

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On my ilvl 192 Frost Mage I tackled Twisting Corridors for the first time last Sunday. I would say I’m a mediocre player. I have probably played an average of 3 hours a day for the last year, 90% of it on my mage.

I had some time that day and thought I’d get through one layer of Twisting Corridors, aiming for the goal of the the mount someday in layer eight. Or at least the pet in layer 2.

I spent 5 hours in that place. 5 hours without a break. I solo’d… I have a great guild and good friends, but the two hours or three hours commitment I thought it would take was a bit too much to ask. I’m a ‘kill everything’ kind of girl, so the time it was taking was a bit discouraging but not a surprise.

I died a few times, but I was holding my own and had about 5 lives left when I finally (FINALLY) crawled up to level 18… I wiped against Cellblock Sentinel.

I took a breath, googled all I could find, figured out a game plan, tried again. Wiped. He had 3 million hp… the highest I’d fought before him was maybe 750k hp? On one try I got him down to about half health, but still got smoked.

5 hours for nothing.

I get that Twisting Corridors wasn’t made to be easy, and that the challenge is probably aimed at much more talented players than I am. But to spend that much time and effort for nothing left me more upset and angry than I have ever been with something that I have enjoyed for so long.

I logged off last Sunday and haven’t logged in since.

I’m not sure why I’m posting… maybe for sympathy? Maybe hoping someone will say something that will make me feel less like a failure? I know it’s a lot to ask of the internet.

Maybe I’m just hoping that Blizzard will somehow see my post (or the slew of other comments made on Twisting Corridors), and recognize that completely slaughtering the self confidence of their customers is not the way to entice any sort of commitment from them, but is just making some of them (or at least me) rethink why they are wasting their time.

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What you experienced is why I haven’t even touched twisting corridors or torghast now that I have the Legendaries I want.

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I’m terrible and I did layer 8. A lot of it depends on the powers you get and the last boss.

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There’s so much potential for Torghast, but it’s just wasted. If you don’t get the right defensive anima powers you can’t take the blows necessary to finish it at that level.

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Try arcane spec, it scale amazing with anima powers. I only do torghast in arcane spec

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Getting all the torghast upgrades while my void lords tanks everything carried each layer without failing.

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It does depend on your powers. 5 hours is pretty long, but it gets faster because you’re going to be able to handwave away powers very quickly.

Right now, one of the first things I get is the Ravenous Anima Cell at the 3rd floor vendor, and then use it on a Mawrat to get the mount. That helps a lot (it helps even more when you actually don’t forget to use it).

It’s worth the 250.

There’s just flat out a lot of walking in Torghast.

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i did Twisted 1 and 2 and it took just over an hour each. I dont understand how it takes people 5 hours. i killed ‘almost’ everything myself.

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@Alecis I appreciate the advice… I’ve never tried arcane, maybe I should. Do you know of any frost mages that have made it through though? Shouldn’t any spec be able to make it through?
@Robokappa I’m not sure why I was so slow at it. 5 hours is no exaggeration… I actually set the timer in WoW, and it was beyond 5 when I hit level 18. I didn’t check before I rage-quit the game.

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Just find a tank and let them murder everything.

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I had a similar experience despite being pretty good at the game. The last boss is several times harder than everything before it, and it’s the kind of difficulty that isn’t interesting to deal with – if you run out of CC/avoidance abilities, you get one/two-shotted by autos. Luckily, it’s completely optional, so I can just avoid TC.

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You wanna hear the worst part? Players with 20+ ilvls ahead of you have had the same experience, anima rng is what determines success or failure in TC.
Avoid until next patch.

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Stopped reading after “ilvl 192”

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It gets harder on the higher layers, the first debuff starts stronger, enemies hit harder, etc.

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Did you try respeccing fire and using the ez button?

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This is basically what happened to me. I noped outa there so fast. There’s no way I’m slogging through 18 boring floors just to get cheesed by the last boss on layer 1. I got better things to do. Anduin can rot. Quest abandoned.

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I did twisting corridors with the same boss on this druid at 142 ilvl. Probably just got some bad powers, I was doing 170k dps by the time I got to him. I killed everything also.

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Well, I just completed layer 6 of TC. On this frost mage. Nio raid gear, just playing solo.

Hint : Take a GOOD legendary for TC, not the one sugested on wowhead, it’s useless in TC

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Lair ! lvl 50 druid. Go away troll

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can’t post links, take away the , after the h, idk why I show up at lvl 50

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