Hi, is mage tower broken in war within?? It seems insanely overtuned and I keep dying very easily on the elemental shaman one. Just wanted to know if its broken or if its intended and im just being bad at it lol
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I imagine it’s a scaling thing.
Get to 80 and gear and should be easier again?
Yes, it’s overtuned, even at level 80. The Timewalking Discord has recommended, since the prepatch, that nobody do them.
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Can’t it be both? 
Nah for real though, it does seem very overtuned at the moment. I can’t imagine it was a high priority task for them with a new expansion launching. But I have seen quite a few posts about it, so hopefully they take notice.
So. At the end of the last expac, the found out it wasn’t technically scaling correctly. Now it scales to your ilvl. It’s gonna be rough like that until they decide to change how it works.
I almost had it done on a couple classes before they changed it. Tried after, and nooope. I’ll never get that stuff now. lol.
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at one point i read you should farm legion for legendaries, as they scale in the mage tower. not sure if still true
Everything I’ve read about the rebooted Mage Tower is that “borrowed powers” are deactivated inside. No legendaries from any expansion, no legacy sets, nothing. I haven’t tried since TWW launch, perhaps the rules have been changed.
Just tried the BM one versus the Tauren + Worm combo a couple of days ago. It seemed insanely overtuned.
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Its very buggy. Granny keeps leaving in mine. They need a Mage Tower 2 now
They won’t fix the original, and you want a sequel??
Hasnt it always been broken?
When it was first introduced it was incredibly overtuned. A combination of nerfs and better gear made it more accessible. When they changed it to introduce the mount meta, it was super easy for maybe 1 or 2 days before they broke it again, then later nerfed it again. Now, apparently the rescaling with TWW has overtuned it (again, I haven’t tried it myself since TWW launch, just going off what others have said.)
If history holds, it’ll eventually be addressed. But I think we know how much of a priority will be made to fix content from 4 expansions ago.
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Well it does seem that they are not even paying atention to this because there’s indeed scaling issues what a shame. I was wondering why on my ret paladin sirgryn was almost spaming spells when she was at 23-25% of her hp… I don’t remember it being a thing on the original MT on legion. Then I tried on my UH DK and the scaling on the imps damage is way off. Almost 2k per fireball and they cast fast.
What a shame I thought I could relive some of the fights but the scaling and the issues will prevent me from doing so.
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Blizzard and scaling issues, name a better duo 
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Yeah honestly… 
it’s crazy how I thought I was doing things wrong but there’s no way some of the fights right now are properly tunned for a “challenge”
The UH dk one is the one that made me scratch my head after the imps kill me under 9 seconds because they do 2k+ per fireball
I guess I will pospone my revisit of the MT until they fix this… unfortunate I wanted to do them all over again.
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I did the Resto Druid MT on my Boomie because I wanted that cute staff during Shadowlands(Only to find out I could no longer obtain it 
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Never healed before at the time so I wasn’t sure if it was overtuned or not lol. But I manage to beat it. Attempted Arcane Mage as well but that spec is… boring, no offense if you play and like it.
None taken I play arcane on my two mages and I agree unless I’m bursting the spec is just repetitive.
Seeing DF and past videos seems the damage is actually fair unlike right now so there’s totally some scaling issues with the new expansion.
Dont lose hope maybe they do a legion remix and you might get them.
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I have completed all but 2 since tww pre patch and it’s definitely harder than it was before and the scaling just makes you do slightly less damage and the bosses getting 25-40% health bonus so yes it’s a lot harder, I cannot get my last one “healing” done as the mobs nearly 1 shot with any ability lol.
So it seems it’s a scaling issue going on then. Well again this sucks I guess I missed the train and didnt return back at the end of DF for an actual fair fight.
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After 5 days and over 100k spent on trinkets, enchants, and potions, I can confidently say this mode is broken, It’s incredibly frustrating, to the point that I’m considering quitting.
The game just seems to enjoy spitting in my face, making me feel like I’m not good enough to play it.
I haven’t felt this frustrated since I lost the Blood Troll set.
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