During this purgatory of content (see what I did there? Hehe… Okay, not as funny as I thought) I’ve decided to go back to Legion to get my Order Hall armor set and class mount on classes I didn’t play.
Going through the Broken Shore quest chain, I am pointed to return to the Council of Six in Dalaran. I pick up the trio of quests and realize that they are the Mage Tower quests. After doing some quick research on WOW Head, they are not required for the Broken Shore chain.
So, why are these quests still in the game? The conclusion of these stories ends within each of the Mage Tower scenarios. It makes no sense to have a quests where the ending of their narratives has been removed from the game (I know, the Mage Tower narratives are not the most engaging, but my game designer OCD is really kicking in with this).
Blizz need to do one of three things to fix this:
Remove the breadcrumb quests all together since they cannot be truly finished.
Re-instate the Mage Tower scenarios only for the narrative, AND ONLY THE NARRATIVE. Only appropriate level rep and gold rewards.
Retool the scenarios for the changes coming in Shadowlands, and make the just as hard, or harder. And they are only available during Time Walking weeks.
The point of this post is to vent my annoyance to the DEV team. This isn’t meant to be ANOTHER discussion about re-introducing the Mage Towers. So please, lets not go there… again.
Is there similar quests that had an ending, but was removed for reasons? I would like to know about other examples.
Yeah they seemingly go the lazy route and just remove the main thing without removing the breadcrumb quests.
I don’t think they’ll retool the scenarios though. They tried to bring something back I remember reading a long time ago but people cried and whined so they have now gone this expansion-specific content route.
I’d love to get a ‘timewalking’ challenger mode feature.
Do Mop, Legion etc…
Just tweak the look of the tints but yeah that’s a pipe dream.
I’d have 0 problem if peeps got to have the exact same bow/gun/polearm skins that I got when I did mage tower in legion. Not sure why some folks have a problem with it.
I think the biggest problem (for Blizzard) is that it wouldn’t stop at the Mage Tower. They put that back, and the floodgates are open… so they’re either committed to putting back everything that has ever been removed from the game, or there being a constant flood of threads / Blizzcon questions until the game dies to get that stuff.
Edit - Also, OP - 8/10 on this method of just asking for the mage tower skins back.
Eh, in my eyes transmog is the true endgame. All transmogs should be available to folks, maybe not elite gladiator though…idk.
edit: Now that I thought of it, maybe you’d have to earn gladiator to unlock the ability to buy past glad transmogs? Might get more peeps into pvp tbh.
This is incredibly difficult, if not impossible. Much of the difficulty was based around a specific ability pool, which may be so different now that there is no way to just “retool” them. And have you noticed that they’re not exactly overflowing with spare time - they are barely getting the current content done?
I do understand the folks that went through the content when it was relevant and got the tmogs at the time, but I too went through alot of it and did finish it on my DK and such, but I was working long hours at the time and just had a baby also… So I did not get to complete it on all the characters I wanted to at the time.(Looking at you, my Gaurdian Druid) So I would love a chance to do it again, even if they would be some different variant of the ones that were current, but its whatever I guess…
How? Eso does it just fine, they just level you and your power down to match the level of the encounter. Sure you’d have a bit easier than when it originally came out, but it can still be difficult.
edit: And tbh, the only difficult one from my understanding was prot pally and prot warrior. Heck I breezed through the hunter ones. Taming fenryr was harder than getting the mage tower skin.
Either of these is fine with me. I see no issue with people being able to go back and do the quest for narrative purposes, or removing it entirely.
Under no circumstance should it come back though fully, and re-tuned. Time sensitive and all that.
I dunno if you still find breadcrumbs for Anathema out of MC and such, but Benediction / Anathema’s quest line finale was removed from EPL with the revamp of the old world.
The only way I would ever support bringing back mage tower, is if it was literally week 1 difficulty. Your gear is scaled down to season 1 legion, and 99.9% of the playerbase would never complete it.
Late Season 2/3? When it was trivial? No. I don’t want my unique druid forms trivialized.
The achievement for the content that no one else will have isnt enough. Ppl must not have these pixels that most ppl probably dont mog anymore.
I used to feel that way but then was like wait if i have the achieve and others dont and they cant get it thats enough and who cares. The achieve locks in the prestige. I now feel the same with mounts. why are they 1% what purpose does it serve? I feel really engaged looking at my phone waiting for sha to spawn.
(stares longingly at the MW monk appearance)