7 Specs That Have It Easier In The 7 Mage Tower Challenges 9.1.5 - WoW: Shadowlands 9.1.5

[@validname10]

For Windwalker, the fight is much easier (in my experience) keeping Tugar in Phase 1 for as long as possible. If you can get the worm's scales off and DPS him to about 30% or lower before Tugar dies, it's much easier to handle the empowered worm.

[@slavfather4302]

bro just kill worm first XD

[@hansvdz5834]

@@slavfather4302 Killing Tugar first just disables all the fight mechanics and you just have to stun the worm. Best is to just dps down tugar, and cleave down the worm whenever it's up. You don't even have to focus it, Tugar has so much more health to chew through than the worm, if you kill the worm first, the enraged phase just lasts so much longer.

[@koshka02]

Just to chime in, since I attempted today for the first time (and successfully completed it :) ), Yes, ideally what you want to do is initially not worry about DPSing Jormog at all. Wait until Jormog is around 4 stacks, then use a SEF cooldown /w SCK procs and start dpsing him. Don't even worry about Tugar's health at all. As long as you are doing the mechanics correctly, he will die eventually. By the time I got to Phase 2, Jormog was already at like 30k life. If you notice that Jormog still has like 80% life and Tugar is about to drop, I'd switch completely over to Jormog. Cause if you don't, by the time Phase 2 comes up, its impossible to win the DPS race. You'd have Para, then Leg Sweep, then another Para, and if he's not dead when he's casting and your Para/Sweep are on CD, you'll die. I made the mistake early on thinking that Diffuse Magic or Karma would save me. Nooope. Diffuse Magic is kind of useless if I'm being honest. It helps out on Nature damage a little, but that's about it. Another tip that a lot of people miss is to run over your Healing Spheres!!! If you mess up at any point during the fight, Expel Harm and Chi-Wave might not be enough to recover, but if you walk over your Healing Spheres after killing the ads, it will recover your HP quite quickly. Also, being Human for the Racial bailed me out if I got stunned. When you Leg Sweep, try to stun both of them at the same time and pop your SEF/Xuen. Sometimes, if you're unlucky, a Fel Surge Totem will appear as you're bursting them. Use your Crackling Jade Lightning with a target Macro on the totem. Takes 1 hit and is gone, no big deal. After Jormog is done tunneling, always expect him to pop up and cast Sonic Scream. If Paralysis is on CD during Phase 1, its really not a big deal, it won't kill you. Its only Phase 2 where you absolutely cannot let it go off or its an instant death.

[@lumingaming]

Gotta say as someone that did 36 specs, Survival Hunter is by far the best spec for Xylem.

[@brandon9689]

If you get a ravaged seed pod trinket from first boss emerald nightmare it's a 1 min CD puddle at your feet. It does big damage , if you are struggling to meet any DPS check, this trinket is a huge edge for any class for almost no effort.

[@jrotvtube]

This trinket made the disc priest challenge incredibly easy.

[@brandon9689]

@@jrotvtube yeah and it's a melee DPS trinket/ tank trinket I believe. Any class and role can use this to significant benefit. People are mad about cyclotronic blast in kill videos because they can't get it. This is the next best thing, and potentially way stronger in cleave.

[@madtrade]

there is also the trinket from lord iskar from HFC even if it's an intel trinket that stuff is excellent dps ( 15% of my dmg when i did the guardian drood challenge )

[@joseluisjensen1913]

So for the Feltotem fight, I did it with both the monk and the BM hunter and my strat was bringing down the worm 1st then Tugar while doing enough cleave, otherwise the worm would eat me alive with no cds. it took me like 20 attempts with my monk and about 40 with my BM doing these strats, so I highly recommend them :)

[@dims4627]

I think fire mage was by far the easiest one of them all. I have never played fire mage before and was able to do it in my 3rd try. You literally one shot the running adds or just nova them and you have alter time for EACH adds spawn plus you can super easily just burn through the second phase with bl

[@ImAussieMate]

I did every single spec in Legion. I had a few specs I had never played before. I'll use this guide to cheese it. It will take me some time to blow off all the cobwebs. I did it back in 2018

[@LunaDrood767]

BM Hunter is also very easy for Feltotem's Fall. If part of your struggle is dealing damage to Jormog while dealing with P1 mechanics, the strength of BM's crowd control kit and bloodlust meant that for my kill I was able to burst down Jormog from 95% health once Feltotem was down. Check the wowhead guide for other tips and tricks in the comments, like how to increase your sustain ;)

[@CCM1199]

Already completed the tank challenge as guardian. I need to complete the other ones as the specs you mentioned. now for the million dollar question: did you do all the challenges with heirloom weapons and trinkets or did you do it with full shadowland gear?

[@arivogle34]

How did you do it please help

[@hansvdz5834]

No, you just need to complete each mage tower challenge once. So as a druid you can do 4 of them, and then you need alts for the Sigryn, Xylem and Feltotem challenge.

[@normannseils3936]

For the heal challenge I find Druid to be the easiest. Infinite crowd control and perfect cooldows for every phase. And with guardian affinity the fixate adds in p1 are a breeze. Tranq works wonders for healing up multiple of those addwaves in p2 and p3. Switching to balance affinity for p2 and p3 provides a lot of dmg potential.

What did you do against skill overlap? I noticed in the end sygrin casts blood of the faster right when she empowers on of the others.

[@lotus-fe7ek]

for the hpal fight, if you want to save space just bubble inside of the fel when hes gonna jump on you

[@ReavGames]

Doing Sigryn as Demo Lock was a complete pain

[@GnomieBologna]

Yeah I've given up on it.

[@mandyr1717]

@@GnomieBologna Yeah, me too

[@dannya1209]

I took some ez, and some tough routes. Point was getting xmogs while getting mount. In order I did. Twins: SP, frost, boomy, affliction Agatha: Ele GodQueen: Arcane Feltotem: Disc Kruul: Guardian Risen Threat: HPal Xylem: Arms

[@huskycal2367]

Watching your enhance and arcane play makes me wonder why i bothered as demonology lmao. Looks leagues easier then demo

[@schwegburt3002]

I feel like Sub Rogue for Xylem was god awful. The dps check felt much tighter than Arms and the asshole's blink+frost nova felt much more temperamental to escape than Arms.

[@brandon9689]

It was definitely tight. Seed pod was key for me.

[@madtrade]

a good tip for krull . install DBM -Challenge + the voice pack from DBM disable all the useless warning. ( i just had shock/anilhation and twisted reflexion on warning) it's so much easier like this when you are overloaded with shit happening visually

[@komxela1]

dude why was fury warrior not mentioned in the video, it's prolly one of the easiest class for that mage tower.

[@lendial]

if you dont get the spell book mount in 2 weeks time does that mean it will be impossible to obtain after?

[@ferrety2810]

No the Mage Tower will be on a time walking cycle like the rest. I think it’s every 8 weeks?

[@fancen]

@@ferrety2810 6 months

[@ferrety2810]

@@fancen oof

[@madtrade]

in 4month BC, MOP , WOD , LEGION and voila up again :-) take the time to farm all the juicy trinket you need and the consomables

[@tikboytv4407]

Everyone has its own preferences on how to do every challenges easier depends on their play styles and familiarity of their classes that’s why i don’t believe if people will say that this specific class is easiest for the specific challenge. For tank challenge i find brewmaster monk easiest for just 2nd pull and bear tank(2nd week since magetower opened) for 119 pulls lol, ret pally for just 6th pull, fury warr for just 5th pull, holy pally for just 2nd pull. Still working on xylem and twins tho.

[@simonsynetos7070]

Any tips for brewmaster monk?

[@codyrockwood15]

Doing Sigryn as ret was so hard for me. Other were hard, but ret is supposedly one of the easier ones, and I'm just not seeing it.

[@andrahil9153]

Keep her on CC as much as you want, makes it so much easier.

[@codyrockwood15]

@@andrahil9153 that's that's I ended up doing. Still wasn't easy though, all the videos I saw people were hardly taking damage, but I was having to use WoG more than any other ability to heal myself

[@andrahil9153]

@@codyrockwood15 Had to do the same, idk where I read "outside of burst, just use the holy power to heal" and that mentality helped quite a bit xD

[@lexsmith1285]

ur not wrong.. trying to do it as havoc sucks..dh depends too much on borrowed power and has none here

[@p.o.p5570]

You actually couldn't be more wrong... Havoc legit negates core mechanics on the challenge... They double jump dash to escape the frost prison, their mobility help them stick on so easily, demonic appetite heal them for a ton and finally spectral sight

[@brandon9689]

Get the seed pod from emerald nightmare first boss. There's your borrowed power. It's good for any fight and class but really really good for P2 Archmage Xylem. I had loads of floor space at the end on my sub rogue. It does block the floor though so only drop it before you run out to kill the adds. It will pump the boss down for you while you're away.

[@lexsmith1285]

@@p.o.p5570 if your basing our survival off demonic appetite then its complete rng on the procs if we survive so again i am not wrong

[@p.o.p5570]

@@lexsmith1285 oh yeah I listed like half a dozen point that makes havoc good in MT and you chose to ignore all and only to focus on demonic appetite being rng is the end of the world... Crit is rng but somehow every dps give it high priority Also demon procs in Necro covenant are rng yet it's the most popular covenant in pvp

[@lexsmith1285]

@@p.o.p5570 lol hate to break it to you but havoc is mainly nightfae even in pvp

[@Calvictus360]

Destro is brutal

[@kidego1971]

Yep, I cant even come close lol

[@Velexy]

Started mage tower and got pretty far into it however literally stopped because you can’t get the flame reaper appearance anymore, it’s actually dumb since glaives that have been released since are garbage

[@markuslc1888]

without MOP gear special enchants, sockets and pots frost mage isn't ez at all, since mage belongs to thoses classes, who have an absurd high amount of borrowed power, the dmg is extremely weak and you do very little dmg on the hands, which makes it hard to get the middle dude down. apart from that heavy procc reliant, no proccs --> rip

[@othmanalmesbah5257]

I did the frost mage with shadowland gear its one of the easiest challenge

[@markuslc1888]

@@othmanalmesbah5257 how do you do dmg on the hands without proccs? you cant do dmg without proccs, you have to hardcast in order to get proccs, you cant kite, if you have to hardcast idk how this is ez if you are completely reliant on proccs, sry but you were just extremely lucky if you did it with no special gear/pots from older expansions and enchants

[@XxXUchihaItachiXxXx]

@@markuslc1888 i did it with full shadowlands gear. I used TW and IV on first Phase 2 (when the caster becomes available the first time). I spam orb with Freezing Rain talent and I pretty much have it up for a big duration of the fight, which means I get procs. I also cast frostbolt for hand if I'm that unlucky and frost Nova/Freeze/CoC in emergency. Took me 3 tries, good luck!

[@markuslc1888]

@@XxXUchihaItachiXxXx did the same no chance getting any dmg on the boss at last phase due to 0 dmg on hands and almost no proccs, the adds die in blizzard so i lose the tiny orb cd

[@othmanalmesbah5257]

@@markuslc1888 u have frost nova and pet frost nova so u can hard cast as u want you always have the interrupt so you have more than enough time also dont use rune of power if ur having trouble frozen orb almost never of cooldown just blizzard the add with the boss and its gg

[@Sepulcrehyjal]

Wtf is "the shaman wall" ? as a shaman be it enhancement or elemental, just run earth shield and you'll be safe for the healing part of dps mage tower

[@matsen1153]

Think he meant Astral Shift, which reduces dmg taken by 40% on a minute and a half cooldown.

[@lukavavtar1990]

I did ww monk, arms, restosham, firemage, afflock, guardian druid and ret paly, though it was much easier with arcane mage.

[@kronatankristof8804]

dps DH is hard. Probably my hands aint too good but i waste over 50 tryes until start to do it close to perfection. For example fire mage challenge I did from 2nd pull. And arcane one - from 7. W/o "pro trinket" from mechagon 2nd phase become pretty painful.

[@marcussully1854]

weird list. i got the mount over a week ago now and have done all but 2 classes now. example agatha fire mage is by far the easiest. ret is the easiest for sig. with tanks main reason why tanks had issues wasnt phase 1 but surviving phase 2. again dh is easily best but doing phase 1 wasnt the reason. druid imo is the fastest toget kruul to phase 2.

[@jakobhesthavenlarsen8429]

Druid easiest for tank Challenge? Broski whaaat?

[@marcussully1854]

@@jakobhesthavenlarsen8429 if going to reply please actually read. No where did I say was easier. I said druid was the fastest to do phase one.

[@hansvdz5834]

@@marcussully1854 true, Hotw moonkin form just chews through vargus' health. But tbh, P1 is not the hard part of the fight. You can drag it out as long as you want and doesn't really impact P2 except for having 3 inferls up instead of 2.

[@normannseils3936]

I did all 6 tanks before any nerf. I found brew to be easier than vengeance if you can handle the knockbacks. I had the most struggle with prot warrior due to limited selfheal in p1.

[@DankMemes-xq2xm]

@@jakobhesthavenlarsen8429 all he said was druid has the best dps on phase 1

[@UltimateGamerCC]

this was a helpful video, now specs that want to finish MT for Mount can do so by using the specs showcased here.

[@sadoki6952]

I can do the ret pala challenge. I think I need to farm gear for doing it..

[@masonbarnes48]

From my experience ret was really hard. As a ret main, I took like 100 pulls and then I decided to go get some socketed gear from siege of org. I gained about 80 strength total but lost some total HP, but even then it was still tough - the extra damage was helpful though

[@sadoki6952]

@@masonbarnes48 yea my problem is the dmg. So sieg of org gear helps?

[@thatoneguy8801]

@@sadoki6952 I used shadow lands honor gear that have haste. Heart of azoroth. BFA legendary cape. Pvp haste trinket. Heirloom sword with crusader enchant. Make sure its under level 50 or you can't enchant it. Consumables help a ton. If anything get drums, food, flask and pot

[@sadoki6952]

@@thatoneguy8801 yea man i got it now. I did it first try after this tipp thanks! :D Now i struggle with Rogue haha

[@fortheswarmlord3250]

Feral the easiest one my ass. Have you tried MM?

[@joeyl564]

Did mine with shadowlands gear :)

[@NoLootStudios]

Me too 🕺 I just used what I had at the time, didn't know much about how the scaling worked and all the BiS stuff etc

[@Seele728]

for arms warrior, it is not doable without crusader enchatment

[@stefantholet4036]

Just did it without crusader. Shadowlands pvp sword, Crafted dread glad gear except for neck and cloak (farmed bfa legendary ones). Also used shadowlands on use and on proc pvp trinkets.

[@mreyespy13]

Cause blizzard sucks at balancing anything! So its easy for some really hard for others.

[@KilianHD]

fire mage for agatha is the easiest

[@tjerk9023]

I've done the Guardian one but still struggling at feral...so feral is def not the easier ones for sure.

[@fancen]

may

[@fancen]

this list is wack

[@viaboo69]

first!

[@raiden2048]

looool i stop by to see whats poppin in wow these days and you are re playing content from a couple xpacs ago? LOL

[@kostasrh9529]

It's relevant, challenging and fun. Why shouldn't he?

[@kail_6019]

Many players love Legion and Mage Tower it's very cool

[@tors10x42]

It was reintroduced for 2 weeks only w new cosmetics and a druid skin. So yeah , people want that shit before it's gone forever

[@danbee415]

They should've really kept the mage tower to begin with and just expanded upon it. Blizzard makes all these new zones yet we never really go back to them after the expansion is over. Blizzard is just a crap company compared to other companies in the MMO scene. There's no effort really.

[@kostasrh9529]

@@danbee415 and when they do in any way (see Timewalking, etc) you get comments like OP's : "haha old content cause new bad". I'd prefer if Timewalking was on a weekly rotation than on a monthly one. So many assets that could be used.

[@Strugglin]

looks like a single player game and not an MMORPG!!!!

[@tors10x42]

It's a challenge for cosmetics only, not required or does it help in any way . Literally a mini game. The big three are dungeons, raids and pvp. There is technically an open world scene for casuals.