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How to Defeat Archmage Xylem Mage Tower Challenge When Archmage Xylem reaches 10%, you will drop combat and have time time to eat up and swap gear/talents for phase 2.Don't use your cooldowns at the end of phase 1 if they won't be up for phase 2. Phase 2 is a dps check phase, while phase 1 is not.Save your movement abilities for the Intermission, to help get to the real Archmage Xylem.Use your cooldowns on Darkness Within in phase 2, if even one of them reach Corrupting Shadows he will heal for a lot!.Using aoe crowd control on Darkness Within will buy you a lot of extra time to kill them.During phase 1, make sure you have your interrupt for Draw Power.The key to this fight is meeting the important dps checks and proper usage of mobility cooldowns while surviving the mechanics.Quick Tips and Tricks for Archmage Xylem Mage Tower Challenge Optimizing Past Expansion Gear for Legion Timewalking Mage Tower Challenges Particularly powerful items from past expansions have been documented in a separate guide that is focused on optimizing your character for the Mage Tower Challenge using past expansion gear. However, due to the Timewalking gear rules, many of the best-in-slot pieces for the Timewalking Mage Tower will actually be from previous expansions and should give you an additional edge in the challenge. Click on the class guide below to see the Shadowlands Best-in-slot lists for your class! Our class guides are aimed at getting your Shadowlands character through the Mage Tower Challenge using mostly items readily available in the current Shadowlands expansion. many items and abilities have been deliberately disabled including Covenants, Legendaries, and Azerite powers/gear.Īll the Mage Tower Challenges should be completable with Shadowlands gear. In order to maintain a similar challenge throughout expansions. Your gear, trinkets and stats do matter, but all your gear is scaled down to a maximum item level of 50. The TImewalking version of the Mage Tower Challenge follows Timewalking gear rules. If you complete all 7 challenges, you will get the A Tour of Towers and the Mage-Bound Spelltome.īased on PTR testing, Havoc Demon Hunter seemed to be the easiest class to complete this Mage Tower challenge. These are the specs and classes that are available to take on the Closing the Eye Mage Tower Challenge:Įasiest Class for the Closing the Eye Mage Tower Challenge You may try as many times as you like!Īvailable Classes for the Archmage Xylem Mage Tower Challenge Unlike Legion, this version of the Mage Tower has no cost to enter. You can start the event by heading to the Mage Tower on the Broken Shore.

In order to start the Archmage Xylem encounter, Legion Timewalking must be active. How to Start the Archmage Xylem Mage Tower Challenge This challenge tests challenges your mastery of your specialization, your ability to deal large amounts of damage during important windows, and your ability to stay alive. Proper usage of mobility, crowd control, and cooldowns is vital for this encounter. You're on your own in this challenge, and have to deal with everything Archmage Xylem throws at you. Once you defeat Corrupting Shadows, you have won the challenge! This Mage Tower Challenge takes place atop the Eye of Eternity! This encounter has two phases and an intermission - players will fight Archmage Xylem himself in the first phase and Corrupting Shadows in the second phase. This guide gives an overview of the Closing the Eye Mage Tower Challenge, including an overview for the encounter and tips and tricks!Īrchmage Xylem - Closing the Eye Mage Tower Challenge One of the possible encounters is the Closing the Eye, where players will fight Archmage Xylem. While it would give more people the chance to get the mount they always wanted it would at the same time diminish the achievement of the people that got it at that time imo.During Legion Timewalking weeks, the Mage Tower Challenge becomes active. We get recolors of old sets really? Is it so hard to redesing an old set to make it fresh and new if you cant come up with a new set? Also druids are getting another bear form (recolor), why is druid the only class that gets new things on top of everyone else? Also some people saying that you should readd the old appearances, please dont do that, yes it sucks if you didnt get it but imagine if they just readded every gladiator mount or m+ mount to a vendor that you could trade in for a coin at a certain rating.


Now to a popular demand to get a similar system to the mage tower we are literally getting mage tower and dont get me wrong I like that, but sorry the rewards are so lazy and uninspiring. In the past interview (with Preach or Sloot i think) Ion said that they dont want to add new things such as mage tower and similar systems if they dont come up with cool rewards fitting to that content first.
