The biggest challenge for solo players in World of Warcraft is becoming permanent. The Mage Tower from Legion opens its gates – permanently.
For many years, Blizzard had to listen to complaints that they were not addressing the community’s wishes and that long-demanded improvements were simply always postponed. But for some months now, Blizzard has been proving the opposite in World of Warcraft and is making an effort to implement the community’s wishes. More account-bound progress, cross-faction play and now the Mage Tower – it will soon be permanently accessible.
What is the Mage Tower? The Mage Tower in World of Warcraft represents a series of special challenges that were originally introduced in the “Legion” expansion. Each player could tackle a particularly tough boss fight alone and unlock special skins for the then-artifact weapon.
In the new version of the Mage Tower, character values are scaled down, so that the difficulty of the past is almost entirely preserved. This time, the rewards include entire transmog sets and even a mount if someone completes all available fights.
Time-limited Mage Tower led to frustration in WoW
What was the problem? The return of the Mage Tower was a highlight for many players in the current “Shadowlands” expansion – even though it was only a small part of the Timewalking event. But that was exactly the problem. The Mage Tower turned out to be quite challenging and, thanks to its connection to the Timewalking event, was only accessible for a few weeks a year. This led to great pressure for participants and even more frustration when it didn’t work out.
Some players were even completely scared off by this strict time limit and didn’t even attempt it.
Many players even used boosting services or lent their accounts to other players to have them complete the Mage Tower for them. This led to bans by Blizzard – many accounts also had their rewards removed.
What will Blizzard change? The Mage Tower will be permanently open in the future, and the connection to the “Timewalking: Legion” event will be removed. You will then be able to try to defeat the various bosses of your specializations at your leisure to earn the rewards. The developers stated on the official WoW website:
UPDATE: When we originally developed the Legion Timewalking bonus event, we looked for fun features from Legion that we could add. Time-lost keystones were one part of that, the Mage Tower was another.
After hearing the feedback and seeing how [the Mage Tower] was received, we agree that a challenge of personal skill, which is only available for a short time, is not in the spirit of this type of event. Therefore, with the week of March 29 [March 30 in Europe], the Mage Tower will be accessible at all times and will no longer be tied to the Timewalking event from Legion.
When does this apply? The permanent opening of the Mage Tower will take place at the weekly reset of next week – that is, on March 30, 2022. From then on, the Mage Tower will be permanently accessible and all interested players can attempt and struggle with it without restrictions. Because the challenges are likely to remain quite tough.
Are you excited about the Mage Tower? Or do you find the challenge too hard?
