An Impossible Foe: a Legion Timewalking Mage Tower Guide for DPS (2024)

Last updated on Feb 17, 2023 at 23:20by Panthea1 comment

Patch 10.0.5 has re-opened the Mage Tower Challenge, meaning you can onceagain complete and collect the various rewards offered! As it stands, the MageTower will remain open until the end of the expansion, so there should be plentyof time.

This challenge, An Impossible Foe is meant for the followingDPS specializations: Elemental Shaman,Feral Druid,Fire Mage,Fury Warrior,Outlaw Rogue,and Unholy Death Knight.You can queue for the Mage Tower challenges with the Mage Tower NPC (War Councilor Victoria)in the Broken Shore hub area.

In order to reach this NPC, you can take a portal from Orgrimmar or Stormind'sportal room to Azsuna and then fly or take the flight path to the Broken Shorehub, Deliverance Point, or use your Dalaran Hearthstone and fly.

In this challenge you will need to defeat Agatha the Imp Motherwhilst not getting overwhelmed by the adds in all phases and meteors in Phase2/3.

Everything on this encounter spawns on a set timer so cooldown management isa must for success. These will be detailed in the strategy section below.

Inside the Timewalking Mage Tower Challenge, you will be scaled down to Level45 and have your gear scaled to item level 120. You should focus on items containing sockets, as these are still active (but scaled down) in the Mage Tower.Additionally, all challenges can be completed with current gear, but you can optimizegear sets to gain even more power. A complete list of Best in Slot gear forevery class can be found on the Timewalking Discord.

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The effects below will not function within the Timewalking Mage Towerevent:

• Dragonflight Embellishments
• Any Covenant-related effects (Covenant Ability,Signature Ability, Soulbinds, Conduits)
• Legendary Powers from Shadowlands or Legion (theitems will still provide stats, their equip effects will not)
• Legendary items from Questlines ( Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve,Warlords of Draenor Legendary Rings, Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest, Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings)
• Any Shards of Domination
• Any Battle for Azeroth systems (Azerite Gear, Traits, Essences)
• Any tier set bonuses
• Mists of Pandaria Legendary Meta Gems
• Lightblood Elixir

With the current tuning of the Timewalking Challenges optimising your gearis not required by any means.

A quick and easy way to obtain item level 50 gear is to run through Legionraids. These items can also randomly roll with a socket on them which can giveyou additional stats and are eligible for old enchants.

If you have a friend who is Level 44/45 or a second account with a characterthat is Level 44/45 you are able to make full use of Chromie Time to get evenbetter gear for the Timewalking Mage Tower.

You will run dungeons with that Level 44/45 character and when they loot anitem you need, they will trade it to you.

You will want to target items with a high amount of sockets as gems do notscale down and legacy gems from the TBC/Wrath era contain primary stats whichsignificantly outweigh the value of item level in many cases.

Crafting Mists of Pandaria Dreadful gear with Relic of the Past IV or Relic of the Past V is a very good alternate source of Timewalking gear asit will have sockets and will be of a low enough item level to receive legacygems/enchants.

Disclaimer: The below table are for Timewalking gear pieces only. If you areusing Dragonflight armor the enchants listed will not work and you should insteaduse your regular Dragonflight enchants; a majority of these enchants will not workif your gear is above item level 120.

To begin, please select an option below enable tips, enchants, and gemrecommendations for your specialization:

• Elemental Shaman
• Feral Druid
• Fire Mage
• Fury Warrior
• Outlaw Rogue
• Unholy Death Knight

An honorable mention for the above gems are that Queen's Garnets can be easilyobtained via the Auction house and from the Dragon Soul raid which can be used tocraft +4 Primary Stat gems.

While you can get away with nearly any combination of trinkets for thischallenge, there are a few noteworthy ones from content outside of the Shadowlandswhich may be worth acquiring for your specialization.

Whilst it may be tempting to use Shadowlands flasks in the Timewalking MageTower, when you are scaled down to level 45 so are the effects of the flasks.For comparison, a flask from Battle for Azeroth will give you +31 Primary Stat,a flask from Legion will give you +21 Primary Stat, and a flask from Shadowlandswill give you +20 Primary Stat. Because of this, it is recommended for you touse your specialization's primary stat flask from Battle for Azeroth.

During this phase the boss will remain stationary and spawn adds periodically.This is where you should just focus on DPS and not focus on getting used to theadd patterns.

Agatha has four main mechanics during this phase:

• Shadow Stab is a the main spell Agatha will cast. It cannot beinterrupted and will deal a small amount of Shadow damage.
• Agatha's Fury. When an Imp dies Agatha will fire a projectile to thislocation. Failing to avoid the impact point of the projectile will result ina moderate burst of Shadow damage.
• Dark Fury — Every 50 seconds Agatha will shield herself andcast Dark Fury. Dark Fury will deal stacking damage over time and can only beinterrupted once the shield has broken.
• Every time an imp is spawned Agatha will gain a stack of Agatha's Vengeancewhich increases her damage dealt by 3% per stack. Taking too long with thisencounter will lead to the damage becoming overwhelming and wiping.

Smoldering Imps will spawn every minute and die pretty quickly.They will also cast Fire Bolt on you dealing a small amount of Firedamage, however each successful cast increases the damage from the SmolderingImp by 50%. If too many casts go through it can be lethal.

Imp Servants will spawn 15 seconds into the encounter and every 45seconds thereafter. They will run towards the boss and Funnel Energy,healing her. You want to avoid allowing them to channel into the boss as thiswill make the encounter significantly harder. If you stop their heal by means ofdisplacement or crowd control, they will not channel again immediately butinstead move around a bit and then rechannel, buying you some extra time andpreventing potential healing on Agatha.

Umbral Imps will spawn 1 minute into the encounter and each minutethereafter. Whilst any Umbral Imps are alive Agatha will be immune to all damagedue to Shadow Shield. Kill these ASAP and be aware that they may movearound with Translocate.

A Fuming Imp will spawn 30 seconds into the encounter and every 55seconds thereafter. They will cast Plague Zone which leaves a permanentpuddle on the ground which slows and deals damage to you if you are inside of it.However they will only start this cast once you are in melee range of it. Once acast has started it can only be stopped with stuns/fears.

When Agatha reaches 50% she will teleport to the upper end of the room andPhase 2 will begin. During this phase Agatha gains two new abilities:

• Smoldering Boulders will spawn from the upper side of the room androll to the opposite side. If you are hit by one of these by either being in theirpath or in their spawn location you will be stunned and take a large amount of damage.
• Fel Lava Blast is a new spell Agatha will repeatedly cast.This will create a small pool of fire at the location targeted. Standing in itwill deal a moderate amount of Fire damage every second.

You will need to maintain your add dps priorities from Phase 1, however theImp Servants will now spawn on the ramp and Smoldering Impsspawn near the boss and potentially under the Boulder spawn locations.

When Agatha reaches 33% she will teleport to the lower side of the room and thiswill be a repeat of Phase 2, however she will now teleport to the oppositeside roughly every minute.

Your reward for completing the challenge is a transmog set of armor which is arecolored version of the Tomb of Sargeras set for your class.

If you can manage to do all of the 7 different challenges at least once, you willobtain the Mage-Bound Spelltome mount and the A Tour of Towersachievement. Completing every challenge across all classes and specializationsawards the Tower Overwhelming Feat of Strength.

You can learn more about this mount and all the others added in Patch 9.1/9.1.5below.