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Survival Hunter Mage Tower DPS Challenge Guide - Archmage Xylem - The War Within 11.0.2
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Learn how to defeat the Legion Timewalking Mage Tower Challenge encounter, Archmage Xylem, as a Survival Hunter. In this guide, we'll cover optimal talents, consumables, and Survival Hunter specific tips for you to beat this solo challenge.
The Mage Tower Challenge is a returning feature, being first released during the Legion expansion. Due to its popularity, the challenge has been converted into a timewalking feature.
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Hello! My name is Doolb and I am a huge fan of Survival. I've been playing WoW since 2006 and have been a huge fan of Survival ever since Legion's pre-patch and we picked up the spear. You can always find me hanging around one of my favorite places on the internet:
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Survival Mage Tower Challenge Transmog Reward
Players who complete any of the Legion Timewalking Mage Tower Challenges available for their class will be rewarded with a recolor of the Tier 20 Mythic set, complete special glowing effects. As with all Mythic variants of the
raid sets, these feature additional glow effects when compared to the sets from lower difficulties.
Hunter - Wildstalker Armor
What is the Survival Hunter Mage Tower Challenge? - Closing the Eye
The Mage Tower Challenge encounter for Survival Hunter is Closing the Eye. This challenge consists of two separate fights. The first, against
, contains two phases an intermission between them. After you bring Xylem down to 10% HP, there is a brief resting time where you are allowed to eat, and change talents or gear, before you must fight
in a race against the clock with just one phase of abilities. The scenario is very difficult and designed to test your mastery of your spec in a solo environment. For a more general overview of the encounter, please see the button below.
Closing the Eye - Mage Tower Challenge Overview
Best Survival Hunter Gear for Mage Tower Challenge
The TImewalking version of the Mage Tower Challenge follows Timewalking gear rules. Your gear, trinkets and stats do matter, but all your gear is scaled down to a maximum item level of 50. In order to maintain a similar challenge throughout expansions. many items and abilities have been deliberately disabled including
Legendaries and Azerite powers/gear
.
To avoid unnecessary farming of past expansion gear, this guide will be aimed at getting your Dragonflight character through the Mage Tower Challenge using mostly items readily available in the current Dragonflight expansion. Particularly powerful items from past expansions will be noted below but shouldn't be necessary to complete the challenge though they may give you an additional edge. Please see the below guide for more information on optimizing your character for the Mage Tower Challenge using past expansion gear.
Note: Sockets are always more powerful than non-sockets for Timewalking. If you have slightly lower ilevel gear or you're able to purchase crafted gear with a socket, please aim for that to get more bang for your bucks.
Optimizing Past Expansion Gear for Legion Timewalking Mage Tower Challenges
Best Survival Stat Priority for Mage Tower Challenge
For Survival Hunters, you likely want to follow one the same sort of stat priority you would for normal PvE content. This stat priority is valuable throughout our Mage Tower Challenge, Closing the Eye.
Mastery>Crit>Haste>Versatility
Best Survival Hunter Consumables and Enchants for Mage Tower Challenge
When it comes to Timewalking gear, you can enhance your gear in a multitude of different ways not currently available in Dragonflight. While these extra enhancements and enchants might give you a slight edge, they shouldn't be necessary to complete the challenge. As such, we'll mostly be looking at what Dragonflight consumables and enchants you can use to help your character in the challenge.
Best Survival Consumables for Mage Tower Challenge
Type
Recommendation
Phial
Throughput Potion
Health Potion
Weapon Enhancement
Food
Best Survival Hunter Enchants & Gems for Mage Tower Challenge
Type
Recommendation
Head
Weapon
Cloak
Chest
Bracers
Legs
Boots
Ring
Primary Gems (Use One)
Other Gems
Best Survival Trinkets for Mage Tower Challenge
Trinket
Drop Location
]
The Primal Council
-
]
-
]
-
Other notably strong trinkets from past expansions include
or
.
Best Survival Hunter Talents for Mage Tower Challenge
This talent build is a slight variance of our single target build, moving points to
to ensure your pet is as healthy as possible throughout the fight. We also take
to help burn down the adds in the second phase.
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Best Survival Hunter Pet Selection for Mage Tower Challenge
Usually, your pet selection is typically your favorite looking Ferocity pet for the huge amount of free Leech from
and access to the massive Haste buff in
. However, there needs to be special pet consideration for this challenge as your pet will be taking a lot of damage throughout the encounter and we want to maximize your pet (and thus, your) survivability.
The best pet family to use for this challenge is a
. This is due to the aforementioned benefits Ferocity gives you as well as access to
, an incredibly strong defensive ability for your pet with an extreme amount of uptime. This, in combination with a buffed
, will keep your pet very healthy throughout the encounter.
Survival Hunter Strategy & Walkthrough for Mage Tower Challenge
Below we'll provide a thorough breakdown of the Mage Tower challenge encounter detailing a step-by-step walkthrough of each stage or phase as well as notable enemies and abilities. We'll offer strategies for overcoming each obstacle though there's usually multiple ways of overcoming difficulties. Make sure you have
on your action bars, you will need this readily available for a certain phase of this encounter.
NOTE
: It's very important to note that it's impossible to fall of the arena for this fight. There are invisible walls hugging the perimeter—it is impossible to fall off despite how it looks.
Stage 1: Archmage Xylem
The first stage of the scenario requires you to survive an onslaught of spells from
in two different phases with an intermission between. After a rotation of Frost -> Intermission -> Arcane and Shadow, he will randomize his phases until you bring him to 10% HP. It's important to keep in mind that this first stage lacks any sort of enrage mechanic and thus is
NOT a DPS race
. The most important part of the fight against Xylem is to stay healthy and properly do the mechanics.
During this first Stage, you will need to pay attention to a large Focusing Iris in the center of the platform. This magical beam extends in four long straight lines and deals immense damage if you touch it. As these beams of light do not move, it should be fairly easy to avoid, but nonetheless important to pay attention to.
Make sure your pet has
enabled and turned on auto-cast. Additionally, make sure
is kept active throughout the encounter to keep your faithful companion as healthy as possible. Remember that
will heal your pet to full during an emergency. It’s extremely important to keep your pet alive for a few reasons: your pet generates most of your Focus, if your pet is dead then that means you are taking all the damage, and finally it takes three seconds to cast
, which is three seconds you’ll be taking damage and not dealing any damage.
Phase 1-Frost Phase
Notable Abilities
During the first phase of the fight against Archmage Xylem, he uses a variety of Frost-based magic against you—ultimately these are only two mechanics unique to this phase.
- Deals a moderate amount of Frost damage. You might as well interrupt this with
to keep the damage intake as low as possible. Otherwise, not particularly important.
- Xylem will teleport a fair distance away and encase you in a cage of many targetable Ice pillars with low HP. If you touch these ice pillars, you will take heavy damage. You need to escape this area as fast as possible. Thankfully,
works perfectly and you can avoid all damage with it! Just be sure to jump first before you use your ability and it will catapult you to safety. If you use
at the height of your jump this should work each and every time. You do not need to move or reposition yourself for this mechanic while you are inside of the ice.
The first phase of the Xylem encounter is thankfully not too bad. As mentioned earlier, make sure that
is enabled to keep yourself from taking unnecessary damage and maintain
. You’ll follow the typical single-target rotation for Xylem. You can use
to easily escape from
each and every time it's used.
After that, make a beeline straight to Xylem using
to get back in melee range. Please be sure to avoid the Focusing Iris lasers emanating from the center of the room.
should move you fast enough to avoid any damage. If needed, you can use
to temporarily stun Xylem to stop any of his casts during this phase.
Eventually, the intermission phase (or Mirror Phase) will begin.
Intermission Phase-Mirror Phase
Notable Abilities
During the intermission, Xylem hides himself among many mirror images and begins to cast a very slow but very deadly spell. Meanwhile, you will be taking heavy area damage the entire intermission. The mirror images have a small safe zone around that will protect you from this area damage. Once you damage or reveal the real Xylem, the phase will end.
Note:
is very useful (read: borderline mandatory) for this phase, as you can use it as range to safely reveal Xylem.
- Xylem casts a 40 second spell which will wipe you if it succeeds.
Mirror Images - These duplicates will cast a short spell to knock you out of their protective aura. When slain, they drop a small field that will rapidly heal you.
The intermission phase begins with Xylem teleporting away (again…what a coward) and filling the arena with mirror images of himself. During this phase, you’ll be receiving a constant steady stream of damage from all the duplicates casting on you. The real Xylem will be shimmering and casting
over the next 40 seconds. If this spell is not interrupted, you will die. This spell will be interrupted once you are able to damage the real Xylem or otherwise break his invisibility effect (hint:
).
The goal of this phase is to navigate to the real Xylem, avoid taking too much passive damage, and break his channeling spell. This can be tricky to do with all the duplicates as well as the high amount of passive damage you will take during this phase.
However, the duplicate Xylems project a small field around them that will protect you from the constant damage intake. Not only that, they have very low HP and when you defeat them, they drop a puddle on the ground that will rapidly heal you to offset the constant damage intake. The only tricky thing to keep in mind is that they will attempt to knock you out of the protective bubble if they manage to get a cast off.
The intermission will end when you manage to locate the real Xylem and interrupt the
cast.
Thankfully, Survival Hunter has an excellent kit to navigate this intermission!
Using
you can rapidly move between and kill the duplicates with
as you make your way to the real Xylem. Once you’re relatively close (~40 yards or so) you can use
to break Xylem’s protective invisibility and immediately end the phase! You can also use
to make a bee-line straight for Xylem to get in
range, use
to run to Xylem to get in
range, or use a combination of all of the above.
Phase 2- Arcane / Shadow Phase
Notable Abilities
In this phase, Xylem attacks you with a combination of Arcane and Shadow magic, including two interruptible casts (one far more dangerous than the other) and summoning shadowy orbs for you to avoid while you maintain damage on him.
- A moderately damaging single-target spell. Technically interruptible, but you will want to save
for the next spell.
- A self-buff that Xylem channels, rapidly increasing his damage done. This needs to be interrupted immediately or the fight will spiral out of control.
- Xylem spawns a few waves or shadowy orbs that travel fast in a straight line. You can avoid these to not take any damage.
During this phase, your pet’s health is even more of a priority as you won’t be able to interrupt
.Don’t be afraid to use
in emergencies, as it will fully heal your pet. You MUST interrupt
as fast as possible to keep the damage you take low as possible.
Lastly, the only other part of this phase is that Xylem will periodically cast
to send a few waves of shadow orbs in a straight line that you can dodge entirely.
That is all there is to the first stage of
. Xylem will repeat these phases and intermissions randomly until you bring him to 10%. After that, the fight will end and you will drop combat as Xylem expels a demonic entity that was possessing him and the second stage begins.
NOTE:
You will want to turn
off for ease of boss positioning.
Stage 2: Corrupting Shadows
This is a single phase encounter against a single target. There are not many mechanics to pay attention to, but you need to kill the boss fast before the entire arena is covered in void pools. Additionally, the boss will summon a few adds every so often that you need to kill or they will heal the boss.
Notable Abilities
Corrupting Shadows itself periodically drops a void pool on the ground that slowly grows. Standing on this void energy deals heavy damage to you.
- Corrupting Shadows channels a spell and places a debuff on you. When the debuff expires, three
adds spawn at your location and after a brief moment of being stationary, slowly make their way to the boss. If they reach the boss, they will heal the boss.
This is a classic race-against-the-enrage DPS fight. Not only does the boss itself have an enrage, if you take too long the platform will become covered in the void energies making it almost impossible for you to survive.
As soon as the fight starts, take the boss to the very edge of the arena to maximize your space. As mentioned earlier, you cannot fall off the arena, so feel free to hug the outside edge. Please see the beautiful artwork below how to position this boss. Before the boss spawns in, please move to the edge of the arena. Pull the boss to you. For reference, the boss will spawn in position 1 and you will pull them to position 2.
(If you aren't comfortable with your DPS It is okay to have the boss drop up to two shadow puddles between 1 and 2, as long as it is not in the middle. Each shadow puddle has a maximum size it can grow to—if placed correctly it will not grow over the edge of the other side of the platform. The end result will be a much more narrow kiting path at the end of the phase, but it will give you a bit more time before the shadows overwhelm you. )
Use
,
,
, and your potion of choice as soon as you engage this new boss to maximize your damage output. As the boss slowly drops void pools on the ground, you will very slowly step backwards as you continue your DPS rotation. The visual for this ability does not quite match the hit-box—many people that struggle against this stage of the fight seem to be moving the boss too frequently.
When the boss casts
run far away and continue to position yourself on the edge of the arena. Then, as the
spawn in, they will be neatly grouped up together. Use a
at your feet, so the adds will immediately be slowed and rooted with
. If needed, you can also use
to keep them in place. Use your normal AoE rotation to quickly burn down the adds.
Do NOT interrupt
as this will cause the boss to aggro back on to you and follow you, bringing Corrupting Shadows directly to the adds that will heal it!
This is all you need to do in the final stage of this encounter. Stay calm, kill the boss, and receive your fancy new appearance!
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评论
评论来自
jerrik666
Thankfully, Razor Ice works perfectly and you can avoid all damage with it! Just be sure to jump first before you use your ability and it will catapult you to safety.
I think he meant Disengage?
评论来自
blankdud
Mage Tower has been up for two days and I've tried this challenge roughly 30 times. After so many attempts, phase 1 has become trivial (although stupid long), but phase 2 almost seems impossible.
I know we are scaled down, but currently I am 227 ilvl. I am fully enchanted and gemmed with food and flask, weapon and chest buffs. When Corrupted Shadows spawns, I pop everything I have. It doesn't seem to make a difference, as the lowest I can get this boss is to 40% before the entire platform is covered and I die.
I really have no idea what to do at this point. There is just no way to eek out more damage.
评论来自
avellian
Can someone do me a solid and link a video explaining how to avoid the razor ice. I just die. I try disengage, die. I try rift racial, die. I try attacking the ice shaft things, die. I try running when it's about to come up, die. I'm obviously not doing something right. TY
评论来自
Chakkal
In the first intermission phase I can locate Archmage Xylem get right in his face but he isn't targetable so I can't interrupt him. Is it a bug, is it a me problem?
评论来自
sbensen
Posted this on Arms warrior and it exploded with upvotes. Maybe it'll help with other classes! :D
So puddles on the last phase don't cover the entire platform it seems. I tried starting opposite side of Xylem on the final phase and started dropping puddles in the middle of the room. On the first add phase I leaped out, piercing howl, blade stormed the adds, and then let the boss come to me. Then proceeded to kite around the edge. I ended up with quite a bit more room than usual. I was getting him down to 10% without any room to spare. I had about 30 yards of free space on my kill with this method.
You will have to plan ahead a little to make sure the adds don't go too far into the poop so you can hit them. Other than that. Easy peasy.
评论来自
madmurdock
I got this without any problems during Legion with ~910 gear, but SL Magetower is a whole other level.
After I had a 7% wipe with slightly optimised Gladiator Craft Gear I knew its possible for me and optimised a bit:
In the end the game breaker besides the BFA Flasks (31 agi instead of ~20) and Pots was
残缺的种荚
?bonus=1807:1472 . This helped so much with the adds, which cost me the most time during my earlier trys. So I probably saved at least 2 to 10 secs per add wave, which I could use on the boss. Also at least try to keep up Serpent Sting while you are running away from the boss during the add phase. You can use the eagle aspect, but I highly recommend to have it ready for the last add spawn, when you maybe run out of space, root and ignore the adds with binding shot and get the last remaining % from the boss.
Also the cool down of the trinket is a good indicator, when the next add wave is coming, so you can save your bomb spells for the adds.
Another thing: Phase 1 isnt that hard (besides the lagging ice crystal sh*t, that may kill you, if the server assumes and thinks youre too dumb to back jump at the high point of your leap), so I recommend to learn to play without Terms of Engagement and Posthaste. Sure using it makes it much easier, but it works without it and better get Alpha Predator and Binding Shot.
If you dont, you will have to spend probably the worth of a token alone for that inscription thingy to respec for phase 2
. Edit: Found out, that you can use
宁神书卷
, which isnt that expensive. Seems they drasticly changed the mats.
Bad things, that can happen because of this spec:
- your pet is low, you are far away because no post haste and either it will die or he will cast his buff thingy: just use your pet stun. you have enough time to heal it up after this and run back to Xylem
- mirror image phase: look at the yellow dot on the mini map and decide if you want to go right or left. go to a mirror image a bit far away in this direction, dot it and use kill comand, which works at range. after you killed it, reg in the bubble. search for the next far away image and hook to it when the cast is almost done, it will get stunned. you also can interrupt it. then you are mostly near enough to flare the real Xylem, otherwise, pet heal and use turtle and run to him and use flare.
- if your pet really dies, dont worry, just use turtle and rezz it. just happened once to me, but the pet got aggro back quite fast and if not, you can survive the frost bolts for some time.
Edit: A bit outdated now, because the mats for the re-spec tome cost less than 50 gold now and I wouldnt bother doing phase 1 with a phase 2 spec again,
评论来自
Taubes
Phase one should require no cooldowns. Phase two, eat food and use consumables.
Use
无拘之怒药水
start of phase two. There is time to use this twice in phase two, significant DPS increase.
Use
强效湍流合剂
, significant DPS increase over SL flask.
Use
残缺的种荚
, heals you to full if used on
寒冰剃刀
. Overpowered for killing the adds within binding shot in seconds in phase 2. You have 4x chance per week to loot the trinket.
In phase 2, place the first puddle directly in the middle of the room. Do this by standing on the other side of the boss when he is spawning. At first add phase, go to outside of room and rotate as normal. There is enough room, barely, and adds a lot of time to phase two.
评论来自
TheBigDeeb
if you looking for an easy guide for Survival Hunter mage tower challenge watch the below video :)
https://youtu.be/xSKPtSLrgWk
评论来自
Mortiie
For the love of god
TURN OFF PET GROWL
on phase 2. Wasted days on this challenge because of the damage I lost with pet moving P2 boss out of attack range.
Get
'Shiver Venom Lance'
from Eternal Palace for weapon,
Greater flask of the currents.
and get fully enchanted for as much agility as possible.
评论来自
Totodile
The two biggest tips that helped me complete this on my Survival Hunter:
Get a
残缺的种荚
. This item performed so well in both Phase 1 and Phase 2. Definitely worth running a few Emerald Nightmare lockouts a week until you get one.
In phase two, start opposite the side of the boss so that when you pull him you can ensure he's in the middle of the room for the first puddle. Tank him there and the first set of adds you can run to an edge. Having the first puddle that he drops in the middle buys so much extra time for the phase.
评论来自
troru
In the survival hunter version of this challenge, I REALLY struggled with clipping a bit of
寒冰剃刀
during Phase 2 where in Phase 1 I never got caught at all. What worked for me was to carefully watch my toon as the ice would fall and the animation for falling to the ground and standing up to be "ready" again would activate. If I waited for the that animation to complete fully and be standing in that combat stance, i could do the jump + disengage each time and not clip a shard.
Also, if you use
回旋加速冲击
in
口袋计算装置
, since it's a move-while-channeling ability you can cast this as you move away from that boss as you make your way to positioning the adds.
评论来自
RealZKun
Seems much easier in Dragonflight, beat it without optimizing talents, consumables or enchants
评论来自
Fruitshop
This guide is such a godsend on Survival hunter. I followed the positioning guide, consumables and talent build and it was an absolute cakewalk once I understood the mechanics.
评论来自
Benedictogr
Disengage simply does not work for me. I thought that the problem was my 60ms which was pretty standard for my country. I have since moved, and with 20ms it still works 0% of the time. I am stunned and as soon as it runs out, I jump and disengage. EVERY TIME, without fail, I die IMMEDIATELY, before I even land. Not sure what I have to do, but this guide is just not helpful.
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