Beast Mastery Hunter Legion Mage Tower Legacy Challenge Guide

By BendakWoW Updated: 2021/12/06

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This guide is about the Legion version of the Mage Tower Challenge, that isn't accessible anymore.

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Roots of Shaladrassil: The best overall legendary for this challenge. It almost trivializes the final part of the challenge as it can outheal the constant damage you'll be taking (as long as you stand still).

Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus: The next best legendary. Less healing per second than the legs, but still very strong.

The Shadow Hunter's Voodoo Mask: There have been reports of the encounter resetting when you feign death (even if your pet is alive), but others have said they had no problem using this helm. If you run into the problem, you'll want to use something else. If this is your only healing legendary you should give it a try, making sure to Feign Death whenever you're below 80% health.

The Apex Predator's Claw: This will give your pet some extra survivability without sacrificing its DPS.

Sephuz's Secret: This fight involves constantly stunning and interrupting your target, which means the Sephuz proc will be used on cooldown, which is a nice DPS gain.

Consumables

Drums of Fury: You'll be using this to kill Jormog the Behemoth in the second part of the fight. If you struggle more with stage one feel free to use them there, but with a decent item level you may not be able to fully remove the damage reduction making the second phase dps check slightly harder.

Flask of the Seventh Demon

Lavish Suramar Feast or Nightborne Delicacy Platter

Ancient Healing Potion

Potion of Prolonged Power

MacrosBelow are some helpful macros you can use, they aren't by any means necessary but could help in some scenarios.Counter Shot MacroTugar BloodtotemFel Surge Totem MacroPet Damage Mitigation MacroFel BurstShell ShieldHunter's AdvantageWeakaurasInterrupt TugarFel BurstThis requires that Tugar be set as your focus target to workPet Low HealthMend PetPet ChoiceTurtleCrabBeetleBasiliskShale BeastShell ShieldFel BurstSpirit MendTalent BuildBeast Mastery guideIntimidationSpirit BondChallenge GuideTugar BloodtotemJormog the BehemothTugar BloodtotemBoss Ability OverviewsTugar Bloodtotem

Fel Burst -- Tugar will cast this approximately every 12-15 seconds and it must be interrupted. This will be done primarily with Counter Shot and Intimidation. See the macro section for a helpful macro that involves setting Tugar as your focus target for interrupts. Since both of these interrupts have long cooldowns, you will need to alternate them, and also use Freezing Trap as a backup interrupt. Once per minute, you can use your pet to soak a cast with damage reduction cooldowns such as Shell Shield (see the pet and macro sections above).

Earthquake -- When Tugar casts this, avoid standing in any areas where rocks will hit the ground. This also causes Jormog the Behemoth to burrow underground and circle around the room. It is important that you do not get hit by the worm as he is moving underground as it will stun you. The worm will be untargetable but appear visually briefly before moving in a straight line towards you. As such you need to position yourself so that the worm's path intersects with the fallen rocks. This removes stacks of the worm's damage reduction buff. This is the key to finishing phase 2 easily. Luckily Beast Mastery hunters are great at moving and doing damage.

Tugar will periodicaly spawn eggs that need to be killed. If they hatch, they will spawn a worm. These can be cleaved down (just make sure they aggro onto your pet) while remaining focused on Tugar. Earthquakes periodically spawn more eggs to kill.

Fel Shock -- This is unavoidable damage that you should be able to passively heal through with any healing legendaries and Spirit Bond.

Important: If your pet dies, it will be difficult to re-establish aggro on Tugar (even if you feign death) so do what you can to keep your pet alive.

Jormog the Behemoth

Jormog does not need to be actively tanked. He spends part of the fight in a stationary position and the other part burrowed underground. When he is burrowed you need to move out of his path to avoid being stunned and taking damage.

Fel Hardened Scales -- Jormog starts the fight with 9 stacks of this buff, which reduces his damage taken by 90%. Each stack removed reduces this by 10%. Stacks are removed by kiting Jormog (when burrowed) through the rocks that fall on the ground during Earthquake. When Jormog is burrowed, he will peak his head out of the ground before moving towards you again. During this time, you should position yourself so that as many fallen rocks are between Jormog and you as possible. This way Jormog will pass through the rocks and remove stacks of the buff.

Sonic Scream -- When Jormog is in his stationary position, he will periodically cast this. It deals a lot of damage that could be lethal in combination with other mechanics. This is why healing legendaries are a big benefit. This can be interrupted with Intimidation and Freezing Trap, but not Counter Shot. However, you should focus all of your interrupts on Tugar while he's still alive. Once Tugar is dead, Sonic Scream becomes a very dangerous ability as its damage will be buffed by 150%. That is when you need to start interrupting it.

Fel-Infused Saliva -- This won't be lethal, but it can add up with other abilities.

Stage One: Tugar

Begin the fight by misdirecting your pet and engaging Tugar. It's a good idea to pre-pot here. If you are using any healing legendaries, now is also a good time to use your Drums of Fury. Utilize this early part of the fight to put in as much damage as possible. Keep Mend Pet rolling on your pet throughout this stage.

It is best to stand near the bridge side of the encounter area, with your pet near the middle of the room tanking Tugar. Do not go outside the encounter area or else you will be killed by a poison cloud.

Interrupt every cast of Fel Burst. You can use Counter Shot, Intimidation, and Freezing Trap. Using all 3 of these abilities allows you to interrupt every single cast. However, it can be very difficult to interrupt with a trap due to the aiming and travel time. It is much simpler to have your pet soak these casts with a damage reduction cooldown (e.g. Shell Shield) instead, which can be done once per minute at least (see the pet and macro sections for more info).

I highly recommend the WeakAura posted in the preparation section to help alert you when these casts happen.

Stay mobile to avoid any unnecessary damage when Tugar is casting Earthquake. When Jormog is burrowed underground, it is crucial that you lead him through the fallen rocks on the ground to remove stacks of his Fel Hardened Scales buff. When Jormog pops his head out of the ground, place as many rocks between you and his head as possible so he will crash through them.

Do not get hit by Jormog when he is underground as you'll take extra damage and be stunned.

Cleave down eggs and worms as they spawn with your Multi-Shot and Beast Cleave, but stay focused on Tugar primarily.

Fel Surge Totem will periodically spawn throughout this stage and must be killed immediately. If they aren't killed in time, they will stun you for 5 seconds which will very likely result in a wipe. See the macro section for a helpful macro to deal with these. Any damage will kill them so a quick cobra shot is all that is necessary.

By the time Tugar is near death, you ideally want to have Jormog down to 2 stacks or less of his Fel Hardened Scales buff so that it will be easier to kill him in stage two.

The biggest challenge here is to execute every interrupt on Tugar (or soak with your pet). Keep calm. It's not a DPS race. Don't tunnel the boss. Make sure your pet stays on Tugar so that Intimidation will work properly when needed. This fight follows a repeatable pattern that you will get better at the more you practice.

Use your healing cool downs (and a potion if necessary) to stay alive. If you are using a Spirit Beast pet, don't forget to use Spirit Mend on cooldown as well.

If you are over gearing this scenario it may be advisable to wait until the worm burrows as when you kill Tugar he will continue his burrow mechanic letting you remove more Fel Hardened Scales and regen some health/recharge cool downs.

Stage Two: Jormog

When Tugar dies, Jormog enters a Fel Rage and deals 150% increased damage. He will no longer burrow underground, Earthquakes will stop, adds will stop spawning, and this becomes a straight DPS race.

If you do not have healing legendaries, this is where you'll want to use Drums of Fury and your second combat potion.

You must interrupt as many casts of Sonic Scream as possible! This can be done with both Intimidation and Freezing Trap, but not Counter Shot. You will need to be near max health to survive one of these uninterrupted casts while Jormog is enraged.

If you have a healing legendary (especially Roots of Shaladrassil) this part of the fight should be a breeze for you. You can even miss interrupting Sonic Scream casts and usually survive. If you don't have healing legendaries, you'll have to hope you kill the boss before you run out of health.

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