Mage Tower Timewalking Gearing Guide - Best Gear, Gearing Strategies, Gear Sources

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Grimoire mage-liéQuick Summary

Players get scaled down to Level 45 during the Challenge

Consumables like Gems, Enchants, and Potions get scaled to level 45 as well

Gear gets scaled down to item level 120

Gear with item level lower than 120 does not get scaled up

Players must be at least level 50 to attempt the Mage Tower Timewalking Challenge

What is the Best Gear for Mage Tower Timewalking?

Best Gearing Strategy for Mage Tower Timewalking

Chromie Time Gear Set
- Crafted PvP Gear
- Socketed Legion Gear
- Modern Shadowlands or Dragonflight Gear

Chromie TimeCrafted PvP GearCrafted PvP pieces will usually be the easiest way to gear, for those under a budget of both time and goldLegion Contentmost importantaccess to legacy enchantsShadowlandsDragonflight

Mage Tower Borrowed Power Restrictions
The borrowed power effects below are inactive during the Mage Tower Timewalking challenge.
All Shadowlands Covenant-related effects (Covenant Abilities, Soulbinds, Conduits)

All Shadowlands Legendary Gear effects

All Shadowlands Shards of Domination effects

All Battle for Azeroth Azerite effects (Azerite Gear and Traits, Azerite Essences)

All Legion Legendary effects (these were already tagged as Legacy content but will not be returning for the Mage Tower)

All Warlords of Draenor Legendary Ring effects

All Mists of Pandaria Legendary Meta Gem effects

All Tier Set Bonuses

Previous Legendary Items (Ashjra’kamas, voile de détermination, Courroux du dragon, le Repos de Tarecgosa, Val'anyr, le marteau des anciens rois, etc)

Gearing StrategiesChromie Time Gearing for Mage Tower TimewalkingChromie Time gear is the best way to gear for the Mage Tower Timewalking Challenge

Helm: TBC Dungeon Helm with one Socket + one Meta Socket

Neck: Jonc élémentaire +3 Sockets from Monture de médaillon stratifiée Alternate: Prydaz, chef-d'œuvre de Xavaric or Col de roc précieux

Any Legion Neckpiece with one random socket proc

ShouldersTBC Dungeon Shoulders with two socketsBackAny Legion Cloak with one random socket procChestTBC Dungeon Chest with three socketsWristsTBC Dungeon Wrist with one socket

Alternate: Class Order Hall Wrists (Has one socket)

HandsTBC Dungeon Gloves with two socketsWaistTBC Dungeon Waist with two socketsLegsTBC Dungeon Legs with three socketsBootsTBC Dungeon Boots with two socketsBottes de la flamme crépitanteSolerets de tueur de dragonRingsInsigne de la grande arméeRandom Legion/BFA Rings with one random socket

Alternate: Crafted Rings with Guaranteed Sockets

Important Notes

Avoid obtaining pieces above ilvl 120 because being ilvl 120 ensures that any enchants, including powerful legacy ones, can be applied to them
Turn off experience from the level 44 or 45 characters to not risk them leveling during the process

Find 1 to 4 characters level 44 or 45 to run dungeons with you

Activate Chromie Time on those characters. Any timeline

Head to the Dungeon that drops the item you're looking for

Make sure the dungeon difficulty is set to Normal

Run the dungeon until one of the level 44 or 45 characters loot it

Trade the item to your Mage Tower character

PvP Crafted Gearing for Mage Tower Timewalkingbudget optionCrafted Dreadful GladiatorRelique du passé IVRelique du passé VRelique du passé VRelique du passé IV

Helm: Crafted Dreadful Gladiator Helm + Relique du passé V

Neck: Jonc élémentaire +3 Sockets from Monture de médaillon stratifiée Alternate: Prydaz, chef-d'œuvre de Xavaric or Col de roc précieux

Any Legion Neckpiece with one random socket proc

ShouldersCrafted Dreadful Gladiator ShouldersRelique du passé IVBackLegion Random Cloak with Random Socket ProcChestCrafted Dreadful Gladiator ChestRelique du passé VWristsLegion Random Wrists with Random Socket Proc

Alternate: Class Order Hall Wrists (Has one socket)

HandsCrafted Dreadful Gladiator HandsRelique du passé IVWaistCrafted Dreadful Gladiator WaistRelique du passé IVLegsCrafted Dreadful Gladiator LegsRelique du passé IVBootsCrafted Dreadful Gladiator BootsRelique du passé IVRelique du passé VRingsInsigne de la grande arméeRandom Legion/BFA Rings with one random socket

Alternate: Crafted Rings with Guaranteed Sockets

Val de l’Éternel printemps

Tailors must level their Pandaria Tailoring to 25 and then seek out Maître de la soie Tsai to learn Soie impériale

Leatherworkers must obtain Patron : Splendeur du cuir and Patron : Splendeur des écailles by looting the patterns from Tortue corne de wyrm in Vallée des Quatre vents

Blacksmiths must go to Isle of Thunder and kill Itoka to obtain Lingot de métal bizarre to learn Lingot de foudracier.

Warlords or Draenor or Legion Gear for Mage Tower TimewalkingRandom Socket Procsone socketed piece in every slotwhich you can queue for in Dalaran

Emerald Nightmare Items (Any difficulty)

Trial of Valor Items (Any difficulty)

The Nighthold Items (Any difficulty)

Tomb of Sargeras Items (Any difficulty)

Antorus, the Burning Throne Items

Dragonflight Gear for Mage Tower TimewalkingDauntless, Relinquished, and Benthic Gear for Mage Tower Timewalking

Dauntless Gear

Sold by Mage de guerre Kath'leen in Broken Shore

Costs Éclat de Néant to purchase

Best way to get Éclat de Néant quick is doing Legion Assaults or collecting Hidden Caches on Broken Shore

Relinquished Gear

Sold by Thaumaturge Vashreen at the Vindicaar

Costs Argunite voilée to purchase

Best way to get Argunite voilée quick is doing Greater Invasion Points and Rares in Argus

Benthic Gear

Sold by Artisan Itanu/Trouveuse Palta in Nazjatar

Costs Perle de mana prismatique to purchase or drops from World Quests and Rares in Nazjatar

Best way to get Perle de mana prismatique quick is to complete World Quests and kill rares in Nazjatar

Crafted Legion Legendaries for Mage Tower Timewalking

Cloth: Celumbra, la dichotomie nocturne

Leather: Refuge éternel de la sentinelle

Mail: Perchoir de vigilance

Plate: Courage perpétuel de Rethu

Dragonflight Special GearCrafted PiecesWorld SetsDragonflight Crafted PiecesJonc élémentaireMonture de médaillon stratifiéeDoublure en soie bleueDragonflight Item SetsRaging Tempest Sets

Cloth: Drapé des tempêtes déchaînées

Leather: Voile de tempêtes déchaînées

Mail: Écailles de tempêtes déchaînées

Plate: Armure de tempêtes déchaînées

Best Trinkets for Mage Tower TimewalkingBest Intellect Trinkets for Mage Tower Timewalking

Arcanocristal instable

Prisme d'âme ébréché

Regard fixe de Sethe

Cosse ravagée

Best Agility Trinkets for Mage Tower Timewalking

Prisme d'âme ébréché (can proc a socket)

Trophée Epine-de-dragon

Cosse ravagée (can proc a socket)

Best Strength Trinkets for Mage Tower Timewalking

Petite abomination en bouteille

Prisme d'âme ébréché (can proc a socket)

Trophée Epine-de-dragon

Cosse ravagée (can proc a socket)

Appareil de calcul de poche + Explosion cyclotronique

Cor de guerre en dent de Gronn

Best Weapons for Mage Tower Timewalking

Chromie Time Weapons

Garrosh Heirloom Weapons

Dragonflight/Shadowlands Weapons

Maximize number of sockets
for instance, casters can get Bâton focalisateur imprégné de soleil and melee can get Faucheuse aile-de-corbeau with three sockets using Chromie Time!

Garrosh HeirloomsSpecial Chromie Time WeaponsGarrosh Heirlooms from Siege of Orgrimmar

Grand pavois de Hurlenfer

Décapiteur de Hurlenfer

Lame du destin de Hurlenfer

Bâton de guerre de Hurlenfer

Tome de destruction de Hurlenfer (No sockets)

Masse de guerre de Hurlenfer

Barrière de Hurlenfer (No sockets)

Aiguillon à porcs de Hurlenfer

Fendoir de Hurlenfer

Rasoir de Hurlenfer

Arc de guerre de Hurlenfer

Special Chromie Time Weapons

Hache en cristal chantant

Le Marteau-piqueur

Assommoir étourdisseur

Destinée

La Lamepoing

La lame de la pénombre

Lame de nuit

More Legion Tower Timewalking InformationMage Tower Class Guides

Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK

Havoc DHVengeance DH

Balance DruidFeral DruidGuardian DruidRestoration Druid

Beast Mastery HunterMarksmanship HunterSurvival Hunter

Arcane MageFire MageFrost Mage

Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk

Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest

Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue

Elemental ShamanEnhancement ShamanRestoration Shaman

Affliction WarlockDemonology WarlockDestruction Warlock

Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior

Commentaires

Commentaire de Mighty1404

What about WoD heirloom trinkets? They have bonus effects against demons (type of creature quite common in Legion). Are they good enough/scale properly to be used?

Commentaire de Valkyl

Crafted rings/necks can scale up using relics of the past, therefore your filter which is set to only look at ilvl 50-150 is missing out on the 2 socket crafted ring "Shadowmight Ring" and 2 socket neck "Necklace of the Deep".

Commentaire de Zyrinx

"you'll never need any of that stuff in Void Storage", they said...........

Commentaire de JinxTheGamer

Wait, so we need to grind 99% obsolete gear solely to be able to do MT TW? What the hell is this nonsense! =.="

Commentaire de FeralSynapse

Crafted Crafted Dreadful Gladiator items are class restricted. Demon hunters cannot use these items.

Commentaire de Elunario

What is about these items:

They offer 8 sockets in total, and I checked on my Leatherworker that they can be scaled with relics. Also they have a lot of evade which is nice for melee classes.

Commentaire de Froko

Quite honestly I've tried most of the challenges on PTR. Most of them seemed pretty doable (although I have concerns about Xylem challenges since healing legendaries for all the classes that had it are gone and AoE'ing crystalls with aoe softcap is nightmare).
Personally, I'm aiming for 36/36 in the first rotation of Legion TW and I've really only prepared trinkets (DST + Pod from EN for STR users, DST + Pod/Mirror of the blademaster for Agi, Owl from ToS + Iskar for casters)

Commentaire de Sarthorius

I find it funny the guide not mentioning one of the best trinkets for Timewalking (at least for agility users, including elemental shammy): Miroir du maître-lame.

Commentaire de Jun1us

I think Highborne Compendium of Storms is still worth to be mentioned. Yes, it was nerfed before the Shadowlands launch, but before it was actually buffed by scaling changes between 8.3.7 and 9.0. You can see its strength on the timewalking raid bosses, for example.

Commentaire de Bumbac

Legion dungeon (nm/hc/mt), raid (lfr/nm/hc/mt), token, world quests, etc. gear is all ilvl 50(60) and can proc both socket and leech.

Commentaire de Bakermoose

Shouldn't the crafted class necks be considered, the dawnlight ones for instance for paladins?

Commentaire de Kidneph

Silly question, but why do the BC items have to be Chromie time specifically? Im assuming it has something to do with stat scaling, but does this mean if i go in at 60, get the pieces in just regular means they wont be scaled as high as if it was from chromie time?

Commentaire de sanyex

What about this ring?
Anneau de pouvoir de l'ombre
I have one with ilvl 54

Commentaire de V3rtige

This guide is worrying. Blizzard is doing !@#$ if we have to farm this

Commentaire de Olsofa

It would been wise of wowhead to make this guide as preparation for this event during their news drought.
Seeing this now just makes it frustrating how much farming one has to do, given how timelimited this event really is.

Commentaire de mobhunter

With the Pandaria legendary cloaks seemingly unaffected by the instance, I've seen other guides recommend them as the best option. I also have a Legion cape with a socket, so I'm trying to decide between the two for the BM hunter challenge. Anyone have any thoughts? Thank you.

Commentaire de etceteralol

Degenerate $%^& like this is why Blizzard deactivates sets and need items after expansions.

Mage tower is an optional piece of content and having an guide on optimal gear only legitimises the min/maxing culture thats pervasive through the community.

A commenter above me already thinks he has to farm this gear to do the content. What he doesn't realise (and likely the large majority of the playerbase) is optimal ain't gonna help you if you're bad. If you need evidence of this, see the bucket loads of tears from people progging M Painsmith

Commentaire de Cerealkiller16

Insane to me that if they were going to scuff item scaling and require you to farm old expansions with no notice before launch, and even greater limitations on usable enhancements that were usable back in legion, that this wasn't done as a fixed generic gear for each spec proving grounds style. That way nobody can get advantage from obscure stat manipulation, and everyone is on a completely level playing field. Makes the rewards even more prestigious because you know the people didn't spend hundreds of thousands of gold compiling bunk items to trivialize the content.

Commentaire de Charlayne

Is there any way to get back things we sold/destroyed way back when we were told we didn't have to keep stuff in our bags? If I show it in my transmog (for leather pieces), I have had possession of it. I should be able to get it back. Going to farm something I already owned is stupid.

It's already a given that I'm not getting the mount--there's no way I have enough different characters to go through this to get the mount. Which sucks, because not everyone plays all of the classes and do not play them well enough to beat the already hard-as-hell Mage Tower.

Commentaire de TheMadMohawk

Does the socket bonus work in timewalking mage tower?

Commentaire de beefyOCE

I found Ghost Iron Dragonling @ 54 with the 16 stat cogs ( they stay 16) + Unblinking gaze of sethe to work a treat even on non int toons.
May have just gotten lucky on procs but nice big dam :)

Commentaire de Silverz

I tried the timewalking strategy to get gear, Most of the items I was able to funnel from my chromie toon to my main, but some items like the Rightous helm could not be traded. Wondering if this is working as intended or I'm doing something wrong.

Edit...could not trade spaulders of the righteous either.

Commentaire de Nightshana

What about ? : O

Commentaire de Cassador

Boots: Crafted Dreadful Gladiator Boots + Relic of the Past IV ( Relic of the Past V for Agility specs) makes the boot 54 and not able to receive enchant, if you going to make a guide make sure you got your ducks in row buddy!

Commentaire de Greedifox

Anyone else's Decanter of Anima-Charged Winds doing like 1% damage? Spent 4 hours farming for one just to find out it isn't working...

Commentaire de xXderpxx

I'd recommend Bloodthirsty Instinct from Ursoc as well for agility or strength trinkets. Strength users don't benefit from the agility but it is a nice haste buff that procs quite a bit especially for execution phases. (of course this is less than ideal trinket but nice for those who are lazy to go get the better haste trinket)

Commentaire de Incendrus

At the moment the gearing guide is wrong. The covenant class sets work in mage tower. I used the nightfae se on shaman and warlock. They do in fact still spawn,tank,heal, and provide a constant 60 intellect.

Commentaire de Sarthorius

Did some research here on wowhead and on my crafters, and got these craftable items, with around 1 more socket than those in the guide or sockets on extra slots (like weapons and shields). These should at least serve at least for your alts that will hit the MT as some can need some hard to get reagents:

For shields (Prot War/Paladin and Elemental/Resto Shammies) you can include Garde-terre en élémentium and Pare-tempête en élémentium as both have the relic optional slot (preferably Reliv IV, since there are cool enchants for them, up to 50 ilvl) AND gem slot.

For Plate Chest(3 sockets)+Bracers(1 socket)+Gloves(2 sockets) there are the Cuirasse en adamantite, Brassards en plaques d'adamantite and Gants en plaques d'adamantite, if you use the set, you gain +1 weapon damage (and I just saw another chest plate, sold by scryer npc at revered, it seems those 3 I linked are from aldor, as I remember farming one of those reps with my BS). These DO NOT GIVE ANY SECONDARY STATS (excluding maybe from the gem sockets you'd put in, so, beware).

Plate Boots, from MoP, there are the Grèves en acier hanté, Bottines en acier hanté and Bottes de guerre en acier hanté, all with 2 slots.
Plate Shoulders there's the ultrarare Epaulières rage-acier, an Outland World Drop, whoever has it has one of the only (if not the only one) crafted shoulder item with 2 sockets and optional relic reagent useable.

For Weapons, I found out the JC crafted Fist Weapon Le Perforateur with 1 socket (might be useful for DHs, Rogues, maybe druids, monks and Shamans). Then the Engineering Gun Perforeuse à impact extrême with 1 socket (good for those that didn't grab one of the MoP's Heirloom weapons back in the day, the gun had 2).

Mail wearers can use the Chest (3 sockets)+Bracers (1 socket)+ Waist (2 sockets, 3 with BS-crafted buckle): Cuirasse de traqueur gangrené, Brassards de traqueur gangrené and Monster - Staff, Green Feathered - Green Glow with a 3-set bonus. For Intellect Mail specs (Elemental/Resto Shammy) there are Ceinture de la Furie du Néant, Jambières de la Furie du Néant and Bottes de la Furie du Néant (the netherfury 3-piece set requires de the character to be a LW for it to be active, not to equip the items, but the extra slots are worth it anyway).

Edit: I'd like to add too, that, for gems, most guides tend to point you only to the +3 red primary stat gems. Those are good, but those that give double stats (+2 primary and +2 secondary) can be a bigger boost IMO, and people still sell the raw gems pretty cheat (purple and orange, for example), from Pandaria, Outland, Cata, etc...

Commentaire de TheBigDeeb

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Commentaire de Tornovo

This really needs updated *properly*... Just wasted 5 mins buying dauntless gear and realised its completely useless (only ilvl 50).

Commentaire de stvnbrs

As of patch 10.0.7: you can get some items with the correct number of sockets at ilvl 124 in Dragon Soul heroic 25 without messing with timewalking. Weapon bonuses from the raid seem to work as well. Chromie time gear from a lvl 45 drops at ilvl 137. Not sure what happened but I call shenanigans.

Commentaire de Viserate

So, it seems the best way to beat this challenge is to look far and wide for equipment, craft it if you can, purchase it on the AH all for a chance to get different looking armor and maybe a flying book?
Seems like way too much work and time investment for virtually little to no reward.

Mage Tower Timewalking Gearing Guide - Best Gear, Gearing Strategies, Gear Sources

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