Demonology Warlock Legion Mage Tower Legacy Challenge Guide

By NotWarlock Last Updated: 2021/12/06 Changelog Patch: 7.3.5

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The God-Queen's Fury

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

Click here for the updated Demonology Warlock Mage Tower Timewalking Challenge Guide

Demonology Warlock Challenge AppearanceVideo AlternativeIf you feel it's easier to learn by seeing I have a video of me completing the challenge with multiples periods of messing up but being able to recover regardless.PreparationGearKazzak's Final CurseWilfred's Sigil of Superior SummoningPrydaz, Xavaric's Magnum OpusConsumables

Drums of Fury

Flask of the Whispered Pact

Azshari Salad or Lavish Suramar Feast

Defiled Augment Rune

Potion of Prolonged Power

Talents

Tier 1: Demonic Calling is likely the best option as it requires no set up and simply happens as you do DPS. Shadowy Inspiration is a close second option as you will have a considerable amount of movement and Shadowflame is nearly useless as it requires you to focus on it a lot to get maximum benefit.

Tier 2: Impending Doom and Improved Dreadstalkers are interchangeable in this situation. Both will result in similar benefits with Implosion being almost unusable.

Tier 3: Mortal Coil I think is the most useful talent in this row since it not only provides you with a heal every 45s if you need it but also gives you an option for fearing Sigryn instantly to interrupt her cast.Demonic Circle can be useful for quickly moving away from Jarl Velbrand but there are many other options that available to you to counter him.

Tier 4: As always Hand of Doom always has a place; it allows you to have 1 less thing to pay attention to and draw your focus away from mechanics but Power Trip can be equally as good if you can focus on maintaining Doom and all the mechanics at once. I found no use for Soul Harvest. Being able to meet the DPS requirements for this challenge should be no issue at this stage of the expansion.

Tier 5: Burning Rush is usable to get to/away from mechanics quickly but is not needed with proper planning. Demon Skin is a more well rounded option that bolsters your effective health without being an on use ability since it removes the requirement be casting a damaging ability to recharge the shield. Depending on your item level Demon Skin lets you survive mechanics that ordinarily you shouldn't be able to.

Tier 6: Grimoire of Supremacy finally found a VERY solid use for Demonology with summoning your Doomguard as your permanent pet. It provides a decent DPS option but gives you the ability to cast Cripple on Jarl Velbrand during his Enrage and also interrupt Runeseer Faljar with Shadow Lock. There are cases where you can use Grimoire of Service summoning Felhunter to interrupt but it is risky as you can potentially summon it too early or hit the "hard DPS check" where you have to interrupt constantly, taking value away from this talent significantly. Grimoire of Synergy has no use.

Tier 7: You can essentially use any one of these talents with similar results. There is no defined choice in this row. Soul Conduit is recommended just for its simplicity and ease of use.

Doing the ScenarioSigryn abilitiesRunic Detonation

Sigryn has 4 major abilities that you will have to avoid or control:

Throw Spear: Throws her spear to the ground and creates a Fel Fissure that deals damage to you. This ability is fairly simple and only requires you to move out of the graphic until you no longer have the debuff.

Dark Wings: Summons a row of Val'kyr that you have to find the opening of in the line and stand there before they charge at you. She has both a voice line "I command legions, mortal!" and an emote dealing 2+ million damage to you if you fail to avoid it.

Advance: Randomly charges you and knocks you back, minor annoyance but overall nothing serious to worry about here.

Blood of the Father: This ability is by far the most deadly, when the cast is complete she empowers herself with fel energy and does massive AoE damage. The easiest way to deal with this is to simply use Mortal Coil on the initial cast, which prevents the buff from being applied. If she successfully gets this cast off it is almost certainly going to end in your demise unless you are quick to react and use cooldowns appropriately. You can cas Fear if she gets it off to buy you some time, but be prepared to do everything you can to survive if this gets off.

Jarl Velbrand abilities

Jarl Velbrand has 3 major abilities that you will have to avoid or control:

Hurl Axe: Simple ability to either avoid or tank the damage of; it is easily avoided but also easy to tank the damage of as it is fairly minor and between Soul Leech and Demon Skin you should be able to ignore this ability.

Bladestorm: this ability is just a whirlwind effect that slowly pulls you in towards Jarl Velbrand, it is very easily avoided by simply walking away from him.

Berserker's Rage: The most deadly of Jarl Velbrand's abilities, empowering his damage and attack speed making him very deadly in the process. Ths ability is easily countered and can be ignored by using Grimoire of Supremacy with Doomguard and having him cast Cripple, not only does Jarl Velbrand move 40% slower with his own Berserker's Rage cast but is made even slower, and by default eliminates him from the fight, by Cripple. If he does end up getting too close you can have your Demonic Gateway set up for an easy way to get across the map from him with barely any effort.

Runeseer Faljar abilities

Runeseer Faljar has 2 major abilities that you will have to avoid or control:

Shadowbolt: Minor damage, completely ignore the option to interrupt the cast.

Ancestral Knowledge: The most deadly of Runeseer Faljar's abilities, this is a channelled spell that you must break in order to interrupt or face wiping. It is the only DPS check in the entire encounter and only requires you do deal 5 million damage to Runeseer Faljar in order to break the shield and make the channel interruptable. This is another excellent use of Grimoire of Supremacy with Doomguard to have the option of interrupting freely with Shadow Lock, making an even stronger case for Grimoire of Supremacy as it double dips uses. You could potentially save your Thal'kiel's Consumption to help with meeting the DPS requirement but in most cases it is not required.

Entire fight

Drums of Fury are best used on the pull.

The best way to handle this scenario is to prioritize which mechanics to focus on, your priority should always be to interrupt Blood of the Father with Mortal Coil, secondly you must stay away from Berserker's Rage, using Cripple, followed by breaking (and interrupting) the Ancestral Knowledge. Afterwards you should prioritize on running over Runic Detonation and dodging Dark Wings. After that the remaining mechanics are fairly simple to deal with and if you can handle the above mechanics correctly you should be able to complete the encounter easily. This fight is a survival fight and can take anywhere from 5 to 10 mins depending on execution and gear.

If you find yourself in a rough situation due to warlocks innate survivability even if you make a mistake you may be able to simply heal through it/survive it with proper useage of Unending Resolve and Drain Life.

Once Sigryn reaches 20% health the encounter will end, and all of them share health so it doesn't matter which of the three you are hitting too much, cleave as much as possible!

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