wow Ulduar Timewalking Is Problematic.. but at Least it Has Item Level 200 on Each Boss!

[Starym 3,780]

 

The first timewalking week has come to the Shadowlands and... it's not going great. From the completely bugged out item level scaling in dungeons and the vendor for a while and now the raid being pretty unevenly scaled, it's safe to say Blizzard didn't spend a lot of time testing this one. We have a few experiences from players to share here and also wanted to remind everyone that despite the not-quite-right tuning, each boss in the raid has a chance to drop Normal Castle Nathria aka item level 200 loot, with some pretty good trinkets as well, so it's well worth it.

The raid itself is very weirdly tuned, from some intense and hard to deal with encounters to walk-over stuff, with a few bugs thrown in for good measure, but let's let some people who have been there explain it:

Also, it seems the actual legendary from the Ulduar raid itself is actually not usable in it:

But after all that, Ulduar is still a whopping 13 boss raid (as it seems Algalon is not there this time around) aka 13 chances at ilevel 200 loot, so you'd better believe it's worth it, and it might be easier than Nathria Normal as well, but even if not it's still a lot more chances at loot this week, even with some unique trinkets and, obviously, transmogs as well!

[Frogspoison 63]

Umm, Val'anyr should be usable in Ulduar TW. Keep in mind that 5 ilvls at that point is like, what, 2 int, 3 stamina, and mabye 2 secondary stats? Val'anyr is well worth the loss of those ilvls.

[Hypersonic 113]

Timewalking is badly scaled in every way, even the dungeons are harder than a mid-range M+ in Shadowlands, especially Soul Forge. I didn't even take the courage to check Ulduar.. but after this I rather skip it

[calledyouout 16]

For clarity - the random AoE dmg that you get is from friendly fire. We spent nearly 1 hour dieing to it until we realised what it was and then we 1 shot it really easily.

The oil on the floor that you can set alight, if you touch it even for a second it just ticks you down for 20k a seconds till your vehicle dies.  Solution? Don't use the bike oil. This obviously was never a thing before but I guess they thought Hard Mode wasn't enough and wanted to turn Friendly Fire 1 Shot kills on too.

 

@Starym feel free to make a post about the oil friendly fire. Also you can use your Heart Of Azeroth and all your old azerite gear and legendary back. It made the bosses pretty faceroll and we did them all hard mode (besides yogg because cba explaining tactics)  We even killed Freya through her 150 stack heal.

Edited December 31, 2020 by calledyouout