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Kommentar von Seelachfilet

Man muss mithilfe der Pfeiltasten die weißen Kugeln abschießen, welche auf einen zukommen. Das geschieht alles recht schnell und kann beim ersten mal recht hektisch wirken. Ich habe versucht, die Kugeln immer kurz vor dem Kreis-Rand abzuschießen.

Man verliert leben, falls die Kugel den Kreis erreicht oder man die Kugel abschießt, wenn sie zu weit entfernt ist bzw. keine Kugel aus der Richtung kommt in die man geschossen hat.

Am Ende bekommt man eine Truhe.

Kommentare

Kommentar von Mbence1992

You need to press the buttons to shoot in the direction of the rockets. When you're done, the pylon will turn into a chest. It did not contain anything special.

Kommentar von Starkodder

My loot was Riffwandererborke and Silbermesser, first gives follower xp and 2nd gives reputation

Kommentar von Arachnadactly

The balls of energy have to be fairly close particularly the left had side or you miss. Also received Reefwalker bark

Kommentar von Tequima

I'll skip this and settle for a lower rep gain. Not worth the hassle if you have a slow reaction time, lag or can't work out the "trick" to working this ill-designed "game".

Kommentar von Azkadelia

It seems like you have to wait until the energy balls are almost to the target before blasting them. If you hit them to far away, the pylon loses health faster for some reason. My husband I managed to both get it with this strategy. It does get dicey at the end, you need quick reflexes when they are all coming at you. Cave entrance is located at 26:34.

Kommentar von namenottaken

Nearly impossible without an all-but-lag-free connection.
Worse than the "calligraphy" WQs ever were.

Kommentar von Krawu

This actually gets much easier if you regard it as a rhythm game instead of a directional shooter.
Try and hit the orbs when they've traveled about two thirds the distance between their spawn point and your circle. For me that translated to hitting the appropriate key a good half second after the red flash that telegraphs a spawn. Just watch those and tap out the pattern.

This approach worked much better for me than looking at the orbs themselves.

Kommentar von Smeller

I got Meerestotem, Totem des Sturms, Seesturmtotem and Mardivas Stauraumsdimensionseinheit in my chest. Was quite much.

Kommentar von bipolargirl

I looted a couple of greys from the chest and one Riffwandererborke plus 18 war resources. Not worth all the trouble I put into it.

Kommentar von vambora

One of the most frustrating experiences in this game if you have more than 50ms ping.

Without mentioning that the frontal ball has a lower falling time than the other two.

Kommentar von Jamein

There is another at 80,31 located on top of the broken bridge like structure.

Kommentar von hewhoeatsall423

Treat it like a Guitar Hero mini game. You need to wait until the orbs get closer as pushing the button too early counts as a fail.

Kommentar von Catseyes

I didn't manage to do this until i did a /reload. This thing seems a bit buggy. Sometimes the lasers don't fire.

To be clear you lose "health" in 3 ways:
1. when a ball hits the rune
2. when you shoot a ray when there is no ball
3. when you shoot the ball when it is too far away.

So you need to hit the balls when they are close to the runes. Anything else will make you lose health fast.

This is a horrible quest. May the latency gods grant you many blessings.

Kommentar von Vynastar

So this has nothing to do with latency. I did it with 300ms lag. You just have to hit the keys when the balls are about to hit the runes, not when they are far away.

Kommentar von Haylel

There's another one at 37, 5.
You have to swim through an underwater cave filled with elites to get to it.
Also, I'm pretty sure that was the one that only had 2 directions to defend for some reason.

Kommentar von pokeralhotu

There's another one at 80 32 Highborne Estates on roof.

Kommentar von shibby707

I found changing the key binding to A W D to your 1-3 action bars helped.

Kommentar von Berbe

Is there any achievement regarding these Pylons or we are just wasting our time for some meaningless loot?

Kommentar von Rokuris

How do you click the directional pads using the keyboard instead of having to click the directional points. By the time I look to see which i am clicking with the mouse it is impossible to keep up.

Kommentar von LightGuardian

Arcane Pylon is not just one!
/way 80 32 On the roof - drops Riesenkrabbenbein
/way 25 35 In the cave - drops Riffwandererborke
/way 38 6 in the cave underwater ~40 10, swimming over the map - drops Mardivas' 22-slot bag. Lots of elite trash and really unrewarding. (c) Swaynee
/way 61 23 in the cave ~61.5 20 - drops totems (lul) (c) Swaynee

Didn't find other pylons, but I suppose there are 4 pylons with each of reputations.

Kommentar von InTheEmbers

A few tips:

1. The time to shoot the arcane energies is when they're on the downward arc of their path. Too early and you lose energy, just like what happens when you're too late.
2. You want to only click once to shoot the energies; multiple clicks equal misses and cause you to lose your energy bar that much faster.
3. If more than one lane has an arcane energy coming down at you, you can actually click more than one button at a time and you'll fire at each of them. Knowing this is a game changer when a couple of these pylon events get really hairy. Channel your inner DDR/Guitar Hero player and flourish!

Knowing this should help people who were frustrated like I was, screaming, "I'm shooting there! What do you WANT!" at my monitor.

Kommentar von Yukimaruz

Removing the UI (alt+Z for me) helped me a bit. Good luck!

Kommentar von VSUReaper

60ms of "lag", and I litterally cant fire the different lasers fast enough.

Im hitting the button, but nothing is happening as I hit it.

Possible to do, but extremely hard and frustrating.

Kommentar von jkxx123

does not work worth a darn, must be a intern who was mad at getting fire for the blizzard EXECS pocketbook, or a complete IDIOT new on the job

Kommentar von merenhuiske

With the amount of lag in the zone, good luck. See you in next expansion.

Kommentar von obbig

A quest for those with very low latency only. From comments here and talking to peeps in game, anything over 50ms and you're toast once things start getting hectic no matter what strategy you try. Will be skipping this until a hotfix comes in making it doable for those playing in the above 50ms range.

Kommentar von ZombieKtn

I hate this game. Hate it. My husband, however, is a very casual player and hardly ever plays. I showed him this game and he finished 2 in two attempts each... fml. I guess I know who to call on when I need it done on my character. I can't even...

Kommentar von aoeu

Mad Mardivas: This arcane lock is fiendishly difficult if you don't... you know what... you don't need to hear it. It'll probably just confuse your infantile mind. Ha!

Yer just a ^&*!

Kommentar von Trollokdamus

You know, I would be fine with this challenge if it worked properly. 1/3 of the time you press a button and nothing happens. This is infuriating.

Kommentar von syrlinus

Does anyone know of a code or add-on that tells you how many of the balls you have to zap? I don't mind doing hard puzzles but an indication of goal should be somewhere.. even Minesweeper (old Windows game) used to have that

Kommentar von montanahax

Got a reef Walker bark out of this. You unlock a chest once you are done

Kommentar von DiseasedYak

Read the post by InTheEmbers, explains it all.

Kommentar von setari

This was fun af, I highly enjoyed it.

Unfortunately with things like this blizzard is banking on people having speedy internet connections when most of the world does not due to ISP monopolies.

Kommentar von pockafwye

I was about to give up when I realized that when the laser doesn't fire, it's because I clicked too early. It only fires the laser if it will hit. So, if you hit the button and it doesn't do anything (except steal your health) the timing wasn't right.

It took me a lot of tries because I haven't got the fastest interwebs in in the world, or the fastest reflexes, but I finally found the rhythm of it and got through it.

I don't hate this one as much as a few of the other mini-games we've ever seen (the Ein Apexisrelikt color matching game in Blade's Edge Mountains and its related dailies is still my bane) but it's up there.

Kommentar von thebl4ckd0g

It would really be nice if Blizzard made the WASD keys or arrow keys on your keyboard the defaults for this, instead of 1,2,3.

Kommentar von aardvark88

I don't understand this item.
Pressing the 1-2-3 buttons does absolutely nothing except drain the meter faster.
Clicking on the buttons has the same effect.
Is this mini-game hopelessly glitched?

Kommentar von Jeolene

I think blizz fixed/adjusted something, even on my terrible connection I was able to finish this when I wasn't able to a month before. The controls felt much more responsive (it felt like there was a cool down between shots before) and the hit detection seemed as if it gave you a buffer from the time the energy spawned and when they hit their targets, meaning you didn't have to try and hit them the instant they spawned in.

Before I was having the same issues as everyone else, you couldn't seem to hit anything even if you were right on target. I was able to finish this one with only two misses, where before I could miss nearly every single one. So, don't give up hope and try it again, you may be able to finish it now.

*edit* some spelling.

Kommentar von LafinJack

"Don't feel bad, you never had a chance."

Kommentar von scotta451

One of the worst mini-games I have ever encountered in any game I have ever played, including WarioWare, Inc. Hateful, pointless, stupid, nonsense !@#$e.

Kommentar von LiriellGarrosh

You know how some games allow the player to spam buttons with no global cooldowns, or used to? Anybody else get the feeling that this is Blizzard's way of saying, "You think you want to spam your buttons, but you really don't."?

Kommentar von Shurai

One of the stupid quest types that Blizzard does

Kommentar von jdmaddison

Link to the *other* page on Arcane Pylon.

Kommentar von KyBelle01

OMG I hate this but my advice is, take your time, don't click too fast, wait till the the orbs are about to hit the runes, give them time to move toward them, THEN click, going to fast results in a fast failure and lots of frustrations. Good luck!

Kommentar von Farstucker

Unpopular opinion: I actually enjoyed this!

(once i read that you had to shoot the energy balls close to landing and not when they spawn)

I did it left handed with my fingers over 1 2 3 (index on 3) and it's just tap... tap... tap... and then taptaptaptap etc..
I am right handed and old so i don't have that youthful reaction time +3 bonus

i got it on my 5th try w/out missing one

Kommentar von farble1670

For those of you struggling I can offer some hope... there are ~5 of these pylon chest locks required for the achievement. Only one of them gave me trouble. The others I got in 1-2 tries. Odd how that one was so much harder than the others.

Also, I have ~70ms latency.

Kommentar von edwallols

An explanation as to how this works:

When you click on the Arcane Pylon, you are moved to the game field, where you are in the triangle with 3 purple runes.

When the game begins, energy balls will be fired at you from the Left, Front, or Right (on your screen view).

You are given firing keys which correspond to arrows indicating the direction you will fire at an incoming energy ball.

Do not fire too soon, but as the energy ball comes at you, you must press the appropriate key to fire at the energy ball.

The rate at which the energy balls come at you will increase. Sometimes there will be more than one coming at you from a single direction, and quite often one will be coming from each direction at the same time. Sometimes when you fire, you will zap 2 energy balls coming from the same direction. Be careful not to fire a second time if there is no energy ball left after hitting more than one with the first blast.

If an energy ball gets to you, you lose health. If you fire when there is no energy ball in range (don't fire too soon) you lose health.

If you fail, you can retry.

When you succeed (takes less than a minute) you will be able to open a chest to the side.

Kommentar von glacialhawk

Completing the minigame spawns a Glowing Arcane Trunk (link to one of these Leuchtende arkane Truhe - look at similar models for further loot tables).

These trunks contain war resources, miscellaneous Nazjatar items and possibly something formerly belonging to Mardivas.

They are also one of the requirements for the achievement Arkhamstern.

Kommentar von Jkizis

There is one at 61, 23. I don't know if it's beatable. it plays like the others but when it gets close to the ends they come FLYING out in all directions. all the others I can rhythm out.. but this one, ugh. Anyone do this one?

Kommentar von Smil3yGirl

Is there a reason that some of my perfectly timed clicks don't shoot? Is it a lag issue or am I missing something?

Kommentar von Ciupanezu

Whoever added this in wow should rethink his life choices. Just sayin'. This bad design made me immediately leave and forget those chests and achievement. Congratz to all that actually enjoyed this but there are people like me that will always skip rubbish like this. Tbh I even feel sorry for losing time fighting mobs at cave entrance to reach the pylon. Never again.

Kommentar von Wyr3d

Okay so there's a whole bunch of comments on here, but I haven't seen one that explains what this is all about, so:

This is not a quest, but it does grant access to one of the chests that Mad Mardivas locked away. Touching the pylon throws you into a mini-game which starts immediately without any instructions. An NPC image spawns, but says nothing useful, and if you take your eyes away to read it, you will fail in any case. Fail and you are unceremoniously kicked out the game, probably wondering what the Hell just happened.

Min-Game Mechanics

You control the pylon, which can shoot a beam in one of three directions.
Balls spawn from those three directions, you need to shoot them.
Shoot too early, you lose a little pylon energy.
Shoot too late you lose a lot of pylon energy.
If your pylon runs out of energy, you fail.
There is a glowing circle of energy surrounding your pylon about mid-way.
Shoot the beam when the balls are over the glowing cycle.
Repeat until you win.

Kommentar von Arkamedix

I just hope that the person who came with the idea to introduce this type of "mini-game" into a MMORPG to get not only fired, but also never get a job in another gaming industry company. Not even 50 consecutive wipes in a raid are not so annoying and frustrating as these mini-games. It tests our pacience and mental strenght. And this is a thing we don't need in a MMO. If we want that, we go play mobile piano games, not WoW.

Kommentar von Corydon

Think guitar hero and you'll have it down in no time :)

Kommentar von StevieNix

A case for the UN Criminal Court.

Kommentar von Sinvanor

I love, but that I mean loathe when a you can get a rhythm down and then suddenly the difficulty ramps up to 11 and you have two balls come from the middle, one to the left and two others on the right, one just hit and now you've lost all your health.
I asked my partner who plays guitar hero and is good at reaction type games and he was frustrated with the lack of ability to know if you are doing well or much confirmation when you miss or don't do well.

Screw this game and screw whoever made it.

There is also no indication as to when you are getting close. You just do fine at first and suddenly the game says &*!@ you.

You also don't get anything that great for it. The chests have mostly grey junk, a 22 slot bag, a healing item and if you are lucky, an item which gives one free junk to sell away everyday in Nazjatar. So like a free couple of gold or sometimes a whole prismatic manapearl

Mardivas is a crazy old kook, let him have his junk.

Unless you are gunning for the achievement, don't bother.

Kommentar von rykadoll

I was stuck for a really long time on the last one in Coldlight Cavern. I followed directions I saw on the forums that said to disable all addons and reduce graphics to 1. That helped a bit, but what finally did the trick was setting Contrast to 100 and Gamma to 0.5 That helped tone down the red flashes enough that I was able to focus on just the orbs.

Kommentar von Completegibberis

After wading through the myriad of not helpful comments...

The game is not difficult once you know what you're playing

light balls shoot at targets , indicated by 3 blue arcane symbol/circles. Your control arrows cover the 3 circles. left, right, up/across

So, as soon as a light ball appears, tap the corresponding directional key/number. there IS a purple flash prior to a ball ejecting towards your targets. Zone out, focus center and let your mind do the work, not your eyes.

it WILL get faster.,...So you will be tapping 2-3 directional motions in under a second towards the end.

Good luck

Kommentar von drusalt

I tried this like 40 times and was so frustrated I almost broke my computer, convinced that it wasn't possible.

Solution (which maybe is obvious to others), key bind the controls to keys: 1,2 and 3.

Then, stare at the middle, not the specific explosions.

Took me 3 tries.

Kommentar von Erzschurke

The Pylon at 66,22 is ridiculously hard. Did all others in the first try. You need to destroy 1-4 orbs on all 3 positions at the same time in like 1-2 seconds. But if you press the button too early you lose 1 health out of 6. It got me so frustrated I really wanted to smash my keyboard into pieces and throw my monitor out of the window. Blizz should remove it from the meta-achievement.

Kommentar von ohatcheejack

I can't even begin to understand what you're supposed to do here. None of the comments so far have explained it clearly, unfortunately.

Kommentar von Catalyst8487

Holy **** this is awful. I kinda like the idea, hate the execution. What's up with sometimes you shoot two out of the sky at the same time?

Kommentar von IvikN

THis is the same type of stuff that I hate in games. It's like this stupid level in Smash Bros story mode where you need to beat donkey kong characters and defeat fleeing peach who never stops and you always dying from three enemies that throws EVERYTHING on you every second. And also VERY VERY time platforms. I as a lot of other players won this level ONLY cause peach was dumb enough and freaking suicided from platform. I played like 30+ tries. This was unsatisfying as fk. THis "Game" is the same. It teaches you itself and then FREAKING EXPLODES in difficulty that you can't even regroup from middle difficulty to incredible high one.

Kommentar von LionLixis

these arcane pylons made me reconsider life. whoever came up with this idea loves to see the world burn

Kommentar von Killage

Like others I was having issues with lag making my shots delay and not attack the orbs even when they were in range.

The lag disappeared completely when I enabled the in game sound and music and I had no further issues completing these puzzles.

(I did try disabling addons and turning graphics down as other comments suggest but these had no benefits for me)

Kommentar von Fartsupreme

cant get it to work. can blizzard rethink this pls?

Kommentar von Svayaa

For people that still struggle with this.

I found out that when the orb is still far away, your hit will miss and you lose a hp. Start ramming the keys when they are close.

Kommentar von FrostyDragon

Not gonna lie i rly disslike minigames like this but had it on my 10th try aldoh had one life left. my advice take it slow even u get super mad

Kommentar von Augvoker

To change the keys you use into whatever keys you want -Hit ESC then click OPTIONS then KEYBINDINGS then click ACTION BAR - You will see that action button 1, action button 2 and action button 3 are set to 1, 2 and 3. Click the empty box that says NOT BOUND next to those boxes and hit the key you want each button to be. If you leave the 1,2 and 3 in the first box alone you can still use those if your right hand gets tired. (resisting temptation to add joke to that) I used the 1, 2, and 3 on my numerical keypad.

Warning: Dont use keys the game already has set for important things, Like B or C .

I still haven't beaten the hard one yet, figured I would take a break and type all this in.

Domesticat-Dalaran.

EDIT: Finally beat it. If you are on the hardest pylon there is a fish in a bubble next door, if you beat it in a pet battle (easy with Ikky & Anubisath Idol) it awards you a quest item you turn in for exp and gold. You can also fish in the ponds there, but I didn't catch anything special.

Kommentar von mvelasco

So, how do you do it on servers that have 100ms by default... The southamerican ones...

Kommentar von Incandio

Easiest way to cheese this game: Have a kid, when they're about 9 or 10 years old, have them do it for you.

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