[10/25] Ulduar, Towers on Normal Mode

[SevenOfNine]

If I understood this correctly, starting the event talking to Brann will result in totally inactive towers.

Is there any reason to take the detours and destroy the towers then? Isn't it enough to just plow through the trash the shortest route, clear closest to the boss, and after full repairs start the bossfight?

/SevenofNine

[Noodleguitar]

Exactly.
We wasted about 4 weeks of clearing towers while being determined not to do hard mode, until someone read somewhere you shouldn't talk to the golem (who says something like "Activate secondary defense systems").
Last week we cleared 1 of the towers (due to people shooting at unnecessary trash so we decided to clear that platform for the sake of it).
Started boss, and worked fine. No hard mode with 3 towers left up.