World of Warcraft’s upcoming Legion Remix occasion is trying to make some huge modifications to one of many MMORPG’s hottest expansions. Along with letting gamers and their Artifact weapons change into extra highly effective than ever earlier than, Blizzard is taking some key inspirations from Diablo so as to add some new twists to the beloved growth.
In the identical vein as final yr’s Mists of Pandaria Remix occasion, Legion Remix is ready to go dwell alongside WoW’s 11.2.5 replace later this yr and might be a speedrun of kinds by means of 2016’s Legion growth. Gamers will create new “timerunner” characters and expertise sooner leveling occasions, elevated fame good points, and an accelerated weekly content material lockout schedule to make progressing even sooner.
There are, nevertheless, some huge modifications from final yr’s remix occasion, as just lately outlined by Blizzard. As an alternative of Mists of Pandaria Remix’s ever-upgrading cloak and gem system, Legion Remix will as an alternative double down on Legion’s expansion-defining Artifact weapons. Gamers will earn an improve forex that can be utilized to improve their Artifacts even additional than within the authentic Legion, with new improve bushes that may see gamers embracing one in all 5 completely different injury types–Nature, Fel, Arcane, Storm, or Holy. They will additionally be capable of discover jewellery slot objects that may add further ranks to Artifact traits, rising the weapon’s energy even additional. Fortunately, gamers will be capable of freely respec their Artifact weapon traits at any time.
Energy for energy’s sake is sweet, however Blizzard is introducing some further challenges for gamers to place their upgraded Artifact weapons to the take a look at. A brand new characteristic impressed by Diablo’s world tiers will enable gamers to improve the issue of the sport’s open-world content material to Heroic. Enemies may have extra well being and, in one other transfer from Diablo, affix-like buffs that may make them much more tough to beat however yield better rewards. In one more web page from Diablo’s playbook, highly effective shrines, known as Timewarped Obelisks, will be discovered by means of the open world that grant gamers highly effective short-term buffs. As Legion launched the Mythic+ dungeon system, will probably be again in Legion Remix with the growth’s authentic affixes, in addition to 4 new ones for gamers to beat.
A serious a part of the enchantment of Mists of Pandaria Remix was as a way to earn unique cosmetics or onerous to acquire objects from the unique growth. Legion Remix is not any completely different, although Blizzard has taken some criticism from the final go round. A frequent grievance throughout Pandaria Remix was that it was annoying that the occasion’s central forex, Bronze, was used to each buy cosmetics but additionally to improve gear, typically making gamers select between the 2.
Bronze is coming again for Legion Remix, however this time it would solely be used for getting cosmetics. Gear upgrades will as an alternative come from merely doing tougher content material, which ought to get rid of among the rigidity present in Pandaria Remix between upgrading or shopping for event-exclusive cosmetics.
On the cosmetics entrance, gamers will be capable of earn every kind of recent loot, together with fel-infused variations of Legion’s class mounts and a corrupted model of Varian Wrynn’s swords. Blizzard is promising “loads of never-before-released mounts, transmog units, and extra” as a part of the occasion.
Whereas Pandaria Remix launched with the entire growth’s content material without delay, Legion Remix will as an alternative roll out Legion’s content material updates each two weeks. Every replace will enhance the utmost merchandise stage gamers can obtain. In a change from Pandaria Remix, characters will be transferred from Legion Remix to the present, The Struggle Inside model of the sport early versus having to attend for weeks till the top of the occasion. Transferred characters might be stripped of their Remix-specific objects and talents and given a brand new set of level-appropriate gear, although Blizzard warns that transferring a personality early is a one-way journey and cannot be undone.
We do not know precisely when Legion Remix will arrive, however it would probably be within the subsequent 6-8 weeks, in step with Blizzard’s pretty constant replace cadence. WoW’s newest 11.2 replace, Ghosts of Ok’aresh, took gamers to the shattered homeworld of the Ethereals. The replace appears to completely tee-up WoW’s subsequent growth, Midnight, which is ready to be totally revealed at Gamescom.