World of Warcraft’s upcoming Legion Remix occasion will embrace loads of new and returning transmog choices for gamers to gather, however one extremely coveted set of Artifact appearances from the unique Legion enlargement will not be amongst them.
Legion, initially launched in 2016, is one among WoW’s hottest expansions. That reputation is, partially, as a consequence of its Artifact-weapon system. Every participant was granted an iconic weapon from Warcraft lore to improve over the course of the enlargement. As a result of WoW’s actual endgame is transmog, every Artifact weapon additionally sported a wide range of completely different skins and coloration variations for gamers to pursue and accumulate.
Now, as a part of Legion Remix, gamers are getting a second likelihood on the enlargement. In a forum post from WoW neighborhood supervisor Kaivax, Blizzard clarified that just about all of Legion’s unique Artifact-weapon appearances (minus ones obtainable solely via PvP, since Legion Remix is a PvE-only occasion) will likely be obtainable in the course of the occasion. Many of those Artifact appearances are technically nonetheless earnable within the fashionable model of the sport, although Legion Remix’s elevated leveling speeds and energy ranges will make leveling new characters for the occasion and blasting via among the conditions quicker.
“In Legion Remix, you may have a terrific alternative to acquire Artifact appearances that you have not already,” Kaivax stated.
Nonetheless, there’s one notable exception–Mage Tower Artifact appearances. One of Legion’s most revolutionary additions, the Mage Tower was launched afterward within the enlargement and served as a problem mode for numerous class specializations. Finishing the completely different Mage Tower challenges initially granted unique Artifact weapon tints. Nonetheless, as soon as Legion ended, the Mage Tower was eliminated, as have been its rewards. Whereas Blizzard did ultimately carry the Mage Tower again with new rewards, lots of the unique rewards, together with unique Artifact-weapon tints, weren’t made obtainable.
These Artifact appearances will not be obtainable in Legion Remix, both, and can thus stay unobtainable for all of those that did not full the varied Mage Tower challenges again when it was initially obtainable.
Many gamers have lengthy hoped Blizzard would carry again the flexibility to earn the unique Mage Tower appearances, first when it was reintroduced in 2022 and now as a part of Legion Remix. Blizzard, nonetheless, laid out its reasoning for excluding these rewards when Legion Remix was first introduced, and is continuous to stay to its weapons.
“Many occasions all through the historical past of World of Warcraft, there have been objects, titles, and different kinds of rewards that belong in a class of probably the most prestigious and historic accomplishments–rewards that we imagine needs to be preserved in a historic context for under these gamers who earned them on the time,” Kaivax wrote in a July forum post.
WoW Legion Remix will launch as a part of WoW’s 11.2.5 patch on October 7. Like final yr’s Mists of Pandaria Remix occasion, these trying to take part will not have to buy WoW’s newest enlargement however will want a subscription or recreation time with the intention to play.
Legion Remix will speedrun via the enlargement’s unique content material by releasing its content material patches in chunks each two weeks. Gamers will be capable of earn every kind of recent and returning beauty rewards, in addition to degree up their Artifact to even better ranges than ever earlier than. That additional energy can then be put to the check with the occasion’s new, Diablo-inspired Heroic World Tier and Timeworn Mythic+ Keystone dungeons.