Legion Remix Receives Significant Buffs, Still Fails to Deliver What Players Want

World of Warcraft: Legion Remix is serving as the game’s 11.2.5 patch. When announced, players were excited due to the massive success that World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Remix achieved a year ago; however, Blizzard does what Blizzard always does: They take something that worked well and make it way worse than before. This drew considerable ire from fans; however, Blizzard announced that they would be significantly buffing Legion Remix while it was still on the Public Test Realm. Today, the PTR realms came back online with a plethora of changes, but the ones players wanted the most are still missing, showing that Blizzard is, once again, deaf to what its playerbase wants.

Below are the official patch notes from Blizzard:

LEGION REMIX

• On PTR Only

  • Bronze Brannbeard now offers an option to skip to max level and the end of the Skies of Fire (phase 1) experience.
  • Bronze Brannbeard now offers more free gear and mementos.
  • Bronze Brannbeard now appears at Krasus’ Landing as well as the Infinite Bazaar.
• XP

  • Added two Perfected Epoch Mementos (+10% Warband XP each) to introductory quest rewards.
  • Added two Perfected Epoch Mementos (+10% Warband XP each) for the first character in your Warband to reach level 40 and 80 respectively.
  • Increased the rate of Resonant Epoch Mementos (+1% Warband XP each) from Infinite Research quests.
  • At level 70, players now gain Moratari’s Infinite Wisdom, increasing XP gains by 250% permanently for that character.
  • Increased XP gained from raid bosses and Infinite Research raiding quests.
  • Heroic World Tier now increases XP gained from kills by 500% (was 100%).
• Rewards

  • Increased Bronze and Epoch Mementos from raid bosses.
  • Raid bosses now drop a number of Fragmented Mementos of Epoch Challenges based on their difficulty.
  • Quests can now drop an additional Corrupted Thorn of the Dream (and similar items in later phases).
  • Empowered enemies in the Heroic World Tier now have a chance to drop Corrupted Thorn of the Dream (and similar items in later phases).
  • Rares and Rare Elites now have a chance to drop Corrupted Thorn of the Dream (and similar items in later phases) on their first kill each day.
  • Significantly increased the rewards from completing the Withered Training scenario for the first time each day.
  • Added new quests “Infinite Research: Special Assignment” which are offered every 10 levels and provide 4 additional pieces of gear, of which 1 is guaranteed to be Epic.
  • Greatly increased Bronze earned from enemies in Heroic World Tier.
  • Increased drop rate of Epoch Mementos from enemies in Heroic World Tier.
• Combat

  • Significantly increased player power scaling relative to enemy scaling in Normal World Tier, Normal dungeons, and LFR raids.

    • Developers’ notes: These changes aim to increase the value provided from acquiring better gear and more artifact power.
  • The Limits Unbound artifact trait no longer diminishes in efficacy with subsequent ranks; this trait now grants a consistent level of power per rank for all ranks.
  • Reduced the cost to purchase your second active artifact ability by 20%.
  • Eternus’s Ambition now grants 20% class resource upon entering combat while under the effects of Nostwin’s Impatience.
• Dungeons and Raids

  • Greatly reduced overall enemy health by at least 40% and damage by at least 50% across all dungeons and raid difficulties.
  • Trial of Valor and its introductory questline are now included in the Skies of Fire phase.
  • The Bolstering affix now increases allies’ health by 10% (previously: increases allies’ damage by 20%).
• Heroic World Tier

  • Rares in the Heroic World Tier are now always empowered.
  • Significantly reduced the health of enemies summoned from Beacon of Chaos.
  • Increased the radius of Imperious by 25%.
  • Reduced the duration of suppressing Fel Raiser by 20%.
  • Reduced the damage of Corruption of the Engorged by 33%.
  • Increased the duration of Corruption of the Engorged by 66%.
  • Corruption of the Engorged is now magic-dispellable.
• Timewarped Obelisks

  • Offering of Brutality damage increased by 250%.
  • Offering of Brutality’s final explosion now deals an additional 10% damage for each stack of Brutality.
  • Offering of Restoration now also grants 20% Leech.
  • Significantly increased the damage and attention span of Offering of the Pact’s Fel Trickster.
  • Offering of the Void can now trigger from any ability (was only critical hits), deals 100% increased damage, and has a larger radius.
• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue causing artifact traits to not scale appropriately for Warriors, Hunters, and Rogues; these classes should see a significant increase in power from artifact traits as a result.
  • Fixed an issue where keystone dungeon rewards did not scale proportionally to the increased difficulty.
  • Fixed an issue where Artifactium Sand was not dropping at the expected rate.
  • Fixed an issue where healing could cause more threat than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where leveling up would switch your flight style to Steady Flight.
  • Fixed an issue where leaving the timeline could cause excessive dislocation.
  • Fixed an issue where Eternus was not administering her own trials.
  • Fixed an issue where converting your Timerunner would give insufficiently powerful gear.
  • Fixed several issues where quest progression was blocked due to timeline shenanigans.
  • Fixed several issues with Druid travel forms.
  • Fixed many other miscellaneous issues.
    

  What players were searching for was the return of infinite power scaling in the form of secondary stats such as Critical Strike, Haste, etc. This was a staple of Mists of Pandaria Remix, which allowed players to overpower the content, farm Bronze, and collect as many transmogrification appearances as they could. It also spilled over to newly-created characters on the Remix realms, enabling ultra-fast leveling (1-70 in under two hours… sometimes even faster).

  The other thing missing is the Mage Tower artifact appearances; however, to be fair, Blizzard did state that these would not be in the game to preserve the rarity and prestige for those who earned them. A very similar move was made in Mists of Pandaria Remix when they refused to put the Challenge Sets on the vendors for that very same reason, and despite those rare rewards not being there, Mists of Pandaria Remix was still heralded as a major success.

  Even with these changes, Blizzard has not addressed the infinite scaling issue, which is what made Mists of Pandaria Remix so much fun. There is still another round of PTR testing before the rumored (but not confirmed) October 7 launch of the mode.

  Source: Wowhead