My First Impressions of Mists of Pandaria: Remix (Is it any Good?)
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- These are my first impressions of the new WoW Remix for Mists of Pandaria. In this video, I'm sharing my experiences leveling from 10-20 in the MoP Remix, what I liked, disliked, what I think needs to be fixed and what has worked well. I hope that this video doesn't come off as too salty; it's all just genuine feedback! Thank you all for watching.
CHAPTERS
0:00 What is MoP Remix?
1:20 Video Overview
1:42 Exploring Pandaria
4:08 New Gems and Abilities
7:08 Cloak of Infinite Potential
8:50 LOOT CRATES
12:11 Pros
13:12 Cons
14:01 Final Conclusion
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HEY! Keep in mind this is a FIRST IMPRESSIONS video, so a lot of these opinions will probably change over time. I've also intentionally kept myself off the internet since the MoP Remix launch, so that my views are untainted by any other external opinions. What do you all think though? Is MoP Remix any good or does it need some work before it's passable?
The cloak stats transfers are done in milestones. You can check it in the MoP: Remix achievement tab
Better make videos when you actually play the game instead of going full belullar and do pointless videos, this is not your style man, also, doing ads to awful paid addons its not cool.
Saying your level 20 hunter is "decked out in gems" is crazy
@JesuisLukas he must be doing random uninformed videos because he wants to get more cash from his sponsor Bellullar-style. And that paid addon goes against the TOS anyways.
Level 20 is way too early to make a video like this, I really wish you would’ve waited and played more and actually did a raid and got the more interesting gear/gems….I just feel like its doing a big disservice to how fun this game mode is…people will watch these videos and see this super early impressions video and will say something by like “welp it sucks…”
The gems early do feel alittle underwhelming (especially when you’re in the world just questing…) BUT if you do raids and do dungeons and get the more interesting gear with more sockets you can really make some cool fun builds…I’m over here pulling giant trash pulls in dungeons and raining meteors down on them, stunning them, gaining crit off stuns which is procs even more AoE damage and then executing mobs at 10% HP with a certain gem, and then another gem I have makes them EXPLODE on death. So i have all these mobs just BLOWING UP with numbers on my screen and just literally…blowing up. Lots of fun. Reminds me a lot of Path of Exile but in WoW form.
Hopefully you play more of this and make a part 2…..
Tinker slots feel lackluster at the start, but when you get higher level with more slots they start to combo with each other, then they feel super OP.
im lvl 62. popped into a heroic yesterday. did 400k dps first pack. the tinker combos become wild.
This all the way. At first they are mech, but if you get Slay and Brittle combo?!!! !!!! !!! HFS, does questing just take TF OFF! And Gems OMG the legendary gems, and even the Epic Gems are great!
@@-.-Monster just wait til you hit 65 and get scaled into the ground lol
@@adamfoote5311 well im 70 now, just did a heroic. did 877k dps on the first aoe pull. overall did 400k dps for the instance. still weirdly only 90k single target but yea. didnt scale down at all.
How are you already lvl60? Wasn't remix launched yesterday only?
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The tinker abilities don't really feel that impactful until you start getting to a higher level and have more and more slots which will let you have multiple abilities that work together.
Agreed. Suddenly I got all these abilities that do stuff when something dies or that makes it die on 10%, and then I can pull a giant pack, focus a single guy, and everything explodes. It feels amazing. Or all these abilities that apply debuffs and other stuff to things that hit me as a tank, and they feel so powerful
I got blink on my priest. I'm so happy.
Yeah it’s really nice 😂 I’m going to hate when it’s gone 😂
Me to😂
I got blink, disengage, portal, holy martyrdom and meteor on my druid 😂
Looking forward to Legion Remix
i do hope they keep this a trend during awakened/fated season at the end of expacs.
Agreed. I hope they give new recolors and additional designs for the class weapons.
I need it desperately. Or just... anything like Legion in quality. I miss it so much
I didn’t get to play MOP so I’m trying to do as much content as I can. I’m having a great time. I love the zones. They are so fun to spend time in. The gems can be combined so that may make things feel different as you level. 😊
Same!I missed MOP the first time around and im having alot of fun,I hope they do this with other expansions
Glad to hear this. I've been a huge fan of Pandaria since day one (granted, the first hour was quite boring an linear) and think its the most unterrated expansion. They strike a perfect balance between whimsical and light and dark and dramatic.
the thing about the crates, is every crate will also give you a thread to add to your cloak
Really don't agree with you... the crates are super fun. The gems and whatnot seem to work on my toons... and give a ton of flavor and options. I look forward to finishing up a quest hub.... and sorting thru the new stuff from the 3-6 crates... etc.... is a nice break to relax for a few minutes. Seems like you would have complained the opposite if they did not reward you often enough... vs... what you are saying is being OVER rewarded. I don't see that so far at all. This game mode is fast... it's frantic and fun. I can see a number of good ideas that they could add to the full retail game eventually. In any event... good luck... but so far I just don't agree with you.
I totally agree with the critique of stat gems and consumables tho. Super boring and not doing anything. But anything else is fun
@@alihordathey might at higher levels I’ve seen people with higher rarity stats gems get excited in guild chat I’m just level 30, so I can’t say how much they scale up
@@alihorda Well yeah, when you're low level. lol
My only real complaint is the special ability gems not being just tied to the slot rather than each piece of gear. With how often you swap pieces, it's a pain to hotswap gems over
Agreed.
Domination Shard Helper is a must have addon for swapping the gems out for this.
its BfA all over again
Agreed,I feel like im spending alot of time on switching out gems/abilities the whole point of the event is go fast but I gotta deal with stop signs
@@zeraora807
*Precisely*
MoP 100000% is a better Horde vs Alliance expansion than BFA
Eh, not really. What point? The longest portion of MoP has the horde and alliance collaborating to take down Garrosh.
I mean didn’t the horde and the alliance team up to take down sylvy? ☠️ same shit and you even go ba k to mists. 😂 but Battle for Dazar a lor or w.e was tight as fuck and probably my favorite raid overall plus Drustvar is my favorite zone period.
I think if i had to put it in words, BFA is more of a Horde AND Alliance, while Mop is a Horde VS alliance. in BFA they both have their own places they dwell in, Kul Tiras and Zandalar, like neighbours, and they pay each other visits every now n then, but MoP u got Horde and Alliance battling for the one continent they are BOTH forced to live on. Totally different vibes here. But i think it's reversed for the cinematics. BFA cinematic is a lot more Horde VS Alliance while MoP cinematic is a lot more whimsical and funny and it's more Horde AND Alliance.
I mean it was impactfull on both sides because sha and shit. Bfa was just mindless war crimes from the horde side (again)
@@brandonkruse6412 every point, it wasn't a plastic war like BFA.
After Dragonflight, gunning down the flithy horde was the most refreshing experience
Couldn't relate I picked the right faction and got to full auto some blue flag people
Looks like someone wants another tree burned down...
@@BaffordFind a Druid and give a shoulder to cry on. Better yet, Get your cry baby alliance leader anduin to shed crocodile tears on you.
It’s funny cuz I main horde but for mop remix I made a alliance character 😭
Of course a gnome lover qould say something like this
This is a better new player experience then the exiles reach/normal chromie time
As a 3 months old new player, i agree. I enjoyed MoP. Having so much fun doing questing and saving bronze to buy tmog, mounts, etc. It gives clear objective of what to do.
I think the exact scaling of the cloak on your alts is tied to getting the Infinite Power V (and so on) achievements from getting a certain amount of time threads
This is what I have researched aswell
In the forums seems they capped at 100%, which is absurd they said this was a crazy event to power level. Also, the cloak doesn't get more threads after 65 you need to do normal raids to keep upgrading it. Also...the scaling is poorly done for the moment, some mobs are hitting by the hundreds of thousands and some bosses' habilities are hitting by the tens of millions, lol.
Yes you need the latest Infinite power achievement to fully have you cloak available for twinks
@@shesh_o definetly, feels like the dungeons are extremely difficult and the scaling is absolutely whack, my mate on a lvl 60 something hunter did like fuck all damage and meanwhile my lvl 15 character is doing like 5x more
Some gems are really impactfull, like getting a meteor shower, that stuns a whole pack of mobs, or powers that give you shield that just keeps you alive.
The stat gems lets you get whatever main stat you want. (And with it, we have access to stats like leech, avoidance and speed, it is really fun to play with leech between 10-20%)
The crates are good, what you need to keep in mind is purpose they serve.
They are not meant to be there to give you a lootbox like feeling, but rather to replace quests giving static items, so you don''t feel like you need to do x quest so you can get a weapon. And also there is no bis hunting. This way you can do whatever quest you want, in whatever order you want, and you get the same rewards.
I also think bandages are kinda useless, but we have soo many inventory space that it doesn't really matter.
Would like to point out, that while I haven't really used the Hp/mana potion yet, but they also give you stats for 30sec, so they are definitely not useless.
For the inventory, I would really recommend getting 2 addons:
BetterBags - world events - now with WOW remix: MOP, this will make it so that you don't have to spend time rearranging your inventory.
Narcissus: This makes socketing in or out the gems you want really easy, and fast.
Loot crates = dopamine hit.
Good video! Only point of criticism: You can use Bandages, Mana Pots etc. by exchanging those items for good Flasks and stuff that give you powerful/helpful effects.
My biggest gripe is the tedium of swapping gear. It should automatically save the tinkers/gems you have slotted. Having to shift click each piece of gear and take the gems out, then click and place them in the new one (because just right clicking tries to combine them and says you don't have enough). We get gear way too frequently while leveling for how much extra time it takes to do this. I like that scrapping the gear puts the gems/tinkers/etc. in your bag. But I just wish there was a more streamlined way to socket everything at once since unlike gems on retail, they don't get destroyed if you take them out.
The cloak is a throwback to the MOP expansion when Wrathion gave us a cloak with abilities.
bfa? that's when we had the legendary cloak
@@yourlife3420 there was a quest in mop with wrathion to get a cloak
@@yourlife3420 Nope. I'm talking about the cloak Wrathion gives us in MOP. If you played then, remember when we met him on the cliff above the inn and had quests to increase the value of the cloak?
The cloak reminds me on Heart of Azeroth necklace even more. I love it!
im level 50 on my mage rn, idk if were all getting the same gems, but ive decked myself out in pure aoe gems and lemme tell ya, its explosions and stuns galore, im loving it. however i would have preferred it if maybe the gems altered your current abilities in a more impactful way, or limiting it to certain abilities
the Stat Gems and other stuff grows over time, it may not seem impactful, but as you grow the quality of those Stat Gems and Gear and Cloak, you start getting beastly. i am level 30+, completed the Jade Forest (minus the Dungeon, i am doing that after i wake up) and i have dinged Infinite Power about 7 times. (this Achievement unlocks more threads on Alts when they start) so my Tauren Sunwalker is really getting beefy, it's fine that THIS is your first impression, but just clarifying that you need to give it more time to cook, it's not a 1:1 trade off like we had the impression of.
Dude, I’ve never played MoP cause I was too young to get into WoW. I remember being told that MoP sucked because of the aesthetic and lore and I believed them. This remix opened my eyes of just how awesome the story is in the MoP zones.
Great take man. Been enjoying you videos since the begging, glad to see you getting some enjoyement again the retail side of wow!
Maybe it's because I'm a classic Andy, but I kinda wish they did the world at least a bit harder and dangerous. It was already too easy to quest without these massive power-ups.
Despite that, I'm having a lot of fun and I'm glad they chose pandaria to test this version!
Great first impressions video, and entertaining as heck. From all the prelaunch videos I was thinking shades of Diablo 4 in Pandaria, but you are too correct. The gems and tinkers and meta stuff to socket is so underwhelming at level 20 and below. I'll keep going, but in no rush to max it out. More in it for access to the transmogs.👍
I think these new game modes events are a great way to test out potential future features in the main games modes to see what works and would make sense to add. It is great to see they are trying things. Love it, the good and the bad.
I forgot how much faction warfare was in mop. My buddy started playing for the first time in dragonflight and now we're playing the remix. He was shocked and happy to mow down some alliance from the gunship. Having a lot of fun, the gem system is super cool. Im using a holy pally to grind through and its fascinating to use both healing and damage trinkets.
I’d say I pretty much agree with you across the board although I think the reason we get so many crates is so that we can use that sand portal thing to turn it all into bronze if we don’t want the stats the gear brings so it balances out gear and bronze income. It’s been fun being a super fast killing machine
So far I like it, but it gets tedious having to unsocket abilites from gear to put into new gear every time you get a higher level piece of gear, which happens often. I put the Heroic Leap ability on my rogue, which is hilarious.
I’m having a ton of fun! I can’t wait to play more!
Good to see Blizz literally mixing things up a bit and experimenting 👍 I won't be playing (Pandas were never really my thing!) but, it is interesting nonetheless! And we can only hope that all this experimentation breaths new life into a franchise that's almost 20 years old!
In my opinion they just need to change one thing to make MoP remix feel way better....
I don't care people got ahead by farming frogs, I don't even think they need to increase the amount of bronze dropped. The ONLY thing that needs to happen is the gear upgrades cost wayyyy less and/or get a completely new currency/system. It makes no sense at all that I have to choose between +10 ilvls on my character and the super rare 1% drop rate mount I wanted to farm bronze for in the first place in a limited-time event.
*Also the timerunner achievement items should be account wide* - it's insane that a for-fun overpowered limited time event is less alt friendly, harder to gear, and with harder to clear raids than are in the current retail season. I have 4 characters above 510 ilvl in retail and can't get my main above 330 in remix after 40 hours...
I completely agree with the loot crate feedback! I actually have an addon 'Soulbind Cache Opener' which pops up a button to open crates you receive. Honestly, something that should be put into the base game so you're not rummaging through your inventory.
Just hit lvl 23 last night and got Sprint on my Monk. Hell ya.
I'm using this as an excuse to just make fun builds if possible. Like right now, I'm trying to make an Orc Blade Master. Or at least as close to one as I can.
Dont know if youre not noticing it cause of item pop ups, but the crates give upgrades to your cloak too
I love the attempt at a different loot and power system, but yeah, I really felt the points about "mobs being too easy to kill". I am not at all a Classic player, but I wish Retail was a LOT more challenging in open world content, like in Classic when it comes to enemies. I really feel that harder mobs are the key to making WoW a more fun "open world experience". 🙂 The whole... "turn your brain off to the point of drooling", while still being able to complete everything, is NOT my cup of tea. It's too close up against something like AFK mobile games. 😅 So in general, I hope Blizz makes open world single player content harder, at some point.
Agree. I tried this out yesterday after having quit retail in WoD and it just felt so bland
If only classic was more exciting. Just mobs being harder doesn’t mean it’s a good experience tbh. It’s just a grindfest that isn’t fun for most people nowadays. We can’t all sit and play for 10+ hours a day like a lot of streamers and the community do
What you said about the loot crates reminds me a bit of the dragon isle resource . There's little in the game that I've wanted to buy with those.
MoP quests zones and hubs are so dense it makes it a great place to level alts. Even professions (for Live obv) are easy to level because of the density of nodes, and mobs. The story of MoP is good, but there are some places where exposition dumps happen and it's so boring. Overall MoP is great. The ReMix is pretty cool too, but it's weird to not level professions along with levelling. Love your vids man : )
I'm lovin it. I got my dk to 70 and finished all the achievements I wanted to finish. Maxed out my gear and cloak, and rolled a dh. I think the cloak doesn't scale 1 for 1 on alts because after you level another alt it scales the cloak further. Or something like that...
Also, Slay is the best gem. That shit auto kills everything at 10%, did like 8 bajillion damage to raid bosses. Delicious.
Are you able to solo Siege of Orgrimmar? If so, up to what difficulty are you able to do it?
I’m really loving the Panda remix so far. I’m finding it a very smooth levelling experience. One thing I enjoy about levelling a new spec is to learn it slowly by adding and experimenting with talents. I was worried that the new abilities would be too OP and would trivialise the content as well as my class abilities. But that’s not been the case, the abilities give a fun addition without ruining the class. Agree stuff like bandages are irrelevant, however the first dungeon we did was quite tough in places and I popped all the scrolls available to give us more power. Agree to some extent with the constant loot boxes, may be spread it out a bit. One thing I personally would have liked is some new and different transmogs on the armour and weapon items to give that collecting something new hit. Finally dragonriding in a place as beautiful as Jade Forest is pure joy - dragons and Panda land were made for each other!
Some tinker starts to scale on higher ilvl, at the start the best you can do is stats/procs cause they are static values and increases your secondaries and primary by such a huge amount they go off charts.
Later on the dmg/healing buff ones take off with scaling and the way they combo with eachother.
I like those tinker slots.
For example on my SPriest I cast DoTs on all mobs around me and they just gather around me and explode in one nice pile to loot and continue.
I personally think the head slot is bit lacking.
About cloak I think it's the scaling stats but the exp boost unintentionally affected too.
Crates are replacing Gold as you get the Bronze out of it which is main currency in Remix, that's why u get them so often. Imagine you would only had to farm mobs to get the small amount or run through Dungeons / Raids repeatedly to get it. It's nice way to get the bronze while you are leveling up or exploring the story of Pandaria.
9:50 YEP, same here tabbing in and out of the bags constantly to open these supply crates. The most annoying thing of all is that we can't even drag them out on the action bars, at least that would be have been something.
Oh, I just had this idea like I used notably for the old Love in the Air event when you had to craft hundreds of those Lovely Charms... very convenient it was.
The tinker gems you need to equip that feel good, are Slay and Brittle. Also the mob scaling as you level do pose more of a threat the higher lvl you get
The stats 😮for the cloak on alts are tied to 'Infinite Power' achievements I think.
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Hey Nixxiom, I think you it's good if you play a little more before you make these first impression videos, a lot of the issues mentioned in the Video are just Blizzard starting us out a bit slower so we feel even better when we eventually get a few gem combinations that feel good, because then it really does just go BOOOM. From my rough memory I would say that starts happening around 20-25, probably earlier if you get better luck with the gems you get.
The cloak is tied to an achievement, no idea why they did it but my guess would be to focus on one character first to then switch to another, for example even the exp bonus on your cloak, that you receive gets less in favour of your other stats so you start a new character once you hit max instead of grinding away on a main.
So in a way they want you to play alts but also want you to focus on one character at a time it seems.
I also don't think they should make the boxes less frequent, that just seems silly. It's supposed to feel like an ARPG so the amount of loot needs to be high but they should add the cosmetics we can earn into them and just make em a lower percantage chance to still make you go "WOW" when you get one, for when you already got all the good GEMS since there really isn't any surprises besides blue and epic gear after it anymore.
Scaling is pretty broken at the moment, and gem swapping is annoying but besides that Im having a blast so far, already hit 70 yesterday and plan on going with alt after alt.
It feels really refreshing once you get rolling, but yeah due to the weird scaling issues in a lot of content it still has its rough moments.
The cloak is not "account wide" it gets stronger through achievements, basically need to hit a breakpoint to make it stronger on alts.
the crates do give threads so opening them is very usefull also on the cloak thing you need a certain achievement to do it on alts for the stats to go over
I do agree that the potions and bandages feel redundant but the chests play into your critique of the gem system so it makes sense to earn so many. The more chests, the more chances to upgrade the gems to legendary status, which makes them really strong. Also feels like your critique stems from the first 20 levels or so. Those sockets really start to ramp up over the course of the leveling experience and can get outright bonkers once you earn gear with several slots.
Pandaria was my first expansion, and have the oposite what you have, i never played aly side of lore there, and now im going with it and im veary happy to see this side :D
Personally Pandaria is one of my favorite expansions ever. Love going back to it at last. I love that I can get the two mounts that have eluded me to this day: Alani and Elegon. But I agree on the loot boxes. They could do away with the box method, just dump the stuff into my bags so I don’t have to manually open them. Also agree the gems don’t feel that impactful from the start, but presumably get more so after you get more slots and fuse the gems into higher qualities. That said swapping gems every time you get new gear is a pain in the ass.
You need to level the cloak up further to unlock the "Infinite Power" archivements, the more of these archivements you have the more stats are shared with alts.
I think it's very fun for a once-in-a-while-event!
I freakin LOVE all the crates and opening them, then organising my inventory (but thats just autistic me xD it's satisfying)
I love collecting all the things, too! Found a great spreadsheet (nerdgasm!) to track what I have :D
And I forgot how good pandaria was
Explosive barrage hits like a truck on a fire mage and there is an ability to turn into a lightning orb. You can legit take on a huge ape pack in a dungeon by yourself with it
my experience with tinker gems has been the opposite, it seems like their proc rate is lower in dungeons, and the meta gem slot is the only one that matters with thunderous orb, or the lightning rod one that heals everyone. the victory flame tinker gem and the slay tinker gem both work really well together, it really feels impactful when you start synergizing them.
One thing i wish you had addressed as a pro or a con is the panda remix as a brand new player experience. All it requires is a sub and at the end your character moves into war within. How do you feel about this mode as a new player experience?
As a new player experience, I don't think it would be very good. Because it would set an unrealistic expectation of what the actual game is.
I didnt play retail since WoD and gave this remix a shot yesterday. I tried to give it a chance but had to close it after around 1- 1.5 hours. It just felt so bland
In order to try out the game, you don't even need a sub to farm bronze. Especially Dragonriding, it feels sooo good.
On my frost dk the tinker gem does fell impact full like the hailstorm or the fire rockets. And for the full upgraded cloak for you alt. It seem it is necessary to fully upgrade the cloak. On wow Head is say it is between level 66/68 to 70
The bill of sale Blizz presented was, blast through Pandaria leveling at crazy speeds with insane powers that allow you to crush any and all mobs in your way collecting a new currency to get a grap ton of new items. What I got, as I see it, is just reliving the MoP experience with gems that don't do a whole lot. (like Nixxiom explained) I got a cloak that will be legendary at end game instead of starting at end game in the first iteration. All the items you can spend the bronze on are recolors of stuff we already got. Now I'm a collector so I love new stuff but come on! Not 1 or 2 totaly new mounts or awesome new cosmetics? Just some simple dungeon and world cosmetics and armor sets I could get now or already have gotten. I get it, this is just to hold us over until TWW or the other new content Blizz is pumping out but I do feel a teeny bit bamboozled. Again, like Nixxiom said it is fun. I am liking it as a time passer. However, if I had my druthers, it would have been Blizz turning it up to 12! Giving us CRAZY powered gems and gear to blast through shit like P. Ditty does his girlfriend in the hotel hallway. I give it a 6.5/10
Hey Nixx, you can set your inventory to sort loot automatically, you have 36 slot bags for a reason.
And this is mop, levelling is super watered down, its just a mindless grind.
the cloak got nerfed hard so the xp now is capped and it wont transfer on the cloak 1;1 its now tied to a achievent on how many threads you have collected on a main char, higher achievent better base starting point for the cloak. it defeats the purpose imo xp wise. should have let us keep the xp going and have it insta transfer not the other stats sure but xp at least
Yes they flat out fucking lied. The coal was advertised as account wide with no cap and less than 24hrs before launch the fucking fun police nerfed it into the ground and removed the account wide and tired it to a stupid achievement. Fuck them and any creator that doesn't call them out on thier lies. So tired of Blizzard simp creators kissing thier ass instead id calling them on thier bullshit. Preach, Bellular, Kelani, none have said a word on how Blizzard fucking lied.
Just going over two points, first the gems/tinker slots
Gem/Tinker slot - They do help more than stated. To run around with epic gems that shoot your mastery or crit or haste or even LEECH to 30-40% by 20 is absurdity. Currently lvl 32 WW monk as of this post and I have 20% crit, 22% haste, 50% mastery, 7% vers, 11% leech and 18% speed, with 7100 hp and critting for upwards of 4k right now with bunk gear, next to 0 agility outside of weapons/cloak. The tinker slots having 2 sockets meaning I can currently use 7 tinker slots, 1 meta and 1 cog really does change up a lot. I have a tinker gem that increases vers by 5% which is neat to have since it also restores resources every 3s.
On the loot crate thing, you do get better ones as you progress, I have several epic and a few rare tinker/gem items I'm looking forward to experimenting with constantly. Not to mention some of the gear I got from it is pretty stupid OP. Just handing over an item that has 78 mastery or 80 leech, means I'm soloing things I normally need groups for. Helped kill a world boss that I couldn't get into a group for and shockingly required 0 healing cause all of my abilities were restoring 100-200/hit, and Fists of Fury/Strike of the Windlord could essentially full heal me. These aren't noticeable things when in jade forest, but you'll feel them later on
The Quick Strike gem adds like 20% DPS by itself to Enhance Shaman lol
the thing aboug cloak on alts is you need to gain the "Infinite power" achievements. there is 12 of them with the highest being at 4200 threads (really easy to get once hit 70). These achievements is what gives alts cloak power compairable to your main.
Some gems definitely have a big impact. Finding the ones that do was part of the fun for me.
i agree nixxiom, you're real smart and handsome. but yeah, i'm having fun. loot crates don't bother me as much as they seem to bother you but it'd be cool if they stacked and you could open an entire stack at once. playing alliance in mop is cool, new experience for me. i like that raids are available at level 25. another big highlight is just how awesome dynamic flying is in leveling content.
i hope they fix the cloak bug you mentioned or clarify why it works the way it does right now. if i had to pick a low point, it's definitely the thing you said about some of the weaker gem abilities; the movement ones and active attack ones are cool but the attack passive ones usually aren't. oh yeah, and everyone is overpowered, i'm gathering up every enemy in sight and aoeing them down with minimal self-healing.
Going to edit this to say that the passive gem effects feel more impactful when your stats are higher.
I enjoy SOD and am really looking forward to their next season. I am one of the few that really enjoyed SOM.
The gems feel great when levelling with friends because many perks benefit the entire party. The basic stat ones are even tradeable!
(As for movement gems, I was unlucky and only got ONE the entire Jade Forest and it was just Roll. T_T)
The cloak stats are shared through the progressive achievements for collecting threads, so your alts will get the cloak level to the highest achievement you have got for collecting threads
A: You only get like 5 gems at lvl 20, you can get like 30 at higher levels
B: damage scaling is just kinda like that at low level, you can kill everything at level 10 with one ability
C: Chests are quest sensitive, if you do a dungeon quest its basically guaranteed you get a piece of dungeon gear. If you collect 8 bear asses, you get like a gem and a scroll.
I got so hyped and then realized it is not the 5.x version. The MoP gameplay was so good, every class had tons of mobility and control.
To me the tinker slots does a world of difference and makes it feel very fun and fresh, at least the first character you're leveling. The scaling is bad however and sometimes I get oneshot by stuff that should not hit that hard haha.
the cloak stuff is based on your achievements, infinite power i believe its called, and the more threads in total you've gathered and advanced your achievements, the more stats you will get on your secondary cloaks
Which realm u playing in that you need a queue? The only thing holding me back from playing 24/7 is my stupid mediatek wifi card malfunctioning
I wouldn't mind seeing an updated version of this vid after you've gotten further in/beaten MoP.
the cloak system where it is used on your alts requires an achievement to be done on your main at max level. After this achievement then it is unlocked on your alts.
Just for anyone not yet aware: the cloak is no longer account wide.
The achievement bonus is what your alts share and that is a max of 100% xp bonus and some flat stats (150 stamina and 100 main stat) at rank 12 for collecting 4200 threads.
Not 100% of what your main cloak has. Just 100% bonus xp.
And thats a fix cap. Anything else your char has do do individually. If you want to have 300% on all your alts to level (aka what they advertised), well you gotta push them all through raids from 100-300 yourself. individually.
disappointed? yes, we all are. make your voice heard or blizz wont do anything.
the cloak is linked to achievements. every 50 traits you get you get a new tier of the achievement and this causes alts to get more of the stats.
So far I'm really enjoying Remix. I never finished Pandaria so this time I'm going to go as completionist as I can. Negatives so far for me is I wish they'd tweak the rare spawns. Have more pop or shorten the respawn just to balance out how many are going after them. The other negative is I wish we could convert more stuff into bronze. My hunter's not going to use mana pots and I can't sell them so why can't we convert them to bronze, or be able to bronze some of the tinker/cogs level gems we're not going to use. They're soulbound so you can't trade them to someone else and you can't sell them either.
I wish they would put the gems in a tab somewhere like SOD. I have a whole bag full of gems. You are right I have so much stuff in my bags as it is. Over all I'm having fun playing a hunter just blast through everything. I noticed experince slowed down at level 60
The Pandaria remix is like having a diablo char in wow. I levelled 3 chars to 70 in 5 days. They're so OP it's crazy. The paladins are indestructible lol. I'm going to miss all the amazing skills, gems & cloak when the event is over.
Remix is a win. I want WoD to be like this too. The only issue are lvl 70's ruining the whole balance when with lower levels. They need to seperate the two or balance it better. As a healer, I couldn't do anything against a lvl 70 dipping to 0 instantly.
I think the power 'feeling' from the gems can vary from class to class, and especially spec to spec. Healers overall in MoP remix feel pretty underwhelming, you have infinite mana and that's cool, but overall healing feels pretty much the same and not OP. You can stack overhealing that will pop if somebody goes below 50%, but a lot of times mechanics just 1 shot somebody anyways, so it's not something you can healthrough. It'd be cool if they made a gem where overhealing could cause like damage reduction or something that scales as you overheal, even if it's capped at 30 or 50%. That being said, windwalker has felt pretty damn awesome the whole way through, I think one of the first gems i got was a pretty OP one, being slay, and that has made questing and lvling a blast.
The bandages are for raiding and dungeons and you know the MMO part of the game. Also the crates also have a low chance of droping a pet or mount.
I found that some of the gyms did make my warlock get a huge haste boost. From 9% to 110% when other buffs are applied at the same time, But for the most part, a lot of them seemed to be underwhelming.
Missed opportunity to bring the pre-corrupted Vale of Eternal Blossoms back or return the legendary questline that was removed from Retail years ago when that was the narrative red thread holding the whole expansion together. Same with Draenor. Also needs a way to buy the contents of the loot crates for Bronze, as a bunch of the gear rewards are recolours or unreleased models.
the cloak is done by achievements saw one pop up says it gives a little starting power to future characters
Strong agree about the Pandaria Horde vs Alliance feeling in this exp, i mean even from the original exp Trailer you could feel it was Horde vs Alliance with the pandarens coming in to calm the fuede, but BFA was just.... WARRRRRRRR !!!! boring
The alt cloak stats are linked to the threads collected achievements, it's not a 1:1 copy of your mains stats :)
another cool thing is the ability to fly from the very start of the character. timerunners can fly at level 1(10) seen so many people running around not realizing they can already fly lol
Tbf the regular stat gems dont have much impact early unless u combind them into stronger ones and the tinker ones scale with ilvl
Also disagree with the loot box frequency. Would love to see them stack though! Also the items you get from them stack more often than not, and the bandages can be used while taking damage, making it a shitty little impromptu defensive by healing yourself if you get caught with your pants down.
Honestly the only reason I'm doing anything in MoP Remix is to lvl up all my alliance allied races so I can unlock heritage armor Quests. And more importantly to finally get Tusks.
This is the first time in years since I fell asleep playing. I don’t wanna get off.. finally something for just collectors…
MoP is the most underrated xpac imo. I played it when it was current and enjoying the remix version.
5:23 you are still level 20. The gems dont feel impactful yet because we are so low level you cant feel the difference HOWEVER if you pay close attention to the gem slots.... dude an epic gem. Is enough secondary stats to rival the base item. 2 epic gems on one piece and you have the equivilent of 3 secondary item points per item... if that makes sense. Like im planning on making a full haste destro warlock and get him to 70. Max out my gems with the epic haste gems on all 3 slots. And just see how many chaos bolts can i rain down onto a single person within 5 seconds
Not sure how much time you had to actually play but that differences in stats was explained in firsts quest for infinite dragons - basically after you get cloak you can obtain threads from enemies which will randomly boost your cloak sooo every character will get different stats, which is cool idea
About those crates they are not treated like something cool etc - they are like fuel for you provides class boosts, or items like wardrums (basically BL) or potions which gives you % of some stats and gems with eq you can use or shread for bronze - which you can use to buy transmogs, utility items, bufs etc
And one more thing - in that Mode you SHOULD FEEL LIKE GOD it's a part of that Mode, core idea.
So not sure how much you had time for that to actually check it but yeah, there's a lot of fun and i think the biggest problem so far is lack of tune but for a "fill a hole" content between expacs is really fun, and for once I am happy for that
MoP remix has been the most fun I’ve had in wow in a very long time.
point of the crates is to get you conditioned for wanting to open them, then later in the game they will find a way to monetize the crates in some way and you'll be addicted. It's like the Spirit healer telling you to "give us your money, your moneys the cure, play world of warcraft".
The loot crate inventory problem was inspired by SoD incursion envelopes. You're welcome lol
horde gets the little quest where you see vol'jin gets betrayed by garrosh