World of Warcraft’s upcoming Legion Remix event is looking to make some big changes to one of the MMORPG’s most popular expansions. In addition to letting players and their Artifact weapons become more powerful than ever before, Blizzard is taking some key inspirations from Diablo to add some new twists to the beloved expansion.
In the same vein as last year’s Mists of Pandaria Remix event, Legion Remix is set to go live alongside WoW’s 11.2.5 update later this year and will be a speedrun of sorts through 2016’s Legion expansion. Players will create new „timerunner“ characters and experience faster leveling times, increased reputation gains, and an accelerated weekly content lockout schedule to make progressing even faster.
There are, however, some big changes from last year’s remix event, as recently outlined by Blizzard. Instead of Mists of Pandaria Remix’s ever-upgrading cloak and gem system, Legion Remix will instead double down on Legion’s expansion-defining Artifact weapons. Players will earn an upgrade currency that can be used to upgrade their Artifacts even further than in the original Legion, with new upgrade trees that will see players embracing one of five different damage types–Nature, Fel, Arcane, Storm, or Holy. They’ll also be able to find jewelry slot items that can add additional ranks to Artifact traits, increasing the weapon’s power even further. Thankfully, players will be able to freely respec their Artifact weapon traits at any time.