Reeeeeemix!
It is finally time for the Legion Remix, and despite having not played the expansion during the original launch, I have been really looking forward to this one. During my research into what expansions people enjoyed and reading different tier lists, Legion was almost always rated highly. That kind of overwhelming praise for an expansion after the “golden age” of WoW had to mean that something good was going on.
As I have never played Legion, and never played a Demon Hunter, that seemed like an absolute no-brainer. I went with Horde for Warlords of Draenor, so I figured why not swap and see the Alliance (eww) side this time around.
And so, Grizzlefel, the Night Elf Demon Hunter was born.
It turns out that I was, as Illidan would so graciously remind me, not prepared. The Remix portion of this event was no understatement. Not five minutes after creating a character I was speaking to a member of the Infinite Dragonflight, who coincidentally look like the Taken from Destiny, and was given my artifact weapon after a short quest. I chose to go with the Havoc spec, and I really enjoy the look of these warglaives. The pacing here was a little odd to me, as they give you your artifact weapon here, but no sooner do you finish the intro than you are given what seems to be the actual quest that would have unlocked your artifact weapon initially. If you choose to pick the same one here, so in my case the glaives for Havoc spec, you can take them back to the blacksmith who made your fake/replacement artifact and have it broken down.
At the same time, I was given access to both my class Order Hall, and the Infinite Bazaar. I popped into the Infinite Bazaar to browse and pick up quests, and woo, buddy, is there a lot going on. So many vendors, with so many neat old mounts, pets, toys, and gear sets. The mount vendor alone has seven pages of mounts for sale. Each class has a class-specific mount they can purchase for 20,000 bronze, the Remix currency, or you can get it for free by leveling a class to 80. I will likely focus on getting a handful of these through leveling, and the rest with Bronze.
Unfortunately, at this point I have next to no Bronze, so I went back and found my way to my Class Order Hall. For Demon Hunters, this just involves leaping off of Dalaran and gliding to a nearby tiny island with a portal to what I assume is a Burning Legion spaceship that we have commandeered. Order Halls seem to have replaced Garrisons, in that you have a table where you can send Followers on missions, pick up quests to do, and hang out away from town, but Remix seems to have adjusted how they work from what I can tell. I was given two Followers within the first couple quests, but when I was told to use the mission table and send them out I was interrupted and told that the Infinite Dragonflight would just be skipping time ahead. This repeated multiple times for quests that appeared to be based on Follower missions. After a bit of poking around, it seems that this was done to remove time-gated content that would otherwise have required you to complete missions at the table before you were able to progress.
While the Garrison allowed you to build out certain buildings, that seems to have been removed in the Order Hall, and instead of being an area solely for you to hang out in like the Garrisons, Order Halls will have you bumping into all kinds of other members of your class.
Overall, this seems like a really neat addition, and one I am thoroughly enjoying. If this level of effort was put in for each class, the Order Hall seems like a great addition to play into each class’s fantasy. Not only are you hanging out in a clubhouse designed specifically for your class, you are there alongside famous members of your class from WoW’s history, and completing quests that fit into your class story.
I was given another quest to go and grab the artifact for my other spec, and after knocking that out along with a few other Demon Hunter quests, I started getting the hang of my new demonic edgelord. A double-jump, eye laser, and periodic demonic transformations has made for some pretty fun gameplay. A few of the abilities feel a little odd, but overall the gameplay feels fairly fluid. Almost a little too fluid. Backflipping, a dash with two charges, double-jumping, gliding, it seems that every bit of mobility was packed into one class, alongside moves that let me blink around like an anime Samurai. All together, very fun, but also makes me feel like a teenage weeb.
Much like Chromie Time, I am leveling so fast here that I assume I will only be able to see two zones or so before hitting level cap, especially with the Remix specific quests that promote doing World Quests and Dungeons. On top of that, completing the Research quests gives you a stacking XP buff. I can see why people were saying that later in Remix you could fully level a character in just a few hours.
Initially, I focused on Azsuna, before moving over to Suramar. While Azsuna was enjoyable, nothing particularly stood out that much to me, but Suramar was a treat. Learning the history of the Nightborne, helping them establish a foothold, and supporting the oppressed lower class in the city. The quests within Suramar city itself stood out to me, and left me wanting to roll up a Nightborne character. Ancient-Mana-addicted Nightborne were withering away due to manufactured scarcity by the upper crust. Being able to slip into town in disguise and provide them Ancient Mana to avoid withering away, steal Ancient-Mana-infused wine for an underground Robin Hood-esque figure that spends his time providing that wine to those in need, and taking out corrupt guards was a blast. While I enjoyed Warlords of Draenor, the Suramar storyline alone blew that entire expansion out of the water.
I am trying to avoid blowing through every zone and all the Remix event has to offer in a couple days, so I will leave off here, but I am very excited to see what other zones have in store.
Overall, Legion Remix has been a blast, and I find myself really looking forward to signing in and playing each night. There are so many mounts and other various rewards that I want to get with Bronze and so many achievements to pick up with having never playing Legion that it feels like there is always something to do whether I can sign in for twenty minutes or hours.
Next time: Rebirth and Remix (A New Chapter in Legion)
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