Ever found yourself yearning for the good ol' days of Azeroth, but with a twist of the new? Buckle up, adventurers, because we're taking you back to the Mists of Pandaria—with a remixed beat! Our latest jam session dives into this unique event where your nostalgia will be handsomely rewarded. Collect bronze tokens as you re-explore the classic continent with the snazzy spells and talents from Dragonflight. We've got the scoop on the time investment needed to snag those sweet transmogs and mounts, and let me tell you, the grind is as real as the memories.
But that's not all, fellow Azerothians. Have you ever wished for a cloak with more oomph? Enter the Cloak of Infinite Potential that is not just another pretty fabric but a powerhouse that boosts your leveling ambitions. We're giving you the skinny on how to capitalize on this event's timeline to power level your alts and the secret achievements that will make your journey even more rewarding. Plus, you'll get the inside track on those Time Runners—what makes them tick and how they're shaking things up in the Remix.
Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!
Ever found yourself yearning for the good ol' days of Azeroth, but with a twist of the new? Buckle up, adventurers, because we're taking you back to the Mists of Pandaria—with a remixed beat! Our latest jam session dives into this unique event where your nostalgia will be handsomely rewarded. Collect bronze tokens as you re-explore the classic continent with the snazzy spells and talents from Dragonflight. We've got the scoop on the time investment needed to snag those sweet transmogs and mounts, and let me tell you, the grind is as real as the memories.
But that's not all, fellow Azerothians. Have you ever wished for a cloak with more oomph? Enter the Cloak of Infinite Potential that is not just another pretty fabric but a powerhouse that boosts your leveling ambitions. We're giving you the skinny on how to capitalize on this event's timeline to power level your alts and the secret achievements that will make your journey even more rewarding. Plus, you'll get the inside track on those Time Runners—what makes them tick and how they're shaking things up in the Remix.
Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!
The do. Hello and welcome to the Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth. As always here at the Pig and Whistle Inn in Stormwind, I go for a variety of subjects With regards to World of Warcraft, so grab a bottle or a pint, sit back and enjoy this episode. We'll be looking at Mists of Pandaria and now that it has been released, I can give you a very good sort of feedback what's happening with it, what it entails when you jump into it, what you can get from it, what you benefit from it, what's good, what's bad, etc. I do have to start off by apologising for the lack of an episode almost on Wednesday and Thursday. I just didn't. I didn't feel great I'm not gonna lie when I went to record, so hopefully I can make it up in this one and in the next coming weeks. But we will always start off with the weekly news. So we have a basil's connie elders and aerostar as your weekly world bosses for the week. They are located in azure span, uh, zaralak caverns and, oh god, what is it? It's uh, I've forgotten it emerald dream Dream. That's the one. We have Lich King, time Walking and Pet Battles as your bonus events for the week. So if you want any mounts or pets from Wrath of the Lich King. You can use Time Walking badges to buy these and Pet Battles. This increases the levels at which your pet battles gain levels quite fast. I think it's like 50 or 100%. It's either or, but it is a very good time to do your pet battles. If you're wanting to do that, arathi Blizzard is your brawl for the week. This is essentially Arathi Basin, but the layout of the uh, what is it? Battleground is a lot more obscure and it's a bit more snowy and hilly and stuff like that, and you can't see about 15 yards in front of you. So it gives you that element of surprise. Afflicted, raging and fortified are your mythic affixes for the week. Afflicted is more of a healer affix where essentially there are one or two shades that spawn and you simply have to dispel it or heat it up. Raging when a mob gets below 30 health, it will do 100 increased damage. So kill it quickly, kite it, soothe it, do whatever you can, but make sure you're not getting hit by it. And fortified essentially the non-boss enemies have more health and do more damage. So bring a talent build that can accommodate for that. So, with all that being said missa pandaria, what is it? Or missa Pandaria, what is it? Or Mists of Pandaria Remix, what is it? Essentially, you have your Dragonflight characters, so spells from Dragonflight, talents from Dragonflight, all of that stuff and you make a character on this Remix server. I want to say it's on the same realm as your main characters, but kind of like Plunderstorm, you just click a little thing at the top on the main menu and essentially it will bring you or bring up a pop-up that says do you want to make a Misa Pandaria remix character? And when you make your character, it will have this little hourglass next to that character's name to symbolize that it is a Mists of Pandaria remix character. Just so you aren't confused. Um, essentially, what Mists of Pandaria is? It's?
Speaker 1:
You start level 10 and the bronze dragonflight are taking you through a zone, the zone of, or the continent of, mists of Pandaria, and this includes all of the old quests. You know everything that you can think of that was in misopandaria is in misopandaria. And you get this currency, this new currency called bronze. Now, what this currency does is essentially allows you to buy whatever mog you're looking for, um mog mount, you know, whatever it is you might want, um, essentially, you can buy loads of different things um, dungeon, uh, transmogs, uh, raiding transmogs you've got. You're looking for raid mogs. You've got your normal. You've got your heroic and your, there wasn't mythic back in the day, was there? No, so up to heroic. And then you've got your normal. You've got your heroic and your. There wasn't mythic back in the day, was there? No, though, up to heroic. And then you've got the normal sort of um, you know class mogs, which are, you know, for druids. There's several. You've got your normal sort of, uh, adventuring, questing gear that you can get, and this all costs a certain amount of bronze.
Speaker 1:
Now, if you are a someone who is a collector, you will be spending a lot of time in missa pandaria remix. I mean a lot of time. So I bought a couple of tier sets not tier sets, but like set pieces on Mists of Pandaria already. Um, I had about 10,000 bronze, so I have spent all 10,000 on it of it. Now you might think, oh, 10,000 seems like quite a lot. So one of these like sets essentially was 5,000 bronze and two of the others were 2,500 like bronze. So it really does go quickly and, to put it into perspective, these are very.
Speaker 1:
These are the cheaper like uh transmogs or sets that you can buy, um, the highest sets that you can buy, something along the lines of like 8 000, 10 000 I think, and they are like really good, um, like this is just like armor sets as well, whereas if you're looking to get like uh mounts, you are looking at 2 000 being on the low end and something along the lines of 38,000, no, 380,000 or something. Was it 380,000 or 38,000? Might have been 38. I feel like 380,000 is a bit too much. So, yeah, you're looking at 38,000 like high end and all of these vendors there's probably about 10 vendors in total, all having different bits and bobs, you know and they all have about anywhere between two pages worth of items to like. I think the most was eight pages, six or eight, I can't remember which, but anywhere between that. So it is a lot.
Speaker 1:
You're looking at like a potential million in terms of this currency, bronze that you'd have to spend in order to collect everything. Now, that is a lot. Um, I think a million might be a little bit overdoing. It maybe more like 500 000 um, but it is still a shit ton of like bronze that you would need to collect in order to get what you want. Now, many people might go in there with an agenda on what they want. So if you do and you get a little bit overwhelmed with everything, what I highly encourage you to do is go through all of the vendors and pick out which like, pick five things that you want. So pick out two uh like, uh armor sets, pick out a couple weapons and pick out a mount, you know, and then add it all up and then be like, okay, if I get this much bronze, I will be able to afford this, and then I can either stop and be very satisfied with what I have, or I can do another list and go for that next set of uh like currency and get that much. I think that's the best way to do it. You kind of break it down into segments almost, or you can do it the hoarding way, which is I am not going to buy anything until I am maxed out on my bronze currency and just have a massive spending spree, which I do have to add, would be very, very satisfying, um, for a lot of people. Now, obviously, I'm not sure on the max amount of currency of bronze that you can have. I'm pretty sure it was something along the lines of 99,000, I think I cannot confirm that, though I'm pretty much just making that up, I think from the top of my head. But I think that if you spend a lot of time on Mists of Pandaria Remix, I think you would easily spend a lot of time on Mr Pandaria Remix. I think you would easily collect everything that you need, or all of the currency that you need, in order to get everything that you need from these transmog vendors, from the people selling you these cosmetics essentially. Now, I think if you are someone who doesn't really care about cosmetics, this probably isn't for you.
Speaker 1:
Miss a Pandaria remix If you never did miss a Pandaria when it was current content. Um, it's not a bad way to experience the uh, what is it? The continent, the sort of zones of the Jade forest, uh, valley of the four winds, uh, veil of eternal blossoms, kunalai summit. You know it's not a good way to experience, or it is a good way to experience that, sorry, um, but a lot of people are just there to farm some cosmetics, essentially, and that's what all of this is. It's just a giant cosmetics farm, which, I do have to say, is very, very good. I think it is a very good call from blizzard to do something like this. I think if they did something like this and it was related to your player power somehow in dragonflight, I think it would make it really, really shit. So miss a pandaria remix gives you a lot of different bits and bobs like that you can play around with.
Speaker 1:
I do want to state that some things in miss a pandaria remix are not there, though, and these are these things. You cannot use the auction house, uh characters that are in miss a pandaria remix. You cannot pick up professions. The area of play is only limited to pandaria uh. If you do manage to get somewhere else, you will be teleported back within a few seconds. Apparently, you cannot use heirlooms in a time walking characters on a time walking character. You cannot mail Time Runner characters to Dragonflight characters, so this will be on your server. So, for my example, I am on Darkmoonfair EU. My Darkmoonfair characters in Dragonflight cannot mail something to my Mists of Pandaria Time Running character and vice versa versa.
Speaker 1:
Because it just makes sense time running characters at the end of the remix will be converted into a regular dragonflight slash war within character and all the gear will be replaced with regular gear appropriate to their character level. So if you're a level 30, when you come out of it you'll be given, you know, the basic level 30 adventuring gear. If you come out level 70 max level, I'll be very intrigued to see what you come out as like level or gear wise, but hopefully it's nothing too crazy. I would hope that it's decent enough, though. I would really hope that it's decent enough. Uh, grouping, uh, time runners will be permanently phased from dragonflight characters and cannot do activities activities together or even group together. However, time runners can join regular dragonflight guilds. That way, you can enjoy talking to your guilds when playing both Dragonflight and the Remix, which is really really good and makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1:
Now, I've spent a fair bit of time on this already, even though it's been out for a day, just to get as much information that I can, and I think that it is very, very good. So, firstly, we have 94 days as of this episode coming out, remaining on the event, so this will take us into oh god, what is that? August, yeah, end of august, which is really really good. I think that having a three month sort of time scale, uh, time scale, yeah, time scale. Um, for this sort of thing is really good. It gives people a. They're not panicking because they have no idea when it will end and they're not rushing because they know that it will be up for a while yet, which is really good.
Speaker 1:
Now the leveling and stuff. People thought it was going to be mr pandaria and you get the mr pandaria spells and stuff. People thought it was going to be Mr Pandaria and you get the Mr Pandaria spells and stuff. That is not the case. It is pure dragonflight talents, spells and everything. You're just leveling in Pandaria. That's it.
Speaker 1:
Now what you do get is something called a cloak of infinite potential and you will never unequip this cloak. And essentially, what you do with this cloak is nothing. It will automatically upgrade when you loot stuff. So when you loot stuff, mobs in Pandaria have a chance to drop items. These items do not go into your bag, they simply go immediately onto the cloak. These items can include anything from a leech like buff to an xp buff now and everything in between. So, haste mastery, uh, dodge, you know all of that stuff. Um, actually probably not dodge. I don't think dodge is there. Um, you know all of the other stuff in between essentially what this cloak does is it will keep the stats forever and it is an infinite potential. What it means by infinite, it really does mean infinite. So there will be people by the end of this remix, on the last day, who have a cloak that give them an extra 10 000 percent xp, let's say, because it's infinite potential. Blizzard have stated that.
Speaker 1:
So when you do one simple quest, you go up about 10 levels. How amazing would that be? That's going to be amazing. What this makes it easier to do is level alts. So if you do manage to get a really good potential cloak or, like you, level up your cloak on your main and you want another mage, let's say in Dragonflight, what you can do is hop on Mists of Pandaria Remix and power level it almost to level 70 using your Cloak of Infinite Possibility or Potential, because they transfer over I believe a certain part of them do, which is really really good. So once you earn the cloak on one character, subsequent characters will have the option to skip this introduction quest line, automatically earning their cloak and access to the rest of Pandaria. Time-walking characters are locked to a special version of Pandaria continent and cannot leave no teleportation. Yeah, yeah, all of that. It's really really cool.
Speaker 1:
Essentially, yeah, you can boost your characters super quickly and if you are wanting two rogues or two demon hunters, two warriors, two mages, you know, whatever it is you want, this is the best way to do it. But the thing is you have to do the ruling task of leveling a first character and getting that cloak up to its original or best potential, essentially, um. So we won't see much of super fast leveling until very late on in this sort of event type thing. Um, but there is that possibility there of speed running leveling. Essentially. So what you can get is different kinds of bronze or different amounts. So you can get these caches. You can get a minor cache, a lesser, a bronze cache and a greater bronze cache. All of them have different amounts of bronze in them. The miner has 200 lesser has 400, 600 for the bronze cash and then 1k for the greater bronze cash. Now you can go to any sort of infinite bazaar and what they will do is have the items on hand. So it's there's no point. Going there.
Speaker 1:
Early is a set is essentially what I will say. Um, but the way that the going back to the cloak now, the way that it works is adding a thread is what the things that you are looting, called uh, which increase your mastery, and all of that stuff will increase your cloak stats permanently. These are several types of threads, from primary stat to secondary stat, to stamina and even experience increases. You will also receive better threads as you level up. So from level 1 to 29, you get common threads which add one to your cloak, one stat to your cloak. 30 to 49 will add three stats, 50 to 64 will add seven, and 65 to 70 will add 12.
Speaker 1:
Now there are so so many like achievements essentially. So there are several achievements for collecting threads and adding them to your cloak of infinite potential. You'll unlock several Pandaren cloak transmogs as your cloak becomes more powerful, and each achievement allows subsequent alts to start their WoW Remix journey with some of the power you've collected from your cloaks, making leveling a lot easier. So there are in total 12 of these achievements. They are all the same. It is infinite power one, infinite power two, all the way up to infinite power 12. This is collect 40 threads.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so you loot 40 of these threads. That's how you achieve the first achievement. You achieve the first achievement. The last achievement is collect 4,200 threads of your cloak of infinite potential. Put this into perspective. We'll round it down to 4,000. If you find about 3,500 of these threads at max level, you are adding 12 stats to your cloak each time. Now, whatever it might be, but we'll say for this purpose, uh, xp, yes, it will be a 12 xp increase if you were to add 3 500 of these threads like it would be crazy. So I'm going to try and do quick maths in my head. You want 3,500 times 12. Now, don't get me wrong, but I think that's about God. I'm just going to do times 10 because it's a lot easier. 35,000% XP increase that seems pretty good, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:
You also, for doing this, you get a toy reward, essentially. And what the toy reward is? Um, the legendary cloaks that were in pandaria. They had a animation and these animations were based off of the celestial that you picked for your cloak. So the ox was a Tanging Cloak, eulon was a Healer and the other two were DPS or something, if I'm not mistaken. But essentially, you can don the. What are they called? The Aspects? I think they're the Aspects, I can't remember. No, the Celestials. You can don their wings. So it is occasionally. Don the wings of Zwen over the next eight hours. So, over the next eight hours, you'll get these like sort of cool-looking, almost blue wings for the kindness of Chi-Chi. You get these like cool phoenix-looking wings almost the Essence of Eulon toy. You get these like cool phoenix looking wings almost the essence of eulon toy. You get these green wings and the uh, black ox celestial. You get this ox head behind you. Essentially, it's a really cool toy, definitely worth it, and it made these cloaks very unique when you first got them back in missa pandaria, um, so this is a cool little nod to that.
Speaker 1:
Now, the most fun part that I've been enjoying about Mists of Pandaria Remix is the gems. As you're leveling, you'll obviously get gear, and this gear will always have a socket, and what sockets do is many different things. They basically empower your character, though is what it comes down to Now. There are three types of sockets. You have a meta gem gem, which is a usual in world of warcraft. You have cogwheel gems, and you have the standard prismatic gem. Um, no, wait, you have tinker gems as well. Oh my god, there's so many. So the tinker gems are primarily a speed. No, tinker gems are a dps increase, or healing increase, or uh tanking like benefits, or you know many different things like that. The cogwheel gem is your uh mobility gem and your meta gem is your damage gem. So, or like your big dps gem. So I'm going to give a couple of examples here for a meta gem.
Speaker 1:
You will only ever have one of these gems, so for this one, for example, bulwark of the black ox channel the bulwark of the black ox, for 10 seconds, charge an enemy, removing all stuns and roots, gain a shield absorbing damage and taunts enemies within 20 yards. Every one second inflicts physical damage to enemies within 20 yards, plus 20 of damage taken by the shield. So this is a tank gem like right, because it taunts everything, it gives you a shield, it gives everything you know damage increase, damage reduction, all that stuff. If you are to look at this one down here, which is obviously you can't see but something like thundering orb, transform into a thundering orb. How cool is that? You're just a fucking floating orb Inflicting nature damage to enemies within 30 yards over four seconds. While you are a thundering orb, damage taken is reduced by 50%, movement speed is reduced by 70% and you're immune to all loss of control effects, which is really cool. Now, this might not be the best one, but it sounds really cool. Just being a little like thundering floating orb, it does sound really cool.
Speaker 1:
You have something called Oblivion Sphere, a coalescent orb of pure void that increases damage taken by enemies within 15 yards by 15% for 10 seconds. After 4 seconds, the orb explodes, inflicting shadow damage and stunning enemies for 10 seconds. After 4 seconds, the orb explodes, inflicting shadow damage and stunning enemies for 1 second. Again, just another DPS one. If you're looking for a sort of healing one, what you're looking for is, like ward of salvation Restore health to an ally and grant them a ward of salvation for 10 seconds, absorbing damage equal to the over healing. While warder salvation persists, all healing taken grants absorb instead of healing. When the ward uh expires, it explodes, inflicting holy damage equal to the remaining absorb of all enemies with 40 yards split evenly. So this is a healing uh sort of damage dealing ability.
Speaker 1:
This is can you stack up the biggest shield imaginable on your tank for it to just detonate and one-shot everything? You can? Amazing discs priests go crazy with this. You will enjoy this one, um, because essentially all your healing is transformed into a shield. But you know, you know Dispreys basically just have Rapture. So you just spam shield even more and you know it becomes even more tankier and stuff, or you just pump a massive cooldown into it. You know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1:
But there are many different, like meta gems that you can use and honestly it's about playing around with them. The Cogwheel gems are your sort of movement ability gems. You have very common ones, which is stuff like spirit walkers, grace for shamans. You have wild charge for from druids, stampeding roar from druids. You can get leap of faith, disengage, spring roll, blink, heroic leap um. Pursuit of justice, which is a bit of a weird one, um, but you can get a few ones that are a bit different. So even though these are movement ability, they're classed as movement ability.
Speaker 1:
You can get stuff like vanish so allows you to just vanish out of sight and, you know, be very safe. You can get dark pact, which is really really weird. You can get soul shape and Dora shadows, which are old Shadowlands covenant abilities, shadows, which are old Shadowlands Covenant abilities. These are really fun to play with because we don't see them in the game now that we aren't in Shadowlands. So it's nice and fun to have them, but it's very much dependent on what you want. Again, you can only have one cogwheel ability, so make sure that you pick wisely and kind of make it that it fits your class. Like soul shape will fit most classes. Dark pack might be good for the tank, like role I'm not gonna lie for tank, as dark pack probably seems like the best choice.
Speaker 1:
Um, vanish for, obviously, those extra rogues. Um, I'm wondering if you already know vanish, okay, it keeps you in stealth for 10 seconds If you are a non like stealth user, essentially, or like a, not a rogue or a druid or something where you can just go and stealth after. So it is a 10 second vanish. Essentially you aren't permanently in stealth or every class has a stealth, that's all it is. But these are really fun and you'd have to experiment to see which one feels right for your class. Essentially now the tinker gems are very much dps's increase, but there are some that are a bit different. So you have uh unk, which is where it will return you to life, kind of like a cheap death. Um, it is a two minute cooldown which is really, really good. But you have loads of different things like this one I actually am playing around with at the moment brittle, your abilities, apply brittle to enemies, occurring 10 of damage you deal.
Speaker 1:
When brittle enemy is slain, it explodes, inflicting frost damage to enemies within 12 yards. So you can have a chain reaction essentially with this. If you're constantly pulling more and more mobs and you know your brittle explodes and then that deals more damage to more mobs, so you know that accumulates more damage, you know and that sort of thing, and then they explode. It's really, really cool. You have stuff like deliverance. Seven percent of healing is collected as deliverance. If an ally is below 50 of health after receiving a heal from you, deliverance will be consumed to heal up to three nearby allies within 50 yards of the amount consumed divided equally.
Speaker 1:
This is a healing like sort of what are they? Gem, and there's just absolutely loads. There is way too many to like, go over, and I know that there's loads because about a third of my bag is just full of these like things. They drop like sweets or like candy or however you want to pronounce it. You know it's absolutely incredible to see how quickly these things drop, but play around with them. There's loads that deal loads of fire damage. There's shields, there's a fire shield, frost shield that you can get many different things that you can do. And then you obviously have the usual gems that you have haste gem, like what is it? Crit gem, mastery gem, versatility gem, armor, health, speed and leech.
Speaker 1:
Now you get a green version of this and when you get a green version you can turn three of the green versions into a rare version, three of the rare versions into an epic and then three of the epic into a legendary, and the legendary will obviously just have more crit, but it will also give you stamina. And no matter what, whenever you get a legendary of the like mastery one, we'll say it will give you stamina. That's the same with crit it will give you stamina. If you get a legendary of the like mastery one will say it will give you stamina. That's the same with crit it will give you stamina if you get a legendary version of it. So it'll be crit and stamina, hasten stamina, um, versatility, stamina, etc. Etc. So if you get it to legendary quality, it will always have a little bit of stamina on it, which is really really nice.
Speaker 1:
Apart from that, there isn't much to say about mr pandaria remix. It is something that people will be experimenting with and finding out more about it, but I think that is we're like really good to do. If you are a collector of transmogs or if you're just someone who's very curious about how mr pandaria actually played and you can see the sort of lands of Mists of Pandaria being played out, with a lot of people running around and doing questing and stuff like that, and the dungeons. The scenarios are something that I think people definitely forgotten about. Scenarios are three person or three people instances. Um, you didn't need any sort of tank, healer or group combination. You could just be three dps, three tanks, three healers, stuff like that. Um, and these were short scenarios that just further furthered the storyline of that zone, which is really really cool, or it's just a standalone event.
Speaker 1:
One of the best scenarios that I remember is in between the Jade Forest and Kunlai Summit and it's something to do with Vol'jin. I'm not going to spoil it, but it was really really good and I think that a lot of people didn't even know that this was in the game. So I think a lot of people will enjoy the scenarios and enjoy the dungeons. I definitely think it's worth having a look, because a lot of the Mists of Pand and enjoy the dungeons. I definitely think it's worth having a look, because a lot of the Mists of Pandaria sets are really really cool and all of these sets have different color variations that weren't in the game to begin with. This includes mount color variations. They have put them in for Mists of Pandaria remix so that people can earn them, like during this time, which is really really cool and something that I think should be done a lot more often after an expansion has been finished. Essentially, they should add some of these color variations somehow into the game, in my opinion.
Speaker 1:
But that is where we will end it for this episode. Thank you all very much for listening. Do check out all of the socials down below constant stuff happening over there. But thank you all very much once again and go with val a friend. Goodbye, thank you.
