My experience with remix as someone who played 20 hours on PTR, and has finished all collectibles, all achievements and has a fully max geared character + 7 max alts.
I’ll try not to spend too much time on things other people have mentioned as there has already been some fantastic feedback and I hope we see confirmation this feedback was listened to, or the philosophy of blizzards decisions (current and future) are explained so we can continue the discussion.
First of. LOVE the event. love the idea. And like everyone in this thread, this feedback is not to be taken negatively or as complaining, but as THIS is how we can make the game BETTER if you work WITH US in the production stages and actively react to early feedback.
Pre-Release
I think it was marketed poorly at the start, as it was hyped as an event around Season 4, and this got people excited for season 4 Retail, which has been a complete disaster contentwise. This is one of the many overglaring instances of blizzard being very out of touch with its playerbase, and trapped in its own bubble of internal comms and feedback. When PTR came out, quite a lot of the feedback youre seeing in this thread was fed back to the development team on these forums, but again none of it was addressed and none of it was used. This is a very consistent theme in blizzard development and something I hope we can start to change. ( see my post: Feedback: Mop Remix - #3 by Promega-moon-guard ), a lot of which is being mirrored in this thread.
On this note a lot of people who played PTR expressed that their should be a second wave of PTR testing to test end game content so blizzard can work on scaling. This could have avoided such things as having to nerf ward, etc, weeks into the release.
Bronze
-Make it account wide. There’s no reason not to, it’s what we’re moving towards with war bands, if this ever happens again I hope its automatic because of that but it was a huge oversight.
-Make a secondary currency for buying cosmetics. As said by everyone, don’t make us make unfun decisions. Let us enjoy buying things, and upgrading our gear.
-Alt armour upgrades - massive discounts on alts. Why do I have to do it all again. I’ve done it once, now let me have fun on my alts and just enjoy the limited time game mode.
-Increased aquisition from harder raids i.e. mythic SoO, bigger reward pots for “big” achievements i.e. campaign achievements, zone achievements, reps.
FROGS
First of all, did nobody on the design team play MoP? How did they not see this coming. The reaction to it was way too late, it was a better reaction than blizzard have had before to these things (actually reverting, offering rewards to others) but this all could have been avoided with a little more testing, and if not that, react FASTER, and make a public statement. It would have been very easy to come out and say “this is not how we intended this to be used, we’re disabling charm drops from frogs and will be rolling back people who have been grinding it”.
Cosmetics/pets/mounts.
-It took almost 2 weeks from me first asking within the council if World bosses and Raid bosses are capable of dropping mounts in game once I realised I hadn’t seen any drop. This is embarrassingly bad communication from Blizzard, especially considering it was previously mentioned they could - and I guarantee everyone expected that they would.
Now that we know they don’t - WHY? There is no reason they shouldn’t, let us have that little chance they’ll still drop, theres NO REASON not to. Such a pointless and frustrating decision again showing how out of touch they are.
-Pets - where are they? I mean, even just let us buy the wild ones with bronze. Why not? Let us buy the raid drop ones. Did they just forget about pets?
-PLEASE LET ME SEE WHAT ENSEMBLES I OWN ON MY ACCOUNT. I have not done anything more frustrating in this game in a long time than buying ensembles on those vendors. It would only show ones owned on that armour type, and even then half the time it was wrong. PLEASE fix this. ASAP. Literally the worst thing about this event. Also, possibly in the future a discount if parts are already owned?
Cloak
- There is no reason the alt cloak should not be the same as the main cloak once you hit max level. THere is also no need to nerf the xp gain on alts so much at the start.
- Same sort of theme but, let me getting threads on my alts cloak also effect my mains cloak if they’re not going to be the same.
Raids
Loving levelling through raids, I think it would have been a lot better received if we didn’t have the early exploiters able to blast through things for people, and also the weird balance of things like ward, but its fun. Nobody wants them to be particularly hard, just maybe a challenge first time through, and then easier the more upgrades to the point where theyre soloable at max gear. Again, a second round of PTR specifically for raid testing would have solved a lot of this.
Healing
I’ve had a few friends say the want to try healers and since this is such a good way to level alts they want to try it out, but its just a completely irrelevant role in remix. Definitely a balancing thing, difficult one to solve, just unfortunate.
Other Gameplay bits
Please make bronze/threads autoloot. Like the currency in torghast, etc.
Thank God for narcissus making the gem UI usable, hopefully blizz can learn from them.
Skip RP in raids? SoO is so slow compared to the other raids. A faster way to do galakras would be nice.
I’ll probably come back with more thoughts as I keep playing, but that’s it for now. Thanks for the fantastic event and I hope this feedback can help improve it for the next time it (hopefully) comes back around (legion remix when???)
Edit:: one thing I forgot to say, if blizzard are worried about peoples power scaling, I’m at the point now where I am meeting full DR on all stats, so secondary stats no longer upgrade for me at all, this is definitely a good end game point to balance around. The int/stam scaling will continue obviously but it’s definitely the point where i’ve felt “maxed”