It's happened again—WoW Legion: Remix players have had their demi-godhood taken away after grinding elites for several hours, and at least I don't have to talk about gulp frogs this time

Illidan from World of Warcraft stands ready for battle, warglaives in hand, as infernal golems stomp in the background. — (Image credit: Blizzard)

In WoW: Mists of Pandaria Remix, players discovered ways to turbocharge their progression through its theoretically infinitely-scaling power system by killing lots and lots of gulp frogs, then had their ill-gotten gains nerfed. Now, in WoW: Legion Remix, players have discovered ways to turbocharge their progression through its—you get the point.

In case you're unfamiliar with the concept of Remix, it's a limited-time event wherein players can create characters and go on a romp through a past expansion, courtesy of the Infinite Dragonflight. In Legion remix, players are able to amp up their artefact weapons with Infinite Power through a variety of means.

Blizzard's stepped in to sort this out, per a post to the Legion Remix forums: "Due to an oversight in our loot table setup, some activities—particularly elite farming, herb gathering, and mining—were unintentionally yielding far more Infinite Power than intended," writes community manager Linxy, "Which led to a small subset of characters accumulating Infinite Power well beyond our intended thresholds.

"Elite farming, mining, and herb gathering are valid gameplay choices, however, we’ve made the following adjustments to restore balance to the system and ensure a healthy game economy moving forward."

Those adjustments mainly include lowering the infinite power gains from those activities—but also setting the record straight, nerf-batting those who'd gotten miles ahead of and resetting them back to a measly 10 million. Which, to be clear, is still a lot.

Remix is designed to primarily be a bit of silly fun—and incentivising folks to hit up the Isle of Watchers for hours on end just to stay on-level with the demigods doesn't exactly strike me as, well, silly or fun. This whole situation is absolutely Blizzard's fault, sure, but there's not really a world in which it's incentivised to let it lie, either.

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Harvey's history with games started when he first begged his parents for a World of Warcraft subscription aged 12, though he's since been cursed with Final Fantasy 14-brain and a huge crush on G'raha Tia. He made his start as a freelancer, writing for websites like Techradar, The Escapist, Dicebreaker, The Gamer, Into the Spine—and of course, PC Gamer. He'll sink his teeth into anything that looks interesting, though he has a soft spot for RPGs, soulslikes, roguelikes, deckbuilders, MMOs, and weird indie titles. He also plays a shelf load of TTRPGs in his offline time. Don't ask him what his favourite system is, he has too many.

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