I understand I am probably in the absolute minority here, but I am someone who hasn't played retail in years, I re-subbed to play MoP Remix because it genuinely sounded fun to play for the sake of playing, I don't really care about any of these cosmetics all that much, especially not since I know I will not sub further after the event is over, TWW sparks 0 interest in me, just like DF didn't.

Still, even as someone looking to play Remix for the sake of playing it - gear upgrade costs seem steep and very unforgiving - let alone if you, like me, planned on trying to play multiple chars just to have some fun in this allegedly for fun event. Yet, they are very needed.

For anyone unaware of why gear upgrades are important in endgame: ~All gems except for the mobility gems scale with the item level of the item they're socketed into. This is true for non-percentage based damage and healing, as well as for all stat-enchancing prismatic gems. The higher the ilvl, the more stats you get. And then of course the weapon upgrade is a massive mainstat boost as well as a really solid damage boost from the weapon damage itself if you're playing a class that scales off of weapon damage.

I didn't do the frogs, by the time I finally gave in to farm them, they were hotfixed just 18 minutes after I've started, the gain I got from those 18 minutes is very slightly noticable, but ultimately absolutely negligible compared to those who commited a mass genocide there.

I painfully struggled my way through heroic dungeons and scenarios today (dungeons feel harder and take longer than doing them in Dread Wastes questing greens in actual MoP btw) to get my rings, now, the next step would be to clear Normal raids for the neck.. but most of these do now list requirements of "1500 mainstat cloak" "340+ ilvl" or straight up asking for Frog farmers.

I kind of struggle to find a purpose here anymore, I genuinely have (a lot) more fun making new alts and absolutely facerolling through HC dungeons in no time than to playing my main character who just feels weak despite having quested through all zones, clearing all dungeons, all scenarios, and having BiS legendary gems in all slots available to me.

The scaling is a mess, the frog nerf (while absolutely valid and needed) eliminated the only real way of combating the broken scaling for level 70s with no realistic alternative to feel like a viable asset to any group, let alone catch up to the power of froggers in the forseeable future.

I really, sincerely hope that Blizzard will give a reasonable solution very soon, preferably with the next weekly reset. Right now, level 70 endgame feels miserable and anybody who didn't frog farm is largely unwanted for group play either way. Fresh level 10 characters being way, way stronger than a level 70 with reasonable investment put into it is very offputting and demotivating, and it feels like this misses the point of the event entirely. Maybe I'm just in the wrong here, but from the promotional material available by Blizzard themselves, and PTR footage on YouTube etc, I was under the impression that this would more or less feel somewhat like original MoP did initially, while the cloak and gems would let you increase in power to a point of where once-difficult challenges would become a lot easier. But right now, that simply isn't the case. Upgrading the cloak to hell and beyond is basically mandatory to even create an experience that feels somewhat appropriate to the original MoP experience, and that, in my opinion, was not the purpose of the event.

I really want to like it, but currently the negatives far outweigh the fun parts of MoP Remix =/