WoW Might Make Leveling A New Character Fun Again With Mists Of Pandaria Remix Event

Hot off the heels of World of Warcraft's surprise Plunderstorm event, Blizzard has revealed it had another, PvE-focused ace up its sleeve: WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria.

WoW's 2012 Mists of Pandaria expansion is still playable in the current version of Blizzard's MMORPG. So what exactly is the WoW Remix version? As revealed by Blizzard, it's a retooled version of the expansion, where players will make new characters and level to the game's current max level at an accelerated rate by playing through the old Mists of Pandaria zones. New items and new power progression systems will make the experience feel new even if it's going through an older expansion. Blizzard as part of the event is making it easier than ever before to acquire various transmog items and mounts, along with some new variants, that will carry over to Dragonflight and the game's upcoming new expansion, The War Within. Characters created for the event will carry forward as well.

One of the big ways WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria differs from playing through the expansion normally is through the introduction of powerful new gear and game-changing gems that dramatically increase a character's power, like the Wildfire gem, which will give all abilities a chance to inflict a spreading damage-over-time fire effect or even the ability of classes other than Mage to use a short-distance teleport. There will additionally be an Artifact cloak that gains power as players play. Progress made on upgrading the cloak will carry over to future characters made for the event, making leveling and progression even faster on subsequent characters.

While WoW players are accustomed to simply vendoring unwanted gear, WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria will feature a way to change unwanted gear into a new currency, Bronze. This currency can then be used to purchase items, cosmetics, and mounts released during the original Mists of Pandaria that may be difficult or nigh impossible to acquire nowadays.

It almost sounds like WoW Classic: Mists of Pandaria or a MoP version of WoW Classic's currently ongoing Season of Discovery, only it exists in the current, retail version of the game. Like those old-school versions of the MMO, WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria won't require players to own the game's latest expansion in order to play, and instead only requires a WoW subscription. Considering leveling new characters in WoW is one of the game's more boring aspects (there's a reason Blizzard sells level boosts that enable players to skip it entirely), WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria sounds like a fun new way to level up new characters ahead of The War Within.

The new twists on Mists of Pandaria will launch alongside the game's 10.2.7 update, which is being billed as the Dragonflight's final chapter that will set the stage for The War Within's release later this year. The patch doesn't have a release date just yet but will come sometime after the launch of Dragonflight Season 4 on April 23.

It's worth noting that the announcement of this remixed version of Mists of Pandaria, WoW's only expansion heavily influenced by Chinese culture, comes after Blizzard and Chinese gaming company Netease reached a new agreement that will see WoW, as well as other Blizzard titles, return to China this summer after being unplayble in the region for the last year and a half.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria is just the latest surprise event added to Blizzard's MMO, with the developer having released a full-blown, limited-time battle royale mode within WoW back in March.