World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria has unleashed a torrent of gear upon players. From loot cascading from scenario, raid, and dungeon bosses to the boundless treasures within Infinite Caches, gearing up in Pandaria Remix is a unique experience. This Mop Remix Gearing Guide will dissect the most efficient strategies to rapidly enhance your character’s power.
Gearing in WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria presents a distinct and strategic approach compared to the conventional World of Warcraft progression. The system poses a unique challenge with less frequent single-stat item drops combined with a significant upgrade mechanism. How does gearing truly function in WoW Mop Remix? What content yields specific gear types, and is there anything you should reconsider doing with Remix gear? This comprehensive Mop gearing guide will address these questions, ensuring you understand when gear acquisition truly matters, when it’s less critical, and how to optimize your character effectively based on your chosen content path.
WoW Remix Gear Drop Locations
As your character ascends through levels in Mists of Pandaria Remix, the item level of dropped gear naturally escalates. Higher item levels become available at designated level milestones. Upon reaching level 70, the maximum attainable item level from initial drops is 346, at which point the gear’s quality becomes the primary differentiator. Mirroring standard World of Warcraft gear classifications, we encounter common, rare, and epic gear qualities.
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Common gear is a frequent reward from bosses within Looking for Raid (LFR), normal dungeons, scenarios, and as a random bonus when opening Infinite Caches.
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Rare gear is sourced from normal raid bosses and can also drop randomly from bosses in Heroic dungeons and scenarios.
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Epic gear is exclusively obtained from Heroic raid bosses.
Furthermore, all gear types possess a chance to drop from standard enemies and world bosses encountered across Pandaria.
With the maximum item level capped at 346 for initial drops, what distinguishes these gear qualities?
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Common gear is characterized by a single, randomly assigned secondary stat, such as haste or mastery.
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Rare gear enhances upon common gear by including a random secondary stat alongside a baseline level of your character’s primary stat.
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Epic gear elevates rare gear by adding a second random secondary stat, specifically to weapons. Weapons also consistently feature stamina and primary stats like agility. Notably, trinkets, rings, and neck pieces, obtainable solely through achievements, are fixed at item level 342 and also include stamina.
Mist of Pandaria Remix Best Gear
- Cloak of Infinite Potential
Your Cloak of Infinite Potential stands as the cornerstone of your gear. This legendary item amplifies your character’s power beyond any other single piece due to its infinitely upgradable stats. You are introduced to and receive this cloak during the introductory quests for Pandaria Remix on the Timeless Isle. The percentage experience gain granted before level 70 is unfortunately determined by random chance. A significant consideration with the cloak arises at level 70. All subsequent characters (alts) you create will start with a cloak whose experience boost is capped at 100%. Therefore, while your main character may continue to accrue additional XP percentage on their cloak, this offers no benefit to your alts beyond the initial 100%. Beyond the XP boost, another crucial aspect of the cloak is its stat allocation for alts. While alts begin with a 100% XP boost and some base stamina and versatility, all secondary stats are reset to zero.
How to get?
Acquiring and upgrading the Cloak of Infinite Potential is tied to Threads of Time, and its progression is heavily reliant on RNG (Random Number Generation). Threads of Time can drop from virtually any source, including defeating enemies, vanquishing bosses, and opening Infinite Caches. These threads are then used to imbue your cloak with secondary stats, stamina, and additional experience levels.
- Rings, Trinkets & Neck
Your rings, trinkets, and neck slot gear are exclusively obtained through achievement completion.
How to get?
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Ring: Two rings are available: the Timerunner’s Ring and Timerunner’s Seal. The Timerunner’s Ring is your reward for completing all Pandaria scenarios on Heroic difficulty. The Timerunner’s Seal is earned by completing all Pandaria dungeons on Heroic difficulty.
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Trinket: You receive your first trinket, Timerunner’s Idol, upon reaching level 70. The second trinket, Timerunner’s Beacon, requires the completion of the Escalation achievement, which involves finishing 3 action war questlines.
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Neck: The neck piece is obtained by completing the Pandaria Raids achievement, requiring you to clear all Pandaria raids on normal difficulty. A significant advantage of these gear pieces is that they all contain 3 Prismatic gem sockets, allowing for substantial customization of your character’s stats.
- Gems
As you progress and acquire higher item level gear, you will encounter gear with sockets. There are four distinct gem types: Meta, Cogwheel, Tinker, and Prismatic.
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Meta gems are exclusively socketed into helm gear slots. They function as trinket-like abilities with a 3-minute cooldown.
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Cogwheel gems are designated for feet gear slots. Almost all Cogwheel gems provide class-specific movement abilities.
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Tinker gems are socketed into shoulder, wrist, hand, and waist gear slots. These gems grant equip abilities focused on damage dealing, healing, or damage reduction.
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Prismatic gems are versatile, fitting into chest, legs, rings, trinkets, and neck gear slots. They are categorized into four quality levels: chipped, flawed, masterful, and perfect. The stat benefits of Prismatic gems can be amplified by combining three gems of a lower level to create a single gem of the next higher level (e.g., three chipped gems create one flawed gem, three flawed gems create one masterful gem, and so on). Prismatic gems are available for every secondary stat, ranging from Arbor and leech to haste and critical strike.
How to get?
Your initial gear will feature a single socket for Tinker and Stat gems. As you level and obtain higher-level gear, more sockets will appear on your items. At level 70, you will typically have 12 Tinker gem slots and 21 Prismatic gem slots, along with single Meta and Cogwheel gem slots. Additionally, Asynchronized Prismatic gems can be purchased for 200 bronze each. Opening these items rewards a random chip-quality Prismatic gem. A crucial point to remember is that you can freely scrap your gear without losing any socketed gems. When a gem-socketed piece of gear is scrapped, the gems are automatically extracted and placed into your inventory, saving you the step of manually unsocketing each gem.
How to Gear Up in Pandaria Remix?
Now we address a critical consideration: whether or not to upgrade the item level of your gear in Mists of Pandaria Remix. Upgrading gear is remarkably expensive in terms of bronze. For instance, upgrading a single weapon by just one rank can cost 9,000 bronze, and there are 15 ranks beyond the initial 346 item level. Unless Blizzard significantly reduces these costs, standard gear upgrades in WoW MoP Remix are generally not recommended.
Furthermore, upgrading any gear piece beyond item level 346 requires all your equipped gear to be upgraded to the preceding rank. For example, to upgrade a weapon to rank 25 (item level 402), all other gear pieces must be at rank 24 (item level 388). It’s important to note that rings, trinkets, and neck pieces cannot be upgraded. Unless your objective is to engage with higher-difficulty content such as Heroic and Mythic raiding, investing bronze in gear upgrades is largely unnecessary.
However, there is a rewarding loop to consider based on your content aspirations. Heroic and Mythic raids offer significantly increased bronze rewards, as expected. It’s not unusual to acquire over 30,000 bronze from a Mythic Siege of Orgrimmar clear. Upgrading your gear becomes essential for tackling this level of content, but the bronze expenditure on upgrades will be recouped, and often exceeded, by the higher difficulty rewards. Conversely, if your primary focus in Remix is collecting mounts, transmogs, and other cosmetic rewards, it is advisable to conserve your bronze unless Blizzard substantially reduces upgrade costs.
A key advantage to note is that you do not need to worry about upgrading a gear piece and then later finding a superior stat distribution on a new drop for the same slot. Once a gear slot has been upgraded to a certain rank, upgrading any subsequent piece of gear for that same slot will benefit from a 95% discount on each rank upgrade. Pandaria Remix gearing is fundamentally straightforward, with character customization primarily driven by the gems you choose to socket into your gear.
Mists of Pandaria: Remix Gear Vendors
In WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria, gear upgrade vendors are conveniently situated within six Infinite Bazaars across Pandaria. Below are the specific locations where you can locate these vendors:
- Dawn’s Blossom Inn, Jade Forest
- Halfhill, Valley of the Four Winds
- One Keg, Kun-Lai Summit
- Niuzao Temple, Townlong Steppes
- Sunset Brewgarden, Dread Wastes
- Shrine of the Seven Stars (Alliance) or Shrine of the Two Moons (Horde), Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
