Blizzard Brought Back Massive Player Power to Legion Remix! Item Levels, Artifact Power, and Uncapped Stats!

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The Legion Remix buffs keep on coming! This week’s PTR dev notes bring big improvements to player power in the mode.

First we have the biggest change, as the final item level cap from the Argus patch will be available right at the start! The infinite artifact trait now also grants a stat buff, with 1% Versatility per rank! Secondary stats also won’t have any caps, making player power gains extremely more potent!

There’s plenty more fixes and upgrades, with many changes to the Heroic world tier. There’s increased affix mob spawns, better loot, longer Obelisk buffs, and much more.


Once again, we’d like to thank all of the PTR testers who played deeply into Legion Remix and then provided feedback to help improve the experience.

Based on the most recent week of testing and feedback, we’ve made several changes which are now available for testing.

Powering Up

Now, all phases up to the Argus Eternal phase will share the Argus Eternal item level cap (iLvl 740). Additionally, each rank of Limits Unbound now grants +1% versatility. Furthermore, all secondary stats granted in Legion Remix now ignore their diminishing returns and hard caps, allowing players to push their stats beyond the 126% limit. Altogether with these changes, we’re testing a significant increase to the maximum power available to players from the beginning of Legion Remix.

Fixes and Updates

As in previous weeks on the PTR, we’ve implemented many bugfixes and tuning adjustments, including:

  • Adjusted the spawn rate of empowered enemies in Heroic World Tier, so that spawns are more balanced across zones and overall, empowered spawns are increased by 33%.
  • Increased the rate of Infinite Power gains at all levels of Infinite Knowledge by 25%.
  • Increased the rate of earning high-rarity Epoch Mementos from Caches of Infinite Treasure, dungeon bosses, and raid bosses.
  • Increased the duration of most Timewarped Obelisk buffs:
    • Offering of the Void duration increased by 30 seconds.
    • Offering of the Pact duration increased by 120 seconds.
    • Offering of the Assassin duration increased by 60 seconds.
    • Offering of Swiftness duration increased by 90 seconds.
  • Fel Trickster’s damage increased by 33%.
  • Reduced the health of quest bosses and rares in Heroic World Tier by up to 40%.
  • Several achievements which were character-specific are now account-wide.

PTR Testing

On the PTR, Bronze Brannbeard now also allows you to experience the height of power available in Legion Remix: Skies of Fire. Talk to him after completing the introductory quests to skip ahead to power levels that would only otherwise be attainable through significant effort.

This PTR test will be available until September 16, so please feel free to log into the PTR, play as much as you like, and then let us know what you think of Legion Remix in this thread.

Thank you very much!

And the full development notes for the week:


Hello testers! Here are the notes for this week’s update to the 11.2.5 PTR:

LEGION REMIX

  • All phases up to the Argus Eternal phase will share the Argus Eternal item level cap (iLvl 740).
  • Each rank of Limits Unbound now grants +1% versatility.
  • All secondary stats granted in Legion Remix now ignore their diminishing returns and hard caps.
  • Adjusted the spawn rate of empowered enemies in Heroic World Tier, so that spawns are more balanced across zones and overall, empowered spawns are increased by 33%.
  • Increased the rate of Infinite Power gains at all levels of Infinite Knowledge by ~25%.
  • Increased the rate of earning high-rarity Epoch Mementos from Caches of Infinite Treasure, dungeon bosses, and raid bosses.
  • Increased the duration of most Timewarped Obelisk buffs:
    • Offering of the Void duration increased by 30 seconds.
    • Offering of the Pact duration increased by 120 seconds.
    • Offering of the Assassin duration increased by 60 seconds.
    • Offering of Swiftness duration increased by 90 seconds.
  • Fel Trickster’s damage increased by 33%.
  • Reduced the health of quest bosses and rares in Heroic World Tier by up to 40%.
  • Several achievements which were character-specific are now account-wide.
  • Implemented numerous bug fixes.
  • Talk to Bronze Brannbeard after completing the introductory quests to skip ahead to power levels attainable through otherwise-significant effort.

ITEMS

  • Mark of the Twilight Oath may now be deleted.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • RECENT ALLIES
    • A setting has been added that allows you to hide your location from Recent Allies. This can be found in Settings > Social.
  • The Move Pad, accessible via Settings > General, now supports Press and Hold functionality. This option can be found in the cog icon dropdown on the Move Pad UI.