WoW's Pandaria Remix feels like it's emerged from an extended Pandaren brew session in the dev room

The WoW expansion Mists of Pandaria, initially released in 2011, built out a faction and region of Azeroth that had been a part of Warcraft since 2003: essentially, boozed-up kung fu pandas. It's definitely one of my favourite expansions purely for the change in tone it brought to the game, and now Blizzard has announced a time-limited event called WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria is under development, and it looks… well, it looks like someone's been on the panda brew.

The remix idea is all part of Blizzard's commitment to «evolving» how it updates WoW, the most recent example of this being the battle royale mode Plunderstorm (which has generally gone down very well with players). Mists of Pandaria remains playable in current WoW and this Remix is a re-jigged version of it which essentially lets players create new characters and zoom through the entire thing at an accelerated rate. But that's just the start.

The levelling is going to be faster, accompanied by new items and a new progression system layered atop it to freshen things up for the veterans. It's going to be easier to acquire precious transmog items and mounts, some of which have fancy new looks, and everything you acquire (including the character) carries over into Dragonflight and future expansion The War Within.

But the whole vibe here can be summed-up as «we know you've all played this before, so we're going to make it actually worth the replay.» Remix will add a bunch of intentionally overpowered gear and gems that will juice-up your character to absurd degrees, the best of which is the Cloak of Infinite Potential (a nod to the legendary cloak you could obtain in the expansion originally), an artifact that upgrades as you play and works across characters: so subsequent runthroughs will be even quicker. Finally, Blizzard's adding a new currency, bronze, which is acquired by sacrificing unwanted items and can be used to buy various Pandaria items that are tough to get. 

It's certainly going to be an