wow The New Best MoP Remix Bronze Farm? Alts.

[Starym 3,800]

 

There's been many a hyperspawn in Pandaria, granting players with different amount of Bronze per hour. Everyone's been swarming every new potential spot while Blizzard scrambles to shut them all down as fast as possible. The original hyperspawn sin, the frog farm, even elicited a round of nerfs to a whole lot of people, but it also brought in a specific piece of compensation, which made a certain other farm pretty great.

With all the post-frog changes, it turns out that leveling alts could be the next best Bronze farm, as Blizzard keep shutting every other one down. The biggest change came in the form of three new quests at levels 50, 60 and 70, granting 3,000, 7,000 and 30,000 of the currency. Added to the approximately 30-ish thousand Bronze players gather up through leveling, that comes out to 70,000 Bronze per alt.

But the Bronze quests weren't the only things buffed since the frog apocalypse, as XP gains and level scaling has also been adjusted.

Hotfixes (Source)

• Enemy power scaling, particularly in group content, has been adjusted to be less aggressive. This is particularly applicable in the player level 40 - 70 range, before players have been able to power up their cloak, upgrade their gems, and increase their item level.
• The first-time bonus for queueing each LFR wing will grant a Thread of Experience in addition to the existing Lesser Bronze Cache.
  • Developers’ notes: This should improve LFR as a viable choice for leveling main characters and alts, without players feeling like they need to grind the same LFR wing repeatedly.
• We have added bonus experience to each boss in normal dungeons and scenarios so they are a viable alternative to questing. Bonus experience has also been adding to the last boss of Heroic Scenarios. Heroic dungeon bosses will continue to drop bonus experience.
• For everyone that did not take advantage of the frog farming, we’re providing three additional quests with large Bronze rewards for reaching levels 50, 60, and 70. These quests will become available from Momentus the item upgrader at the Jade Forest Infinite Bazaar. These milestone quests will grant characters an additional 3,000, 7,000, and 30,000 Bronze, respectively.

What this now means is that via regular dungeon spamming (Normal and Heroic), as well as the first-time Look for Raid XP bonuses for each raid, you can get to level 70 pretty quickly, with some players getting it done in around 5 hours! Now sure, these fast leveling times include the cloak XP bonus, but that's relatively easy to get on at least one character, and you probably already have it if you've been playing. The Infinite Growth II, III and IV quests pop up at the Jade Forest Bazaar and are marked on your map with the new purple quest marker, so you can't miss them.

There's nothing particularly special here, it really is just spamming dungeons and running the LFR for the first clear bonuses when the queue pops. You can also do regular quests or the daily quests, as the give a pretty solid chunk of XP, and you can do those while you wait for the LFR queue as well.

So if you're taking 5 hours to level an alt, with a presumed 30K Bronze while leveling and the 40K from quests, that comes in at around 14K an hour. Granted that's nowhere near the 60K an hour from the original frogs, but it's not that extremely far away from the new hyperspawns. Plus it's not infinite boring and you get a bunch of level 70 chars as a bonus!  There probably are a few more hyperspawn farms available that are significantly better, but since those keep popping up and being knocked down by Blizzard, this seems a lot more stable, especially long-term.

Considering leveling alts fast was the primary reason to even play Remix for a lot of players, this is a real win-win. As many players commented, it seems the best way to farm Bronze is... to play MoP Remix as intended!

[Dejo93 1,023]

Now only reduce the cost of gear upgrading and we'll be alright, Blizz

[Pandabuffel 184]

15 hours ago, Dejo93 said:

Now only reduce the cost of gear upgrading and we'll be alright, Blizz

Hmm I don't know. On one side I agree with you that it's very pricey to upgrade your gear and that they definitely should've done this differently. On the other side: I've been doing an average of 2 raids a day, which takes about 1-1,5 hour. By doing only just that I'm now 6 upgrades away from being completely maxxed out. I wouldn't consider less than 2 hours raiding a day 'very hardcore' and it means I still have over 70 days left to farm whatever I want with the maxxed out gear that I have. Don't forget that in retail mode you also wouldn't be in your maxxed out BIS gear after just 2 weeks of hitting max level.

I think the problem is more that there was no warning about how important upgrades are. I have friends who spent all their bronze on cosmetics at level 70 and now have to get the bronze for upgrades much more slower and annoying, some of them even decided to quit over it. I've spent all my bronze so far on upgrades and none on cosmetics, and I now easily clear raids and get 20-30k bronze a day without too much effort. I do hope they decide to fix something for people like you so upgrading would be a lot more tempting, but at this point I also wouldn't mind a compensation if they do decide to lower all upgrade costs 😅

[the9tail 8]

On 5/27/2024 at 4:21 PM, Pandabuffel said:

I wouldn't consider raiding every day 'very hardcore'

Are you sure about that...

[Pandabuffel 184]

7 minutes ago, the9tail said:

Are you sure about that...

Pretty sure. Both HC MsV and HoF can easily be oneshot by any group, let alone the normal difficulties. Kills are done in mere seconds. So I stay with my original opinion that yet, I wouldn't consider raiding every day 'very hardore'. Clearing these 2 raids should take you a little over an hour at max. If we're saying that 1 hour of playing every day is hardcore then oh boy, I have a huge problem....