The present Mists of Pandaria: Remix discourse centres around a humble frog that spawned a week-and-a-bit long saga filled with cloaks bestowing god-like power and hopping-mad players who missed the boat. Possibly appropriate for a time-travelling event like this, Blizzard has now attempted to turn back the clock.
In case the sentence «bronze farmers mass-slaughtered Gulp Frogs for hours to buff their cloak to god-killing levels» makes your head-spin, here's a rundown: Earlier this month, WoW's Mists of Pandaria: Remix launched, allowing players to make a timerunning alt equipped with a Cloak of Infinite potential.
This cloak, alongside a set of gems that can be slotted into gear, lets players ramp up their bug numbers to heinous levels—the caveat being that once the event finishes in about three months, it all goes away. You get to keep the character as a max-level alt, though, which is nice, and you can also purchase account-wide transmog with the event-specific currency, bronze. All in all, it's a neat little romp through a beloved expansion that replaces the levelling experience—win-win, right?
Well, actually, because this is World of Warcraft, there are still winners and losers. Players were able to force Gulp Frogs, an enemy found in the TImeless Isle, to «hyperspawn»—allowing them to accrue power at unforeseen rates. This was subsequently followed by a hotfix that nerfed the frogs, but left their poachers rife with ill-gotten gains. Cue much ado about frog things, with pictures of DPS metres featuring the game's new upper crust dealing bajillions of damage pulling numbers on the internet, the basis for a rallying cry of: 'this is unfair, I should be doing bajillions of damage!'
Blizzard's continued to play whack-a-frog with other such farms, but the Gulp Frog controversy was by far the most dramatic. For a time, players believed they'd gotten away with it—until Friday last week when Blizzard announced that they, in fact, had not (thanks WoWhead).
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