World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Remix players went on a frog-killing rampage, Blizzard put a stop to it, and now nobody is happy

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Mists of Pandaria Remix launched late last week, kicking World of Warcraft players back in time to hang out with some chill pandas. Unlike Chromie Time, which lets players pick an expansion to level up in, Remix requires you to roll a new timewalking character who won't be able to leave Pandaria until the end of the event in a few months. During this sojourn, you'll find new ways to earn transmogs, toys and mounts, including some rewards that used to be incredibly hard to unlock. 

It's a fun diversion while we wait for The War Within, but it's also generated a fair share of drama and is proving to be just as divisive as the original expansion. At the heart of this is the much-touted accelerated levelling, the expectation that we'd all have god-like power, and lots of frogs.  

See, one of the unique mechanics introduced in Remix is the Cloak of Infinite Potential. Given to players right at the start, this cloak offers XP and stat buffs that grow as you earn threads—spat out by all sorts of things, from quests to raids. Before launch, players in the PTR were blasting through everything, becoming gods, and then passing that power onto their alts. In the live version, things are a bit more scaled back. 

The cloak doesn't feel as powerful as it once did, partly because most of the advantages it gives you aren't account-wide, meaning your alts will only benefit from some of the work you put in. By running normal raids, for instance, you can end up with a more than 300% increase to XP, as well as stat buffs that make you laughably strong, but no matter what you do, your alt's XP boost will be capped at 100%, and most of the other stats aren't increased at all. There's also not much point in making an alt until you've hit an achievement after gathering thousands of threads. Which probably explains why so many players took advantage of an exploit over the weekend that saw them farming frogs. So. Many. Frogs. 

The frogs of the Timeless Isle net farmers currency like bronze,