Early Access is Four Days, Actually and Doubled Bronze Caches in Remix! Saturday WoW News 

Wow Hazel actually getting critical, you know you messed up Blizz.

Well said about the expansion launch dates. The joy of "the big day" is always the best.

3:12 ''get an invite'' cat: that's my que to come in

My biggest gripe with Remix is that alts does not get any rebate on gear upgrade. So each player have one char with gear and a horde of alts that only do dailies with their 360 green gear.

1:30 yes absolutely! Thank you for saying this. I feel like not enough people are thinking this way.

1:38 very well said hazel

The early access is definitely a boost/headstart to player power. An early access player will have their character already at level 80 the minute that a non-early access player enters the war within. So they'll have a headstart on mythic dungeons and all that. Plus, and this is the part that I actually care about, they'll have a headstart on professions, and that's massive because the start of the expansion is always the most lucrative time. And it's a shame too because I want to just enjoy the story of the new expansion rather than no-lifing it to get the earliest possible start on alchemy, so I'll fall behind the no-lifers even if I do start at the same time as them.

7:25 Nice WeakAura, instead of load never, I set the location to "g192, g193" now it loads whenever inside shrine of two moons, in vale of eternal blossoms. You can add other shop locations to it as well so it loads when ever you are at the bronze merchant. g192 - horde side shrine, g193 - alliance side shrine

Early access divides the community, 2 launch dates is a horrendous thing to do as its kinda forcing people to pay out or fall behind. Wrong Blizz

I love Hazel been watching her for years, Wonderful help videos over the years for everything wow. Hazel has been as big a part of my wow journey as the game itself. She has become part of the nostalgia and lore. Its time wow gave made an npc of Hazel. No matter how slow wow became or controversy and peak wow days Hazel has been steadfast! Thank you Hazel for keeping us on the journey ! player since 2008

You actually can get ahead. Nobody ever talks about gold and how valuable everything is in the first few days of the expansion. Four days is an insane head start on professions and gold making which is why I got the epic edition.

Hazel, you keep me hyped and informed in all the best ways. Thank you!!

I still think Draenor had the best pvp gear system

Gone from logging on issues day one. Now charging more for it lol

I love watching Hazel say it's Saturday on a weekday It gives me that relaxed weekend feel for a little while

Thanks Hazel, I've played in and out of wow since OG Vanilla and always have watched your vids. Good job.

Early Access to game is mostly related to what you suspect: undiscovered issues. On top of that, if they spread over time the amount of players doing the same stuff, then they avoid having to allocate enormous computational resources at once. IT resources management and troubleshooting on-the-fly. Money comes with that, naturally

@ 3:16 cat!

Yeah, those affixes, as a Warrior main, the bleed is probably the only thing I would have any advantage on, which seems negligible. It's possible that's the point is the affixes are just an inconvenience so the average player doesn't feel discouraged.

No you do have a leg to stand on because they put the pet in the epic edition as well. And the only reason I got that one was because I wanted the pet, I care not for beta or early four days. (my rule is that I wait one week to start playing a new expansion anyway, because ever since BC that one week has always been full of bug fixes).

I'm not mad, I'm thankful that going forward, I'll be able to mop up the rest of the vendors easier. We knew the state of the rewards would be in flux with it being up in the air how popular this experiment would end up being.

7:40 that's like.. the hardest question to answer ever, one I fight with throughout the entirety of an expansion season to season. Especially since i always have every class, now i have 2 of every class with the remix leveling lolol.

About the focused affix. Imagine Ruby Life Pool with that type of haste. So much stuns, and interupts needed without mobs having a perma BL on them.

Are you farming for the unique weapon appearances in Remix?

thanks for the video! hope your doin' good! ❤👍

It was marketed as *at least 3 days*. I'm kinda glad it ended up being 4 days and not 7 or something lol.

Im slightly heart broken that the Shao Hao rep gain was increased by 700%. My girlfriend and I bonded through playing wow together when we first met each other and I remember spending like 10 hours with her in game to get exalted.

Lets just wait and see, if the numbers of the sales of the epic edition go up by a lot compared to the older expansions, that means the 3 days could be a factor of it, but if its in a margin of the old ones, then it will probably wont be there anymore in midnight.

Your video helped me level up a new 70 every day. I’ve been having a blast.

Thank you for the WA. I'm done with everything, but it's kinda hard to verify in-game because most things at the vendor don't indicate that you've bought it before. So the only way to verify would be to go go through and buy all the items and try to learn them to check if you can or not. This WA is way easier :D

Question Has there been any news regarding changes to past expansions personal loot situation in the open world specifically? With the upcoming "Collect all the mogs on any character (or at least warband bound tokens, etc)" changes do we still have to have an army of alts to farm specific mogs, such as stuff dropping from Zereth Mortis rares etc?

Been farming my main panda to garrosh mythic, bought everything on the vendors, got all the reputations and lvled 16 alts to 70 boosting myself using a trial account booster. Back to retail to gear alts with bullions and farming mythic nyalotha for mount :D

Question - do you happen to know if the reputation we earn in Panda Remix will remain when our toons move to War WIthin? Doing the campaign stuff in Remix I have hit exalted rep and wondering if I should farm rep of other factions/groups before the expansion is here and our toons automatically move. Thanks and love your show!!

Question: I am confused about remix transmog. Is what's on the vendors exactly what drops in the raids in remix or is it only stuff that drops in retail NOT in remix? I.e. should i be buying transmog sets or not haha

great vid as always!!!!!

QUESTION: Can you continue to earn Traders tender after completing the monthly objective in your adventure tab? Want to be able to buy more from the vendor each month, but will not pay real money for it. Maybe Blizzard could change this in the future.

I did pay for the big one, but I will start on Monday night. I have been playing since closed beta in 2004 and I am all in, faults and successes, for launch day.

7:15 most sane wow player ever

My Warrior is going to feel SO SLOW once Remix is over. It's gonna be one hell of a shock.

I have one of every class, and two (or more) of others...like hunters...so it's always REALLY hard to know what to level first.

9:50 Question! Samuelle here again, is the ilvl from remix gonna be carried over when the character is transfered? I saw somewhere that they’ll just give everyone the boosted character armor set 😓

Totally agree about that early release 👍🏻

I agree with you on the paid early access, it might help make the launches smoother though at least. Though, its been a while since I played the actual launch of an expansion, so idk how those have been lately.

Question: Oh mighty Hazel, mysterious mistress of masterful mailbox manipulation, how does leaving loot on the ground work? I know that you will get loot from bosses in your mailbox but what about trash? It seems like trash loot doesn't go into your mailbox. If it did I'd have mail after every raid, which I don't. Inquiring minds want to know!

Hey Hazel what are the chances that the cloak will become a toy or heirloom cloak at the end of REMIX to signify our participation in the event.

As someone who is max ilvl and 150k+ threads on my main in remix, I am happy they made this change. It makes playing alts more fun now, instead of them being insanely behind everyone now.

I always buy the epic edition because the month sub makes the extra $20 worth it anyway, when you factor in the rest of the bonus items. So the early access is just an extra thing that won't matter cause i suck at leveling.

I don't see raid testing available yet on the beta......

As of yesterday my first Timerunner is 476 and i begun spending all bronze on mounts. I have two low level timerunners and i have zero motivation to log into them because i barely have time to alt like i used to. 4 toons is more than enough for me

I have the epic edition which allows me access to the beta and the early access yet I have no plans to go into the beta or play during the early access period either even though I am not in a guild and play the game mostly alone because if I was in a guild with numerous others it wouldn’t be fair for me to be in questing and getting geared up four whole days before the others can. I will however download the game so it’s ready to go on the official opening day for everyone and maybe go in and look around at the new areas to see what they actually look like.

I've been 476 in remix for weeks, because I'm disabled and had a lot of time to play. The side effect was that it discouraged a lot of people in my guild from playing because they felt "behind," especially with the frogger fiasco. I hope this gets them more interested in playing again. :(

I’m unsure how I feel about the affixes. Blizz’s intent is to reduce the amount of extra stuff that can be done by only some classes and make the dungeons feel more uniform, but until we do them, I don’t know whether I’ll like them or not. Even though I bought Epic edition, I’m not a fan of early access.

Glad to see gold is part of warbands. About time

Despite buying every physical collectors edition since Wrath, I've only ever tried to play on day one of an expansion twice - Wrath and Cataclysm. Both times the experience was so painful that I now avoid the game on launch day because I just expect the servers to crash or refuse me entry (although I understand that might not have happened with Dragonflight?). Having a load of players start 4 days early might actually make my experience on "regular" launch day much better - if that is the case I would expect this model to be replicated in future expansions.

I keep hearing the epic edition is offering early access mainly. Something some arent looking at is there is a pet on epic edition too. I have epic edition but dont think it will offer anything over the other editions.

It’s weird how they got rid of 1 free PvP item a week, yet barely gave 10% extra Conquest to compensate.. that’s NOWHERE near enough! 🤨

Hazel's theory about the extra day is almost an extension of my theory about why they did the early access. They know they always have all sorts of issues on launch day. Some are bugs, some are just way too many players being on at once (like how people got stuck in instances on day 1 of Dragonflight because they couldn't load into the main zones). Early access gives them time to put out quick fixes to bugs and helps split the load of players. Obviously there is still a money aspect even in my theory. They could put money towards scaling up the servers for the first few days and then scale them back after that. Given that they can layer servers, it seems that this sort of scaling should be possible. But with the early access method they make more money by spending nothing extra, rather than charging nothing extra and spending more money. Doesn't really bother me though. I would complain about spoilers from people who see the content first but the betas and datamining ensure that spoilers are already out there.

Actually, 2h leveling alts for Bronze is still very strong, because every one of the raid bosses you kill for teh XP tokens also drops a bronze cache, and there are also teh 2 dailies you take along teh way, that adds up to roughly another 15k bronze, so now you´re getting ~90-100 k in teh same 2h you needed before for 75-80 🍻

They sucker you in. The launch day for everyone who doesn't buy the Epic Edition is on a Monday, and I think that's no good -- kina lame to start on a Monday. That's how this works. That's how they do it.

Totally agree it feels gross :) When is the pre-launch event?

I especially love how they released it globally at the same time. And now thos 😅

The big day was also terrible for lag, so maybe breaking it up will help improve the experience.

I Agree with you about the " Pay for early Access" feels dirty to me as well. Love your vids, been watching for years. Keep it Up!

Let’s be real, launch day is the 22nd. But we’re only allowed to experience it if we paid twice as much money. If not, then we have to wait 4 days after launch day to play the game. Since I’m already missing out on launch day I’ll just wait for the real reviews to come in before I buy this xpac

The thing about early access is.. 4 days is plenty to hit 80 and then some. So we'll all be 80doing end game on one character, while everybody else is just starting to level. Kind of an advantage, but then again not, cause you won't have the end game gear ahead of anyone, because access to that starts all together for everyone. But still, a head start on materials needed for this and that.

@7:18 Is there a non-weak aura way to track this? I love the functionality but I have a personal thing against using weak auras(no hate, it's just not for me is all

why not keep the remix cloak? it may be disabled like legendary items.

People complaining about blizzard dirty move of ask for more money for few days of early access but you see the same people right there waiting for it supporting it -.- If just people could say no and not supporting it this wouldn't happen, but sadly is a very profitable business since people always show up to support bad practices

Those 4 new affixes are gonna have weeks where specific trash is going to be brutal i can predict it now. Anytime casters have increased haste the party is always in for a bad time

My biggest fear about early release is that when you log in there are glitches or experience mega lag.

The conquest changes are extremely extremely stupid, In exchange for losing a piece of conquest gear each week we get a single main slot item worth of conquest after 10 weeks.... so we are trading 10 rng pieces for a singular piece 10 weeks in. One of the best things about dragonflight was that gearing was super fast even if you go unlucky worst case scenario you got sockets. Now we are getting less gear, we still have no idea how to get sockets. Pve gear will be pretty important early season with said gear being slowed down, we still don't have a way to get tier other then the catalyst so at minimum you need three charges assuming you use the token you get for hitting 1600 (which still feels awful that I have to choose between pve and pvp along with crafted pieces still being shared)

Im in Beta , and there are a TON of issues right now , like constant dcs and broken quests. i have no doubt it will be fixed , but Beta is unplayable as of now.

Love the videos and respect your opinions. My thought on the early access is the community fault. Everyone wants to play early now. The days of waiting in line or waiting for the context to drop is going away. I loved waiting all night to get a physical copy. But unfortunately the newer generation playing games are impatient

I wonder if the buff will get bigger, which could mean leaving the Bronze Caches un-opened until the buff gets bigger could be a good idea if your just looking to buy the stuff off the vendors? Edit: Question would this be a good idea or do you think it will not work?

Also 4 days for wiggle room because of crazy time-zone differences?

As someone who’s going to miss probably 4 days right after launch the early access means I won’t really be behind

I bought epic edition, but i did it because I wanted the heroic edition for the mount, and $20 more for epic basically pays for itself with the pet, toys, and game time. Which kinda sucks because I’m super against the EA but my purchase doesn’t reflect that.

I thought they did early access for pre-orders before? I did not think this was new.

the new affixes seems like its to shake up the meta but to me it seems like its going to do the complete opposite with pugging like "you play a warlock on the arcane damage week? eat shit nerd"

I agree with you on the early access. It's all about money, the whole game is anymore, not about making a fun game for folks who have played forever and for new folks but greed. It also lets those who do it suss out the best glitches and cheats they can do to get ahead quickly as usual.

Paid early access never bugged me in FFXIV. Though to be fair thats a much less competitive game and since theres no beta its a crashing bugfest during early access so you will get stuck somewhere or be unable to play at all.

I feel gross bc I got the epic addition for the traders tender ;-;

didnt they say that you wouldnt be able to get xp on early acess ? i hope they keep they word on that and that people will not be able to gather materials too or that would be pay 2 win af

Leveling the alts did get slightly better. If you pick up the quests and hand them in when you reach 69 or 70, and all the achievements and "one time a day" rewards from doing dungeons now double. Sure it's not completely doubled, but you might get 5-10k bronze now than what you did before the change. Not huge, but not small either.

all this stuff I wont do until the TWW realeses there are so many perks are then its still 2 months for that release bummer I be playing other games until it released!

it's crazy that people pay to get slapped on the face lol (paying nearly double base price to get to play on release day), most people don't buy it with tokens, but real money. i just wish people resisted these ultra disrespectful ideas, extreme stuff like this where they test how far they can push people's self respect. for me it's not about having enough money to buy it, it's about the principle

I've read the title " Early Access is in four days" and i panicked.

I agree about the early access for people who $$$ being kinda dumb. BUT... there's something way cooler about the fact that you ground out the tokens to do it. THAT makes it respectable, you earned it rather than just pissed away some money to be granted awesomeness. I like it..! And money saved for something else!

360k to go! that's only 3 days worth of dailies and heroic runs lol now

When can we expect a NPC for solo lfr?

I like the 3 days early because it gives me a breathing time to do the story stuff without feeling like I'm being forced to rush them to keep up progress wise. But that is a very niche and specific thing.

Do emojis count as comments?

Just wanted the 30 days gametime the other stuff was just 🤷🏾

Hm. The affixes being targeted by fire/frost and shadow/holy are SO prefering specific classes. I mean mages get an insta invite anyhow. Now it will be like: You CANNOT not take a mage to a M+ (they will literally melt the thrash away in higher keys). That means: druids, monks, warlocks etc. can go home.

Your hair looks good

Remix is not real life is something i struggle with on my 8th remix alt

Between play WoW: War Within and play GW2: Janthir Wilds. I think will be the first time I gonna play GW2.

Gross 3pm pdt = 11pm gmt. Really didn't need to book that day off work

I never paid for early access, they are always over crowded

If they were going to do EA at all they shouldve just given it to anyone who pre-orders.