Ive seen a lot of videos telling people how to get their hidden artifact in legion remix but they do not mention one thing…
The artifact is NOT ACCOUNT WIDE so if you are planning to get a recolor with your alt say from having to do pvp then you CANNOT you need to do it with that specific character from remix only. The appearances are account wide but you need to unlock them with the character you originally unlocked the base hidden appearance. SIMPLY MAKE THEM ACCOUNT WIDE FOR THE LOVE OF AZEROTH !
That has always been the case with hidden appearences, it’s not just a Remix thing.
You need to do the requirements for unlocking the recolors on the same char that you have discovered the base hidden appearence on. It’s because they are tied to having the base on a char - aka the item you have to find and learn to get the first version of the hidden appearence, if you don’t have the base then you can’t work toward the recolors, that’s why you can’t work for the requirements on other chars, because they haven’t unlocked the first one.
And the requirements only start counting after you unlock the base, so it doesn’t matter that you have 30 dungeons/200 world quests/1000 kills already on your account, they only start counting after you unlock the first, at which point it doesn’t matter if the requirements are account-wide or not, because you still have to do them after they start being counted.
There is a tiny bonus tho that I am not sure many people are aware of, once you do the requirements for recolors for one of your hidden apperences, you get the recolors for the other 2 hidden appearences as well, even if you don’t have the base versions. You just need to have one to unlock the requirements to work towards. And so you have 1 base version and the recolors for all of them once you do the 30 dung/200 wqs/ 1000 kills, aka 9 recolors in total at the end, the 3 from you first artifact, and 6 from the other two. With only needing to find the bases for the others in the future.
Your title is misleading. The appearences ARE account wide, you just need to work with the char you have the base on to unlock them.
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I said the artifact not the appearance. My goal was to unlock the base version and then unlock the rest in retail but no i guess i need to keep grinding with that character or do the suramar questline up to that point again just because blizzard cant simply make it account wide FOR SOME REASON
Read the title.. I said the title was misleading. I understood the contents of the post, that doesn’t change the fact that the title is misleading.
And how do you propose to unlock the requirements to be done by other characters if the trigger/ key to unlocking is something that you do not have on those characters? The first hidden appearence is the key, that unlocks the requirements to get the recolors.
Grinding what? 30 dungeons, 200 wqs and 1000 kills? You’d still need to do those with a retail char even if the unlock was account wide, what’s the difference? The requirements are still easy af regardless of what character you do them on. After you are done you can use the appearence on any other char of that class. If you already leveled the Remix char just finish the requirements with that, sounds to me like your are overcomplicating yourself by switching chars.
What is your blockage? The pvp kills? Just queue for random epic bgs, you don’t actually have to get the kill shot yourself, assists are counted as kills on the counter for the recolor, you get to 1000 super fast. Or is it the 30 dungeons? It works with heroics and normals too, you don’t need them to be mythics btw as the Balance of Power appearence, I’ve seen people confused about this. Darkheart Thicket is the easiest to farm, it’s the fastest imo - you can skip 3rd boss, killing last is what’s needed for the counter, and you talk to Malf at the end, he gets you right back at the start, rince and repeat 30 times, Maw of Souls works too. The “hardest” one is the 200 wq, because it takes the longest.
Simply make the progression account wide and allow for example all of the same class to see the hidden artifact in their sanctum just like the balance of power ones
I believe it’s more complicated because not all hidden artifacts unlock the same way. Some you just find from drops, some rely on triggers like the mage Woolomancer’s or warlock summoning with Ritual of Doom, that you need more people for.
And to view the sanctum you’d have to unlock the class hall on that char too, as class halls are not account-wide either, yet at least.
It might be so when Legion quests become warbound, but I imagine you’d still have to do some quests to unlock it but with skips in place for alts, like we have now on current campaigns. Even then I am not sure how it would work for hidden ones, since they are not tied to quests but those items you need to find an learn.
The real challenge tho, is unlocking the base of the hidden appearence, the requirements for the recolors after are easy on any char. Instead of waiting around for Blizzard to make it account-wide, if they ever, you’re faster just doing the requirements on the char you found the appearence on.
Theres no reason to be complicated at all. Tts just blizzard not even bothering to look into these subjects. Like the artifact bug for unholy dk was fixed a few days a go and that probably reminded them that youll be able to get the hidden appearances. And yes i know they announced that they would be included in the remix but i dont think they even remembered that some of them were obtained outside of the broken isles. They point is that if you are planning to get the hidden appearance you might as well commit to unlock the other colorations (IF you want them). So now i need to grind with this character after remix ends. They couldnt just put em up for a bit of bronze but the curve mount will be available again during remix. Once again an incredible amount of thinking went into designing the reward system XD
You would have to grind the recolors with the non-remix char as well, even if it were account wide, the requirements for the recolors would be the same on any char - 30 Legion dung/200 wqs/1000 kills. Out of those 3, the first 2 you can do while in Remix, which leaves just the 1000 kills after.
Sounds to me like this is really what you want, in which case just say your gripe is with that from the beginning, because the requirements unlocking account-wide don’t change their “difficulty” at all.
Doing them on the Remix char or another char doesn’t change anything about them, you would still need 30 Legion dung on either, still 200 wqs, still 1000 kills. You would have to do the same thing with whatever char you choose to do it on. And none of those requirements are that difficult to begin with, again, the real and only challenge is finding and unlocking the base hidden appearence, the requirements for the recolors are easy to get after, no matter on what you play.
I mean why aren’t they… They said all non MT artifacts will be in remix and then removed the post as it was a lie lol…
Having RNG on items and or needing 3 ppl… in a limited timed event is just peak Blizzard 
I know what you mean, and I don’t have a problem with them being available for bronze, just saying that dude was going about it in a very roundabout way.
And, to be clear, I don’t have a problem with Blizz making that progression for hidden items account-wide either, I just don’t see it as a priority any time soon, especially since the requirements after you find the hidden artifact are very easy on any char.
I also don’t see the logic in working to get a hidden appearence with say a mage and then switching to another mage just to do those recolor requirements, because even if the progression became account-wide, it would still probably be class locked, you know?
I can answer that lol I skipped Legion to last patch but it seems I did alot with the warrior bar the hidden ones prob didn’t know or care about them at the time.
In remix I levelled all classes to unlock the class hall outfits Which you can’t buy in remix!! and then artifacts. I was running dungeons and WQ as my new druid as I farmed the claws hidden skin before remix for a headstart lol. Notice nothing was counting :S
Not sure if I am understanding you right, you mean with past Legion characters you would have already dungeons done or world quests? If that is what you mean, as I said to the other person, it doesn’t matter what you have done before you get the base hidden appearence, you can’t get a headstart, because the counter only stars after you get the first. The progression becoming account-wide doesn’t change when the counter for the recolors starts.
No re read what I said… Druid on live got the claws hidden before remix for the bear skin… in Remix I rolled bear to unlock the skins of the bear and cat < doesn’t seem to be in the game… but I could use the bear skin but not progress it.
And I’m not sure what its counts as my live Druid doesn’t do Legion content but says I got 110WQ done lol so does current WQ count?
Ok I got it now, you got the claws in Retail and wanted to do the counter things in Remix since you would already be running dungeons and world quests there. You said you were running for the Claws not that you already had them on the Retail char so that’s where it wasn’t clicking for me.
Yes, that’s how it works right now, the looks are account-wide, but you need to continue to do the requirements for the recolors with your retails char, in your case. That’s what I mean when I say I don’t see the point in switching to another char, of the same class no less, you already have progress on one so might as well finish there.
I can answer this, the WQ’s requirement counts all WQ’s you do, no need to just do Legion WQ’S, so you can fill that up doing any world quest anywhere, even in BFA, SL, DF or WW, probably Midnight too soon. Only the 30 dungeons need to be Legion specific.
Ah that’s good to know! Thanks.
Whole idea of not account-wide things is outdated af.
Nowdays everyone have like 60 alts.
I understand non-acc wide in classic, vanilla etc… Up to WotLK.
You’re welcome, and btw the 30 dungeons as a druid are even easier, aside from the faster run, you can pick to do any Legion dungeon you want, since you can use the Dreamwalk at the end to get out, and if you use it again inside the Dreamway it takes you back to the front of the dungeon. Druid was by far the fastest for me to get these on.
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