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[Ziiro]

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Preview Trailer

The pandas will be playable by both Alliance and Horde.

Features
Level cap raised to 90
New class: Monk
New race: Pandarens
Pve Scenarios
Pet Battle System
New Talents
New continent
Challenge Mode Dungeons

MMO champ has the info

Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

[Niku]

fuck yeah pandas

[Ziiro]

Them being added to both sides just seems lazy to me. Give us more variety, goddamnit.

Also I kind of want to play a non-pandaren monk. Tauren Monk would be kind of cool.

[Niku]

Yeah I actually do not give a shit about pandas themselves even if I want to go and sit on every variation of Kungfupanda that exists on every single server but monks fuck yeah

[Ziiro]

You can only have 50 characters across all servers.

I've tried to do something similar to that

[Niku]

also 11 classes means we need 11 character slots on a server, bli$$

[Ziiro]

Buy your extra character slots now

You buy more per server for $10 a piece.

CALLING IT NOW

[Ziiro]

What is Mists of Pandaria?
The goal is to combine new gameplay with most fun parts of the past.
The plan is to get people back into the world, instead of having players roam around Stormwind and Orgrimmar all the time once they reach max level.
Developers want you to do what you want to do to progress your character. They really want you to feel like you have a menu of content where you can pick whatever you want to do, and you shouldn't feel forced to do something to progress your character. For example, daily quests will reward you with valor points but it will still be faster if you raid of course.
Character builds are going to be entirely revamped. Talents were still too cookie cutter, so the developers want to give players more choices in their talents.

But how can I win the Orgrimmar/Shattrath/Dalaran/Orgrimmar game if nobody is playing

[jsnlxndrlv]

Monks: holy shit, a melee-centric class for tanks, DPS, and healers, yet no auto-attack.

Pretty funny that they make the class available to everybody but the Cata races.

[Norondor]

Developers want you to do what you want to do to progress your character. They really want you to feel like you have a menu of content where you can pick whatever you want to do, and you shouldn't feel forced to do something to progress your character. For example, daily quests will reward you with valor points but it will still be faster if you raid of course.

then they should play another game because WoW isn't and never will be that model.

[Ziiro]

Oh hey, let's check out the racials!

Pandaren Classes: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior
Racial - Epicurean - Increase the stat benefits from food by 100%
Racial - Gourmand - Cooking skill increased by 15.
Racial - Inner Peace - Your rested experience bonus lasts twice as long.
Racial - Bouncy - You take 50% less falling damage.
Racial - Quaking Palm - You touch a secret pressure point on an enemy target, putting it to sleep for 3 sec

Oh good.

PvE Scenarios
PvE Scenarios are a way to give new interesting content that doesn't make sense in a dungeon content.
Scenarios are more about reusing parts of the world in interesting new ways, and introducing new types of PvE gameplay that we've never seen before like PvE battlegrounds.
They are short instances for a few players, the amount of players can vary depending on the scenario, some of them can be for 3 players.
You don't need the typical tank/heal/dps setup, you will just be able to enter and play your role no matter what it is.
It will be a staged experience where you will try to accomplish some greater goal
For example, a scenario might require you to kill 25 kobolds in stage 1, then find and return 4 goldshire children, and then kill the boss.
Developers would like to do PvE battlegrounds, where you will have to slay 50 alliance/horde soldiers, destroy 6 towers and the barracks, and then defeat the enemy General.

Public quests!

[Bal]

Every race except Worgen and Goblin can be Monks, for those that don't care about pandas.

I'm flippin' out, mon.

[Norondor]

bonuses for cooking AND for not playing WoW? they've finally released my ideal race!

[Norondor]

(does this make me a fat furry weeaboo)

[Norondor]

(no you don't have to answer that)

[Ziiro]

Challenge Mode Dungeons
Complete a dungeon in x minutes
To earn Bronze, Silver, Gold medals.
Gear levels are normalized, all your gear will be brought to the same level to make the competition even.
You can't just get better gear to overpower it.
It will reward sweet looking gear with no stats, and valor points!
Challenge Mode will reward you with very unique looking gear to show off how awesome you are to your friends
A new challenge dungeons UI will be added, you will be able to check your medals, your ranking, show what rewards you can unlock, etc

You assholes. Why couldn't this be in Vanilla so we could have done this when LB was at it's prime

[Bal]

There's only one thing that can get us through this. Pull everything and keep cleaving until it's all dead.

[Ziiro]

Achievements
Allow achievements to be shared among all characters on the same Battle.net account, things such as the raid achievements and the ones which are difficult to get.
Allows to include new achievements such as "get all the professions to the maximum level"

FUCK. FUCK THEY DID IT.

I'M GOING BACK. FUCK.

Now if only they would share pets/mounts per account. All of them.

Ranged Weapons
Hunter minimum range is gone!
Hunter melee weapon is gone!
Ranged slot for all other characters are gone.
Relics are gone.
Rogues and warriors can now throw their melee weapon
Wands become main hand weapons

I'm not sure what to think of this.

[jsnlxndrlv]

Did you look at the pet battle system, which works with (almost all) companions currently in the game? Account bound. Wouldn't be surprised if mounts work the same way.

Also: class trainers for new abilities on level up is gone.

[Doom]

This expansion is gonna own.