World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria announced
Blizzard has just announced the next expansion pack for its World of Warcraft MMO. Titled "Mists of Pandaria," the expansion pack introduces a new continent, and a new monk class. Also, there's pandas.
Blizzard has just announced the next expansion pack for its World of Warcraft MMO. Titled "Mists of Pandaria," this is quite possibly the most colorful addition to the WOW world so far. The expansion pack introduces a new continent, and a new monk class. Also, there's pandas. (Seriously!)
You can expect new challenge mode dungeons, PVE scenarios, and a pet battle system in the expansion. The level cap will also be raised to 90.
The Pandaren race be played as either Alliance or Horde. However, it doesn't happen at character creation. Instead, you'll be able to make your selection after the introductory quest chain. According to WOW Insider, "once the stage has been set and you see where the lines of war have been drawn, you will choose which faction represents your interests best."
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Blizzard has just announced the next expansion pack for its World of Warcraft MMO. Titled "Mists of Pandaria," the expansion pack introduces a new continent, and a new monk class. Also, there's pandas.-
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After watching the video, it looks like the weakest expansion hands down. It seems like they rushed the video together to make sure and hit the Blizzcon deadline.
Like others said, no large villain to fight against? That seems strange to me since that's been the theme with all their other expansions. So basically just a level cap increase, new class we know nothing about, and an asian-inspired continent. The other stuff such as pet battles does absolutely nothing for me. -
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Same thing happened to me with EQ. I remember playing before all the portals and instant-transport stuff came out, and I loved having epic, hours-long journeys across the world with other players, unsure of what we'd find along the way. Once an MMO starts losing that sense of wonder and surprise, it's all downhill from there.
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It's the first time in years that a blizzard trailer has turned me *off* their product. I'm hoping against all odds that their planned re-revamp of the talent system and the monk class itself are super awesome, because I simply have no interest in playing as stupid pandas with no proper endgame goal.
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Brewmaster - Tank spec
Mistweaver - Healer, a healer who can stand up in melee and will let players experience a "new healing style"
Windwalker - Melee DPS
This is not a hero class, and it will start at level 1
The class is very martial-arts based
Lots of monk-only animations, the healer and tanks will have different stances they can stand in, etc ...
Monk Races - All of them except Goblin and Worgens
So basically another overpowered hybrid. -
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The only reference to this I could find was this article from 2007 about a proposed law that would prevent people from using images of pandas in ONE province in China. I'm not even sure the law even passed because there is no mention of it past 2007 and pandas have obviously been used in tons of chinese generated media, including MMO's since that time.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/23/content_7133797.htm
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Bottom line is that it's bullshit. Here's a joystiq article:
[...] In the comments Censorman said, "I've heard China won't allow Pandas to be killed in games." Fanryn responded that "no one has ever found any reference of an actual Chinese law that forbids 'depictions of violence against pandas.'" I decided to investigate and see what I could come with for a reliable resolution to this debate.
I must admit that I also found no law specifically prohibiting violence against pandas in the virtual world. However an entry in China View and several other online publications pointed to proposed legislation in Chendgdu China that would curb exploitative panda imagery. The legislation was prompted by Zhao Bandi's presentation of suggestive panda-inspired stylings made waves during China's fashion week.
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Does anyone else feel like this is all a part of grand plan to move WoW into consoles? Esepcially the part about the talents moving to only 1 new one every 15 levels? I think it's all headed toward simplicity of being able to play it from a couch with a controller. It could open up whole new stream of revenue to Blizzard .
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They seemed to imply that the talents will be active spells not passives. Everything in WoW is moving toward simplification. I wonder if they plan to stem the tide of PC unsubscribers with new subscriptions on consoles. Didn't Blizz hire a bunch of console people recently? I don't know, just a hunch.
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Let's entertain your idea for a moment.
Why would Microsoft want people paying $15 to play WoW on the Xbox360 when it would -
A) Generates little income for them
B) People playing MMO's generally invest heavily in them and don't play a lot of other games. The whole Xbox model is getting people to buy discs, dlc and xbla titles on a regular basis.
C) Bypasses their current model for games that are heavily reliant on patching. Say goodbye to hotfixes and semi-regular content updates. If MS did allow this exception then others would expect it and now everyone is updating their game constantly which the MS approval process can't bear the weight of (they have to approve every patch/title).
D) Hardrive only titles
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For me its the entire asian-themed look of the expansion. its just so overplayed and does literally nothing for me. all of the screenshots and videos of the world look so bland and uninspired. I guess its because its not new or unique and is just a rehash of existing historical architecture.
You could say the same about the Ye Old England look of original WoW, but thats just a universally accepted trope of a fantasy setting.
This just looks so blah to me as a setting to explore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Oj_O6yZgorQ
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Lol. Pokémon Finally Comes to World of Warcraft, and No One is Safe http://kotaku.com/5852284/pokemon-finally-comes-to-world-of-warcraft-and-no-one-is-safe
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WoW also has Nazis (in Uldum) and Cancer ( http://www.wowhead.com/item=67355 )
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