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.-
Will this be the last WoW expansion?
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Utopia wouldn't say lol at the end; that's more of a gegtik thing
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hahaha
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Nope, they've converted all their cash to bitcoins.
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There's no way for us to know that at this point
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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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^^^^^^ This ...since BC really.
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same, it was all a slow downhill after BC
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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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I wonder if this will stem the flow of people unsubscribing.
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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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wait what?
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This is by far the worst idea Blizzard has come up with since adding a Hero Class..... What a waste of a franchise... Well.... Glad I switched to Rift and quit wow before Cataclysm....
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Also Jack Black called... he wants his royalties...
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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
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It's going to use the launch paladin trees.
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and apparently if you sub a year of WoW you get Diablo III plus a mount for 'free'.
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This is a joke right?
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It's gotta be a joke. There is just no way they are serious about this.
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I think it's true and just one giant troll to hard core raiders, lol.
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pandas in war3?
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There are maybe half a dozen MMOs in China with playable pandas- why would this be different?
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Why do they allow all the other mmos with pandas to exist then?
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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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I'm starting to feel like this is one of those things that people keep perpetuating because they heard it elsewhere. I've never once seen anything substantiating this claim.
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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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I don't man, Arcath sounded like an expert on this....
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It's very weird that there's no big bad guy. Seems like you need a big bad guy!
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Not really, I mean people are always saying how Blizzard's story writing has gotten shitty and was way better in Warcraft 2, which centered mostly around the Orc v Human conflict and less on major external baddies.
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But from this trailer I didn't even get an impression of a conflict at all. No resources to exploit, no enemy to fight, no conflict at all! It basically said "We found China and there are panda people!"
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Yeah, that's definitely true. Hopefully there will be more info coming out later explaining where the conflict is coming from.
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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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the biggest thing they need to figure out is how to map 50 spells onto the controller, not the talents
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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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adding new talent spells will increase the number of spells which is one of the biggest complexities of making this work on a console. but yea they did hire a bunch of console people for diablo 3
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This makes no sense. How the hell would a new talent every 15 levels be in any way more conducive to console play than one every 5 levels?
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Ohhhhhhhh now I get it
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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).
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Where does it say that?
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No, but maybe to appeal more to asia.
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until they really do up normal maps and better lighting, its still gonna look like 2004 with more polycount
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It seriously looks like April fools joke: the expansion edition.
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Will the new race be playable by both sides?
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Yeah, you pick your side at the end of the starter zone.
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a) Totally Awesome Panda Race.
b) Lawnmower.
c) Poop.
d) Grass.
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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.
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you would rather re-grind thru content you've played with a new skin and talents than play new content?
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I was just responding to your comment that you would rather have a new class+race than new 1-60 content
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Actually, redone BC questlines would be nice.
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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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Don't really like asian themed games/stuff. Don't like Pandas. Not really sure about this. That said, it's Blizzard, and I trust them, but I'd personally have wanted something new and from their lore/classes/whatever.
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WoW also has Nazis (in Uldum) and Cancer ( http://www.wowhead.com/item=67355 )
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I think I've figured out the reason for the Pandas: Metzen is on crack.
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I think it would be less embarrassing to be caught fucking a stuffed my little pony then actually buy this
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