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BlizzCon 2011: World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria announced
Posted: 22.10.2011 00:39 by JonahFalcon Comments: 22
Blizzard has announced the fourth major expansion for World of Warcraft at BlizzCon 2011.


The expansion is called Mists of Pandaria, and according to the announcement trailer, will have the following new features:

* New talent system
* Pandaren race
* Pandaria region
* Monk class
* Level cap raised to 90
* Dungeon challenge mode
* PVE Scenarios
* Pet Battle System

Check out the announcement trailer below:

Comments

By devel (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
devel
AWSOMENESS!
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
JonahFalcon
Apparently, those pet battles will be like Pokemon. lol
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Oct 22, 2011
unsilviu
Yep, they'll even be trade-able, and you can capture wild pets XD
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
nocutius
I don't play this game but i have to say I don't like the Kung-fu Panda at all. It almost has an effect of a commercial, somehow it doesn't quite fit within the rest of the content. And of course they are Chinese as well, a Chinese Kung-fu panda how very original.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
SirRoderick
...I never liked WoW, but this one is just...wow.

Kung-fu pandas? Literally?!
By devel (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
devel
Pandarens exists even before WOW was launched, its not new. not at all.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
SirRoderick
I know...its just....kung-fu pandas!
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
JonahFalcon
Just so you know, today is October 22, not April 1. :D
By devel (SI Elite) on Oct 22, 2011
devel
"The pandaren started as a creation of the Blizzard artist Samwise Didier and an April Fool's joke, but they got a massive response from Warcraft fans. In the first BlizzCast episode launched on Jan. 10, 2008, Samwise recalled the process to the creation of the Pandaren April Fool's page: "But so we put that up in there and everyone was like “Oh my God! A PANDA RACE? That’s kind of cool!” And I’m like “Are you kidding me, really? You want to see pandas in Warcraft III or whatever?”" Soon, they were included in the Warcraft III expansion and Chris Metzen began to write them into the game lore. Due to this popularity, pandaren were rumored to be the new playable Alliance race to be introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion." in http://www.wowwiki.com/Pandaren
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Oct 24, 2011
herodotus
I'll bet they end up as tradeable items (or ones to sell and buy) just as with "TF2" hats, may they burn forever in hell.
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Oct 23, 2011
unsilviu
@devel wowwiki is old, I think wowpedia is where most wowwikians went :P
And yeah, they just said in the Lore Q&A that the pandaren were far from being a one-dimensional joke race, that they'll have a lot of complexities and that they'll ultimately be the solution to ending the Alliance-Horde war.
By the way, my understanding is that while players will be enjoying sunshine and bunnies in Pandaria, all-out war will erupt in Azeroth.
By sw33tsp0t1 (SI Veteran Newbie) on Oct 23, 2011
sw33tsp0t1
wow thats dumb, I expected even if there WAS another wow expansion, for it to be much better than this...

I wonder if horde AND alliance will have access to the new race? or perhaps horde gets another race while alliance gets the pandas.

idk, seems really off-balance in WoW.
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Oct 23, 2011
unsilviu
Both factions have access to the new race.
By noobst3R (SI Core) on Oct 23, 2011
noobst3R
World of Warcraft: Kungfu Panda
By devel (SI Elite) on Oct 23, 2011
devel
It should be Kungfu Wow panda, not the other way around .\
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Oct 24, 2011
herodotus
I look forward to the fifth expansion pack: "WoW: Realms of F2P".
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Oct 24, 2011
nocutius
Hahaha, good one :)
I wonder if it will ever go f2p or will they simply launch a new game instead. WoW is getting quite old by now, people will want something new sooner or later.
By SiyaenSokol (SI Elite) on Oct 24, 2011
SiyaenSokol
I have to agree. I love Blizzard, and I love the Warcraft games, but it is time to make a change.

I know that BLizzard is busy with Project Titan, but that might take a while before it is launched.
By SiyaenSokol (SI Elite) on Oct 24, 2011
SiyaenSokol
Then again, I understand that WoW still needs to compete with games like the uprising Guild Wars 2.
By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Oct 24, 2011
JustCommunication
Yeah, not really impressed by this new expansion. I get that it was a joke, and a joke that a fair number of the fans actually though might have been a cool idea, but I'm surprised they really didn't have anything better to do than indulge the community on this one.
By emperor345 (SI Member) on Oct 24, 2011
emperor345
this is intresting but Wow is geting old i bet that all the Wow player's gona go over to star wars the old republic sowner or later
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Oct 24, 2011
SirRoderick
Considering that the two games are very different, and not just in setting but also design philosophy, I wouldn't say that.