WoW: Mists of Pandaria - September 25, 2012 Release Date
Announced yesterday at Blizzcon
New continent
Lvl 90 cap
New Race Pandaren can be Horde or Alliance
New class Monk - Tank, Heals, or Damage
Pet Combat System - Duel your companion pets like pokemon
Challenge mode dungeons
2 new bgs
Edit- You forgot to mention that if you sign a contract saying you will play WoW for 12 months (essentially what ever you normally do subscription wise, but to 12 months) you get Diablo 3 free. So, to recap.
Been done with WoW for a little while now. Stopped before Cata, and then renewed for a 3 month period after Cata to give it a go. This doesn't interest me at all, looks like WoW's lost it's hold on me.
This xpac also had the least cool factor for me. No more illidan, lich king etc.
Even Illidan was meh as far as Lore goes. I'll never understand why they went the direction they did with that. You fight off the Lich King in Azeroth and so the next obvious step is too.... go after... the only guy who can even come close to matching his strength who also hates him? Like both the Alliance and Horde got together and just agreed "And now for something completely, different!"
But I agree. I killed Arthas, that was my goal from WCIII. Lore wise, I've beaten the game I set out to beat.
I still play so i'd buy the next xpac anyways... I always wanted a Monk class. Thats the class I played when I played Everquest so was always hoping for a new Monk class. And Pandas are ####ing cute as ####.
I'm excited that the new talent/skill/spec system will finally bring some balance (read: make my spec competitive) to both PvE and PvP. I've played something of a red-headed stepchild spec at a very high level for a long time, and I'm frankly tired of not being able to compete.
Haha this is so stupid. I don't play WoW, but at least the other expansion packs were cool. This is just lame.
But the WoW fanboys will eat it up. If you told them a month ago the next expansion pack's big hook would be adding kung fu panda, they would've told you Blizzard would never do anything that ######ed.
As far as epic, extremely well done, mind-blowing teasers that we've seen from Blizzard, this one gets a 1/10.
I've logged a few hours playing WOW, but I'd definately call myself a casual player. 3-4 hours on a Saturday morning-type casual. I have one character, and it's been the same guy since 2006, and am only at level 82 or 83.
I bought the last Deathwing expansion, but only played for a month or so. WOW just gets too time consuming for a casual player like me to really do anything.
One of the greatest things for me about WOW was just wandering around in the early stages, questing and hanning out with my buddies.
Before I heard this announcement I thought for sure I'd pick up the next expansion just to try it out. The concept of Mists of Pandaria is lame IMHO. I'm out for sure.
I understand why they need to change the talent system (it just got too unwieldy, it was designed based upon level 60, there's only so much adding on you can do before it stops working), and I even like the introduction of the monk class. But pandas? Wow. I mean, no WoW for me anymore, but its still the best game that's ever been made. Its just outlived its fun factor.
It's the Simpsons syndrome. It was awesome when they played (watched) it. And now it's gone downhill for the past X expansions (seasons).
Cataclysm is one of the best expansions. The 1-60 leveling experience is unmatched by any other game. I would say that the new Badlands is probably the best questing/RPG experience in any MMORPG. In fact, I will go out on a limb and say that Badlands will be better than any questline in TOR, regardless of the voice acting.
The raids and encounters are more intricately designed than ever. PvE balance has never been better. The time commitment has always been there - if you raid, you need to set aside 2-3 nights a week for 2-3 hours at a minimum. Interestingly, there's tons of new progression routes that were never there before (VP from heroics, dungeon finder, TONS of dailies, random BG's), yet, people still complain about not having anything to do.
I will say I'm slightly disappointed with this announcement. I'm very interested in the main WoW storyline, and there's so much that we haven't seen - Sargeras, Azshara and the Emerald Dream being three major loose ends. The fact that we won't get any story progression in this expansion is quite a disappointment to me.
One thing I have noticed is that ex WoW players are the biggest WoW haters of all.
That's like saying the biggest cocaine haters are former addicts =|.
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It's the Simpsons syndrome. It was awesome when they played (watched) it. And now it's gone downhill for the past X expansions (seasons).
It has gone down hill for raiding. The leveling and questing experience has gotten better, but there are only so many toons I want to level before I want incredible end game stuff too.
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Cataclysm is one of the best expansions. The 1-60 leveling experience is unmatched by any other game. I would say that the new Badlands is probably the best questing/RPG experience in any MMORPG. In fact, I will go out on a limb and say that Badlands will be better than any questline in TOR, regardless of the voice acting.
Define best? Did they improve things like questing and interfact? Yeah 100%. But lore wise, raiding wise and PvP wise the same problems remained. Lore was stale and dumb, that pushed people away. Raiding was still overly easy, with nerfs to bosses coming through the pipe within weeks of being dropped, and PvP was still not totally balanced. That never affected me, but I know people that quit over it. Will it be a better leveling experience than TOR? Undoubtedly, but lightsabres will fix all ToR problems early on.
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Originally Posted by Regorium
he raids and encounters are more intricately designed than ever. PvE balance has never been better. The time commitment has always been there - if you raid, you need to set aside 2-3 nights a week for 2-3 hours at a minimum. Interestingly, there's tons of new progression routes that were never there before (VP from heroics, dungeon finder, TONS of dailies, random BG's), yet, people still complain about not having anything to do.
Intricate =/= Good.
The time commitment has gone down as raids get shorter an easier. I'm not pining for 40 mans, but I remember when Karazhan first dropped and you'd need to set aside a few LOOOONG nights to clear it. Now when a raid drops people clear it in a night. Just not hard. Also, dailies are a job. I did not buy WoW to do a job. Game. It's a game.
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Originally Posted by Regorium
I will say I'm slightly disappointed with this announcement. I'm very interested in the main WoW storyline, and there's so much that we haven't seen - Sargeras, Azshara and the Emerald Dream being three major loose ends. The fact that we won't get any story progression in this expansion is quite a disappointment to me.
Just because the expansion isn't directly linked to anything you mentioned does not mean major content patches won't bring them into play. Burning Crusade was supposed to be about Illidan, but you end up getting Kil'Jaeden too.
WoW: Mists of Pandaria - September 25, 2012 Release Date
