Mists of Pandaria

[Azazel]

There's been similar rumours about one type being Horde and the other Alliance though, so I guess we'll just wait and see what happens. Both could end up using the same models and different "skin tone" for their fur colourations.

[SurfD]

There's been similar rumours about one type being Horde and the other Alliance though, so I guess we'll just wait and see what happens. Both could end up using the same models and different "skin tone" for their fur colourations.

Pretty sure the alliance / horde having different looking pandas was shot down by blizzard, who basicly said that everyone rolls a "panda" and at the end of your Newb Zone experience, you simply chose to side with the horde or the alliance (probably depending on some kind of branching path questline).  So no different pandas for horde vs alliance.

[Setanta]

Knowing Blizzard, Horde pandas will probably have horns and Alliance will have floppy pointed ears.

Horde will complain that Alliance have better looking Pandas until they release Pandas with tusks and voodoo markings. Alliance will then sulk and point out that Horde are the beloved of Blizzard.

[Lantyssa]

There is a persistent rumour that the female pandaren will be based on red pandas rather than giant pandas.

Paging Lantyssa...   

Gaaaah.  No.  I'm done with WoW.

[Azazel]

Even if they have playable Red Pandas?

[Lantyssa]

Goblins and Worgen didn't keep me around for Cataclysm.

I might have been gone long enough within a year of release to give a trial a shot, but it's not like I'm a furry who's been dreaming of the day I can walk around as an anthropomorphic red panda.

And if I have GW2 in any form to keep me busy, the chances of even that happening are diminished.

[Ingmar]

it's not like I'm a furry who's been dreaming of the day I can walk around as an anthropomorphic red panda.

/loses bet

[Lantyssa]

[Furiously]

Goblins and Worgen didn't keep me around for Cataclysm.

I might have been gone long enough within a year of release to give a trial a shot, but it's not like I'm a furry who's been dreaming of the day I can walk around as an anthropomorphic red panda.

And if I have GW2 in any form to keep me busy, the chances of even that happening are diminished.

So you're going to play a charr?

[Nevermore]

Yeah, right.  You'll have to pry the Norn from her cold, dead hands. 

[Lantyssa]

Norn and Sylvari.  I'll probably have one of each of the others.

[Sjofn]

humans4life

[Zetor]

Go gnomeAsura or go home. freakin bookahs.

[luckton]

Undead in new armor 

[Paelos]

Oh man this has the potential to be sooooooo very racist.

[luckton]

Oh man this has the potential to be sooooooo very racist.

No way, that's...

[FieryBalrog]

Shitton of new screens.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36143983&postcount=184

[Fordel]

The lady panda is a dwarf?

[Trippy]

[Malakili]

Shitton of new screens.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36143983&postcount=184

There is a time I would've been naive enough to see a mysterious world of adventure in those screenshots.  Now I just see a bunch of generic quest zones.

[Tannhauser]

You can almost smell the pop-culture references coming off those screen shots.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Is that last shot...a tauren?! 

But that shot from scarlet monestary of the new human model, is all kinds of badass.

[Setanta]

Is that last shot...a tauren?! 

Marketing ploy.

a) If all Tauren look like that then people will re-roll Pandas therefore justifying Panderia as an expansion.
b) The forums will all go "ragggghhhh.... looks worse than the seven year old look, make it stop" and Blizzard won't modernise the models to please the community.

[Ingmar]

Is that human model actually different, or are they just indicating there will be Heroic Scarlet Monastery as a high level dungeon this time? Or that they finally gave Herod his second shoulderpad?

[Lakov_Sanite]

That is definitely a new model, if all humans use it I don't know.

[FieryBalrog]

mmochamp has writeup since NDA lifted.


•The final patch of Mists of Pandaria will be the Siege of Orgrimmar! Both factions lay siege to the city to bring Garrosh down and end his reign of Warchief.
•The new LFR loot system will allow everyone to roll individually. Upon winning a roll, if the boss has an item that you can use, you will win it. It will only be in LFR to begin with, but can be added to other parts of the game later.
•An 11th character slot has been added.
•AoE Looting has been added.
•There will not be an item squish in Mist of Pandaria.
•No new race models are ready to be added yet.
•There will be nine level 90 heroics for players as well as three raids with 14 raid bosses and three difficulties. There will be an additional two world bosses.
•Scenarios will take place at level 90, in an instance, and reward reputation and Valor points. They don't need a healer, tank, and DPS, just DPS is fine. Each will take 10 to 30 minutes to complete and five or more will be available for launch.
•In Challenge Modes, the vast majority of players will most likely earn a bronze medal even if they are a relatively unskilled player. After a player earns all the medals at the Bronze level, they will be rewarded with an achievement and title. Completing all of the Silver medals will earn a set of spectacular gear for transmogrification, and completing all of the gold will earn a unique epic flying mount. Challenge modes will be available for the six new dungeons at launch.
•Cloud Serpents are the Pandaren's mount of choice. You can raise your own by doing 20 days of daily quests.
•Warlocks got the most class changes in MoP, along with new pets.
•There will be more mounts and less color swaps for different rewards.
•They are adding armor to creatures to give them varied appearances, something other than just simple color changes.
•There are now seven zones, up from five. This was done to add more content to the game and give players a less linear progression path so that leveling for a second or third time isn’t the exact same.
•There will be one new arena and two new battlegrounds at launch.
•PvP pet battles are going to be fun and causal, only tracking the number of wins and not the number of losses. When fighting another player, you cannot see the other players name or communicate with them.
•Currently, every race except Goblin and Worgen can learn the ways of the monk.
•The Pre Mists of Pandaria Patch will be roughly two weeks before launch and bring simple rewards. It might involve a scenario with Theramore and the Alliance vs Horde theme. Chen Stormstout might also come to the local cities and get players excited about what is coming.

[Rokal]

Seems like the press event didn't actually tell us much that we didn't already know. We learned what the final boss of the expansion would be (likely only because of dumb player feedback that the expansion was too light-hearted and didn't have a focal villain). We learned that planned zones are being cut up and expanded so that the new landmass can support alternate leveling paths for 85-90.

If anything, rather than revealing exciting stuff about the expansion, they've backed away on some of the things they already told us they were going to do.

Account-wide achievements are now a 'maybe' for MoP launch. Unlikely to be any new character models for old races at launch. Monk resource system has been greatly simplified, and the class design sounds less ambitious than what they announced at Blizzcon. We'll be getting an 11th character slot instead of being able to roll x characters total across all servers. Why bother having a week-long press event with a strict NDA if this is all they had to show?

[Azazel]

That's all kinds of disappointing.

[Maledict]

Haha, we're we just arguing about whether the game has a horde or alliance bias?

So let's see. Final patch has us all seizing orgrammar. The horde commit attrocities in war. The Horde allies with a group of 14 year old boys / monkeys with rockets launchers whilst the alliance allies with a  group of wise transcendal mystics. The alliance pandaren leader is a calm, wise ancient, the horde pandaren leader is a headstrong moron.

Feels like wrath all over again. Seems whenever blizzard wants to big up the faction difference the horde go do something evil again.

[Fabricated]

The last picture looks like it's using the Taunka skeleton, so I'm doubting it's a Tauren revamp. Also it'd break the fuck out of all the old armor models and I doubt Blizzard -really- feels like trying to work around a dumpster-sized head for future helmet/shoulder models.

Did they really already confirm the last raid? I mean, I figure they could actually keep that a surprise for once since there WAS no focal villain. Strange we'd actually kill Garrosh too, since the whole 1-60 experience horde-side shows Garrosh as being obsessed with honor/fair fights despite being a hotheaded asshole. He executes one of his own generals for atrocities, and flat out despises Sylvanas which makes him smarter than Thrall.

[SurfD]

The last picture looks like it's using the Taunka skeleton, so I'm doubting it's a Tauren revamp. Also it'd break the fuck out of all the old armor models and I doubt Blizzard -really- feels like trying to work around a dumpster-sized head for future helmet/shoulder models.

Did they really already confirm the last raid? I mean, I figure they could actually keep that a surprise for once since there WAS no focal villain. Strange we'd actually kill Garrosh too, since the whole 1-60 experience horde-side shows Garrosh as being obsessed with honor/fair fights despite being a hotheaded asshole. He executes one of his own generals for atrocities, and flat out despises Sylvanas which makes him smarter than Thrall.

It may end up being one of those "We go in and beat the shit out of him bring him to his sesnes" things, and not an actual "we kill him" kind of thing.  Hard to say without knowing exactly what kind of "war crimes" he is being accused of that supposedly set the whole thing off.

[Merusk]

The last picture looks like it's using the Taunka skeleton, so I'm doubting it's a Tauren revamp. Also it'd break the fuck out of all the old armor models and I doubt Blizzard -really- feels like trying to work around a dumpster-sized head for future helmet/shoulder models.

I didn't think it was a Tauren because it looks like an Yak.  I figured it was another splinter of the Tauren-type, like the Bison men of WOTLK.

http://www.factzoo.com/mammals/yak-handsome-himalayan-bovine.html (Better picture than Wiki.)

[FieryBalrog]

Edit: wait. Looking things up.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3445148&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=103#post401695788

the mmo-champ guy on somethingawful posted this so.
"No, [Garrosh] is the final boss of the Pandaria Campaign. MoP has its own final boss."

[Lakov_Sanite]

•The final patch of Mists of Pandaria will be the Siege of Orgrimmar! Both factions lay siege to the city to bring Garrosh down and end his reign of Warchief.

 

I will do the year pass, for this alone.

[Merusk]

See, that's the Horde reaction I was expecting.  Not this "Dude, he wasn't so bad." bullshit after bitching about him for 3 years.