World of Warcraft - Mists of Pandaria

[Viper]

[info]What is Mists of Pandaria?
The goal is to combine new gameplay with most fun parts of the past.
The plan is to get people back into the world, instead of having players roam around Stormwind and Orgrimmar all the time once they reach max level.
Developers want you to do what you want to do to progress your character. They really want you to feel like you have a menu of content where you can pick whatever you want to do, and you shouldn't feel forced to do something to progress your character. For example, daily quests will reward you with valor points but it will still be faster if you raid of course.
Character builds are going to be entirely revamped. Talents were still too cookie cutter, so the developers want to give players more choices in their talents.

Pandaria
5 New leveling zones to explore
Single, unified continent
Influenced by Asian landscapes [BACKGROUND="#000000"] bla [/BACKGROUND]
AH, Bank, and Central Questing Hub
No flying until max level
There's 5 leveling zones but they are very large zones, and you won't have your flying mount.

Lore of Pandaria
A long, storied history.
Magically hidden since The Sundering
A new land to explore....
Pandaria was discovered during the cataclysm, a naval battle between horde and alliance was taking place close to it.

Pandaren starting zone
It's a turtle! It left Pandaria 10 000 years ago and never came back. Pandarens who wanted to discover the world left on that turtle.
Story focused with simple mechanics
Cross faction, choose Horde/Alliance at level 10.

Creatures of Pandaria
The Jinyu are fish-like creatures and will be in a wide number of zones.
The Hozu are a monkey-like race, they stand up on their legs and can walk around. They play tons of pranks on the local pandarens and are also in a lot of zones.
Verming are ... new kobolds, they kinda look like evil bunnies.
Mantid: Whole raids and dungeons around this race. Insect race that has been there since the beginning of ages. They have been seperated by a giant wall. They are starting to go crazy and are going through the wall
Mogu: Ancient race, original race on pandaria. The mogu want the island back from the pandaren, they are really mad. You will see them in dungeons.
Sha: Manifestation of the evil energies that flow through the earth. If there is any sort of battle these guys pop up.

The Jade Forest
This is where Alliance and Horde will be landing. The horde is washing up on the north side, the alliance on the south side. There will be one unified start zone and Alliance/Horde will end up meeting up in the middle.
Lush rainforests and stone spires
The Alliance will try to become friend with the Hozu, and the Horde with the Jinyu and will try to turn them against each other.
Temple of the Jade Serpent will be the dungeon of this zone. It will be your 85-86 Dungeon, it has been taken over by Sha[/info]

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*sources: http://www.mmo-champion.com ; http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/

 

[Deathshot]

Oh I jizzed. I jizzed hard. I can't wait for PANDAS!

 

[Viper]

What is Mists of Pandaria?
The goal is to combine new gameplay with most fun parts of the past.
The plan is to get people back into the world, instead of having players roam around Stormwind and Orgrimmar all the time once they reach max level.
Developers want you to do what you want to do to progress your character. They really want you to feel like you have a menu of content where you can pick whatever you want to do, and you shouldn't feel forced to do something to progress your character. For example, daily quests will reward you with valor points but it will still be faster if you raid of course.
Character builds are going to be entirely revamped. Talents were still too cookie cutter, so the developers want to give players more choices in their talents.

Pandaria
5 New leveling zones to explore
Single, unified continent
Influenced by Asian landscapes
AH, Bank, and Central Questing Hub
No flying until max level
There's 5 leveling zones but they are very large zones, and you won't have your flying mount.

Lore of Pandaria
A long, storied history.
Magically hidden since The Sundering
A new land to explore....
Pandaria was discovered during the cataclysm, a naval battle between horde and alliance was taking place close to it.

Pandaren starting zone
It's a turtle! It left Pandaria 10 000 years ago and never came back. Pandarens who wanted to discover the world left on that turtle.
Story focused with simple mechanics
Cross faction, choose Horde/Alliance at level 10.

Creatures of Pandaria
The Jinyu are fish-like creatures and will be in a wide number of zones.
The Hozu are a monkey-like race, they stand up on their legs and can walk around. They play tons of pranks on the local pandarens and are also in a lot of zones.
Verming are ... new kobolds, they kinda look like evil bunnies.
Mantid: Whole raids and dungeons around this race. Insect race that has been there since the beginning of ages. They have been seperated by a giant wall. They are starting to go crazy and are going through the wall
Mogu: Ancient race, original race on pandaria. The mogu want the island back from the pandaren, they are really mad. You will see them in dungeons.
Sha: Manifestation of the evil energies that flow through the earth. If there is any sort of battle these guys pop up.

The Jade Forest
This is where Alliance and Horde will be landing. The horde is washing up on the north side, the alliance on the south side. There will be one unified start zone and Alliance/Horde will end up meeting up in the middle.
Lush rainforests and stone spires
The Alliance will try to become friend with the Hozu, and the Horde with the Jinyu and will try to turn them against each other.
Temple of the Jade Serpent will be the dungeon of this zone. It will be your 85-86 Dungeon, it has been taken over by Sha

It's also on MMO-Champion.

 

[Baaja]

Is so cool....

Pokemon battles and TF2 PvP, going to be a lot of fun

 

[Deathshot]

Can't wait to put my Warbot out into battle or my Lil' K.T.



Also nice to see another Green WoW Logo. It looks better in Green to me.

 

[Skyrider]

Bet DreamWorks will sue WoW for using panda's..

 

[-Origin]

Pandaria and Pandaren have been in WoW lore before those movies, Sky.

 

[Zeonix]

Pandaria and Pandaren have been in WoW lore before those movies, Sky.

Thats what they made when they strayed from their Warhammer roots? Jesus...

 

[-Origin]

I'm not judging the quality of it, I'm just throwing it out there.

 

[Viper]

[video=youtube;E1hGj9gHs00]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1hGj9gHs00[/video]
Now, that looks amazing. (even if you don't like wow)

Speaking of amazing: [video=youtube;PxrovhsK9fo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxrovhsK9fo[/video]

 

[-Origin]

After reading a lot of forums, I know it's "cool" to hate MoP, but I couldn't be more excited. I like the setting, I like the idea of a new race and class, and Challenge mode sounds cool. I'm only curious to see a release date, will they go for the 2 year mark as before, meaning December 2012 or will they bump it up to somewhere before that? They've said before that they'd like to put out content faster.

 

[Viper]

The only reason I see it release that late is because of the new player models. Since those will need upgraded armor and those kind of items too.
I say it's gonna be release by next summer, though.

 

[Baaja]

Yes, it has been said quite a few times that Cataclysm is the shortest expansion to date. But I couldn't be more excited about MoP, it's going to be fun rolling a Monk Panda!

 

[-Origin]

The only reason I see it release that late is because of the new player models. Since those will need upgraded armor and those kind of items too.
I say it's gonna be release by next summer, though.

Art Director Chris Robinson spoke on this just moments ago at the BlizzCon Open Q&A panel. It was in reply to an attendee who brought up that, in the art panel, it was explained that the pandaren model has 10 times the bone structures of the classic races, allowing for many more facial animations.

To paraphrase his statement -- which isn't too different from what I've said here on the forums before -- we absolutely plan on updating the existing models. As Chris mentioned, we want to make sure we preserve the look and feel of the original models players have come to know and love, while vastly improving their model and animation quality to be more in-line with the newer races.

We're not going to hide behind the statement that too many players will get mad if we tamper with their models, but it's a concern -- not a concern that's going to stop us from doing it, however. I want to stress as well that it's a massive undertaking to go back and do this. And to a lot of people it's something that won't be considered shiny new content. But not only do we hear the masses of players calling for this update, we really feel it's time to bring them up to par with newer models as well.

The game continues to age, but as we have no plans of slowing down on development any time in the near future, we want to keep updating and polishing it to stand the test of time (again, without sacrificing the look and feel which has brought players in over the years).

That's what Blizzard said about updating current models.

 

[Viper]

Awesome, I can't wait for the QQ wave.
I welcome the change, though

 

[Baaja]

Same here! The human models look really fugly! I can't wait to see the nelf and orc changes!

 

[Viper]

More stuff from the MMO-Champion page.
Temple of the Jade Serpent
[video=youtube;AN8p6yvPRQo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AN8p6yvPRQo[/video]
Stormstout Brewery
[video=youtube;SBQAnNwuqp0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SBQAnNwuqp0[/video]
Shado-pan Monastery
[video=youtube;WzJoGsEyLag]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WzJoGsEyLag[/video]

EDIT:Updated the first post.

 

[Shaladanra]

Looks great.. I'm buying it

 

[Damaera]

Maybe Viper will actually play on the live realms once Mists of Panadaria comes out!

Looks interesting.

 

[Viper]

Hmm, maybe Dramaera should get a clue and find out that I've been playing on live realms for 3 years now.
Also, it's nice that you only post as replies to me or Avenger.