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During the BlizzCon Opening Ceremonies, Chris Metzen announced "Mists of Pandaria" as the next World of Warcraft Expansion. The announcement was well received by the 26,000 people attending. There will be two long panels dedicated completely to discussing the new content that will be coming up including new zones, new talents, a new class the Monk, and the new race of Pandarens. The new expansion will increase the level cap to 90.
Unlike previous expansion, this expansion will not be an expansion that pits the Horde and Alliance against one big bad guy but rather is themed to pit the Alliance and Horde forces against each other in an all out war.
Mike Morhaime announced that you can get Diablo III (full version) for free when it launches by signing up for a one-year contract subscription to World of Warcraft (billed monthly). You will also get a guaranteed early beta invite for the next expansion to World of Warcraft. Lastly you will receive an exclusive in game mount "Tyreal's Charger". You can sign up for the 12 month commitment today by going to WorldofWarcraft. com.
Blizzard also released a new cinematic for Diablo III, a preview of the new Blizzard DOTA game, and a new Starcraft II Heart of the Swarm cinematic.
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Huh, Chris just told the direct TV peeps that Pandarens were going to be the alliance race in BC.
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Low level pandaren experience will be like a neutral race but then you'll be able to choose horde or alliance as part of your questing experience later on.
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Incoming random Blizz bashes below.  Any and all angles. LOL
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There will also be a 'pet battle system'. I'll keep an eye out for more info on that.
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While i think there Pandas are silly i can get behind any Monk class
love Monks
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This is interesting. I wonder how they gonna make Monks different from cloth wearing rogues!
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The_Korrigan posted:
This is interesting. I wonder how they gonna make Monks different from cloth wearing rogues!
Ablatives, buffs and "kung fu" style bonuses ala DAoC Heretics I would think.
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The expansion is going to be heavily based on PvP? The same PvP that Blizzard has never gotten balanced even once in the entirety of WoW history? Ha!
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Well I have been saying for a while that a race being able to start off as neutral and then eventually choose a path to go down would be interesting.
Also it looks like they understood the fact that they messed up with the Talent Trees:
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.
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Panda's are utterly stupid.
The rest seems fine.
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I have nothing wrong with the Pandas, I will follow the expansion and see how it develops. In all likely hood I'll probably check out the expansion, even if it is only for a month and buy it sometime down the line well after launch.
I just finished reading how Talents are going to be done, and I don't know if it is any better than the current system. Sounds like it might be even more restrictive.
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Monks will NOT be pandaren only. All races can be a monk except goblin and worgen.
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Damn. I wanted a goblin monk.
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Perhaps they'll finally give people more slots for characters....who am I kidding. 
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JaconKin posted:
Also it looks like they understood the fact that they messed up with the Talent Trees:
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.
LULZ.
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Just read the whole update at mmo-champ, and honestly, I'm going to allow myself to be excited about this expansion. A lot of great features being planned, and I'm a monk class whore, so that's exciting.
Will they deliver on everything they promise? Umm, no, learned my lesson one too many times -- but I'll still be excited. Being excited is fun.
Between this and GW2, maybe I'll actually care about MMO's again.
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I will buy it. I enjoyed the 80-85 quests and such. Just got bored after that. Maybe they will go back to how wotlk was and I will stay with it after the level cap. Other wise I will just cancel my sub again. Still will get my moneys worth out of the cost of the box.
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Of course I'll buy it, but I fear another 1 week enjoyment, then quit. 5-levels is just not enough. At least with 10, you can take your time, do dungeons along the way, work a few reps, et cetera.
80-85 happened just while doing things, and not because I was trying to level quickly.
The neutral class idea is cool, although not so cool if they don't supplement the apparent shortcut of making a single new race instead of two.
It also makes me wonder how this will play out in China. If Blizzard can't sell the expansion in China due to the Panda being a symbol for Japan (this was the reason gave last time they didn't do Pandas), then what happens to the 11 million subscriber number?
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I've been reading that it is actually not true that Pandas are a no-no in china but who knows.
It looks like blizzard is giving up on china anyway and it also looks like WoW will finally end up with only a couple of million subs in the end (which is still good money, just not nearly what they "could have been".).
If I can make a tauren monk then I'll buy the xpac. Otherwise, I will probably still be playing GW2 
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Spookysheep posted:
I've been reading that it is actually not true that Pandas are a no-no in china but who knows.
It looks like blizzard is giving up on china anyway and it also looks like WoW will finally end up with only a couple of million subs in the end (which is still good money, just not nearly what they "could have been".).
If I can make a tauren monk then I'll buy the xpac. Otherwise, I will probably still be playing GW2
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that pandas would be a no-no but running over a 3 year old girl repeatedly and no one stopping is acceptable.
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Dungeon challenges are a sound idea really like that they will have a leaderboard and everything
Pet battles are really REALLY silly but whatever it is just fluff it seems and if people want Pokemon so be it
The Pandaren race in Warcraft has always been "lolwut" to me and still is  really disappointed with Blizzard on this
Monks are awesome and have been in every MMO i've played will for sure play a healing monk melee healers are always the best
The new "talent" system just looks utterly retarded to me i cannot get behind it at all :\ I hate what we have now I would really prefer to go back to something like BC
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Ahh, i see Blizzard hasn't learned their lesson from the last Expansion
Changing the game massively will only massively piss off subscribers..
Even if the changes are amazing, People will still be pissed..
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Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:
Of course I'll buy it, but I fear another 1 week enjoyment, then quit. 5-levels is just not enough. At least with 10, you can take your time, do dungeons along the way, work a few reps, et cetera.
I will just wait for your review and screenshots and say I've "seen" it.
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MMO suicide. That phrase will be soon be coined by MMO Champion and all major gaming magazines
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