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So, Next Expansion Enthusiasm?

So upon hearing the new race/class at blizzcon through the livestream, I ran up to my boyfriend's room screaming PANDAS!!!! He asked me what was wrong, so I slapped him and screamed MOOOONKS!!!! and ran back out.

Over enthusiastic? Maybe. But I'm gonna love my Blood Elf Monk <3 xD
Axes Fists staves of my.

How was your guy's reaction(s)? ;D

New expansion? Do tell. Also, breathe.

I forget how to sometimes!

Think most of the information can be found on fan sites by now,

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Originally Posted by MMO-CHAMPION

Pandaren Racials
Bouncy: reduces fall damage by half.
Inner peace: double rested XP.
Gourmand: +15 to cooking.
Epicurean: double stats to food buffs.

Interview with Chris Metzen on Direct TV
The pandas were actually going to be the alliance race in The Burning Crusade but Blizzard changed their mind.
The pandas will be playable by both Alliance and Horde.

Features
Level cap raised to 90
New class: Monk
New race: Pandarens
Pve Scenarios
Pet Battle System (Pokemonnn!)
New Talents
New continent
Challenge Mode Dungeons

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Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

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 Sh

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Originally Posted by haylie (Post 246266)

New expansion? Do tell. Also, breathe.

Their Diablo 3 deal is interesting. Not a bad way of keeping those who would have left for Diablo 3.

<333

Hubby and I signed up for the annual pass already, too. :)

Can't wait.

BRB, freezing myself until Beta arrives. Thaw me out then, pl0x!

Pretty much lol!

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Originally Posted by TMcMahon51 (Post 246271)

Can't wait.

BRB, freezing myself until Beta arrives. Thaw me out then, pl0x!

I'm going to sign up in a bit myself, I was sad when they said I had to pay for an annual subscription, but I saw on the site you only had to agree not to stop your subscription for a year and you could still pay 15$ a month! We so excited.

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Originally Posted by Seerah (Post 246270)

<333

Hubby and I signed up for the annual pass already, too. :)

Very Much so! I WANT THE CE EDITION OMGZ. I'm going to sleep naked with the box. I love the Thumb Drive with the diablo skull.

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Originally Posted by Nibelheim (Post 246269)

Their Diablo 3 deal is interesting. Not a bad way of keeping those who would have left for Diablo 3.

Monks are not a Hero Class D: Level one oh my.

And no autoattack, time to break your hand spamming buttons!

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Originally Posted by Lily.Petal (Post 246273)

And no autoattack, time to break your hand spamming buttons!

Sounds to me like it should be renamed to Bard. ;0

You should see the new talent trees ;D

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Originally Posted by TMcMahon51 (Post 246274)

Sounds to me like it should be renamed to Bard. ;0

I fell asleep when they were showing the talents. :(

This is a small sum of it. Reminds me a bit of DiabloIII, where you can just switch in and out abilities when ever. Sounds like a great idea in theory, hope it works in practice. Cookie cutters are still going to be there, no matter how much they want to get rid of them.

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Originally Posted by MMO-Champ

Talent System 2.0
The talent system is gone! Ok, not really, but it's greatly changed.
You now have your class abilities, your spec abilities, and your talents.
You still choose your spec at level 10, and you get a spec ability at level 10. You will get additional spec abilities later. There are anything that you really need to function, they will just be given to you to make sure you have all the tools you need to have.

Example - Prot Paladin
LVL 10 - Avenger's Shield
LVL 20 - Hammer of the Righteous (Prot and Ret)
LVL 30 - Judgement of the Just (Passive)

Talents
There is not talent points or ranks.
There is one talent pree per class.
You earn talents every 15 levels.
You get to choose 1 out of 3 every time you get a new point, you can only pick one of them and can't go back to get the other ones.
There will be no mandatory talent. There won't be any cookie cutter build or anything, it will depend on what kind of optional ability you want.
You can now change talents as easily as you change glyphs.
More info in the Talent Tree Panel at 2:15

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Originally Posted by TMcMahon51 (Post 246276)

I fell asleep when they were showing the talents. :(

HO! LY! CR! AP!

I gave up all hope of Azshara Crater ever seeing the light of day when Cataclysm was announced. HELL YEAH! HELL YEAH! HELL YEAH! BOI!

/nerdgasm

Nerdgasm indeed. Also, I was a huge pokemon fan in the past xD Yay for ingame battle pets!

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Originally Posted by TMcMahon51 (Post 246279)

HO! LY! CR! AP!

I gave up all hope of Azshara Crater ever seeing the light of day when Cataclysm was announced. HELL YEAH! HELL YEAH! HELL YEAH! BOI!

/nerdgasm

I love the new changes!

Going from everything is a hunter weapon to nothing is a hunter weapon.
Rogue/Warrior will throw their melee weapons instead of bother with ranged weapons.
Wands now MH weapons for casters.
Warlocks - GONE! (I laughed my arse off when he joked about that)

I actualy still play Pokemon, and I'm 24. I have every Pokemon ROM from GB/GBC/GBA on my PSP, even.

NOOOOOOOOOOO THEY'RE REMOVING TOTEMS!!!!!!!

Aaaaand Druids now have 4 talent trees...

BRB, going to delete my Shamans. :'(

Was just about to quote that lol! The no monimum range is... a little scary. It scares me quite a bit. Throwing my daggers >> makes me think of Kusarigama weapons tbh (google it). New MH weapon for casters will be wands? Interesting.

I will probably be rerolling if I don't like the rogue class still in 5.0. This expansion was boring for me. I guess Polearms will be for druids and monks(?) mainly.

Totems didn't need to get removed... just reworked. That might be a bad choice, seeing as how totems are what symbolize that class, especially since they gave each race new totem skins.

Druids... 4 Talents? I didn't see this D: What could the forth be? Will Feral have Feral Cat and Feral Bear spec? If it's like that they could of made it so that there was a cat effect and bear effect for each talent like it has been.

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Ranged Weapons
Hunter minimum range is gone!
Hunter melee weapon is gone!
Ranged slot for all other characters are gone.
Relics are gone.
Rogues and warriors can now throw their melee weapon
Wands become main hand weapons

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Originally Posted by TMcMahon51 (Post 246281)

Loving every bit of it apart from the pet battles. I hope that Scenarios will get a higher priority than pets.

Pretty much, but the fact that they said that pets will be obtainable through different weather/seasons/time of day makes me wonder if they are going to improve the weather system for WoW.

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Originally Posted by Haleth (Post 246283)

Loving every bit of it apart from the pet battles. I hope that Scenarios will get a higher priority than pets.

Wait... what... oh gawd, every rogue with shadow step?! Is this a dream?! I need to find more pants, think that was my last pair :<

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Access to stuff you never could before. If you were a subtlety rogue you knew you weren't going to get something like Killing Spree. And because talents are going to be all in the same tree, you're going to be able to combine them in a way that you never could before. For example, any rogue can have Shadowstep!

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Originally Posted by Lily.Petal (Post 246288)

Wait... what... oh gawd, every rogue with shadow step?! Is this a dream?! I need to find more pants, think that was my last pair :<

You be rogue?! Why am I surprised? All the coolest people are rogues ;)