World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria announced
by Adam Holisky 
Oct 21st 2011 at 2:40PM
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will be the fourth expansion to the game. It was announced today at the opening ceremonies at BlizzCon 2011 in front 26,000 cheering fans. The expansion promises to deliver the next phase in WoW's development, ushering in a new era of quests, raids, PVP, professions, and instances.
The major details:
The major details:
- New talent system
- Pandaren race
- The region of Pandaria
- New monk class
- Level cap raised to 90
- Dungeon challenge mode
- PVE Scenarios
- Pet Battle System
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 17)
Werther Oct 21st 2011 2:45PM
Is this a joke ? No way they will release anything as silly as that.
Ed Oct 21st 2011 2:48PM
Unfortunately not, we're getting a Kung-Fu Panda expansion. :(
Leethax Oct 21st 2011 2:49PM
I know, I didn't believe it at first.
I'm still hoping they can pull it off, though.
Sacrilege Oct 21st 2011 2:49PM
Can confirm its real. Seems crazy - pandaren? monks? things Blizz have always said NO CHANCE to - but its verified.
Noah Oct 21st 2011 2:49PM
haters gon' hate. This is gonna be sweet.
Tfish92 Oct 21st 2011 2:50PM
Why is anyone disappointed in this?
I can't understand why anyone is legitimately upset that we have the pandaren as a race in the game.
Cows and spacegoats are totally believable, but pandas? That's stepping over the line.
George Oct 21st 2011 2:51PM
I've got a Level 90 Clap. WTB enchanted epic Penicillin.
Noyou Oct 21st 2011 2:56PM
*No one is forcing you to sub
*No one is forcing you to play the race/class
*No one is forcing you to post
*Move along.
loop_not_defined Oct 21st 2011 2:52PM
Just disappointed that Pandaren are the *only* new race.
Kunikenwad! Oct 21st 2011 2:53PM
I'm excited about the Pandarens teaching Azeroth a thing or two ... about peace. And beer. And OPEN FIST FIGHTING STYLES.
elvendude Oct 21st 2011 2:54PM
Ed, you did that wrong:
We're getting a Kung-Fu Panda expansion!!!!one11!!!! =DDDD
Sniperess Oct 21st 2011 2:55PM
I just watched the reveal on live stream. Anyone who says it is too "silly" clearly didn't watch the live stream. The expansion looked pretty frikkin badass.
Jebediah54 Oct 21st 2011 2:55PM
@loop_not_defined
I don't think I can possibly be disappointed with one new playable race... I think a new class takes a lot more work than a new race so the fact that Blizzard is undertaking such a venture again makes me quite happy. Only problem now is that I can't have all 11 classes on one server (unless...?)
Ed Oct 21st 2011 2:56PM
The difference between blood elves/draenei and pandaren is that blood elves and draenei are interesting, and they were interesting before they ever made it into WoW.
Five/six zones taking place in a WoW version of China? That sounds really boring to me.
EverythingRuned Oct 21st 2011 3:48PM
I'm just disappointed that we're getting one race, shared between the factions. We'll see how it pans out, though.
I know it kind of sounds like looking a gift horse in the mouth, and we didn't even get a new race in wrath, but I like keeping the factions distinct.
frisch5b2 Oct 21st 2011 2:57PM
@Tfish92 Because Pandaren were born out of a joke idea and put in WC3 as a joke, nothing serious. I really don't know how I feel about this.
george Oct 21st 2011 2:59PM
Tfish, people are disappointed because pandaren were a dumb joke race, they're destroying the story of their franchise. its dumb.
NostraThomas Oct 21st 2011 2:59PM
@Ed.
"The difference between blood elves/draenei and pandaren is that blood elves and draenei are interesting, and they were interesting before they ever made it into WoW."
Draenei, as they are in-game, didn't exist before the Blizzard team retconned game history to make them work for BC.
If Blizzard could make Draenai at least slightly interesting, I don't doubt they can make the pandaren just as compelling, if not more.
Zapwidget Oct 21st 2011 3:02PM
@" Pandaran were made as a joke"
A joke is most easily defined as a short story or event intended to entertain.
A game, oddly enough, has much the same definition.
I'm not really seeing "they were a joke" as being a valid reason to not be in the game.
Tfish92 Oct 21st 2011 3:04PM
So because they thought the idea was funny at one time that means they are now destroying the franchise?
I guess the nearly destroyed it before it was even a franchise then because Chris just said they almost used them as the race in burning crusade.
People who are legitimately upset by this have some sort of problem.