Mists of Pandaria General Information & Discussion - Release Date 9/25/12

[Knytestorme]

I actually just mentioned this in another thread:

Yeah, I was thinking it should go live with 5.0 along with removal of guild xp cap but couldn't remember back to Cata or Lich launches. So pretty much should only have to level one more team under the old xp rates and then have the last 4 under the new....hoping anyway as that would mean I'll def have all classes at 85 in time for MoP if that's the situation

[ebony]

The New Xp's caps are a Pain that's for sure........ taking a good time questing now and bring made a lot more to go go down chain roads of quest can not skip them like i could before with the locks.

[valkry]

Ugh this pissed me off. They made it sound like you could roll Pandaren on August 28th, but later they clarified that. So really what was the point of that post? I and everyone else already has ALL races available. WTF!

For people that have only bought wow vanilla or BC, they can roll worgen/goblins now too. This is for people who are just starting out and dont want to buy every single xpac before trying out the game a bit.

[Longshot17]

To confirm, near the end of August when 5.01 goes LIVE, the xp rate for 80-85 changes? So we have roughly 3-4 weeks of faster lvling to 85 pre MoP Launch?

I just have a few toons doing the run through Northrend (started last night, should be there in the next few days, and then will have one full team of 5 to get to 85 before Sept. 25!

[MiRai]

To confirm, near the end of August when 5.01 goes LIVE, the xp rate for 80-85 changes? So we have roughly 3-4 weeks of faster lvling to 85 pre MoP Launch?

No, there is no Blizzard confirmation as of right now; but the experience numbers were just recently changed on the beta.

[Tin]

WOW-Insider have a nice writing on what to expect in the patch: http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/17/what-to-expect-from-patch-5-0-4/

With Patch 5.0.4 on August 28

• Valor points will be converted to Justice points, and Conquest points will be converted to Honor points.
  
  • Neither of the resultant currencies (Justice and Honor) will have an enforced hard-cap at this time.
  
  
  
• The current Arena season will end.
• Players will no longer be able to earn Valor or Conquest points (bosses will drop Justice, Arenas will be closed).
• Items formerly purchasable for Valor/Conquest will be available for Justice/Honor.

With Mists of Pandaria on September 25

• Valor can be earned again.
  
  • Characters can earn up to 1000 Valor per week, and carry a maximum of 3000 Valor.
  • Daily quests, random Scenarios, random Heroic dungeons, and all levels of raiding will reward Valor.
  • Valor will be used to purchase ilvl 489 gear in Mists of Pandaria.
    
    • The Klaxxi, Golden Lotus, Shado-Pan, and August Celestials factions will sell this gear.
    • Revered reputation with each faction will be required.
    
    
  
  
  
• Conquest will become earnable.
  
  • There is a cap of 4000 Conquest points.
  • Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds reward Conquest.
  • It will be used to purchase ilvl 483 gear from Pandaren battlemasters on the Great Wall.
  
  

With Mists of Pandaria, Patch 5.1

• We currently plan to upgrade the Valor system as Ghostcrawler described in Mists of Pandaria Looting Explained in the 5.1 patch, allowing you to upgrade your gear using Valor points. We’ll have additional information once Mists of Pandaria launches and we get closer to the 5.1 patch release.

Do you have questions or comments about currencies in World of Warcraft? Please let us know in this discussion thread.

[Longshot17]

With no JP cap after August 28th, are people going to be grinding as much JP as possible before going into MOP?

I've read that the JP gear will actually have a lower iLvl value then what drops in the heroic dungeons As per this link:

http://www.wowhead.com/news=205366/m...-news-round-up

So real roughly you'd need 15k jp to purchase at least the pieces listed in this thread once you hit honored and lvl 90. Ouch, so much for leveling up another team before MoP... I'm going to be grinding instances

[valkry]

With no JP cap after August 28th, are people going to be grinding as much JP as possible before going into MOP?

I've read that the JP gear will actually have a lower iLvl value then what drops in the heroic dungeons As per this link:

http://www.wowhead.com/news=205366/m...-news-round-up

So real roughly you'd need 15k jp to purchase at least the pieces listed in this thread once you hit honored and lvl 90. Ouch, so much for leveling up another team before MoP... I'm going to be grinding instances

You won't be able to farm up a massive amount of points for MoP. The caps are going to be re-enabled and anything over the cap will be converted to money. It will be at 35 silver per point. This is what is happening to honour points anyway, I assume it will be the same for Justice

[Longshot17]

The caps are going to be re-enabled and anything over the cap will be converted to money.

Where did you see this? The only info I have to go by is from this Blizzard blog:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/7029341

[Benjii]

Are there many collection quests in Mists? I really hate it when i have to collect one item for every single slave.