Next Expansion " Mists of Pandoria"

[Ualaa]

I'm not sure if I like a Panda race or not.
Doesn't really matter so much, as Warcraft will essentially still be Warcraft almost irregardless of what they do.

There will still be PvE, whether you run quests, do dailies, run instances, do heroics or raid.
There is still the gold game, whether you play the auction house, run your dailies, farm or have a million transmutes.
PvP will have similar options to what has come before, arena or battlegrounds or world pvp which is essentially raid their capital city and kill key NPC's so they give a shit and respond.

Some of the talents look quite neat.

Last expansion I was really hoping my Ferals would receive five extra talent points, but retain essentially WotLK talents... ie., Nature's Swiftness and 51+ points in Feral.
While the talents are totally redone, it looks like Ferals will have instant cast healing, from within their Kitty form (and not even have to shift to caster to use it).
They're even giving back Power Shifting as a root break, as a level 90 ability that also heals for 20%.
Not sure they'll supplant my Paladin + DK's, but they're getting some interesting tools, assuming they go live anything near their current form.

It looks like the DK + Healer team will remain essentially intact.
Between the available talents, everything I remember using as the team seems to be available.
That means, this is still the team to beat, at least in my mind when choosing a "main team".

Other classes/teams are looking to be interesting as well.

[Zub]

i didn't do any research or even read much, but who's the big Baddy in MoP ?
it must be hard to beat Deathwing.

[Protigy]

i didn't do any research or even read much, but who's the big Baddy in MoP ?
it must be hard to beat Deathwing.

No end boss declared at this time. Blizz stated they want to focus more on the Horde vs. Alliance conflict so people can immerse themselves in the progression rather than think of everything leading up to a final "big baddy" as filler content.

[Multibocks]

They have one that they are developing story for, but they made it clear this expansion is mainly about the war between horde and alliance. You won't find out who the bad guy is for a while and he won't be on the box.

[MiRai]

Developer Q&A took place tonight. More MoP info:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...-Developer-Q-A

[Tonuss]

From the QA:

Q: What exactly is a PvE scenario?
A: It's a short, instanced 2-3 player experience without the need for a tank/healer. Think of them as a short series of group quests with a queuing option available.

That sounds tailor-made for multiboxers, unless they add some sort of mechanics that require the group to split up or split its focus.

[Multibocks]

yep I bet its one guy drives something another controls a beast and last has to run bases.

[wakasm]

One thing that I can't find any note of, but I could have sworn I heard during one of the Q/A sessions was something along these lines. I remember someone asking...

"Since you will now be able to do more things while in a raid, like world raid bosses and queuing for a raid, will you make it possible to do quests and what not while in a raid group? So while waiting for bosses to pop we have something to do?" and

I could have sworn their answer was that they were going to remove questing while in a raid restriction, which should also make leveling 10 toons much easier. I don't know if I made this up. I may have. But I remember when I overheard that while watching the stream I was like!!?

Also, as for the Panda Controversy - I found this relevant too lol
http://i.imgur.com/myLOL.jpg

[MiRai]

One thing that I can't find any note of, but I could have sworn I heard during one of the Q/A sessions was something along these lines. I remember someone asking...

"Since you will now be able to do more things while in a raid, like world raid bosses and queuing for a raid, will you make it possible to do quests and what not while in a raid group? So while waiting for bosses to pop we have something to do?" and

I could have sworn their answer was that they were going to remove questing while in a raid restriction, which should also make leveling 10 toons much easier. I don't know if I made this up. I may have. But I remember when I overheard that while watching the stream I was like!!?

You're right it was talked about at BlizzCon but, that was the last mention of it.

[valkry]

So certain species are "off limits" or "out of place" in a "Fantasy" setting.. that make a whole lot of sense lol

But i understand what you mean. They do not fit into YOUR idea of WoW!

Well, seeing as Pandas have been a part of WoW for a long time, then I guess you would have to say that WoW does not fit into HIS idea of fantasy. Too bad