Mists of Pandaria

Originally Posted by Sparklelord

Did anyone suggest that this might actually be an Online version of the TCG? Similar to Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers.

I've yet to see this said unless I just missed it.

My major concern is the fact that if this is the expansion and its due for release next summer as hinted, then are we only expecting one more Raid.. i.e. Deathwing this expansion?

It's more likely Warcraft 4. Why would Blizzard name an expansion after one faction's new race? Unless Pandaren are neutral, and there is no new race at all

I already expect the way we'll get to Pandaria (if this turns out to be the expansion) is going to be a patch surrounding an attack on the Pandaren in Stonetalon, who reveal themselves and reach out for aid, then mention that Pandaria is in trouble too.

I believe the "Mist" could mean that the Kvaldir could be the main adversaries of the expansion. Maybe they're working for Azshara now, (as we know in the past, the naga killed a large amount of them, they may work for Azshara as a way of slavery).

So essentially, we'd save the Pandaren in stonetalon who are under siege by the Kvaldir, and during one of the quests, the leader of the Kvaldir there will shout something that insinuates that Pandaria is next, so the Pandaren let the alliance/horde know where Pandaria is so that they can go help, on the promise they won't attempt to conquer the land for themselves.

Originally Posted by Dblbaconator

Get ready for a GIANT post. ETC...

Thank you Dblbaconator, you just summed up most of the things I've been trying to say for quite a while to all the kids that just won't listen. I'll refer to your post.

I agree with pretty much everything you wrote, except that I think Pandaria is a vast continent the size of Northrend and it is located on the other side of Azeroth (in the Veiled/Forbidding Sea). It has been magically shrouded from the known world, hence the "Mist" (and hence the "Forbidding" and "Veiled" in the names of that sea). Cataclysm broke something, either the cloaking function of the Mist itself, or an Old God broke out of its entrapment underneath Pandaria, and now threatens all the races of Pandaria so they will seek help from the Alliance and the Horde.

I also think the South Seas expansion is a different expansion that will happen, but it will be XPAC 5, not this one.

FOR PANDARIAAAAAAAAAAA asian countryside with bamboo and cool asian stuff looking forward to it

Please not an entire addon with these stupid pandas.... they were fun for bonus missions in WC III but they aren't fun as an entire addon theme.

Here's another thought to the people saying: "They can't do this and that and that because this and that has always been like this". What makes you think everything will always be done the way it was before? People were saying Cata was impossible because we'd not get a new continent and there would only be 5 levels. Yet, it still happened.

I love how people are saying "OMG PANDERANS ARE NOT IN LORE WTFBBQ I QUIT!!111!" etc. Little note for you people:

Its Blizzard's lore and they can do whatever the hell they want with it. Deal with this fact.

I'm actually quite excited about this one, and if my wife's reaction was anything to go by, this could be a really clever marketing ploy. Before yesterday she was saying, "I'm bored, I think I'm done with WoW finally". Today she's excited for the next expansion. Damn pandas...

man this is going totay whrong... someone at blizz is laughing sooo hard right now... 1. we don`t know if the primary info (the trademark stuff) is real2. we don`t know if its about pandas.. it could be pandaria (deserted all the "ancient" population wiped out and we wanna see why)3. we don`t know if its about WOW4. we don`t know its a x-pacwe don`t know sooo many things and yet here we are 700 posts later still talking about NOTHINg at all!!!

I don't understand why everyone imidiatly assume this will be a new expension... i think it will be a new standalone warcraft game because Cataclysm was registered with the name World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and this title does not include world of warcraft whatsoever. Maybe it will be a new first person action slash and hack type game, who knows...

Originally Posted by pandaman

It's more likely Warcraft 4. Why would Blizzard name an expansion after one faction's new race?

L2R, the expansion is named Mists of PANDARIA, which is not a race but a CONTINENT.

It is not named "Mists of the Pandaren", that would have been a different thing.

Also, why do you jump to the conclusion that Pandaren will be playable? pretty sure they wont add playable races so soon after just adding two in Cata.

Ok, Im out of WoW for good now.

Good stuff Dblbaconator ! One thing that cannot be stopped, no matter how much people will try to educate the masses is the wildly jumping to conclusions of many people in this thread - without anything to go on except a title all kind of weird conjecture is going on about maturity of the content. It's always the kids themselves (in my tired ol' eyes everyone below 21 years of age) that seem to worry about thing getting "childlike". I have a newsflash here - It's a bleedin' game. No bullies are looking over your shoulder, so it's perfectly fine to just enjoy your escapist content, don't worry about it. Until anything is shown officially by Blizz themselves we'd best just wait and see with an open mind. After the official announcements there will be plenty of time for more baseless rants :-P

Originally Posted by Dblbaconator

Get ready for a GIANT post. Because this thread really made me cringe. Many times.

Thank you, that was an well thought out and detailed posting which helped clear up a lot of thing for me as well.

I thought the Pandaren were just some kind of joke of a race, used only for events like Brewfest. An entire expansion about them just sounds retarded imo.

"Its Blizzard's lore and they can do whatever the hell they want with it. Deal with this fact." Sure it's Blizzard's lore, but Pandaren are BARELY in the lore, if they're in the lore any at all. And judging by Blizz's use of the lore these days (AKA. Butchering it.) this expansion will not go down well at all, and that's just by looking at the title.

Whatever happened to all the big 'Emerald Dream' fuss? They've GOT to make that part of an expansion at some point.

If there was a patch about Pandaran I'd be okay with it...I guess...but an entire expansion? No thank you.

Also...I really don't like WoW making lands/races that mirror reality too closely. Uldum is essentially "WoW does Egypt", and I didn't like it. It's too easy, and it feels lazy. I don't want to see an entire expansion of "WoW does Asia".

Originally Posted by Taen

Guysguysguys, turns out Boub is deffo right, look at this list my dad Chris Metzen gave me back in 1997:

I see what you did there. When he gave that to you in 1997 it has to be true.

This could be interessting!

This is what we most likely will see (in my opinion)

Pandarian civilwar, 3 clans of pandarians in struggle. Suddenly one clan get offers from (Old Gods, Burning Legion, Azshara, Sargeras). they get pretty much overwhelming, and the other 2 clans have to seek new allies to retrieve their former empire.

Just my thoughts