Mists of Pandaria

Originally Posted by Oneirophobia

One thing I'd like to point out in this thread.

Pandaren is pronounced like "Manderin." As in Manderin oranges. Or THE Manderin.

Not pand-DARE-en. Its driving me crazy. Its supposed to be a play on the Chinese word Manderin which happens to also be a place in Asia.

It is pronounced "Panda - ren"

Like other posters have said it is a play off the word "Panda" and the Chinese Mandarin word "Ren" which means person or people. Thus "Panda People" or "Panda Ren" - Pandaren.

No matter how much people complain they will still buy it if its the expansion, so i don't understand the whole bad attitude thing towards it. If it's the next expansion, that's awesome! There is no telling what's going to happen (though i know change and different has never been the normal wow consumer's strong point) or it won't be the expansion, (doubt it though) and it will be some other game/phone app. Either way you people complaining will probably buy it anyway. So why fuss about it.

Originally Posted by Bombkirby

if you people WANT to be miserable with your little baby visions of the new Xpack, be my guest.

Of course they want to be miserable. They are WOW players and hate everything. Don't waste your time.

Originally Posted by drakonblayde

Nor can you create a real one. A trademark is not a patent, two entirely different categories of intellectual property.

either way you know what i'm trying to say, that its not fake

FOR ALL YOU PANDA HATERS!

OMGoodness I can't wait to have a badass Panda chick character :3

Is there any chance this could be something as lame as a facebook game? I know it has the same codes as the previous expansions but I'm not 100% convinced.

Seriously?. I dont mean to be negative...but some of you either need to learn your lore, or use your eyes a little more lol.

People have a problem with Pandaren being a playable race for one faction?. Because...the expansion would potentially be called "Mists of Pandaria". Hmmk.

NEWSFLASH. The CONTINENT is called Pandaria, the race is called Pandaren. I play as Horde, and have no problem if the Alliance get the Pandaren in an expansion called Mists of Pandaria. As long as we the horde get a race of equivilent awesomenss that resides on the...CONTINENT...of Pandaria. lol.

Either that, or as people have pointed out, give both the horde and Alliance the option to play as a Pandaren.

The main issues as pointed out so far in the thread is PvP Sillhouettes etc. This is easily solvable in my opinion. Why not give the Alliance the traditional 5-6 foot tall Pandaren, peaceful Brewmasters etc. And give the Horde a different Caste of Pandaren, the Warrior sect which are physically larger or more rugged in appearance, different fur tones etc. Hell, why not make them a different race of Bear that arent Panda.

Its easily workable into the lore, as we know Blizzard likes to refresh or twist existing Canon Lore to fit game criteria.

I personally would love to see (if this is actually an expansion, and not something else, or a redherring), Pandarens in some form as a playable race, or as a Hero race for both Factions.

There is definitely enough to create an expansion based on Pandaria, or the other side of the Azerothian ocean.

I for one am optimistic! ^_^

Originally Posted by nintendo5998

A 3DS version of WoW sounds amazing but pretty hard because it is a huge game (25gb) and has still updates or patches. Of-course the problem for patching or updating could be resolved with the spotpass-feature of the 3DS. But it still is a big game and above all else it is an online game which has never been seen on any portable console by my knowing. But if they could achieve it, i would be very happy and won't hesitate to buy or download it.

Ummm, it would be a spinoff /smack

Also to the guy above me, if you see this the Horde have closer ties with the pandas than alliance do, pandas are like the goblins, neutral but they kinda like the horde more. unless they pull a blood elf stunt or something

Awesome I can't wait! I wonder what horde will get for new race

I am pretty sure it's already been clearly stated that we would not be able to play as pandaren. I am PRETTY sure they have clearly stated this infinite times in the past 6 years. I am fairly certain that they would not name an expansion after one of the factions' races. You would likely never see "Adventures In Kezan" or "Long Live Velen" as an expansion title. This infers that the Pandaren nation of Pandaria would be a cornerstone of the expansion... Which, in turn, suggests a focus on the South Isles, Azshara, and beyond.It is not that difficult to piece together. Calm down, drama queens.

IF it's true then there's going to be major lore changes to make them allied with the Alliance or the Horde.
IF Pandaren becoms playable they'd either have to add another race or have pandaren be like DKs and you simply join one or another (you obv choose in character creation in character views.)

Also we already have 12 races and 10 classes. They could add Pandaren only and have it be like DKs but only a new starter zone, models, city and maybe some lore changed isnt much work for a expansion which makes me think they'll add Pandaren and a Pandaren class with it.
The known Pandaren "classes" are:
-Munk. Probabbly going to be like a priest rogue mix (from diversity of spells, from holy/divine abilties to fast brutal melee attacks.)
-Brewmaster. Specialist in potions and poisons. Could be a DPS/Tank spec since from Lore brewmasters aren't known as either magical or agile, they're tough and burly.

There are other "jobs" that pandaren is known to have through lore but none of them seem to be likely to add to a character class because of the simellar gameplay with existing classes.

It's been my opinion for years now that World of warcraft needs another heal/dps hybrid, or even a heal/dps/tank hybrid.
I can see munks being healers and dps and brewmasters being tank and dps, since we got dks (dps + tank) as a previous hero class i think it's very likely that we'll see a healer/dps or healer/dps/tank class when and if they add a new class.

As a racial the things that would make sence from lore and warcraft games would be something like a activate crit chance increase, maybe like troll racial but gives crit instead. Either that or "drunken rage" - You heal/damage 15% more for 8seconds but your haste is reduced by 50% (healers) and chance to hit is reduced by 4% (melee and 8.5% (caster dps)

I like double edge racials, should be some disadvantages to some racials. Stoneform for instance could slow you down for the duration since you turn into stone. Will of the forsaken could make you miss the next attack. Bloodrage (orc) could make you loose 10% of your BASE hp (around 4-5k health). Warstomp could make you unable to move for a second since you're stomping the ground hard. Shadowmeld could make you take 5% extra damage while you're in shadowmeld (if they find you you're punished) Darkflight (worgen) after the runspeed you get tired and have to catch your breath, reduces movement speed by 10%

List can go on and on but some racials seem too good no to have any drawbacks, human racial for instance is very strong in pvp but doesn't have any drawbacks.
Think alot more people would choose their character carefully and more importaintly use their racials smart and not just to do it. Also adding some drawbacks to the racials would make it alot more fun to see who knows to use it and who doesn't know.

and Blizz can't tell us more about next expansion soon enough. Cata is a dull disappointment

Originally Posted by Silverware

Dude... seriously?

The first result in google using the words "cataclysm trademark".

http://wow.joystiq.com/2009/07/01/bl...for-cataclysm/

Hell, I even remember in the speculation threads people thinking that it was a Diablo 3 expansion.

lol, very well then xD I stand corrected AGAIN xD I am bad at this.

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Originally Posted by Flaks

Get to the damn Legion and/or Trolls already. Stop adding bullshit random story arcs that no one cares about in the grand scheme of things. Even worse, stop adding this random shit and tying it into the larger story arcs. We want Medivh, we want Sargeras, we want Xoroth, we want Azshara with Nagas and N'zoths WITHOUT PANDAS THROWN INTO THE MIX.

LOL!!!! We dont know whats at Pandaria soooooo.....you cant be the judge to say this is or isnt major story content.

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Originally Posted by Elunedra

this does fit in thier path of choice, since there is little to no lore about those pandaren and ppl thoguh it was an april fools race,so they can add whatever they want to it.

either way i think this is still an aprilfool lol and if it real it will be weird

and why do some ppl keep thiking about things like oh they be neutral... no race every be neutral we all have to chooce when we roll

As I have said before. We have NO IDEA what there is at Pandaria. Pandarans have become an actual role in World of Warcraft. They have their own lore and some players take them seriously. They were even in Warcraft III. What they started out as is irrelevant. Its what they have become.

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Originally Posted by nameuser

Pandas rofl shut up. Pandas are gay as hell and not in any way "cute", if you want something cute, go watch my little pony, not wow ffs. its only those pony freaks that wants pandas anyways.

But yes, even as far as we know blizzard can go sometimes, i really doubt they will ever add anything serious about pandas.

Pandas can actually be very aggressive irl. Let me see YOU fuck with one. Pandaren are big and can be ferocious warriors. Not to be taken lightly

PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! PANDAS! I want to play this Expansion, right now.. if it is an Expansion.And I bet my first born child that I get 5 infraction points for trolling for this post.

Originally Posted by thespeckledkiwi

Still gives Blizzard what? 1 - 1 1/2 years to finish up Cata. And who knows, maybe Deathwing doesn't die LOL

Already been said that Deathwing WILL die

If it is the next expansion, and they have Pandaren, why do people assume they'll be a playable race that can change factions? The Vrykul, Tuskarr, Taunka, Gorloc and Wolvar all came with Wotlk and none of them ended up playable.

If both horde and alliance will end up helping / joining the pandaren it's more likely that they'd be a group of Neutral NPCs, even if it is an expansion with their name in the title. Not that i don't want playable pandarens! Would be awesome. (and Nerubians)

This is...quite a turn of events. Going to be really hit or miss for me. I hope they can tie in enough existing stuff to keep it all relevant. If they pull this off well I will begin laughing for hours. Then again I should look at myself, a fat chicken that drops stars on people to kill them. It can't get much more rediculous, can it?

Pandas rofl shut up. Pandas are gay as hell and not in any way "cute", if you want something cute, go watch my little pony, not wow ffs. its only those pony freaks that wants pandas anyways.

But yes, even as far as we know blizzard can go sometimes, i really doubt they will ever add anything serious about pandas.

I forgot elves and gnomes the most manly shit ever rite

Originally Posted by Menedude

If it is the next expansion, and they have Pandaren, why do people assume they'll be a playable race that can change factions? The Vrykul, Tuskarr, Taunka, Gorloc and Wolvar all came with Wotlk and none of them ended up playable.

If both horde and alliance will end up helping / joining the pandaren it's more likely that they'd be a group of Neutral NPCs, even if it is an expansion with their name in the title. Not that i don't want playable pandarens! Would be awesome. (and Nerubians)

Yeah i thought this also initially. However, Wotlk introduced the Death Knight class. Doing something different from BC (Which introduced Draenei and Blood elves) and keeping the player base interested by doing something a bit different.

Cata comes out. Repeats the same progression as BC, new races, no new classes. If MOP does turn out to be WoW expansion, i for one would like to see them do both in one swoop. Pandaren as a playable race, with a Hero Class (Brewmaster) Rolled into it. Or even Pandaren as the hero class.

Either way, Pandaren in the game is something i have wanted to see for a while. NPC or playable. I just feel at the end of the day, Blizzard need to impress us with something a bit different than following a formulaic progression in terms of Race/Hero class releases.