Blizzard Entertainment and the World of Warcraft development team are ready to unleash the hounds of information for the recently announced Mists of Pandaria expansion. In a full suite of articles about Pandaria, we give you a closer look at some of the new features that will be included. Check it out before leaving your comments.

During my time at Blizzard’s HQ in Irvine, California I was treated to quite a metric ton of info when it comes to World of Wacraft’s next expansion: Mists of Pandaria.  In the first part of our preview today we gave you a look into the mind of Blizzard and why they think Pandaria is the right place to bring back the war between the Horde and Alliance.  In this second part, we’ll dive into the new Battlegrounds, the new dungeons, the Pet Battle system, the Monk, the new Talents, scenarios and Challenge Mode dungeons.  In short, we’ll briefly cover all we learned about these new systems coming to Azeroth hopefully later in 2012.

Read more of Bill Murphy's World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria: New Battlegrounds, the Monk & Talents.

that "new" battleground seems right out of the book from Rift.. 

haha

i love the chinese settings.....but this game i can never go back too......ever.

same  tho is an old game , making game worst evry expantion not worth it anymore VANILLA FTW

O man it will stay for more years on top. How much battlegrounds we have now in wow? 12-14 maybe, well thats huge and you cant be bored

Think ima play WoW for the first time

hahaha that is so cute

Sounds cool.

I think I read somewhere that the Azshara battleground was supposed to be modeled on DOTA, but not 100%. Cant even remember where I read that.

If they learned to take it off of the Cataclysm rails, it will be an improvement for WoW. It will be weird, though, doing the rails from 78-83ish and then going to a more open world, if they do that. 

I played this game for two years and I am bored with where it is now, but I still have fond memories of BC times. To be honest, I miss being able to just walk around and explore in a themepark. SWTOR has disappointed me so far in that aspect, so I can't rule out going back to check out Mists, depending of course on their price point and what else  is out to play at that time.

panda's or just overly large ewoks... can't think of a single reason for any game to have either of them.. epic fail imo

Pandas are cute. Pandas going bipedal aren't. Is Jack Black involved with this atrocious idea? Blizzard are all out of ideas with WoW tbh...

Originally posted by tachgb

Pandas are cute. Pandas going bipedal aren't. Is Jack Black involved with this atrocious idea? Blizzard are all out of ideas with WoW tbh...

 

Well, Pandas are part of Warcraft lore, we older players know that. And idea is great. Now i know for sure that i wil buy this expansion

" but he stated again that this is a class intended to bring a sort of “Street Fighter” mechanic to the game.  "

That about sums it up.

I dont want to play Street Fighter with Pandas Mr Street.

Originally posted by Tellax

that "new" battleground seems right out of the book from Rift.. 

haha

 

The rift battlegrounds seems right out from the book of wow

Originally posted by Tellax

that "new" battleground seems right out of the book from Rift.. 

haha

 

funny, i thought this was a review for rift, too, until you said that. then i looked and it was for wow.

and i was like, wow.

blizz sure have a lot of unique and fun ideas, for sure...

Mr Blizz "Right let's dumb down the talent system even more, but we need to convince people that it's going to let them improve their choices. Any ideas?"

Why do I get the impression that someone at blizz actually said something like that?

Panda's had but a fraction of lore in the lore of Warcraft.

Iam still waiting like last year april fools for that craptastic pandabear joke.

2 weeks left, but i dont expect it to be a april fools joke anymore.

WoW was great in Vanila and even TBC was a amazing Xpac, but it went downhill faster and faster after the main dev's deserted WoW and left for project Titan.

The ignorance from Blizzard and the way theu threat their playerbase (loyal playerbase) after many years is a sad piece of greed from their part.

There are so many server with low population, but none of them get any free migrations, pay or stay on a ghosttown.

3 years past and still not a single word from Blizzard to assist those servers.

Some people may like pokemon and pandabears, but alot of people hate that stuff, its more kiddy then adult in an already hatefull owned kids game.

Wont get any better thats for sure.

I am one of those who are "scared of the pared down talent system". I left WOW a month after Cata was released mainly because of the talent changes. I loved WOW through WOTK but going back, even on a free low level toon, is painful - so much has changed for the worse. I was hoping that Blizz would see the mistake they made with Cata but it is evident now, from Ghostcrawlers comments, that they do not believe that they made a mistake. My opinion is that all these changes are geared to make WOW playable on consoles or free to play.  

Originally posted by headphones

Originally posted by Tellax

that "new" battleground seems right out of the book from Rift.. 

haha

 

funny, i thought this was a review for rift, too, until you said that. then i looked and it was for wow.

and i was like, wow.

blizz sure have a lot of unique and fun ideas, for sure...

Wait a minute so rift copied heavily from wow and now wow is copying from rift? hahahaha!!

Originally posted by jmcdermottuk

Mr Blizz "Right let's dumb down the talent system even more, but we need to convince people that it's going to let them improve their choices. Any ideas?"

 

Why do I get the impression that someone at blizz actually said something like that?

To be fair, the talent system was always dumbed down with fake choices. There has always been 'the right choice' and 'the wrong choices'. Now they just made the game even more foolproof than before.

I like meaningful choices in character development, which WoW has never possessed. Ever.

At least this new system gives people some fluff choices that wont ruin their spec.