Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria

Blizzcon 2011 kicked off today, and the biggest announcement from the opening ceremonies was the development of a new expansion for World of Warcraft. Titled Mists of Pandaria, the expansion will focus on the battle between the Horde and the Alliance instead of a traditional Big Bad Enemy. There will be both a new race — Pandaren — and a new class — Monk. The level cap will be raised to 90, there will be "challenge mode" dungeons, and they're introducing a pet battle system. Blizzard also mentioned that people who buy a 12-month subscription to WoW will get a copy of Diablo 3 for free.

Comments

Still a grind

[jhoegl]

Zzzz..... WoW bores me to no end these days. A new expansion will not help.
PvP is gear based, which requires grinding, Dungeons are gear based which requires grinding, crafting requires grinding....

Same crap, different day.

Wow meets Kung Fu Panda?!

[rs1n]

I know that Blizzard is well known for little jokes and references to the real world... so I couldn't help but notice the connection between the new race and their semblances to a very well known kung-fu fighting panda of the big screen. Any idea if this was the "inspiration" for the expansion?

Re:Whole lot of meh

[osu-neko]

... Pandarens as a race don't fit the world, they were originally put in as a joke...

As were gnomes, and goblins, and tauren. Are you sure you've ever played the Warcraft games? Much of its content was there for the humor value. Pandarens fit the world perfectly. You just seem to be unfamiliar with it.