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Scenario Previews: Arena of Annihilation and Greenstone Village
Two more scenarios were added in beta in this recent patch:
Greenstone Village
and
Arena of Annihilation
. We've got writeups and screenshots of them, as well as videos by Lore! Sceanarios also now have quests implemented, as well as reward satchels that yield ilvl 463 blues:
Cache of Powerful Armor
.
Greenstone Village
Greenstone Village
Greenstone village has been taken over by Jade Elementals and you will have to restore peace to the village by fending off the attacks, rescuing villages, finding their kegs, and killing vengeful sprites.
Summary
Stage 1: Rescue the Villagers:
Woodcarver Liupo
and
La
Mayor Lin
Meila
Portly Shung
Scribe Rinji
Graceful Swan
The village has been invaded by Cursed Jade Elementals and Sassy Seedlings. The group will need to clear the town and speak to the frightened NPCs.
Stage 2: Rescue the Dojo
Beasts of Jade spawn inside the Dojo and you need to help the Brewmaster kill them.
Stage 3: Recover Burgled Barrels[/
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Mists of Pandaria Will Be Released September 25th
The Mists of Pandaria release date has finally been revealed as
September 25th, 2012
. Its retail price will be $39.99 USD, with a digital collector's edition sitting at $59.99 USD and the physical collector's edition at $79.99.
We've also got the official press release.
IRVINE, Calif. – July 25, 2012 –
Land, ho! Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that
World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™
, the fourth expansion set for the world’s most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, will be available in stores and online starting from September 25, 2012. Upon the expansion’s release, intrepid explorers of the Alliance and the Horde will be able to set foot upon the shores of the long-lost continent of Pandaria and embark on a perilous journey to uncover its ancient mysteries.
Mists of Pandaria
will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® at a sugg
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Mists of Pandaria Digital Deluxe Version
If you go to upgrade your Mists of Pandaria beta account, you'll notice something interesting: there's an option to upgrade to a digital deluxe version of the game! It's not available for purchase yet and will likely be taken down, but it has interesting implications for when Mists of Pandaria sales happen. This would be a first for a World of Warcraft expansion and would serve as a way of getting the digital bonus features without getting the entire physical collector's edition.
More than likely, this version will include
Imperial Quilen
and
Lucky Quilen Cub
--the two previously datamined collector's edition mount and pet combo!
Will you be upgrading digitally or buying a physical version? There's no word on what the price difference will be, but it will probably be cheaper.
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Mists of Pandaria: Challenge Modes
For the current Challenge Mode guide as of Patch 5.1,
click here
!
If seeing Dragon Soul nerfed every month isn't your thing, Challenge Modes in Mists of Pandaria may be more your style. Similar to
Herald of the Titans
, you'll beat bosses without overgearing them, getting special vanity prizes like unique transmog armor as rewards.
Overview
Challenge Modes are timed heroic instance runs, done in low ilvl gear. Any gear worn above ilvl 463 will be scaled down.
Gear will retain all hit and expertise, so players can remain capped. Stats that will be scaled down are secondary ones.
There are three tiers of achievements and rewards, listed below: gold, silver, and bronze.
Once players have beaten all the gold achievements, they have access to a
realm leaderboard
.
Challenge-mode leaderboards
allow players to filter by instance, time, and by guild.
Inspiration for challenge modes: timed Stratholme runs and the original Zul'Aman r
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News Round Up: MoP Tabard Preview, Character Transfer Sale, PTR Soon
The latest beta patch introduced all the tabards for the Mists of Pandaria factions--they blow tabard designs from past expansions out of the water. Unlike past expansions, tabards will not be the first thing players buy at Friendly for reputation gains. Instead, they will be vanity rewards only available at Exalted, just like tabards in Burning Crusade.
Click on the images to view them in our 3D Modelviewer!
Anglers Tabard
,
August Celestials Tabard
,
Golden Lotus Tabard
,
Klaxxi Tabard
Lorewalkers Tabard
,
Order of the Cloud Serpent Tabard
,
Shado-Pan Tabard
,
Tillers Tabard
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Mists of Pandaria: Rare Elites and Vanity Items
Rare spawns are getting some huge changes in Mists of Pandaria--they'll drop unique vanity items like
Ai-Li's Skymirror
and
Mr. Smite's Brass Compass
! These items range from vanity pets to trinkets that summon kidnapped puppies. After Cata's rares mostly dropped generic quest-level armor, we're thrilled to see a return to quirky flavor details in Mists. We farmed up as many items as we could yesterday in between covering the latest beta patch.
Every rare mob in Pandaria, known as "Pandaren champions," will drop a satchel and a medium-level piece of armor in addition to a special item. Most rares drop vanity items, which we've listed below, but a few mobs in lower-level zones drop things like
Big Bag of Linens
instead. Tracking down all the rare mobs will grant the achievement
Glorious!
.
Several of our intrepid beta users have been
farming these mobs
--be sure to check out
Glorious: Rare Elites of Pandaria
that compiles much of the found info. It's got maps of all the new rares, tabs for all the new loot and NPCs, and tips for dealing with their abilities.
Kun-Lai Summit
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15882 - Spell Changes, Latest Additions, and Icons
A new patch looks to be hitting the beta tonight and we've got the spell changes up as well as latest additions and icons!
Check out the latest additions
.
Patch Highlights
World boss loot is starting to trickle in, this mount will be one of the drops:
Son of Galleon's Saddle
.
Reputation rewards continue to have a focus on vanity with the Shado-Pan exalted reward being a transmoggable hat:
Replica Shado-Pan Helmet
!
Achievement rewards were changed:
Pandaren Kite String
will be a reward from
Pandaren Ambassador
while
That's a Lot of Pet Food
will reward
Venus
.
Each Mists of Pandaria faction will get their own tabard:
Klaxxi Tabard
,
August Celestials Tabard
,
Lorewalkers Tabard
,
Order of the Cloud Serpent Tabard
,
Golden Lotus Tabard
,
Shado-Pan Tabard
, and
Tillers Tabard
.
The Tillers have a new vanity item:
Pandaren Scarecrow
.
Another Yak mount that's zone specific:
Tuft of Yak Fur
.
The night elf racial
Quickness
was changed: it's now 2% increased chance to dodge attacks.
Enchanters will have more flexibility converting materials in Mists:
Sha Crystal
can be made once a day, for example.
It was mentioned that LFR will be changed
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News Round Up: New Recruit-a-Friend Mount
There's a new mount players can get this week, via Recruit-a-Friend:
Heart of the Nightwing
. This mount replaces the
X-53 Touring Rocket
as the reward you get when the recruited player pays for the second full month of game time. It transforms you into a flying panther that can carry the recruit on your back! Check out the 3D model below:
There are also two 10-player heroic encounters open for testing on beta today. Check out our past coverage of these bosses featuring the Encounter Journal and screenshots!
Will of the Emperor
Spirit Kings
In today's news round up, there's also more class balance analysis posts and the ongoing debate on challenging content in Cataclysm continues. And as a reminder,
Power of the Aspects
is now 30% in Dragon Soul this week.
Click the cut to see all the blue posts!
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Mists of Pandaria: New Mounts
There are many new mounts in store in Mists of Pandaria, from cloud serpents to water striders that walk on water. Since we've been datamining a few new mounts and models every patch, we thought it would be good to list them all in one place. Remember to click on the images to view them on our 3D modelviewer!
Cloud Serpent
The following three mounts require
Order of the Cloud Serpent
Exalted, which will be a month-long reputation grind in the style of the Winterspring Frostsaber.
Reins of the Azure Cloud Serpent
Reins of the Golden Cloud Serpent
Reins of the Jade Cloud Serpent
Reins of the Thundering August Cloud Serpent
requires Exalted with
The August Celestials
and costs .
Reins of the Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent
is purchasable from guild vendors upon clearing all Tier 14 content.
Reins of the Crimson Cloud Serpent
is a reward for completing
Glory of the Pandaria Hero
.
Reins of the Heavenly Crimson Cloud Serpent
is the reward from
Glory of the Pandaria Raider
Reins of the Astral Cloud Serpent
will probably be celestial, in the style of Algalon/Elegon.
Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent
: Small chance to be inside the loot satchel upon killing the world boss
Sha of Anger
.
Reins of the Onyx Cloud Serpent
: Reward from the quest
Surprise Attack!
.
Reins of the Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent
is the new rare spawn mount for Pandaria. I
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Mists of Pandaria Preview: Pet Battles
Blizzard is enabling pet battles officially on the beta later tonight and they've posted their website feature on the system! Be sure to
check out the latest information on the new patch
after you read up on the system and its goals. We've also had our very own Lore take a video of the pet battles for those not in Mists of Pandaria!
Wowhead also has
battle pet abilities
as well as
battle pet species
on our beta site to check out.
Pet Battle Video Preview
Pet Battle Preview
For years, your faithful companion pets have followed you on countless adventures. They've provided you with comfort, company, sometimes even with entertainment and hours of fun. Maybe you only have a handful of pets you really love, or maybe you have made it your quest to capture as many of them as you can. The fact remains, heroes love their little companions... and in Mists of Pandaria, they will take the
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15851 - Spell Changes, Latest Additions, 3D Models, and More
A new beta patch is currently available for download. It requires you to update the whole beta--around 20gb--so in the meantime, check out our spell changes and latest additions. Of particular note is that
pet battles
will be enabled in this patch!
Check out the latest additions!
3D Models
More druid forms. Remember
Charred Glyph
? We have some models for that now!
Patch Highlights
There will be feat of strengths for not using zone wide buffs on heroic content:
Cutting Edge: Grand Empress Shek'zeer
,
Cutting Edge: Sha of Fear
,
Cutting Edge: Will of the Emperor
.
Each zone has vanity items that summon temporary mounts:
Bag of Kafa Beans
summons a goat in Kun-Lai,
Oddly-Shaped Horn
summons a behemoth in Valley
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Gathering Professions Preview and News Round Up: Dragon Soul 30%
Rounding out our profession previews for Mists of Pandaria, we'll look at the remaining gathering ones:
Herbalism
,
Mining
,
Skinning
,
. We've gone over all the items for each profession and their drop locations, as well as the new buffs each profession offers.
Today's news round up covers a variety of topics: Dragon Soul difficulty change to 30% next week, the announcement of the new Guild Mentoring Program, more Beta Class Balance Analysis, LFR roll explanations, and Blizzard at Comic-Con.
Herbalism
Herbalists get a new rank of
: Uses your skill in Herbalism to absorb energy and nutrients from the earth, instantly healing minor wounds and granting 2880 haste for 20 sec. Can be used while stealthed or invisible.
Herbalist's Spade
is sold by Trade Supply vendors. It increases your herbalism by +10 and does not need to be equipped.
Fool's Cap
: high-level areas with water nearby: Windward Isle, Briny Muck in Dread Wastes, etc. Requires 600 skill.
Golden Lotus
: requires 550 skill, any zone, rare spawn node. Picking one gives you
Luck of the Lotus
. Also chance to be inside [it
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Mists of Pandaria: Leatherworking Overview (Updated for 5.4)
This guide provides an overview of the additions and changes to Leatherworking in Mists of Pandaria.
Leatherworkers in Mists of Pandaria get powerful bracer enchants, as well as new types of BoP leg kits. They can make new PvP and PvE armor for both leather and mail users, as well as sell leg kits for all melee dps.
Patch Updates
New to Patch 5.4, Leatherworkers can craft ilvl 476 PvP and ilvl 553 epic recipes. These recipes are learned when crafting
Hardened Magnificent Hide
, which is used for the new reagent
Hardened Magnificent Hide
.
Pattern: Magnificence of Leather
and
Pattern: Magnificence of Scales
are new world drops in 5.2. When crafting them, you have a chance to learn the recipe for a new
ilvl 458 PvP gear or ilvl 522 epic
item. There is also a new Leatherworking bag.
Profession Perks
There are three types of leg armor kits Leatherworkers can put on their own gear for only
Eternium Thread
. These kits have more useful stat combinations than in the past. There are no more attack power kits for dps--instead there is one with agility and one with strength. These kits all require 575 skill and level 80:
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Mists of Pandaria: Cooking Preview, Part 2
Since we last did a
cooking preview
a few months ago, there's been some new additions we wanted to share with you! We've leveled up cooking to show you the new feast models, found locations for all the cooking materials, and previewed some of the cooking vanity rewards and the story behind
Cooking School Bell
.
To recap the basics: cooking will be split up into six specializations in Mists of Pandaria. Leveling one will level your overall cooking, and you will learn dishes that give a specific stat buff. It is possible to level multiple specializations for achievements, and there are also new easy ways to go from 1-525 cooking in Pandaria. Our
earlier preview
covers the recipes for each specialization and the new low-level recipes.
New Feasts
The new Pandaren feasts are a departure from the serving platters of previous expansions. Instead, they are large tables with detailed tasty meals! These feasts give +250 of a primary stat normally and +275 if it matches up with your cooking specialization, except if it's
Banquet of the Brew
. You wil
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News Round Up: Pandaren Phoenix Mount, Beta Raid Video Preview
In today's news round up, we've got video and screenshot previews of four new raid encounters: Tsu'long, Sha of Fear, Lei Shi, and Blade Lord Ta'yak. We also discovered beta players now learn
Reins of the Crimson Pandaren Phoenix
!
It's been quieter than usual for blue posters, but there's some feedback about Challenge Modes as well as a few more Beta Class Analysis posts.
New Mount:
Reins of the Crimson Pandaren Phoenix
Reins of the Crimson Pandaren Phoenix
is the model used for the "Pandaren Phoenix" Challenge Mode mount reward, and it's now automatically learned by all players on beta. The animations seem a bit rushed so far, but it's always nice to see a new model instead of a reskinned mount. We recently datamined four colors of this mount model, which we've included below too: click on the images to view them in our 3D Model Viewer!
Pandaren phoenix mount (green)[/mo
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Scenario Previews: Crypt of Forgotten Kings and Unga Ingoo
Lore and I have teamed up again to bring you previews of the latest scenarios on beta! We'll be looking at two very different scenarios today:
Crypt of Forgotten Kings
, which takes place in a corrupted tomb with the Sha, and
Unga Ingoo
, which takes place on the beach with drunken Hozen.
They're both fairly short, and like the
earlier scenarios
, require you to be level 90 but have no spec/group requirements. You can learn more about scenarios from NPCs at your level 90 faction hubs, or queue from them via the Dungeon Finder.
Unga Ingoo
Rescue Jungle Brew from the clutches of the evil hozen pirates of Unga Ingoo.
Summary
Stage 1
Escort Brewmaster Bo to the tropical brewing pot.
Stage 2
Players run around the island collecting brew. Instead of looting brew bottles, it instead shows up as a stacking buff, with a chance to "spill" over 30, which could lower the buff. Meanwhile, the hozen are arriving in ships and running up the shore to atta
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Protectors of the Endless Video Preview and News Round Up
There's been a lot of Mists of Pandaria raid testing lately and today we have two more previews for you: a video by Lore of
Protectors of the Endless
and screenshots of
Elegon
, a celestial dragon reminiscent of Algalon.
In today's news round up, there are even more Ghostcrawler posts on class balance that we've organized by class after the cut, clarifications on challenge mode gear scaling, and a large debate on the quality, difficulty, and quantity of available 4.3 content.
Video Preview: Protectors of the Endless
Learn all about the
Protectors of the Endless
with Lore's video taken from beta testing yesterday! This encounter requires players to kill three corrupted Jinyu bosses with different sets of abilities. We have the full Encounter Journal toggled below the video.
Encounter Journal
<h1><img class="bossicons" width="128" height="64" src="
http://wow.zamimg.com/images/wow/journal/ui-ej-boss-protector-kaolan.png"
style="float:left;padding:10px">Protectors of the Endless</h1><p>When the Sha of Fear invaded the Terrace of Endless Spring, three ve
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Mists of Pandaria: Blacksmithing Overview (Updated for 5.4)
This guide provides an overview to all of the Blacksmithing additions and changes in Mists of Pandaria.
New to 5.4
Blacksmiths can make new Crafted Malevolent PvP gear (including shields), as well as ilvl 553 epics.
Blacksmiths can make
Balanced Trillium Ingot
, learnt from
Plans: Balanced Trillium Ingot and Its Uses
which is a world drop.
Balanced Trillium Ingot
can be crafted from
Balanced Trillium Ingot
once a day, which takes 1x
Trillium Bar
, or
Accelerated Balanced Trillium Ingot
which has no cooldown and takes 1x
Trillium Bar
and 1x
Spirit of War
(from DEing Siege of Orgrimmar epics).
Making
Balanced Trillium Ingot
lets you learn a random ilvl 476 Crafted Malevolent or ilvl 553 epic pattern. These crafted PvP items look like Season 12 gear that was purchasable with
in 5.0
New to Patch 5.2
Blacksmiths have an
alternative way to level from 1-525 via Ghost Iron
and can craft
new weapons resembling Burning Crusade models
, such as
Fireguard, Reborn
, for transmogrification. There are also new recipes, learned via discovery from [
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News Round Up: Fireworks in Azeroth Today, 5.0.1 PTR Coming Soon
The Midsummer Fire Festival comes to an end very soon, and Azeroth is celebrating with fireworks today! Besides hourly evening firework shows, there are also special festive NPCs in major cities that have set up tables with mugs and kegs--if you /dance with them, they'll give you
Celebrate Good Times!
and +10% to all stats. Meanwhile, the goblin guards in Booty Bay are all asleep.
Holiday fireworks vendors in capital cities sell a variety of interesting types like
Midsummer Ground Flower
, as well as exclusive accessories like
Red Sparkler
which can only be bought today.
Ziggle Sparks
by the Alliance flight master in Booty Bay.
Lillian Singh
in Stormwind's Trade District.
Kizzak Sparks
in Orgrimmar's Drag.
Jaxxil Sparks
in the Ratchet inn.
Wizbang Booms
in Ironforge.
Midsummer Fire Festival Ends with a Bang
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News Round Up: Beta Raid Preview, Ghostcrawler Class Feedback, Tides of War
In today's news round up, we've got visual previews of the Mogu and Mantid raid bosses open for testing on beta! We also have the corresponding Encounter Journals toggled for all featured bosses.
As far as blue posts, Ghostcrawler has answered many more questions on the Beta Class Balance Analysis thread, which we've organized by topic, as well as clarified PvP Power. Blizzard also announced the release of the latest Warcraft book,
Tides of War
, which focuses on Jaina Proudmoore, and did a summer spotlight on Blackrock Mountain.
We also have a preview of the new
Collector's Edition vanity items
, so be sure to check them out!
Imperial Vizier Zor'lok
Zor'lok shrieks his proclamations so they're heard throughout the sprawling mantid palace. He is the Voice of the Empress, and his words alone inspire the insectoid race's warriors to give their lives without question. Unwaveringly loyal, Zor'lok will stop at nothing to defend his beloved matriarch, regardless of the corruption within her.
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