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Blizzard Adding 250,000 More Players to the Mists of Pandaria Beta Tonight
That’s right -- we’re in the process of sending 250,000 additional beta-test invites to Annual Pass holders. Keep an eye on your email and Battle.net account for an invitation to come test Mists of Pandaria with us.
As with previous waves, it’s going to take a while for the invites to process, so we recommend checking your games list in Battle.net Account Management to see whether yours has arrived yet. Once it does, you’ll see the Mists of Pandaria beta client available for download from there. We expect this entire wave to take a day or so to complete.
We appreciate the enthusiasm of everyone who signed up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass, and we’re working hard to get you into the beta. We know you’re excited to explore Pandaria and test the new content, and we’ll keep you posted here in the forums when we’re ready to send out another wave.
NVIDIA GTX 560 Winners
We've picked the seven winners for our
NVIDIA GTX 560 Giveaway
from last week. Thanks to all who participat
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Mists of Pandaria Preview: Transmoggable Legendaries, New World Events, and More!
There are some
huge
changes coming to Mists of Pandaria it appears in this latest beta patch. I've always wanted Blizzard to add more events to the world and it looks like they are going to be!
There's going to be a new fishing contest, a special event on every Friday the 13th, and more. There are also a few new rare mobs to discuss, from a Sha boss that focuses on World PvP to a group of vendors that spawn in rare locations that sell recolored legendaries that can be transmogged. A purple Thunderfury? Sign me up!
Oh, one more thing: APRIL FOOL'S.
Legendary Rare Spawns
Traveling Merchants Sell Legendary Reskins
While looking for wild pets added in this patch this weekend, Perculia and I found two very mysterious vendors on the roads in Duskwood and Burning Steppes!
Kayle
, a Blood Elf, sold us a
Corrupted Thunderfury
for which was
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
's model with a purple tint. After selling it, she disappeared into the shadows, saying she would be back again next night. It's also worth noting that we could transmogrify it, which I've included a screenshot of.
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Mists of Pandaria: Jade Forest Quest Preview
The Jade Forest
has undergone an extensive revision since we first previewed it, to better demonstrate the Alliance and Horde conflict. This zone is the first zone players will reach upon questing in Pandaria. Unlike past expansions, there are not two options for starting zones.
Players will acquaint themselves with Pandaren culture, as well as the Jinyu and Hozen. The Alliance will trace Anduin Wrynn's disappearance, and both sides will have a tragic clash by the
Temple of the Jade Serpent
, a new 5-player dungeon. Players will also have to return to The Jade Forest at 90 to train with
Order of the Cloud Serpent
in order to ride Cloud Serpent mounts.
Of note: some of the early quests reward items that resemble Tier 9 raid gear, like
Barricade-Breaker Cudgel
.
Jade Forest Quest Chains
Since we first previewed the zone, some changes have been made. Here's some screenshots from the new areas.
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Another 100,000 Beta Invites Sent to Annual Pass Holders
As we covered yesterday, Blizzard sent out 100,000 invites to Annual Pass holders. However, Bashiok just announced they're sending out an additional 100,000 throughout the evening--looks like they're starting to listen to you guys and work to get you all in Pandaria as quickly as possible!
May the odds be
ever
in your favor.
Yesterday’s 100,000 Annual Pass-holder beta-test invites ran through the night, and we’re still in the process of notifying the invitees by email. Those selected for yesterday’s wave of invites should all have the Mists of Pandaria beta client available for download through Battle.net account management, and they should all receive the email notification by end of day today. If the beta client shows up for you in Battle.net account management, you don’t need to wait for the email in order to download the client and begin testing.
We’re off to a solid start with the beta test, and things are looking good in terms of realm stability, so we’re ready to invite another wave of Annual Pass holders. A second wave of invites is going out to 100,000 more Annual Pass holders today, starting right now.
If you’re
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Mists of Pandaria: Temple of the Jade Serpent Preview
Table of Contents
Wise Mari
Library Event
Liu Flameheart
Sha of Doubt
Video Preview
We ran through the
Temple of the Jade Serpent
today--it's a pretty quick instance but each wing is richly detailed. You can also buy all glyphs for from a vendor right inside the instance. All bosses dropped ilvl 425 loot, but they were reskins of 4.3 gear and didn't have real names yet, like
Chestguard of Despair
.
The instanced version of the
Temple of the Jade Serpent
looks practically identical to the outdoor quest version--except it's been corrupted by the Sha. The library and water wings are accessible, as is the central area where questgivers and monks trained formerly. After questing through The Jade Forest, it's intriguing to find out how the temple ended up in such a state.
Wise Mari
Corrupted Living Water
elementals scatter the hallway by the Fountain of the Overseeing, along with dead Jinyu. When they die, they leave a harmful pool with [spell=106
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Mists of Pandaria Beta Invites Being Sent Out to 100,000 Annual Pass Holders
Were you looking for a beta invite? Well refresh your inbox, according to Blizzard there will be 100,000 invites going out right now.
We appreciate that everyone who signed up for the Annual Pass is genuinely excited about seeing the new content and helping us test it for release. We definitely want to get all Annual Pass holders into the beta test as soon as humanly (and technologically) possible.
To do so, we need to make sure that our new systems remain stable as we add players. If we let everyone in at the exact same time, we risk damaging the stability of the service, and then no one would be able to play. We can’t let everyone in at the same time; however, all Annual Pass holders will be invited before any opt-ins.
We’re in the process of sending 100,000 invites to Annual Pass holders, and we recommend keeping an eye on your email and Battle.net account for an invite to come explore Pandaria.
Rest assured that we WILL get all of our Annual Pass holders into the beta test. Thank you for the passion and support you’ve shown for the game, and please be patient with us as we continue driving hard toward finishing up Mists of Pandari
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15508 - Warlock and Paladin Tier 14, Pandaren Totems, New Glyphs, and More
We have the tier 14 models, pandaren totems, and Mogu'shan statues--we also have new gear, updated glyphs, new pets, and more. Also, of course, there's always:
Varian Gets Punched Scene
.
We have our latest data push live on Wowhead, check it out.
Latest Additions
New companion pets:
Sapphire Cub
and
Jade Owl
New mount:
Reins of the Great Red Dragon Turtle
Remember how
Ragefire Chasm
is being redone?
The drops are now in
:
Heartboiler Staff
and
Fireworm Robes
Scarlet Monastery
and
Scholomance
heroic modes also got some more drops added
:
Koegler's Ritual Knife
and
Headmaster's Will
New glyphs:
Contemplation
,
,
,
Glyph of the Heavens
,
,
.
Some other gl
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Mists of Pandaria Preview: Pet Battle Abilities, Wild Pet Locations, and More
Table of Contents
Wild Pets Preview
Overview
Wild Pets Locations
Pet Abilities and Classes
Beast
Critter
Dragon
Flying
Mechanical
Mystical
Water
Animal
Pet Battle Commands
Have you been anxiously awaiting pet battle news since BlizzCon's unveil?
Well, wait no more. After going through our database, we've compiled
a huge overview about pet battles
. There are several classes of pets with their own abilities which we also datamined: Beast, Critter, Dragon, Elemental, Flying, Humanoid, Mystical/Magical, Mechanical, Undead, and Water.
We also went in game
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Mists of Pandaria Spell Animations and Changes for Warlocks and More
There have been so many spell animation changes in Mists of Pandaria so far. We already touched on
the monk class
and also
the druid class
changes, but in our latest videos, Krelumian covers other classes. This includes the warlocks who have some pretty huge changes--so many that we've broken it down in its own separate video!
Hit the break to see the details of every change broken down with images.
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New Ghostcrawler Blog: Mists of Pandaria Looting Explained
Well, we knew after the bombshells Blizzard dropped both at the press event and later that week about LFR and looting, Ghostcrawler would have to explain it for us. And here it is.
Hey, how about that landslide of Mists of Pandaria information? It has taken a few days, and will probably take a few more, for the nuance of everything to really sink in. One of the topics we've been getting lots of questions about is the crazy new loot model we're introducing in Mists. We've answered several related questions in the forums, but thought it might be prudent to just put all the information in one place.I should clarify that the systems we're introducing are actually pretty simple in practice. I'm only going into a fair amount of detail because those are the kinds of questions we are getting. You don't have to understand all the particulars to participate, and we're certain that it will just all make sense once you are experiencing it in-game instead of hearing it described (that whole "show, don't tell" thing). Let's begin:
Personal Loot
Here is how looting works in today's Raid F
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Mists of Pandaria: Jade Forest Preview and News Round Up
We were lucky enough to preview the start of the Jade Forest questline in beta before the zone was later closed! Here's a peek at the cutscene for the Alliance--as covered in our
Press Event
coverage, it's quite different than the cutscene for the Horde with a very angry Garrosh.
We've also got screenshots of the initial Alliance and Horde questing hubs in The Jade Forest, as well as some of the Temple of the Jade Serpent!
Be sure to check out our recent Mists of Pandaria beta coverage--this weekend alone we
updated our talent calculator
to have talents and abilities for ALL classes, including monks, as well as footage of redone
Scholomance
,
Scarlet Monastery
, and
Ragefire Chasm
.
Alliance
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Mists of Pandaria Preview: New Scholomance and Monk Talent Calculator Updates
Content manager Krelumian managed to get footage of my paladin doing Scholomance and turn it into a video, so we figured we'd post it here for everyone to see as a new post!
Additionally,
our talent calculator now has abilities and specializations live for the monk
!
A lot of you requested it yesterday and Aryu worked hard last night to make sure it was up on a weekend.
Be sure to check out our other two previews of redesigned dungeons:
Scarlet Monastery
becomes the Scarlet Halls & Cathedral, where many new things are happening.
Ragefire Chasm
has a new evil lurking underneath Orgrimmar.
Scholomance
Overview
Familiar faces like
Janice Barov
and
Rattlegore
are back with updated mechanics, but some other bosses like Ras Frostwhisper[/b
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Mists of Pandaria Preview: The Scarlet Halls and Cathedral Redesigns
We got to check out two wings of
Scarlet Monastery
--
formerly four instances, SM is now reduced down to two
. This instance has been entirely retooled: bosses are redesigned and renamed, large areas are removed, sides commonly known as the Library and the Armory were merged to become
the Scarlet Halls
while the Graveyard and Cathedral became
the Scarlet Cathedral
.
In short, a lot of HUGE changes! We've also updated this post because our instance was bugged last time.
Watch the video for our complete run through--my character with Krelumian narrating--or click the tabs to see a detailed breakdown on what the changes are.
Video
The Scarlet Crusade is having a war and they're losing it pretty badly in the remnants of what many players referred to as
the Graveyard side
. Undead pour in and corpses burn in large, decaying piles throughout the somber scene. The area has also been pruned of
Interrogator Vishas
and his torture scene as well as trash mobs.
This is now part of Scarlet Cathedral
. It transitions seamlessly into where the Cathedral area was.
High Inquisitor Whitemane
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Mists of Pandaria Preview: New Ragefire Chasm
We hopped on the PTR and ran all the redone instances that we could this morning. These are very much works in progress as instances, but they looked really cool and had some fairly significant changes.
A common theme I noticed in pretty much every instance was a desire for there to be useable items that made the 5-mans more dynamic. In RFC, players were charged with rescuing orcs from sticky situations--from dangling off a ledge to being devoured by an elemental hound. Meanwhile, in SM, certain mobs would drop explosives which players could detonate and there was also the option to use archery targets as shields from a barrage of flaming arrows. Cool stuff, can't wait to see it more developed--and to see what it means for level 90 5-mans!
Ragefire Chasm
Overview
Those poor Troggs. What did they do to anyone? I mean, besides killing and maiming low level Horde players?
In short, Ragefire Chasm is redone
. Trogg corpses litter the molten floors of the instance--they aren't the enemies anymore. Instead it's a new cult, former members of the Horde called the Dark Shaman. Garrosh has orde
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Mists of Pandaria Day Two: Quest Armor Sets, Challenge Mode Sets, and 3D Models
We datamined dozens of new models today from the Mists of Pandaria beta, including striking new armor pieces from questing and Challenge Modes. The whole content team has been hard at work putting together videos of all the models below--some of the quest reward sets are really distinctive, and there's a bunch of asymmetrical shoulder designs, which players love. You can preview all the models in our 3-D Model Viewer as well!
Be sure to check out our
Mists of Pandaria database
, our
video of Brewmaster Monk ability animations
, and our
detailed guide to new glyphs, guild perks, achievements, and more
!
Armor Sets
Cloth Set
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Brewmaster Monk Ability Animations, Pandaren Racials, Character Customization, and More
Mists of Pandaria Talent Changes
Pandaren Racials
We saw some of the awesome Pandaren racials and default abilities at BlizzCon--and now there's even more, thanks to the addition of auto-attack.
Bouncy
: You take half falling damage.
Epicurean
: Your love of food allows you to receive double the stats from Well Fed effects.
: The Monk's Jab ability will change depending on what weapon is equipped, altering the Monks fighting style appearance. Damage and resource cost remain the same.
Gourmand
: Your Cooking skill is increased by X.
Inner Peace
: Your rested experience bonus lasts twice as long as normal.
: You have a 10% chance to gain Tiger Strikes when you auto-attack, increasing your attack speed by X% and causing your next 4 auto-attacks to cause an extra attack.
: Dual-wield one-handed weapons: Auto-attack damage increased by 40%. Two-handed weapons: Melee attack speed increased by 40%.
Pandaren Character Selection Screen
We took a video of the character creati
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Mists of Pandaria Day One: Inscription, Guild Perks, Achievements, and More
First things first:
our Mists of Pandaria database is live
!
Secondly, we've broken down all the new information in easy to digest tabs so you can check out he new goodies in Mists of Pandaria. We're hard at work pouring through all this great data. You can, of course,
go through the items in the MoP database
and see the changes for yourself. Check out some of the highlights below, such as our Druid Visual Spell Changes.
We'll be playing the beta all morning and datamining some more information for you, so check back often!
Thousands of new items and spells--day one of datamining, including dozens of profession items.
Druid Visual Spell Changes
Spell Visuals Video
We tracked down what changed and what hadn't for the Druid class. Unfortunately the paladin glyphs were not yet implemented.
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Mists of Pandaria Beta is Now
The World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™ beta test has begun! Over the course of the test, we’ll be inviting Annual Pass holders, press, fansites, friends and family, and opt-in beta testers to participate. This first phase of the beta focuses on the 1-10 starting experience for new Pandaren. High-level content as well as template characters will become available in future beta updates, but you can still copy over your own high level characters now if you’d like to test the new talent system.
As there’s no NDA for this test, you’re likely to start seeing lots of screenshots and new video around the web. Please keep in mind that the expansion is still in development -- we’ll be making changes to the game as the beta evolves, and what you’ll see during the beta test is not necessarily representative of the final game.
Players selected to participate in the beta test will receive an email invitation directing them to download the beta client directly from their Battle.net account. As always, please be aware of phishing attempts -- if you’re unsure whether your invitation i
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Mists of Pandaria™ Beta Opt-in and FAQ
We’re very close to beginning beta testing for World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™! Over the course of the beta test, we’ll be inviting Annual Pass holders, press, fansites, friends and family, and
opt-in beta testers
to participate. As there’s no NDA for this test, you’re likely to start seeing lots of screenshots and new video around the web. Please keep in mind that the game is still in development, and what you’ll see during the beta test is not necessarily representative of the final game.
If you’re wondering how you can help us test Mists of Pandaria, or how the test works, look no further than the paragraphs directly below this one.
How do I opt-in?
Once you’ve set up a Battle.net account and have attached at least one Blizzard game, you can choose to opt in to our beta tests from the
Beta Profile
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Mists of Pandaria Interviews and News Round Up
Blue Posts
Blue posters were hard at work yesterday, covering a variety of topics: LFR's new loot system, item squish, female pandaren, DotA-style battlegrounds, new models, and as a bonus--a creative blog covering Mists' content features. Here's what's new since yesterday's coverage:
Female Pandaren:
There will be many more options for her hairstyle, face, and features. There will also be options to have a long tail, or a more traditional pandaren stub tail.
Archaeology:
Can teleport to dig sites after finding an artifact, and can dig more times at a single digsite.
Inscription:
Players can level by making staves and wands now.
Factions:
Craftsman tokens from new faction currencies allow you to buy items like fun toys or pets.
Elder Tokens:
Allow players to purchase new items, convert to Valor, or buy Charms of Good Fortune--allowing players to buy another go at a boss' loot table
Proving Grounds:
A solo instance that allows players to try out their new rotations while getting achievements.
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