I had a little issues with posting today and for whatever reason the posts that I made became locked where I couldn’t edited them. So I’m just making a new one. Over just listing a whole crap load of information I’ll talk about some key points that are important to me that I care about. So here is the latest and best form Blizzcon 2011.
Mists of Pandaria
What a shock this is.. well not really. It was known for some time that this was gonna happen once the name had been trademarked after all. What was kind of shocking was not much if anything was leaked this year about Mists of Pandaria. In fact I remember last year when I watched Blizzcon live stream I pretty much knew what the next expansion was gonna be about, the zones, the bad guy, even the new races. Plus the trailer for it was leak a few days before hand.
This year however no such leaks happened that I know of. Form what news that came out, there are a few things that got me really jumping up and going HOLY SHIT!
- New Talent System
- Pet Battle System
- Valor Points for Questing
- Pve Scenarios (PVE Battlegrounds)
- New PVP Battlegrounds
There was a host of other cool things, as I’ve slowly learn in 4.2. I simply am not a raider… I really hate the whole 10/25 man deal. I hate the whole you need to be on X number of days each week and be able to play for X hours on those days. Sure it kind of sucks that Raids will reward the best loot in the game. But then again they are adding Challenge Mode Dungeons which so far form what I gather are just time runs.
One thing that I kind of find cool about them is they are scaling your gear to match the dungeon. So lets say the Dungeon was made for ilvl 365 but your current gear is ilvl 391. When you enter, your gear will scale back down to be as if it was 365. I saw and read people complaining saying they didn’t want that. Most I know simply miss the point, the gear only is going to be scaled down if you enter to do a Challenge Mode Dungeon. If you enter say a normal one or heroic version, your gear wont change. Some people just get a kick out of being able to overpower a dungeon like bath in wrath. I personally feel like if what the dungeon drops is no longer useful to you other then just to DE and get the points at the end, you should be able to blast through it in less then 20mins. Making a person spend 30+ in a 5-man simply to get 120 valor points at the end is down right bad IMO.
Over the week as more information comes out I’m gonna be talking more about each new things, starting with the talent system. Mostly gonna focus on my hunter for now. I will tell you that just seeing what they have plan for it.. made me want to level ALL my characters to max level which I might do. The one thing I always hated about being max level on more then one character is, if you went to do a raid.. and they knew you had a toon that could tank or heal.. you sometimes get force to run on them.
Which is kind of the reason why I A) try to keep most of my toons in my own person guild so only really close friends know I have other toons. B) I don’t try to gear them more anything more then just PVP. The big annoying part of it now, is they made it so much about the whole guild leveling crap that it does kind of force you to be in a level 25 guild. And leveling your own personal guild is down right not happening. Unless you get a crap load of low levels in to level it for you and given them no bank access. (Something I might end up doing anyways soon again)
Below is the trailer for the new Expansion; do enjoy and more information will be posted soon about day 2 of Bizzcon later today as well as post on the new Pet Battle System the new talents and The new ways to get gear form questing, PVE bgs and Challenge mode as well as PVP.
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