Blizzcon: 2011

[Callie Del Noire]

World of Warcraft.. MISTS OF PANDARIA!

Pandarians as a player race.
Monk Class
90 level cap
New Talent system (Hopefully hybrid systems will be able to come back)
New continent
and .. more more more...

Pet Battle modes.
Challenge Dungeons.
Raid Finder for ALL raids.
The Return of World Bosses.

More options for Valor Points.. including PVE events/'battlegrounds' and questing.

More PVP modes..
-Murderball
-Stranglethorn Diamond Mine
-Tol'vir Proving Grounds.

Achivements
-Shared account achievements
-Acheivements needed to be done by MULITPLE characters.. (like.. getting ALL tradeskills maxed among your account characters)

Ranged slot-Gone (except hunters)
Hunter Melee slot -gone
Wand- main hand weapon for casters
Relics -gone

Warlocks- Three different mechanics to show the different styles.

Shamans- Buff totems -Gone (still have the buffs)

Druids - 4 specs (dps (feral), tank (bear), healer, boomkin

General Class clean up- Spell specs, automatic spell learning, tweaks to rotation, cleaning up action bars.

LOTS AND LOTS of stuff on the talent tree.

[Callie Del Noire]

Mists of Pandaria (official trailer)

[LunarSage]

Pandas?  I can't say I'm super excited.

I'm curious of two things...

One, when will this new expansion be released? 

Two, will the Panda folk be Horde?  Alliance?  Both?  Neither?

[Callie Del Noire]

Pandas?  I can't say I'm super excited.

I'm curious of two things...

One, when will this new expansion be released? 

Two, will the Panda folk be Horde?  Alliance?  Both?  Neither?

1. Undisclosed.. 'when it's done'

2. Neutral.. till level 10. They then CHOOSE their faction.

[Callie Del Noire]

Panderans can be: Everything but Druids, Warlocks, Palidins.

Every race but Worgen/Goblins can be Monks.

Monks are sorta like Palidins in that they fill all 3 roles.
-Brewmaster: Tank
-Windmaster: Healer
-<I forgot>: DPS

[Callie Del Noire]

Pet Battles.. think.. POKEMON.

You can 'fight' wild pets to 'capture & train' and there are 'Masters' you can fight to learn special abiliites.

[LunarSage]

Murloc!   I choose YOU!

[Callie Del Noire]

Murloc!   I choose YOU!

More like.. 'Grunty! I choose you.. oh.. he's got a zergling!"

[Shjade]

It's finally happened: they've reached a point where their expansion trailers actually make me wonder why I played the game in the first place.

It would appear I've fully detoxed.

[Samael]

On the other hand I, having been clean since about 7 months, are feeling the draw to look back into it.

Damn, that's a lot of positive changes.

[Aiden]

Who gives a shit about Wow! It's all about Diablo 3 and Heart of the Swarm!

[LunarSage]

Aiden:  Panda PCs.

[Josietta]

*laughs* yes...

Who gives a shit about Wow! It's all about Diablo 3 and Heart of the Swarm!

says the guy who texted me moments after learning about them :P   sides.... we all know you can't give up on your addiction :P

Lunar and I signed up for year long membership to get that special mount and diablo 3 digital copy. :P

[Aiden]

Haha...I know. I know...but Diablo 3....Diablo!

[Callie Del Noire]

*laughs* yes...

says the guy who texted me moments after learning about them :P   sides.... we all know you can't give up on your addiction :P

Lunar and I signed up for year long membership to get that special mount and diablo 3 digital copy. :P

Aaaaaannnddddd.. The Beta?

[Callie Del Noire]

Hopefully they'll add this little guy.

[Josietta]

Aaaaaannnddddd.. The Beta?

yus!  The Beta as well ;D

[Reine]

Did anybody watch the WoW Arena Tournaments? Its a little incredible how on-edge those players are for the entire 15 minutes some matches last.

[Callie Del Noire]

Did anybody watch the WoW Arena Tournaments? Its a little incredible how on-edge those players are for the entire 15 minutes some matches last.

I watched the Raid event..

[Reine]

I watched the Raid event..

Oh drat. I missed that, though I was cheering for vodka to win. Shame they lost.

[Pumpkin Seeds]

I remember watching this trailer for the first time.  I said to myself, "Wow, it looks like Kung Fu Panda."  Then a panda popped up as a monk and I said.."Holy shit it's Kung Fu Panda!"

[Aiden]

I saw a total of 1 match and the final of the star craft match, I was drunk the rest of the time.

I even did the lore zone and got to the second prize, drunk as hell.

[Callie Del Noire]

Oh drat. I missed that, though I was cheering for vodka to win. Shame they lost.

I put down their loss to the fact that they were SLIGHTLY behind and maybe got a bit reckless in trying to get ahead.

[Reine]

I put down their loss to the fact that they were SLIGHTLY behind and maybe got a bit reckless in trying to get ahead.

Most likely, though Blood Legion is a fantastic guild all and all, so it was a fair loss. I'm still amazed that they have a boss of Ragnaros calaber on heroic farm.

[AllieCat]

Apparently Blizzard is dealing with a fairly major fuss about the closing ceremonies for Blizzcon as they broadcast a video statement by a member of the band Cannibal Corpse (who was there apparently to perform with the Blizzard Band Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftan).

The statement referred to Alliance players as "faggots" and "emo cocksuckers".

So you can imagine this raised a bit of an uproar (both on the LGBT side for using those terms in a derogatory manner, and on the general Alliance side, as for some folks it confirmed their theory that Blizzard prefers the Horde), and I think Blizzard reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallly should have known better on the LGBT side, because this was an EDITED statement from 2007.. so it's not like they didn't KNOW what was on the video, this wasn't an off-the-cuff remark.

Blizzard went through a few half-apology/argument blue comments before they woke up and realized they screwed up and have basically said "Yeah, we screwed up badly. We apologize"

http://gaygamer.net/2011/10/blizzard_president_apologizes.html