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Link below is a screenshot of a trademark filed by Blizzard.

http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2011/july/mistsfopandaria.jpg

It's on MMO Champions front page too.

http://www.mmo-champion.com

Edited, Aug 2nd 2011 8:15pm by Antius



Funny fake Pandaria trailer by GamebreakerTV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdywKd3MsYw&feature=channel_video_title

Edited, Aug 4th 2011 11:14pm by Antius

No it couldn't. Pandaria = Pandaren, I assume. Titan is a non-WoW IP.

I think we'd benefit from a new villain, IMO. Besides it'd be nice if someone stayed dead for once. Too many setbacks, not enough victories.



Also yay Pandaren!



Edited, Aug 2nd 2011 5:57pm by someproteinguy

Yay for zombie dragons?

I know of Panderans, not sure why I didn't make the connection between Panderans and Pandaria. >.>

Well they could do Azshara depending on where Pandaria ends up getting located in the world. (The lore around them is that the location is a secret that no one else has found. The fabled homeland is actually very mythical even for WoW's Lore which makes it a blank sheet for the developers to work with). Also I wouldn't mind new villains and protagonists to enter the scene. To tell the truth I am actually pretty tired of both the current lore villains we fight now, and what looks like what we will fight in the future. I want something fresh that allows a lot of room for the developers to just go wild now and in the future. The idea of an Asian inspired expansion (The little Lore we have of Pandaria almost guarantees it will at least largely be Asian inspired, at least the main island Pandaria) opens up for some interesting new scenery and hopefully a renewed focus on a unified geography theme that was non-existent in Cataclysm.

There's also N'Zoth and the resurgence of the Nightmare as a possibility. And, of course, Sargeras isn't exactly dead, so he could be the next big one(though I'm of a mind that when they do that one, it'll likely be the last expansion). Then, of course, the Titans could return despite Algalon's "All-Clear" to re-originate Azeroth.

That's not to mention the potential a schism in the Horde has for producing a villain we'd all be happy to kill. If Garrosh gets kicked out of his leadership position, he could certainly end up teaming up with the wrong people for some revenge. Especially if Pandaria holds some great secret like the barbarian lands in Diablo II held.

It was trademarked the same date, just a few years later as Wrath if I remember what I read earlier. So it seems pretty obvious that it'll be the next exp. Now we wait till more stuff is datamind as we get closer to Blizzcon this year to figure out if it is a class exp, or a race exp. I wouldn't mind either.

It would be hard to give just one race Pandas, but what if there is a lore twist were the reason we haven't seen the Pandarians for so long is because they have been taken over by the Old Gods? Maybe their are a few that have escaped the control of the Old Gods, they worn us, and maybe teach the Dwarfs and Orcs (Or Tauren, hard to say) how to be brewmasters? New class, no one rages about not getting the coolest joke race in all of World of Warcraft, and they have a lore way of not being a complete joke.

We could have the corrupted ruler of the Pandarian's as the main evil of the expansion. All the while he is really just a puppet of the Old Gods (Al though that does sound a little too close to Deathwings story.) Maybe just straight up have an Old God as the main villain. They have such great powers as to corrupt places hundreds of scale miles from their domain, why haven't they been the main boss of an expansion yet?

Well while I can only speculate what's gonna happen

these two from OMFGCata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3WGdj9L5co&feature=feedu Have already been speculating within a day or so. This is an hour long audio commentary so just run it in the background and eat a sammich!

Yeah I listened to all of the OMFGCata video, and I agree with them when they say, this expansion is so left field, that no one really knows what is going to happen. For me, the lore geek, WoW just got interesting again. And once they revel how they f it up, it will go back to being less interesting.

Yeah if this is the expansion this is my feeling too. Forget the absurdity of how the Pandaren came to origin (Warcraft III April Fools joke), they are now part of the lore of the world and it is lore that has been heavily disregarded and opens up a whole new dimension of possibilities for the world at large. A Blank slate for the developers and story writers to just go wild on, new locations that haven't been discovered or told about to death, new enemies that come with an exotic new locale that were kept in mystery. This is the developers chance to break away from the standard mold (Lets beat all the enemies from previous warcraft games and do nothing new!) and give us an expansion that feels completely different then the previous ones.


Edited, Aug 3rd 2011 4:04pm by croythegreat

I hate to say it, but it seems they completed all things to do with the Emerald Dream in the Stormrage book.

Xavius and N'Zoth are still in there causing chaos.

This. Malfurion managed to contain the Nightmare to a tiny portion of the dream, but it's still there.

k.