All Quiet on the Pandarian Front?Follow

mmo-champion has had some information. I'm really excited about gaining rep with The Anglers (fishing faction). I must have the Reins of the Water Strider, what ever it takes.


As far as the end of expansion slump, I like setting a goal and going for it. I've picked up Rivendare's Deathcharger, and recently my Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank. I'm stockpiling some gold from the AH, and doing more holiday quests. I finished up the old Mount Hyjal rep for my 51st Exalted, and need to finish up 2 more runs of Black Temple for my 52nd Exalted.

Things are a bit slow, but there are still things to do. Go get Loremaster if you haven't already, or pick another goal that suits your fancy.

There's been pretty much something every day on MMO-Champion about MoP. I don't really like that they're Curse-affiliated, but wowhead just can't keep up with them.

That said, I post rogue stuff in my thread on the class forum but I don't really care enough to keep a constant thread going here.

There's some nice stuff going on, but they're a long way from release so it's kind of dumb to get too stoked about it yet.

EDIT: The only thing I'm really doing is attempting to make money. I say attempt because I've been having too much fun assembling transmog sets of gear and dailies just barely keep up.

Thankfully I finally got a full set of PvP gear on my rogue so I'm not too worried about gold for enchants and gems.

Edited, May 8th 2012 12:33am by Theophany

You know, the page it takes you to if you click on that button that's labeled "Home". I may be messed up by using the Chinese client though.



I'm sure many admins here work hard and weren't necessarily given much input on certain moves at ZAM. I'll leave it there.

Jessie Cox just posted the Pandarian Dances. Both are a little bit of awesome.

Excellent dance choices, but holy **** do they need to update the animations for all the other races or this is going to look ridiculous.

I mean, just look at them...

Well, yeah, that song doesn't rank high on my hit list, but shuffling is pretty cool.

Yeah, we don't know either.

It happens when you reset your password It's a failsafe in case someone hacked an admin's account and wanted to go on a banning spree; you need one of the higher ups to boost you back to admin.I freaked out a few months back too.

Speaking of which, OMG, I'm red again!

Edit: 'Course, there could have been something going down I just don't know about us. Us news team folks are pretty isolated from the forum admins.

Edited, May 10th 2012 8:55am by LockeColeMA

And changed the padlock icon as well.

Ah. I missed the first part of your post there.

There is some neat stuff being announced, account wide achieves, cross server play etc.

There seems to some grumblings from healers on mana cost vs mana regen. I am not in the beta myself this time though. If we had a firm release date and I was hearing that level of complaint I would be concerned, however it is a beta so you have to give them a chance.

Growing pains.

Vanilla & TBC you saw raid healing that was built around 40/25 man raiding which included 6-8 healers, each healing class had a niche but as a team they meshed well and played on each others strengths and weaknesses.

WotLK introduced 10 man raiding where you had 2 healers, perhaps 3 for certain Hardmodes. Certain class combos were clearly superiour, for example Paladin/Druid had a good mix of AOE vs Single target heals. A group with Shaman/Shaman healing would have a significantly more difficult time downing the same content. Then you had stat inflation to the point that mana was only an issue on the type of fights that only 1% of the player base were working on.

Cata saw Blizzard take significant steps in homogenizing healers to resolve the 10 man issue. It also saw healers take a significant hit in terms of healing output and mana regen. However by the end of the expansion healing had been reduced to "spam your aoe heal on CD and use filler heals when low on mana". There were some definite growing pains, issues with mastery for most healers & also the issue of balancing healers against LFR/Normal/HM difficulties.

It will be interesting where MoP takes it. With a cap your mana pool they get to limit one of the variables on resource control. They had already implemented longer cast times for base heals in Cata which cut down on spam and tried to force clutch/triage healing. I think that the main issue is that they have yet to find balance in TERD damage in a raid environment. With their need to make content accessible it is either AOE heal friendly meaning you just stack & spam or else it is negligible to the point that you can ignore it in LFR/Normal or just insta kills you in HM if you take 3 ticks as opposed to 1-2 so it no longer becomes a healing issue.

Edited, May 12th 2012 1:02pm by bodhisattva