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Woohoo! Welcome, welcome! :)
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I can only do this because our entire team works hard to accomplish our daily tasks. So please, your kind words are appreciated but let's not taunt the rest of the team, who definitely would post a lot if they had more time.
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That's a fair point. But just because we're revamping the big player favourites, doesn't mean that we won't be looking around and seeing what else we might want to revamp. Aww, you didn't like the updated Deadmines? My friends and I certainly enjoyed it when Cataclysm came out. So, what's this about Lillian Voss as a boss fight in Scholomance, eh? |
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There are actually quite a lot of graphic engine improvements in Mists of Pandaria, however for the most part they are subtle. For example, improved shadowing, blending and enhancements to the fog effect.
Amongst the large list of information we hope to share with you is included a list of the new graphic engine improvements with some before and after screenshots to highlight what each one brings to the game. Each one might be subtle but as a whole they bring an improved visual appearance to the game. :) |
Very good record keeping, perhaps? :) |
Aww, it's just my personal hope. :( I think I could have worded that better to avoid making it look like I was actually announcing it. Sorry about that. |
Yes but we're about to have our time change to summer time at 2am, and it'll be like the last hour never happened! *gasp* Oh, hang on, it goes forward... *cry* *runs off to his watery bed* |
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After the mists collapse, of course after 10,000 years the Zandalari are intensely curious about Pandaria, even more so perhaps than the Horde and Alliance are. But is there more to their interest than pure curiosity?
So, just like the Alliance and Horde, they send out their forces to Pandaria. But it would appear they have it in mind to re-connect with their ancient allies, the Mogu. It seems they want to help them retake the land away from the Pandaren and once again bring it under Mogu rule. How very kind of them! But is their mission to re-establish Mogu rule really so altruistic as that? They seem so desperate to acquire Pandaren territory. What exactly could be their motive, if it isn't just to help out their ancient Mogu allies? To find out more, we will need to wait a little while longer so we can head towards Kun-Lai Summit and unravel the secrets that are there to be discovered. :) |
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We hope the Glyph of Stars will help you here.
Don't take the owlbears away, they're cute! <3Well, we agree. And this is why an improved moonkin model is indeed in the schedule. But alas I have no due date to announce. In the meantime, we hope the various new cool shape-shift glyphs will provide a little distraction while the moonkin model gets the loving it needs. :) |
I hate going off-topic, but yes basically the Glyph of Stars is there to offer an alternative to the Moonkin form. More related news to come on this topic. :) Yeah, yay! However, I think it's fair what I'm seeing people saying on Twitter and fansites about this. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as it were. But this is the most definite sign I've seen yet. |
I am on a journey that I hope I will never finish. :) |
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*casts curse of forum thread resurrection*
Green "fel" fire for warlocks, like they've been asking for since... forever? It is our hope to introduce a quest which will allow warlocks to unlock the use of green fire. :) |
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Glyph of Permanent Angel Wings for my priest! *jumps up and down excitedly like a baby crocolisk pretending to be in puppy form*
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When you play a Pandaren, that choice is yours to make and for your own reasons. |
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It's been relatively straightforward to add glyphs to druids for new shape-shifting models, as basically we just change what game model the druid shape-shifts into.
Though it isn't quite this easy for other classes, we do have a number of minor glyphs that should give comparably fun options for other classes. :) |
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The misty shrouds that the last Pandaren Emperor used to protect Pandaria from the demonic jeopardy that threatened Azeroth have done a particularly good job, for no troll has been seen in Pandaria for over 10,000 years. No wonder the Zandalari seem like nothing more than freakish figures of fiction to many Pandaren.
Imagine the Pandaren's surprise when the mists collapse and Pandaria's lush forests and cloud-ringed mountains are once more threatened by the ancient Zandalari menace that they had come to see as nothing more than scary savages in some superstitious stories. |
The place I come from is called New Zealand, and that is how it is known around the entire world. I also call myself a New Zealander, much like the Pandarens of Pandaria. However, the original inhabitants of the place I call New Zealand called (and still call) the exact same place Aotearoa. A place does not necessarily have just one name, and often the name to which a place is referred is a matter of perspective. :) |
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Thousands of years ago, when the Zandalari and the Mogu boasted the most powerful empires in Azeroth, the Zandalari were actually allied with the Mogu. So when the Pandaren revolted against the Mogu, of course the Zandalari displayed their allegiance to their Mogu friends by attacking the embryonic Pandaren empire. Overcoming this threat was to be one of the Pandaren empire's first tests of strength.
After the passing of so many thousands of years, after the mists had covered Pandaria for so long — keeping ancient threats like the Zandalari at bay — Pandaren children have now come to see the mythological Zandalari somewhat like our children see bogeymen. Scary enough to ensure compliance with the instructions and requests of parents, but at the end of the day, not the kind of threat you ever really see with your own eyes and in your own backyard... right? |
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Any beta-specific forums we open here would most likely be restricted to be posted in only by beta testers. Which, of course, is going to become a lot of people as our invitation system progresses. The forums would still be readable by non-beta testers, though, like they are in North America.
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There are a number of ways the system could work, but I guess Ghostcrawler is going to explain in full detail how the algorithm is going to work?Not likely. His explanation is the same as mine, as his words are my source. Maybe we will give more detail in time; who can predict the future. |
