World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria announced – Telegraph.co.uk


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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria announced
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Mists of Pandaria will reveal a long-lost continent of Azeroth, and bring a new playable race to World of Warcraft players, the panderans. The panda like race originally featured in Blizzard' RTS Warcraft III,
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World of Warcraft introduces playable panda race – for real, this timeSlashGear
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Warp Zoned -Ars Technica
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WOW: Mists of Pandaria announced – Eurogamer.net

WOW: Mists of Pandaria announced
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The next, and fourth, World of Warcraft expansion has been announced at BlizzCon: Mists of Pandaria. It introduces the "joke" race of kung-fu pandas of Warcraft lore, the Pandarens, as a playable race. But which faction will the race belong to?
Mists of Pandaria is the Fourth World of Warcraft Expansion1UP.com
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Lez Get Real -Kotaku
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Star Wars: The Old Republic flashpoint, warzone details announced – Ars Technica


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Star Wars: The Old Republic flashpoint, warzone details announced
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While some features found in other games will not be added, such as a dungeon-finder functionality from World of Warcraft, the SWTOR panel was able to give concrete stats on the flashpoints, or dungeons, that will be available at the game's launch.
I'm Flip-Flopping on <em>Star Wars: The Old Republic</em>Kotaku
Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch Date in Europe Has Been Brought ForwardGod is a Geek
Star Wars The Old Republic now set for global simultaneous launchSlashGear
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Patch 4.3: Tier 13 set bonus changes announced

Not entirely happy with the upcoming set bonuses for tier 13 in patch 4.3? It’s all right, they’re still in the process of being tweaked. Community Manager Zarhym just posted some changes that will be going into affect for both 2 piece and 4 piece T13 set bonuses for the druid, hunter, mage, paladin, priest, shaman, warlock and warrior classes.
  • For feral druids, Pulverize now also grants your bear form Mangle critical strikes a 100% chance to trigger Savage Defense.
  • For shadow priests, Shadow Word: Death deals an additional 55% damage, but it also reduces the damage you take from your own SW:D when the target fails to die by 95%.
  • For DPS warriors, your Raging Blow and Mortal Strike abilities have a 13% chance to apply the Colossus Smash effect on your target for 6 seconds.
Follow after the break for the full list of changes.

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Honor compensation date announced for recent PVP gear debacle

Blizzard’s Bashiok has posted a time frame for the previously announced 4,000-honor point compensation package for players who spent honor on old gear during the week between the PVP Season 9 and Season 10. Any player who spent honor on ilevel 365 gear during the transition week will be awarded a free 4,000 honor points, which can go over the point cap and can be spent on the new, higher tier of Vicious PVP gear. This free honor will be awarded to players during maintenance on July 19 (this coming Tuesday).

I think this is a pretty good compensation package for players who were not informed of the change in how PVP gear would be handled this season. The biggest issue from the debacle was that players spent a huge amount of time and effort grinding out honor for ilevel 365 gear during the off-week, then spent it, only to see the gear became useless just days later. Now that work has essentially been restored in the form of new, shiny, over-the-cap honor points. You will not be able to earn more honor points until you dip below the cap again, however.

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Honor compensation date announced for recent PVP gear debacle

Blizzard’s Bashiok has posted a time frame for the previously announced 4,000-honor point compensation package for players who spent honor on old gear during the week between the PVP Season 9 and Season 10. Any player who spent honor on ilevel 365 gear during the transition week will be awarded a free 4,000 honor points, which can go over the point cap and can be spent on the new, higher tier of Vicious PVP gear. This free honor will be awarded to players during maintenance on July 19 (this coming Tuesday).

I think this is a pretty good compensation package for players who were not informed of the change in how PVP gear would be handled this season. The biggest issue from the debacle was that players spent a huge amount of time and effort grinding out honor for ilevel 365 gear during the off-week, then spent it, only to see the gear became useless just days later. Now that work has essentially been restored in the form of new, shiny, over-the-cap honor points. You will not be able to earn more honor points until you dip below the cap again, however.

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Winners announced for Memories of Blizzard video contest

The Memories of Blizzard contest, which asked you (all of you, really) for videos containing your memories of Blizzard games over the past 20 years, has announced the lucky winners. Who won for their efforts in crafting videos of their memories? Well, I’ll tell you. (He’s going to tell, he’s going to tell.) Stop singing, please.

Grand Prize

  • Chris Modica – Atlanta GA, USA

First Place

  • James “Pinkhair” Lawless – Selden, NY, USA

Second Place

  • Michael Cawcutt – Minneapolis, MN, USA

Runners-Up

  • Edwin Choi – Carrollton, TX, USA
  • Nicholas Gibbs – Aloha, Oregon, USA



If you’re interested in seeing the videos yourself, you can do that at the video contest page. Congratulations to all the winners!


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Extended maintenance announced for Tuesday April 26

Barring force majeure, it looks like patch 4.1 lands tomorrow, folks. Not only is the 4.1 trailer out, Blizzard has also announced extended maintenance for all realms for Tuesday April 25, beginning at 3 AM PST and ending at 11 AM PST. Expect it to last longer, as patch day maintenance usually does.

While servers are down, check out our Guide to Patch 4.1, including class analysis, dungeon previews, UI additions, and more. Stop the machinations of the Zandalari!


WoW Patch 4.1 is on the PTR, and WoW Insider has all the latest news for you — from previews of the revamped Zul’Aman and Zul’Gurub to new valor point mechanics and new archaeology items.


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First Core Hound Pup adoption campaign winners announced

Blizzard’s Core Hound Pup Adoption Campaign is giving players the chance to win an iPad as well as boost their own account security. In an effort to get more authenticators attached to accounts, Blizzard ponied up some iPads to get the job done. Each month, a screenshot entry is chosen to win one of 12 iPads. Just take a screenshot of you and your security pup companion doing something crazy, out of the ordinary, or just plain awesome, hit up the contest rules page, and you’ve got a shot at winning. The first four winners have just been announced and their screenshots released.

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Blizzard and Epic Weapons’ weaponsmithing fan art contest winners announced

Blizzard and Epic Weapons’ weaponsmithing fan art contest tasked talented WoW enthusiasts with crafting and building life-size replicas of their favorite World of Warcraft weapons. Categories included Best Dagger, Best Mace, Best Sword, Best Ranged, and Best of the Rest. The entries are phenomenal, but that’s a given for how talented the WoW playerbase is.

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