I’m afraid it is no hoax, unless WoW Insider’s live blog is in on it. They claim to be covering a preview panel at Blizzcon with Ghostcrawler…
And apparently gnomes can be monks in the new expansion. Somewhere on the internet, an EQ humorist many of you never heard of, known as Skater Gnome, will be very happy.
Screw that. Tauren marine infantry, as long as they bring their power armor and their Impala gauss rifles.
Three brigades of these “Mad Cows” and the Alliance will have NO chance. MWAHAHAHA!
Again? I just got used to this one.
Apparently, pandas can be either Alliance or Horde. They start as neutral, and then choose which side to join after completing the starter area…
And that pet battle thing? Apparently it is going to work something like Pokemon. Oy Vey…this has the potential to suck with great force.
“Asian cultural reasons?”
As opposed to “Scandanavian cultural reasons” or “Egyptian cultural reasons” or “Native American cultural reasons?”
It’s mistaken to confuse this with cultural sensitivity, unless you mean “cultural sensitivity in one of our major market segments with a hypersensitive authoritarian government.”
In that case, yes, strip-mining Han Chinese cultural references should have been considered risky.
Maybe instead they should have implemented the thoroughly ridiculous Blademaster class? The faux-samurai thing they do puts my Japanese-American teeth on edge, and I distinctly remember ROFLing mercilessly with John Belushi’s Samurai <anything>, so I’m probably not hypersensitive. But anyway, Japan’s not likely to unilaterally declare WoW <i>persona non grata</a> inside the Great Firewall, like certain other “Asian cultures”.
Well, TBH, hardcore pet collectors are already full of “Gotta catch 'em all”, so this is a logical development.
Maybe sanity will prevail. Most of the next-release teasers wound up being more tease than next-release. (I’m still waiting for my world vehicle PvP with destructible environments. Not counting BGs dammit.)
My problem was that I started caring about the NPCs and the story.
Thus, I am pulling a Fry. I think I’m on this ride until Sargeras. Unless they genre change again and it becomes a dark corridor FPS, anyway.
Maybe my observation was ill-phrased - of course I was refering to the special status of pandas in Chinese culture. No offense intended.
My problem was that I started caring about the NPCs and the story.
Thus, I am pulling a Fry. I think I’m on this ride until Sargeras. Unless they genre change again and it becomes a dark corridor FPS, anyway.
Whoa, whoa, what? If I have to go BM to not lose my stable of spirit beasts I never use, I’m gonna be pissed.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be so obscure. Yes, “Call of Duty” is a middle step quest for the Vashj’ir quest chain, and phases the docks. Drop it; I’m sure it’s easy to get back (from the orc inside the tower next to the docks).
Anybody seen my “Little Sister”? 
(SFG). Dammit, I still can’t bold!
Also wanted to tell you that I’ve rolled a new toon (On Cairn). His name is “Wolkenlaufer” (this time spelled right). He’s a Belf. I wanted a Nelf, but they don’t offer that one for some reason in Horde, right? That pisses me off because he’ll have to ride that damn strider until he can fly.
Anyhow, say hello sometimes if y’all see us. Now that I’ve had some good training from you guys, it shouldn’t be that hard for me to level him.
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And none personally taken. Certainly, no offense to anything you specifically said, and if I came off combative, I apologize in turn. I had my Slashdot arguing hat on, and that kind of makes me more argumentative.
That said, yes, my comment does illustrate one of the more annoying things about Blizz (maybe their Activision overlords). They have no qualms trampling anyone’s cultural heritage, unless they know they can lose lots and lots of customers. So, if we need oversized blue Vikings, well, there you go. (BTW, I’m also Norwegian-American. I’m an all-American mutt)
Blizz has managed to mildy offend me with their unoriginal, stereotypical, and insensitive treatment of two of my cultural heritages. And I’m pretty hard to offend.
So, even if they lose me, they won’t care. Even if they lose every Japanese or Scandanavian player, they won’t care. But if they piss off the cultural Mandarins (literally?) of the People’s Republic, they will instantaneously lose about 4 million subscribers as the country shuts down the national servers and turns off client access through The Great Firewall.
So I’m shocked they’d actually step out on stereotypical panda Kung-fu stuff. Especially, as pointed out earlier, an elaborate joke that no one knew when to stop.
Oh yeah. I also have a new Belf named (ready?) “Rothenburger”. I cannot believe that no one in my hometown plays the game or used the name!
gnoitall, you goof!
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Can someone give me a landmark where I can get Rothenburger out of Silvermoon City? I know there’s an alcove that leads out of the city into Eversong, but I’ll be damned if I can find it.
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Are you in the city itself or over in Falconwing Square, where you go first after you get out of the starting area?
If you’re in the city itself, look for the trader’s wagon with blood elves all around it and one of those big magic robots standing in front of it. I think it’s the only arcane guardian in the city that doesn’t move around on patrol. It’s right beside the exit.
Just signed up for the 12-month deal. I’m a lore geek, but I have no problem with the pandaren. It’s not like they just popped up without any precedent. Chen was in Warcraft III. And it’s not like they’re somewhere in the old world that nobody’s ever discovered. They have a whole new continent.
I’m the city, jay and I found the place where you’re supposed to walk in and around till you find the way out, but all I do is go in one side and out the other.
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Sorry, guys. It was the new Belf, Wolkie I was running. I made a ticket after asking some idiot kids chatting in trade to help me and got all kinds of smart ass answers.
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… because there’s a big open hole in that cave which one can’t cross without falling in and dying, and my hunter shoots across the hole, but Glythiss rezzes pretty fast even if you do do some damage. So does anyone know another way to get at her?
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When you go into the cave, you’ll go down the first “room”, then turn right for a second and then turn left again and go straight. The tunnel will start going up and it eventually comes out on the same side as Glythiss.
