{"id":894,"date":"2011-10-23T06:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2011-10-23T06:13:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T06:13:40","slug":"training-simulations-world-of-warcraft%c2%ae-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Training Simulations: World of Warcraft\u00ae Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for the fourth expansion toWorld of\"\"<\/a> Warcraft\u00ae, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unveiled to a sold-out crowd at the company\u2019s BlizzCon\u00ae gaming festival, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria\u2122 lifts the fog of mystery surrounding a long-lost continent that has been newly rediscovered following the events of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm\u2122. The new expansion reintroduces the elusive pandaren, originally seen in Blizzard\u2019s real-time strategy game Warcraft\u00ae III, as a playable race and adds a brand-new player class: the martial-arts-focused Monk. While exploring the mysteries of an exotic new land and advancing to the new level cap of 90, players will experience a range of new content and game features, including new quests and dungeons, group scenarios and \u201cchallenge\u201d modes, pet battles, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers have been asking to see the pandaren in World of Warcraft since the game\u2019s launch, and we\u2019re excited to finally be able to give them a proper re-introduction to Azeroth,\u201d said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. \u201cIn addition to the new playable race and class, Mists of Pandaria contains a huge amount of new content, and we\u2019re looking forward to sharing more information about all of it at BlizzCon and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the upcoming expansion, players will be able to explore the long-lost continent of Pandaria, which has remained hidden from the world since the sundering of Azeroth over ten thousand years ago. In the aftermath of the Cataclysm played out in World of Warcraft\u2019s third expansion, Pandaria\u2019s heroes are emerging from their land\u2019s lush forests and cloud-ringed mountains to choose sides in the escalating war between the Alliance and the Horde and to share the extraordinary secrets of their ancient martial arts. As tensions between the factions near a breaking point following the discovery of this new world, players will be called upon to explore Pandaria\u2019s exotic expanses, make contact with its strange indigenous creatures, and unlock the world-changing secrets that have been hiding in the mists for millennia.<\/p>\n

New features coming in the game\u2019s fourth expansion include:<\/p>\n

New Playable Race \u2014 Pandaren: Adventure through Azeroth as World of Warcraft\u2018s first neutral race and decide whether to side with the Alliance or the Horde.<\/p>\n

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\nNew Playable Class \u2014 Monk: Unlock the secrets of pandaren martial arts and do battle as a damage dealer, healer, or tank.<\/p>\n

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\nLevel Cap Increased to 90:Learn potent new spells and abilities while exploring uncharted zones and taking on challenging new content.<\/p>\n

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\nNew Zones:Explore the lush Jade Forest, treacherous Kun-Lai Summit, and other exotic areas of Pandaria designed for high-level characters, and uncover the mystery of the Wandering Isle.<\/p>\n

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\nScenarios: Join up with some friends to achieve a common goal, such as mounting a defense against invading monsters, in a flexible new type of PvE challenge.<\/p>\n

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\nDungeon \u201cChallenge\u201d Modes: Master the ultimate five-player time trial to earn prestige rewards in a new dungeon mode that will put your resolve and coordination to the test.<\/p>\n

Pet Battles: Challenge other players\u2019 companion pets with your own collection in a new tactical mini-game, and find out who\u2019s king or queen of the pint-sized battlefield.<\/p>\n

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New Talent System: Customize your character to suit your play style with the newly overhauled and improved talent system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for the fourth expansion toWorld of Warcraft\u00ae, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unveiled to a sold-out crowd at the company\u2019s BlizzCon\u00ae gaming festival, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria\u2122 lifts the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,4156,219],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-simulations","tag-nate","tag-training-simulations","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}