I was recently invited into the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta and after some playtime I thought I would write-up some impressions I have of the game so far.
So you begin your life as a Panda in WoW by creating your character, I chose the Monk so I could get a completely new experience. Once I loaded up the world I was instantly tasked by the quest giver to equip some handwraps and begin my training as a Monk. You start out working on training dummies, using your new techniques, mostly Jab. The feel of this expansion is distinctively eastern from the outset, from the world design to the music, it all gives you that oriental feeling.
As I levelled up my mentor gave me more quests, defeat certain masters and speak to other Monks and of course the old gathering quests. These quests do a good job of moving you around the area, showing you the sites. Some of the more interesting quests were to complete trials to get the spirits back to a central temple, my personal favourite was having to fight atop poles ala The Karate Kid, complete with crane stance. Blizzard have always been good with the pop culture reference in Warcraft and it’s no different in Pandaria.
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