Leafshine: Lust for Flower

[MoP Beta] Pandas Cannot Pass (this quest)

Given up on levelling a Pandaren for a while. This problem just isn't worth the time it would take to get through it:

 

It's infuriating, and will be an issue for the week or so after launch if Blizz don't do something about it…

[MoP Beta] Too Many Damn Pandas

I thought pandas had problems breeding…

It's just possible that a Saturday morning after a new wave of beta invites went out was a poor choice of time to try the beta…

Randomising the winner, not the loot

Here's how the new Raid Finder system will work in Mists of Pandaria:

• The boss dies.
• The game automatically decides who won some loot, and gives those players a spec-appropriate item.
• Some players may still get mad, but hopefully they are mad at the laws of probability and not at the rest of the raid.

via eu.battle.net

Fascinating - Blizz are essentially turning one of the conventions of MMoRPG lewt on its head as a result of the rise of random party finding mechanisms.

Visuals from the Mists

via www.andromache.co.uk

Our guildmaster has temporarily returned from the land of lightsabers and droids to play around in the Mists of Panderia beta. There are his screen grabs…

An Unprecedented Event

Something deeply unprecedented has happened. Something, in fact, that I've never experienced in all my time in World of Warcraft. This morning, fighting to take the beaches in the Twilight Highlands, Ularia (introduced waaay back then) hit 85:

Ularia dings 85

 I have two characters at the level cap. This is a new experience for me… 

I might have a choice of characters to run instances with…

I might be able to get her ready to raid…

However shall I cope…? ;-)