Legendary 74: Trail Blazing Through Blizzard's Mists of Pandaria

Written by: (Twitter @jarimor - ) | April 26, 2012 5:00 am

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Things are starting to come together.

Blizzard is ramping up the content in the Mists of Pandaria beta, which means there’s a lot of new things to take a good look at.

Do you want to be the very best? Well here’s your chance as Pet Battles have finally entered the fray. The Legendary team take you through just how the system works and if it will be as fun as many — Schaffnit — hope.

Glyphs are getting very interesting, warriors will be particularly pleased as they charge to their nearest scribe — fire extinguishers recommended. But it also seems Blizzardis using glyphs as a way to sprinkle in an easy mode for the new player. Are glyphs the new training wheels?

Guild Perks gets a bit confusing, particularly with the comparative power at the higher levels — while pulling out a bunch of the stronger ones at lower levels. Is cheap storage worth more than a massive xp boost?

Say goodbye to group summon. But don’t worry, after you bid your fond farewell you can hop on a 25% faster flight path!

Ermm, people still use flight paths?

Pandaria is a confusing place it seems, so it’s a good job we have the right guides to get you through.

Josh Allen aka Lore, Mike B aka Fony and Mike Schaffnit join Gary Gannon in this week’s trailblazing Legendary!

Legendary 74: Trail Blazing Through Blizzard's Mists of Pandaria

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002480846327 Jay Shaddix

    I haven’t even watched this yet, but the blurb has me a bit saddened.  “Say goodbye to group summon. But don’t worry, after you bid your fond farewell you can hop on a 25% faster flight path!”  Awww.  Bummer.  Getting from one place to another quickly (and for free!) with the help of guildies just went down the drain. RIP HGWT.

  • http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

    Just love the chemistry for this group.

    My solution for the Beta crash was to fly straight up and out of Org.

  • http://www.facebook.com/cloakingsmitty Scott Grosjean

    I think Lore is using Soul Glow!

  • Michael Heinrich

    in EU premades never worked. you have to copy from a US-starter account! which sucks and not everybody knows about it

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BFA4FCEWISQ6RGAQJXCJKC5L5I K O

       I would also like to add that the premade character copy feature has been broken in US.  It worked when I first got in, but week before last week I tried to copy another premade and it never transferred.  I figured they implemented the create a character from within the game to solve this problem.

  • http://twitter.com/JayShaddix Jei Shadikkusu

    Thirty days seems pretty legit to me, in regards to item restoration.  I’ve personally only needed to contact Blizz twice over the past year for such a service.  But GG for having it automated!  Great idea. :)

    Schaffnit and his Ekans is pretty hardcore!  Just watch out for them Spearows, Shaffy!! :P
    Spectator mode would be awesome in an arena type set up, I mean, it would be Pokemon League in WoW!  Considering the hype over Pokemon card games and watching those types of tournaments back in the day, or even watching people battle against one another on GameBoys, a spectator version of Pet Battles could actually be interesting!

    PS: Damn, no Netflix for Australia, apparently!  Hook us up, GBTV!!! ;)

  • David Sherwood

    What graphics card do you use to run that giant four screen setup?

  • Krzysztof Kotarba

    I agree… pet battles are very interesting, if blizz allow trail acc have pet battles we will se tons of 20 lv ppl (include me)
    Dubstep cat rulez :3

  • http://twitter.com/crocodilius ryan phillips

    Blizzard has to automate item restoration because they fired that part of the staff.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Lauritzen/100000133706955 Jason Lauritzen

    Fel Regeneration glyph hasn’t been implemented in beta, yet. It was just data mined.

  • http://www.facebook.com/edgarjmartins Edgar Martins

    Imagine if i have a lvl 60 or 70 char and i send a scroll of resurrection to my friend… probably thats why they implement that “drop down”, i want to my friend instant 60 or 70 not 80.

  • http://twitter.com/Niconus Niconus

    The Drop down menu character creation thing might be tied into the account wide achievement they’re talking about, as a potential reward

  • Kristinn Heidar

    I said few weeks ago that you would be able to start MOP with a lvl 85 character without playing from 1-85.  Thats why they are putting the premate UI in.

  • Kristinn Heidar

    The game already have a lvl 80 starter armor so its more than likely that ppl will play from 80

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Melissa-Turner/100001600174777 Melissa Turner

    anyone have a link to the negative ph angel eys song there talking about?

  • Kempix

    On beta you can queue for dungeons and you can be put with US//EU people, im EU and i got two US players in one of my runs.

    • http://twitter.com/thereverendpuck Reverend Puck

      That’s because there’s only four beta servers as opposed to live where NA and EU servers have pages upon pages of servers out there. And they’re physically right next to one another.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=515841097 Heywood Little

    Tin Foil Hat Time!

    Could it be that……..Blizzard…… is implementing the drop down menu for pre-made characters on the character select screen for later development of being able to DOWN LEVEL your char and scale your gear back down to play with your friends! then when your done playing with your friends just go back to 85.

    blizzard Did say that was one thing they wanted to have a way to play with friends at lower level. it cant JUST be for the refer a friend feature.. that would be too “expensive” for blizzard

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zackary-Rhodes/100000192033792 Zackary Rhodes

    Dubcat is great.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chadjacquay Chad Jacquay

    I think people would use the ‘trash can’ restore for a bank if they didn’t put the 30day on it.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/M7O2PYHERF7MT3N6EESW7BJK4Q Jeremy

    I wonder if they will be using the lvl 85 create – a – character for their solution to server transfers. Say you have a lvl 85 DK on one realm but friends on another, bam you can make a free 85 DK on the new realm.

  • http://twitter.com/Brooke_nt Brooke Thompson

    LMAO GRANDPA GANNON!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/alfakillr Adam Young

    As somebody who plays 3 (holy pala, resto druid, disc priest) healing specs, I would be more than happy for Warlocks to have ridiculous mana regen if they stop with the frakking life taps -.-

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bodruj-Zaman/658978183 Bodruj Zaman

    aw yeah! mike s and GG! me likes!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=724962502 Joakim Dalle Dahlin

    the old system with pre-mades didn’t work for alot of people, me included.
    just got an error and it was frustrating :(

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