(A lot is pulled from the melee enemies dubbed as monks in Scarlet Monastery, but that seems to more suggest that at one point Discipline was a melee tree… ah, well.) Joking aside, I adore Monk as a class and it’s actually a lot of fun to play, even if the explanation for how you can have monks for other races has never felt… totally together. Meanwhile, the game adds the first new base class to the game with the addition of the Monk, which is functionally identical to Druid except instead of turning into a bear or a kitty or a grumpy tree, you shout “HOOO-OOOH!” and then you heal people. Pandaren are this expansion’s new race, and completely undoing any and all arguments about racial silhouettes that Blizzard is still pretending are a thing, the Pandaren can belong to either the Alliance or the Horde past the starting area.
Gosh, it’d sure feel dumb as hell if we just rehashed this in six years, wouldn’t it? Story threads about discontent with Garrosh finally paid off with an outright Horde civil war that gave Vol’jin the seat of Warchief, but along the way we got to see just how badly mindless fighting could really be for the world around us.
The ultimate point, in some very strong thematic direction, was that the drive for power by both factions was ultimately damaging and the faction leader who could not walk away from that would ultimately lead the people to ruin. After starting off with a very straightforward narrative, it quickly moved into an examination of what various forces were fighting for and why, and an examination of the ongoing mess of a conflict that was spilling into Pandaria. Of course, that was really just the starting point the reality is that Pandaria was a big continent with its own problem, at once resistant to the ways of outsiders and also being eaten away from within by its own problems that it scarcely was willing to acknowledge. “Hey, fellow members of the Alliance/Horde? You know how much fun we were having beating the snot out of the Horde/Alliance while the world was basically literally on fire? Well that southern continent that had been surrounded by mist up until now is now… not surrounded by mist, and it probably has some people who would love to join the Alliance/Horde to beat up the Horde/Alliance with us! For the Alliance/Horde!” That’s Mists of Pandaria, and it’s an expansion I have a lot of conflicting feelings about, at once a type specimen for so many of the problems that modern WoW has leaned in on while being pretty darn good on its own. No, really, I’m serious, who here started playing WoW only after this expansion? Was it anyone? I feel like it wasn’t.Īnyhow, we’ve got a format going here, so the point is that it’s time to head back to the dewy slopes of 2012 and talk about the absolute mistiest conceivable continent. Yes, we’ve reached one of World of Warcraft’s most weirdly controversial expansions with Mists of Pandaria, and if you’re mostly familiar with the expansion because of people making jokes about Kung Fu Panda or stating the expansion actually wasn’t that bad, you… wait, who are you? It’s time to remember you should never say no to panda.
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