Tuesday Morning Publish: Panda Skeptics Edition

Joyful Tuesday morning, everybody. By now, I am sure most of you already know the big information of the week: Blizzard's registered Mists of Pandaria as a trademark related to laptop games. Might this be the title of our next expansion? Can we all anticipate to be rolling monks or deciding whether or not to make our new panda on the Alliance or Horde facet inside the next year or two?

It's robust to say for sure. Faked leaks aside, I'm on a wait and see strategy. As it is, I don't assume this guarantees something. It could possibly be for something fully totally different, or it could be a "simply in case" factor. I've seen sufficient trademarked Harry Potter titles that by no means noticed the sunshine of day not to be wary. Then once more, it may just be my own bias creeping in. I'm nonetheless hoping for an growth that's pure Alliance vs. Horde. But hey, if nothing else, not less than we got that candy panda sketch from Anne.

So we positively have extra Mists of Pandaria speculation than you'll be able to shake a stick at, however there's plenty of different information to peruse as well, such as the debut of patch 4.2.0a. Maintenance as we speak will probably be the usual 5 a.m. to eleven a.m. PDT, so you must have time to browse. Verify it all out after the break.

Sizzling information and options

Try the newest patch 4.2 hotfixes for Aug. 4.

The BlizzCon Virtual Ticket is now on sale. There have been a number of bugs with it, though; some purchasers have received last 12 months's BlizzCon pet.

Our Cataclysm post-mortem collection continues with a discussion of Deepholm.

Know Your Lore has a particular look on the possibilities of a Mists of Pandaria growth.

WoW Archivist seems to be at the nightmare dragons and patch 1.8.

The numbers are in, they usually fairly good. The Cenarion Hatchling pet has raised greater than $1.9 million for Japanese earthquake relief.

Class news and guides

Scattered Shots assures you that sure, beastmastery hunters can raid.

Encrypted Text has more rogue tips for Firelands.

Spiritual Steering has shadow priest tips for Lord Rhyolith. We additionally answer your Twitter steadiness questions and offer some more feral cat methods for Firelands.

The sunshine And Find out how to Swing It has a guide to tanking Beth'tilac and Rhyolith. We additionally supply a paladin's information to healing Alysrazor.

Lichborne has a information to patch 4.2 dying knight tank raid gear.

Shifting Perspectives has more advice for gearing a bear druid in patch 4.2.

The Care and Feeding of Warriors offers a information to safety leveling.

Totem Talk answers extra of your restoration questions and affords a information to elemental leveling.

Raid Rx discusses using audio cues in raid healing.

Arcane Brilliance discusses the state of the frost mage.

Blood Pact gives some advice to new stage 85 warlocks.

Dungeons, gadgets, professions, PVP, and more

Prepared Examine has a information to Baleroc.

Addon Spotlight seems to be for tactics to spruce up the Blizzard Raid Frames.

WoW Rookie reveals you the right way to file sport footage on a Mac.

Gold Capped seems to be at balancing your inventory within the TradeSkillMaster addon. We additionally talk about the potentialities of getting wealthy off of an official RMT AH.

The OverAchiever seems at grabbing mounts from the Argent Tournament.

Odds and ends

Know Your Lore tackles the persevering with saga of the people.

Try the newest installment of Protected Passage.

Look out, Minecraft -- Ragnaros is coming to your world.

15 minutes of Fame talks to a WoW-enjoying grandma. Sure, she knits, too!

Trying to get into the lore? lion is the king of the jungle got a chronological information to all of the WoW-associated books, short tales, comics and manga.

The Lawbringer answers your questions concerning the Diablo real-money auction home.

The Guild has yet another new episode in your approval.

All of the World's A Stage gives tips for tauren roleplay story hooks.