Tuesday Morning Post: Panda Skeptics Edition

Completely happy Tuesday morning, everyone. By now, Mcprofile am positive most of you understand the massive information of the week: Blizzard's registered Mists of Pandaria as a trademark related to computer games. May this be the title of our next expansion? Can all of us expect to be rolling monks or deciding whether to make our new panda on the Alliance or Horde aspect inside the following yr or two?

It is robust to say for certain. Faked leaks apart, I'm on a wait and see approach. As it is, I do not think this ensures anything. It may very well be for one thing completely different, or it could be a "just in case" thing. I've seen sufficient trademarked Harry Potter titles that by no means noticed the sunshine of day not to be cautious. Then again, it could simply be my own bias creeping in. I'm nonetheless hoping for an enlargement that is pure Alliance vs. Horde. However hey, if nothing else, not less than we obtained that candy panda sketch from Anne.

So we positively have more Mists of Pandaria hypothesis than you possibly can shake a stick at, but there's plenty of other news to peruse as properly, such because the debut of patch 4.2.0a. Maintenance right now might be the usual 5 a.m. to eleven a.m. PDT, so you need to have time to browse. Verify it all out after the break.

Scorching news and features

Try the newest patch 4.2 hotfixes for Aug. 4.

The BlizzCon Virtual Ticket is now on sale. There have been a couple of bugs with it, though; some purchasers have obtained last year's BlizzCon pet.

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

Know Your Lore has a particular look at the prospects of a Mists of Pandaria expansion.

WoW Archivist seems on the nightmare dragons and patch 1.8.

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

Class news and guides

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

Encrypted Textual content has extra rogue suggestions for Firelands.

Spiritual Steering has shadow priest ideas for Lord Rhyolith. We additionally reply your Twitter stability questions and provide some more feral cat methods for Firelands.

The sunshine And Learn how to Swing It has a guide to tanking Beth'tilac and Rhyolith. We also offer a paladin's information to healing Alysrazor.

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

Shifting Perspectives has extra recommendation for gearing a bear druid in patch 4.2.

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

Totem Discuss solutions extra of your restoration questions and affords a guide to elemental leveling.

Raid Rx discusses utilizing audio cues in raid healing.

Arcane Brilliance discusses the state of the frost mage.

Blood Pact presents some advice to new degree 85 warlocks.

Dungeons, items, professions, PVP, and extra

Ready Check has a guide to Baleroc.

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

WoW Rookie reveals you how you can document sport footage on a Mac.

Gold Capped seems to be at balancing your inventory within the TradeSkillMaster addon. We additionally discuss the prospects 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.

Check out the newest installment of Protected Passage.

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

15 minutes of Fame talks to a WoW-taking part in grandma. Yes, she knits, too!

Looking to get into the lore? We've got a chronological guide to all of the WoW-associated books, short stories, comics and manga.

The Lawbringer answers your questions concerning the Diablo real-cash auction house.

The Guild has yet another new episode for your approval.

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