![]() It was probably the best told story in WoW’s history. Make no mistake, for all its myriad flaws, Pandaria was a fantastic adventure from beginning to end. As I’ve always said, Mists of Pandaria kind of sucked, but Pandaria was amazing.Īs time goes on, I forget the unpleasant gameplay, and all that’s left is a fantastic story. Yet the content of the expansion, its story, and its setting were stellar. The daily grind, the tedium of Timeless Isle, the devaluing of valor and justice points. See, I had a lot of complaints about MoP, but they were all gameplay related. But I did often have the sense that I’d feel a lot better about Mists of Pandaria after the fact. In my case, I actually saw this coming somewhat, though I didn’t expect my turnaround on MoP to happen this soon or be this dramatic. It faced at least as much disdain from the supremely negative WoW community as any other expansion, if not more, and I was certainly none too happy with the state of the game at the time, as long-time readers will remember. The other day I hopped on my monk (who is still 90 because I’m sick of Draenor) and did some scenarios purely for the nostalgia value.īut yet none of these good feelings were to be found when MoP was the current content. I still have my hearthstones set the shrines, and sometimes I’ll fly out across the Vale, or up to Kun-Lai and just be overcome by nostalgia. Lately I find myself missing Pandaria, badly. Warlords of Draenor is not yet a year old, yet already Mists is being roundly hailed as second only to Wrath of the Lich King, which is nowadays generally viewed as when the game peaked, despite being regarded as the Spawn of Satan for many years after its release. ![]() The prevailing opinions on an expansion do tend to improve after it’s gone.īut never this thoroughly, or this fast. I don’t like this argument, because it’s a bit of a cop-out and mainly serves to shut down discussion or deflect criticisms of the game, but there’s definitely some truth to it. There’s a common perception that every WoW expansion is hated when it’s current, and then becomes viewed with rose-coloured glasses after the fact. An expansion that was loathed at the time is now being almost universally hailed as one of the best periods of the game’s long lifespan. People everywhere seem overcome with nostalgia for Mists of Pandaria. I’ve noticed something odd in the WoW community as of late. I wandered what my first new topic should be after such a long break, and I decided it would be best to go back to basics: a nice long ramble about Warcraft. (Incidentally, I am very happy to be back in Toronto.) Now, I have been doing my TV reviews, but those pretty much write themselves, and aside from them, I haven’t been written any new posts in months, instead relying on the backlog I gave myself while looking for apartments/moving. It won’t seem that way to readers, but this post is in some ways the first after a long hiatus from blogging.
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