EPTThroughout the videos, I give my opinions about various things in the beta, from the art to the quests and so on.
Videos are under the spoilers:
+ Show Spoiler [Pandaren Starting Zone Videos] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDn6moe_ihs
And here are some bullet points:
- Pandas are cool. In general, I like the look of the race and the feel of the area.
- A lot of animations are still missing. Idle animations, dance animations, even auto attack and slice animations don't show up all of the time. They don't have a model yet for riding on flying mounts, so in Orgrimmar you can see pandas standing on wyverns and dragons, and it looks funny. Obiously this'll be fixed eventually. =P
- Roll has turned into some kind of flying kick thing? Not sure if they removed the roll for male Pandarens, but it still works fine for females. It's an incredibly useful skill for getting around, and you can roll up stairs and up steep surfaces, which is great.
- AoE looting is freaking amazing, especially when you find a kill quest where the mobs just respawn continuously. Kill 12 monkeys, loot them all with one click, and go turn in your quest.
- Yaks are cool.
- There are still several missing events and cinematics, including anything to introduce the Pandaren race or starting zone.
- The end of the Pandaren quest chain has + Show Spoiler [Big Story Spoiler] +a giant gushing waterfall of blood that I couldn't help but laugh at.
- Right now the part where you choose your faction as a Pandaren feels very... rushed? Unfulfilling? You say hi to a tauren and hello to a human, and that's the only interaction that you get before choosing where you'll spend the other 80 levels of your existence.
