New Player Guide: Mists of Pandaria Content Overview

Live Posted 2014/03/16 at 10:42 AM by perculia

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Mounts: All mounts are account-wide save for a few restrictions--mounts from Gladiator PvP, Rated Battlegrounds, Challenge Modes, and class-specific rewards. Riding skills and are not account-wide, so you will need the appropriate riding skill to ride some distinctive mounts.

Check out our mount gallery for more details!

An account-wide title is unlocked when you hit the minimum level required for your initial character to earn it. For example, level 80+ characters can wear The Kingslayer since that's the minimum level to kill The Lich King.

Several titles are not account-wide: Arena and RBG titles, as well as realm-first Challenge Modes. For a full list of titles, check out our Titles Database.

Your achievement total is now account-wide, meaning that multiple characters can work on different achievements and it will count towards one total number.

For many meta-achievements, progress is now account-wide as well. For example, two characters can work on seven different achievements each for Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider and you will complete the achievement. Criteria within an achievement is not account-wide, such as Lasers and Magnets and Drills! Oh My! or wins for Master of Silvershard Mines.

To learn more about achievements, check out our Achievement Database and filters.

Vanity pets, which we cover in more detail below, are now battle pets. Your previous pets from past expansions now have battle pet stats and abilities, listed on a UI panel along with mounts. You can summon these companion pets as usual, but with Battle Pet training, they are vicious as well.

Very recently, Blizzard introduced account-wide cross-faction mail. This means that you can now send all heirlooms and Timeless Isle BoA tokens to any of your alts--no restrictions. For a full list of account-wide items you can mail, check out this item list.

Battle Pets

To collect pets, you can acquire pets the same way you did before--achievement rewards, vendors, world drops, etc--or you can battle unique wild pets found in every zone.

Pets have a wide array of abilities and come in 10 families which are strong/weak against other specific pet families and have unique passive abilities, like Aquatic.

To level up pets, simply defeat wild pets or other players with battle pet teams. Defeating higher-level teams will give you more experience, and trainer teams are always a reliable source of experience. As you level your pets up, they will unlock more abilities.

Battle pets, even of the same type, can have many variations in stats which are due to several factors.
Quality: Pet qualities are poor, common, uncommon, and rare. You can upgrade a pet to rare quality with special Battle-Stones, which are found in pet reward satchels or bags from doing LFR or Flex.

Base Stats: Each pet species starts off with a distinctive amount of base stat points (Health, Power, Speed), which affects formula calculations for their stats and abilities.

Breed: There are ten possible breeds used for pet calculations. Breeds affect how a pet's stats are allocated as they level up, and each pet has a set list of possible breeds they can be.

For more details on pet stats, check out Cymre's guide.

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Our Battle Pet Team Calculator lets you plan our your pet teams and provides a summary of its strengths and weaknesses. You can also import your team from Battle.net and compare it against a custom team or a Pet Trainer team.

Since abilities hit for different amounts based on the pet, breed, and quality, our pet ability pages have several sliders and options allowing you to scale the abilities to see their exact amounts.

The Same Model As tab lets you see similar pets that may be easier to get.

Each battle pet page includes a map showing locations for wild pets, as well as a stat calculator showing all the possible variations a pet can come in.

Our Battle Pet Database has numerous filters as well as an image gallery view.

You can track your pet completion progress with the Profiler to see what pets you still need to collect and level up.

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Players who loot hidden rare spawn objects are rewarded with The Relic Hunter title. There are a ton of BoA weapons your level 85-89s can use, as well as some vanity recipes like Four Senses Brew.

For a comprehensive look at the title and items, check out our Relic Hunter Guide.

Treasure of Pandaria provides each of your characters with and some experience. You fly around Pandaria looting items, but unlike The Relic Hunter, these items are expensive grey items that vendor for a lot, and are personal spawns--they are always up and you don't need to fight other players to loot it.

To see the locations for all of these items, check out our Riches of Pandaria guide.

Each patch has introduced new rare spawns. For a complete look at rare spawns and their vanity rewards, check out Lore's Rare Elites of Pandaria Guide.
Pandaria launched with many rare spawns in each zone, many of which are needed for Glorious!. Some of these drop vanity items like Ai-Li's Skymirror, while others have good leveling gear and satchels containing profession reagents.

The rare spawns in Krasarang Wilds reward 0 for their first kill of the day.

The Isle of Thunder has rare spawns which reward Valor Points, Key to the Palace of Lei Shen, and Shan'ze Ritual Stone.

The Timeless Isle has many rares which are needed for Timeless Champion. Many of these drop interesting items like Skunky Alemental.

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Players can farm these dinosaurs for Giant Dinosaur Bone, which can be turned into Ku'ma for vanity rewards like Reins of the Bone-White Primal Raptor and Spectral Porcupette.

As you're farming dinosaurs, Primal Egg can drop which contains raptor mounts. If you're killing the Zandalari Dinomancer, they have a chance to drop one of four baby dinosaur battle pets or Ancient Tome of Dinomancy for hunters.

The dinosaurs on the Isle of Giants also have distinctive skins as well for great hunter tames--five unique colors for both Direhorns and Devilsaurs.

Oondasta is a world boss who drops ilvl 522 loot as well as Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn.

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Each day, players choose between PvE and PvP daily quests to get reputation with either the Kirin Tor Offensive or Sunreaver Onslaught.

Besides daily quests, numerous rare spawns provide Valor Points, Key to the Palace of Lei Shen, and Shan'ze Ritual Stone.

Players who loot a Key to the Palace of Lei Shen can access a special timed run, the Troves of the Thunder King. Loot chests and dodge obstacles to win treasure when your time is up.

Players earn the title Stormbreaker for completing a variety of quest-related achievements on the Isle.

Blacksmiths who kill Itoka can loot Strange Metal Ingot. This quest will teach you how to create weapons that have awesome models like Fireguard, Reborn.

Troll mobs have a small chance to drop troll-themed armor resembling old Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman gear. Check out the full list here.

Isle of Thunder GuideTimeless Isle

As we covered in the Boosted 90 guide, players can loot a bunch of chests to get BoA armor tokens that turn into epic armor. They can also spend Timeless Coin on additional epic armor pieces and weapons.

The four celestials drop ilvl 553 loot, while players who have completed the Legendary Questline on one account have access to Ordos who drops ilvl 559 loot.

While it's not everyone's cup of tea, the Timeless Isle encourages World PvP. Bloody Coin are acquired by flagged players with Censer of Eternal Agony, and are used to purchase vanity items like Reins of the Ashhide Mushan Beast.

The numerous rare spawns on the Timeless Isle all have low chances to drop different vanity items like Reins of the Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent, Rain Stone, and Blackflame Daggers.

There are several weekly jumping puzzles you can do to reach chests which are a good source for Lesser Charm of Good Fortune.

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Mists of Pandaria Reputation Overview

The Anglers: Fishing rods, rafts, recipes, and a pet fish.

August Celestials: Wrist enchants, Cloud Serpent mount.

Golden Lotus: Tailoring and Leatherworking recipes, Cloud Serpent mount.

Kirin Tor Offensive / Sunreaver Onslaught: Direhorn mount, consumables for Trove scenario.

Klaxxi: Transmog weapons, Blacksmithing patterns.

Lorewalkers: Disc mount, archaeology items.

Operation Shieldwall / Dominance Offensive: Gryphon/Wyvern mounts.

Order of the Cloud Serpent: Ability to ride Cloud Serpents and tame Cloud Serpent pets, complimentary mount, Jewelcrafting mount recipes.

Shaohao: Cloud Serpent mount, porcupine pet, disguises, Timeless Isle teleport.

Shado-Pan: Transmog helm, Tiger mounts, weapon enchants.

Shado-Pan Assault: ilvl 522 Epics.

The Tillers: Expanding your farm, goat mounts, access to seeds that grow profession reagents.

Order of the Cloud SerpentThe Tillers

is not an account-wide skill, so if you want to ride Cloud Serpents on your alt, you'll need to hit Exalted with Order of the Cloud Serpent. You can farm up eggs in the style of Netherwing, or do the cute daily quests where you watch a baby cloud serpent grow and participate in cloud serpent races.

The Tillers is a complex faction in which gaining reputation makes your own personal farm more powerful. You can plant vegetables used to cook food, as well as bulbs that turn into different profession reagents. As Spirit of Harmony are not BoA, if you want these for any reason, you're best off planting Songbell Seed on your farm. In addition, you can collect special tokens in hidden dirt piles around Pandaria to gain friendship levels with many levels of the Tiller NPCs, who will then decorate your farm!

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Challenge Modes are timed dungeon runs where your gear is scaled down to ilvl 463 and mobs are trickier than in heroics. With gear out of the way, it's all about skill and communication--worth doing with friends. You can even earn cool rewards like unique transmog sets, Pandaren Phoenix mounts, and The Undaunted title!

Our Challenge Mode Guide goes over all the rewards and gear rules, provides videos of each encounter, and suggests useful items and consumables to make runs go faster.

While regular scenarios can be pretty easy with ilvl 463-476 gear as rewards, there are six heroic scenarios that award 0 Valor Points for the first you run per day, and 0 Valor Points for the second. If you complete a bonus objective, you get 0 Valor Points.

These six scenarios are A Brewing Storm, Blood in the Snow, Battle on the High Seas, Crypt of Forgotten Kings, Dark Heart of Pandaria, and The Secrets of Ragefire. Like Challenge Modes, you must have a pre-formed group before zoning in.

Solo Challenges

Proving Grounds are a good place to experiment with your class and spec. Proving Grounds lets players try out solo tank, healing, or dps challenges in a comfortable setting--you aren't surrounded by anyone watching. Gear is scaled down to ilvl 463, so you don't have to worry about feeling undergeared for challenging content--although based on scaling tech, gear with sockets is optimal.

Proving Grounds will be updated for Warlords of Draenor, where Silver will be required to random queue for a heroic dungeon.

Players can try out Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Endless Challenges--Endless Wave 30 rewards Proven Defender, Proven Assailant, and Proven Healer titles based on spec.

Wowhead's Proving Grounds Guide covers maps for each Gold and Endless wave, basic tips, and descriptions of all the enemy mobs for all three challenges.

Once you've gotten some better gear, check out the Brawler's Guild. With an invitation, you can queue up to fight dozens of wacky bosses in a Fight Club atmosphere. Each fight only lasts 2 minutes, so it will get easier with gear--although, of course, a good strategy and knowledge of your class can shave off seconds as well!

Rewards include a unique mount (Brawler's Burly Mushan Beast), pet, and title, as well as vanity shirts for defeating special Challenge bosses.

Our Brawler's Guild Guide covers all the basics including obtaining invitations, special consumables, rewards, an overview of the boss fights, and achievements. We also have two great user guides covering the boss fights--Rank 1-7 by Okacz and Rank 8-10 by Pwuebear.

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