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Mists of Pandaria: Several Steps in the Right Direction - Editorial - The Armchair Empire

"Personally, I can take or leave the pandas. They're cute and all, and I'm sure I'll roll a monk if only because they have a healing spec, and I make a point of playing all of the healers to a decent level of proficiency. Nonetheless, they don't knock my socks off or anything. I quite like their aesthetic, and the new zones that will be expanding on that look very good from what little we've been shown of them thus far. I don't see where all of the hostility came from by certain elements of the WoW community, saying these pandas were a slap in the face to the "serious fantasy" of this game, and that they were too childish. I know some WoW players will complain about anything, but what game have these people been playing these last seven years?"

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Ranking Every World of Warcraft Cinematic Worst to Best

BLG writes: "To celebrate the announcement of Dragonflight, the latest World of Warcraft expansion, we decided to rewatch all the game’s cinematics and rank them from worst to best. Including the latest one, of course. In fact, we purposely waited until the new expansion got announced before putting together this list because we wanted to see how the Dragonflight trailer stacked up against all the other WoW cinematics. Spoiler alert: it’s not amazing, but it's not the worst one either."

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bosslevelgamer.com
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Mists of Pandaria Cinematic in 4K and 48 FPS

Icy-veins.com has posted an article detailing a fan-made enhancement to the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria cinematic trailer. The YouTuber, SnazzyAI, converted the trailer to 4K and 48FPS using AI upscaling and AI frame interpolation, respectively.

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