Because they know it had the best lore next to wrath apparently according to this forum. We know this to be true. Edit: stating the obvious but I never played MOP so I wouldn’t know 🤷
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I loved MoP lore. it was its own separate little world, but had fully formed lore. And I loved how ingrained the Sha was into the world there, and how it made sense when we fought them, they werent just the “surprise the evil squad rolled up” it was someone getting angry or such that caused them to manifest.
You had the Sha controlled bug queen who sent her bugs to go take more land. It was out of her fear, or paranoia (I cant remember exactly which sha it was) that caused her to do what she did.
We had whatever happened in the north
The Hozen who were just party monkeys that liked stealing stuff, like nothing fancy about why, just that they wanted to, like pirates, and it felt right.
Then the Mogu empire came back and we had to deal with them, and by that point we had learned a ton about them from Lorewalker Cho, and we knew they meant business. And we also eventually learned that the Mogu were made by the Titans to guard or keep care of their facilities. Like we got MORE titan lore there as well. And we got shown how the Mogu went from simple guardians to Warlords controlling a massive empire.
The key thing is everything was simple, or they built up to the epic story parts.
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The current lore traces back to the end of MoP though.
Beating Garrosh led to him messing with time in WoD which led to AU Gul’dan which lef to the sword sticking into Azeroth. Yada, yada, yada.
If I had my way I would of given pandaren to alliance and mogu to the horde. It’s a shame developers don’t do anything with the faction aligned pandaren
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MoP lore still effects our current lore. look at BFA we had mogu gods fighting agaist nazoth.
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I don’t think they’re intentionally avoiding it. Pandaria and the happenings of MoP are just too disconnected from the rest of Warcraft to make regular appearances in the story without it feeling convoluted.
They should’ve been drip-feeding pandaren stuff since late WotLK and fostering more connectedness between them and the rest of the Warcraft universe, but they instead decided to just poof it into existence with the release of MoP, and so now things are awkward.
Go make a new character and play MoP. It was actually a great expac story wise.
Even the raids were fun. Durumuru in LFR was hilariously frustrating until they fixed it. It was a fun fight though.
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How is Blizzard ignoring Mists in lore? What is this thread even about?
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Oh please, we’re currently playing in the Afterlife but Panda people are too weird?
At least MoP still felt like Warcraft.
I mean I like certain aspects of this expac, but this expac is EXTREMELY disconnected from the Warcraft feel.
It’s hard to explain.
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Wasn’t MoP lore a major part of BFA?
Did Zarno miss an expansion?
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I don’t think they’re avoiding Pandaria, rather Pandaria was hidden by a veil of mist and barely interacted with the world.
All we saw before MoP was wrecked Pandaren ships and a single Pandaren wandering Azeroth. Their self imposed reclusion means they had and continue to have little effect in the wider world.
Until Pandaria is fully restored and safe I don’t expect to see them playing a role anywhere else.
MoP introduced the WoW community to the will-they-won’t-they back and forth of Anduin and Wrathion and is beloved by many because of it. Getting to see them reunite during the N’zoth patch trailer was a magical experience.
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Pandaria was part of BOTH Legion and BfA. I don’t know why the heck things Blizzard is avoiding it.
This is me… It was all self contained and not like this recent garbage where they stretch expansions…
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Everything pre legion has a good lore. Legion is where mere adventures became Titan slayers which is simply stupid, and after that we are playing with cosmic powers like mini golf
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Imagine avoiding Lei Shen.
That doesn’t look well on them.
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I wish I played this game back in Panda. Also, Lei Shen was voiced by the great Christopher Lee.
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I’m not saying that Shadowlands is any better in that regard, and in fact in some ways is even worse about being disconnected that Pandaria was.
Just saying, MoP was where the writers started making a clean break from lore written in the RTS era (yes, Chen existed in WCIII but aside from him, Pandaria had not been fleshed out at all) and Blizz should have anticipated this and made efforts to better integrate it prior to MoP’s release.
Same goes for Shadowlands. Part of what makes it so bad is that everybody was totally blindsided by the Zovaal and dreadlord stuff… they should’ve been dropping clear hints and breadcrumbs as far back as Legion.
Only thing I know about MOP is this guy and garrosh but my god was his voice acting top tier. WIND HEED MY CALL
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Danuser has so far stayed away from the lore of my now beloved pandas.
PLEASE DELETE THIS POST BEFORE HE SEES IT!
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