Best race ever added to wow. Without them, my only option would be playing dwarves.
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Already did.
The pandaren relaxation area is an in-game secret behind trees on the undead campaign mission Digging up the Dead where Arthas Menethil retrieves Kel’Thuzad’s remains in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
The map flashes a picture of two pandaren and says that the player found a secret. There are actually no pandaren characters there.
The image of a pandaren parent and cub is designed by Samwise Didier and is based off the Lone Wolf and Cub manga. It will reappear every time the player enters, which wasn’t intentional but fixing it could’ve caused glitches when the game was close to shipping.
Origin of the picture given from the actual level designer of the map in Warcraft 3 - Design Insights Highlights 02 - Undead Campaign at https://youtu.be/nNDlrCFcVaE?t=1125
So as I said, an april fools joking about the an entire playable race in the RTS, does not discount the multiple easter eggs in WC3 not speaking of Chen. A full campaign where one of them directly helps in the founding of Orgrimmar, that is then confirmed to be canon that pandaren exists and did help Rexxar as in the WC3 campaign in Vanilla Wow quests (also already linked above), well before Mists.
I mean other people post.
No one say this.
Besides the multiple people in this thread, sure, for example
And the game was in development for more than three months, so the easter eggs in WC3 (not frozen throne) were already there when the april fools was made.
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I was expecting to hate it, and it’s one of my favorites, too.
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He’s actually right. They were the 4/1/2002 april fools jokes. WCIII came out in 7/3/2002 and TFT 7/1/2003
Wow has a pretty size-able population of edgy players, those are usually the people that cry about pandas or vulupa’s. It’s better just to point and laugh at them.
Here, starting at 24min46sec and ends at 27min34sec, Samwise tells the actual story of how Pandaren became a thing in Warcraft:
- Samwise made a piece of personal artwork with a Panda and a cub that his coworkers liked
- April Fools for Warcraft 3, Metzen created more art assets for Pandaren and Samwise made more artwork
- People liked the idea and got upset that none of that was real
- Pandaren were added into Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne (Chen helping establish Orgrimmar) because of the feedback they got from that April Fools
- Pandaren had a cameo in WoW (Chen’s Empty Keg)
What’s weirder really, panda or moose man?
Asking for a friend.
The irony though is that both of those fanbases are also the kind to bash races like mechagnomes.
The fact that they became playable… gives me hope for the Bard class.
Panda ok.
They are sweet .
What? People hating pandas doesn’t make them racist, they could for example dislike the look they have or the xpac that they come from. I like pandas but people are entitled to their own opinion on if they like something or not.
To clarify this.
Chen Stormstout appears in a bonus campaign of Warcraft 3 and nothing in the campaign would change if he was in it or not. That’s not exactly deep in the lore.
Tbh, that makes the future for P!mp my mount all the more brighter because of the success of Pandarens. I want my mount customization Blizzard. 
As distinct from Trolls and their Caribbean/Jamaican dialect, which apparently is ok? And let’s not even talk about Goblins. Well, y’know, Goblins… 
I like Pandarens, they have an old lore basis at least (which isn’t true for some of our so-called Allied races) and now that they are easier to make I suspect there are more of them in the game than before. They are far cuter than Vulpera. (There, I said it!)
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They do make the best monks. imo. If I was to roll a monk it would def. be a panda.
It’s a common situation when a new race is introduced with their own concept that brings criticism though some reach for an offense. If I recall correctly was the concern that there was a poor asian accent-- fortunately, it was wonderfully voiced.
Pandaren are awesome. I made them a heavy part of Myst’s backstory ICly for my main RP story.
Myst, who’s actual name is Teilaiya Sangryn, was an outlaw in Silvermoon before her final heist led to the preistess Aelse’Mori Mystfire being murdered by her, and so Myst took her name cause she “liked” it, and skipped town on a ship to the South Seas.
They hit a freak storm in a foggy night and crash landed on the shores of Pandaria, Myst was the only survivor, and due to the mercy of the mysterious and powerful Pandaren, she was spared a spear to the gut, and taken to the Peak of Serenity where she trained as a mistweaver.
She honed her fighting skills to also heal, and that let me actually be a fistweaver IC.
She spent all of Classic, Burning Crusade and Cata on Pandaria, and when the mists fell, she fought against the Alliance AND Horde on the side of the Mainland Pandaren. She witnessed the depravity of Garrosh’s horde, and vowed that if she ever fought for the Horde and a second tyrant ever took power, she would destroy them.
Then Blizzard released Battle for Azeroth and I was like welp, there goes Myst’s main plot point. Cause I couldn’t very easily say my rogue/Monk singlehandedly killed Sylvanas, especially since she is currently still alive and doing jailer stuff in the literal dead city.
Oh well.
At least she got to be Protector of Pandaria.
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Good old new jersey accents and capitalist/mafia stereotypes!