Mists of Pandaria

[Vitandus]

You can play the Pandarian, and you don't choose faction until level 10. Asian-inspired realm, and they love beer.

Pandaren classes: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior.

Hmm, I might be buying the expansion after all.
New Features
The pandarens are the new race.
The female model isn't done yet.
At level 10, you will get to choose between horde and alliance.
Pandaren Classes: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior
Racial - Epicurean - Increase the stat benefits from food by 100%
Racial - Gourmand - Cooking skill increased by 15.
Racial - Inner Peace - Your rested experience bonus lasts twice as long.
Racial - Bouncy - You take 50% less falling damage.
Racial - Quaking Palm - You touch a secret pressure point on an enemy target, putting it to sleep for 3 sec.

Monk New Class
Brewmaster - Tank spec
Mistweaver - Healer, a healer who can stand up in melee and will let players experience a "new healing style"
Windwalker - Melee DPS
This is not a hero class, and it will start at level 1
The class is very martial-arts based
Lots of monk-only animations, the healer and tanks will have different stances they can stand in, etc ...
Monk Races - All of them except Goblin and Worgens

Monk Equipment
Leather Armor (Agility or Intellect)
They hit a lot with hands and feet
They will need weapons for some finishers: Staves, Fist Weapons
They will also be able to use 1H Axe and maces, swords
Healers will get off-hands, they don't want healers to use shields.

Monk Resources
Chi (energy) slowly regenerates and is only used for your Jab and Roll abilities.
Jab generates Light and Dark force, which are used for everything else. Some finishing move uses dark force, some use the light force.
No auto attack! Devs want you to have this street fighter feel where you punch a lot

Cataclysm Talents / Talent 2.0
Cataclysm Talents
Pro - The level 10 specs were really nice and gave you a role early in the game, definitely a keeper.
Pro - Removing junk from the talent trees was also a very good move.
Pro - Having some kind of choices for optional skills/subspecs worked out pretty well.
Con - You had a risk of "skipping" important talents
Con - There wasn't enough junk removed
Con - There wasn't enough choices, you might have a different final talent point than another combat rogue but it just wasn't enough. The cookie cutter build still persists.
Con - No enough customization, no true hybridization (Using a little bit of 2 different trees)
Con - Players got grumpy

[Vitandus]

The Monk Healer sounds a lot like Warhammer's Warrior Priest, which may be my favorite class in any MMO yet.

[wildcard]

Fucking Blizzard.  This expansion will most likely suck me back in.  Have they announced a date, tentative or otherwise?

[Dave]

Don't forget they're adding Chinpokomon to the game. Definitely not the anime I would have wanted to integrate.

[Vitandus]

I am going full on Blasian on this one. Pandaren named LaWanga.

[wildcard]

Sadly, I already have an 85 of every class, so I have to roll Pandaren Monk, even tho I had the best Tauren Monk name ever - Kowtao.

[Vitandus]

Good forum chatter about the Pandaren. I like the idea: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1005184-Why-must-the-pandaren-be-peaceful?p=13809305#post13809305