Mists of Pandaria Beta: Day 2. The Quest From Hell and Cute Things on Fire

Warning: Image heavy post and spoilers abound!

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Lets get this out of the way right now.  One of the very early Wandering Isle quests in the beta is a pain in the butt to finish – at the moment.  You get stuck.  It’s a bottleneck.  It’s not really that the design that’s the problem.  The problem is that everyone – everyone – is rolling pandas right now.

The quest is called The Lesson of the Burning Scroll.  You snag a bit of fire from your instructor’s hand and take it upstairs to burn a piece of paper, thereby gaining ancient spiritual knowledge through a minor act of arson.

The quest is also known as The Great Big Headache.

Mists of Pandaria Beta: Day 1. Pandas, Monks, and Who Needs Sleep?

Warning: Post contains screenshots from the beta.  Spoilers possible.

One of the things that will throw anyone is taking them out of an addon-heavy UI and making them use the default.  I use a lot of addons.  I like to think I can function without them, but I’ve never actually had to prove that.  Until now.

Normally, my UI looks like this: