Announce Mists of Pandaria 5.4.8 x1 realm

A half of a year of development and about two moths of open and closed beta tests passed and now we are ready to tell you the date when our first Mists of Pandaria 5.4.8 x1 realm will be launched.

The day, you waited for so long is 25 August 2014. The realm will be launched at 17:00 Moscow Time.

For the first two weeks the realm will be PvE (it will make getting the level up easier without having problems with enemies), after that period there will be a poll and you'll decide if the realm would be PvP or PvE.
Moreover, there the rates of the realm will be x3 for the first two weeks.

You can find the information how to start playing here: http://forum.wowcircle.com/en/showthread.php?t=415 The beta test is still running, but the client got with the help of the first method will be actual after the release.
The accounts, registered for the beta test will stay untouched(the characters will be deleted).

The Control Panel will be opened 1-2 days before the release.

To tell something about the workability of the PvP and PvE content and other features of the realm:

Features of the PvP content:

- Starter season items for the honour and arena points blizzlike, 15-th season, 522 i-lvl for the honour, 550 i-lvl for the conquest points.
- All the arenas working, even the new Tol'viron Arena and the Tiger's Peak.
- Nearly all the battlegrounds working, except the Silvershard Mines(being developed), the other new MoP battlegrounds the Deepwind Gorge and the Temple of Kotmogu are available for the players.
- Rated battlegrounds are available from the start.
- We plan to launch the Wintergrasp and Tol Barad during the first month after the realm opens.
- We worked hard over the spells and talents of different classes and will be able to do even more before the realm launches(5-10 bug reports in every class), you can see how everything works at the OBT now. In general the situation is much better than in case of the Cataclysm 4.0.6 and 4.3.4. launch.

Features of the PvE content:

We plan to open the PvE content gradually, that's why the top instances of the patch(TT, SO) will be opened not earlier than in three months. It will be more interesting for you to play and we'll have enough time to develop the other instances.

Now, what content of the previous patches works well:

- All the instances and raids of Classic work well and are available (to enter some of them and see the mobs you'll need to choose the required mode of the instance, it's 25 Heroic in most cases, but you should try different variants).
- All the instances and raids of BC work well and are available (to enter some of them and see the mobs you'll need to choose the required mode of the instance, it's 25 Heroic in most cases, but you should try different variants).
- Nearly all the instances and raids of WotLK work well and are available, besides: The Oculus (only the first phase), Halls of Reflection (only the first phase), Ulduar (the last 3 bosses are not available), Icecrown Citadel (Gunship Battle is not available, but you can pass it).
Nearly all the instances and raids of Cataclysm work well and are available, besides: Dragon Soul (developing the Spine of Deathwing), Blackwing Descent (Nefarian is not available), The Deadmines (the instance doesn't match the latest cataclysm updatepack).

The Mists of Pandaria instances, that will be available from the beginning:

- Instances: Stormstout Brewery, Temple of the Jade Serpent, Shado-Pan Monastery, Mogu'shan Palace, Gate of the Setting Sun.
- Raids: Heart of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring, Mogu'shan Vaults.
- World bosses: Galleon, Sha of Anger, Nalak.

We have to do some job about the MoP instances, they are not fully ready now, but we plan to finish the development till the day of realm launch.

Other features, available at the start of the realm:

- LFG system, Archaeology, AOE loot.
- A hard work over the quests is done to make the levelling easier and quicker, the amount of working quests of the previous patches is 90-100%, in the MoP locations at least 80% of quests work correctly.
- Pet battles (we'll try to finish it by the day of the realm launch, but it may be delayed for two weeks).
- All the exploit-fixes of the WotLK and Cataclysm are brought to MoP, moreover the new fixes were made, and this will bring more comfort without baggers that cause problems.
- And other small but pleasant features.

See you in the world of Pandaria on the 25 August 2014 at 17:00 Moscow Time.