As 2013 began we were 3 solid months into Mists of Pandaria. Patch 5.1, a major patch, was now behind us. Between not being able to raid anymore (aside from LFR), some life changes and Guild Wars 2 coming out, my interest in WoW was diminishing. I took significantly less screenshots this year. When I did play I spent most of my time mindless leveling alts that I'd probably never play again and farming Reputation and Achievements.
January 4, 2013 - Despite being pretty grindy, many of the reputations of Pandaria had some kind of event of cinematic once you reached exalted. The ceremony for completing the Order of the Cloud Serpent was both beautiful and epic.
January 9, 2013 - Seems Pandaria has squid problems...
January 12, 2013 - At some point people began camping the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands. At least on PvP servers.
January 12, 2013 - I guess this made sense since every major city had a portal all going to the same spot. I wouldn't have thought it used enough for people to justify camping it, but most days until late in the evening/early morning, it was camped.
January 22, 2013 - A fun wagon ride AND I got to toss things at baddies.
January 23, 2013 - The destruction of Theramore brought about huge changes for Jaina Proudmoore. Sadly in-game, there aren't too many details on what happened. If you want to learn more you have to read Tides of War by Christie Golden.
January 29, 2013 - Sometimes when near a Horde city on Alliance toon I'll hitch a ride on top of the Zeppelin. Nobody really looks up there.
February 4, 2013 - Completion of the Golden Lotus quest line and reputation.
February 7, 2013 - One night while clearing AQ40 we had three Red Qiraji Resonating Crystals drop. This was after having not seen any ever before.
February 27, 2013 - Such a view. Mason's Folly indeed.
March 2, 2013 - Near the end of the Pandaren starting zone you learn that the entire island is on the back of a giant turtle. A turtle that is in a great deal of pain. Fortunately you're able to help.
March 5, 2013 - Patch 5.2 - "The Thunder King" was released.
March 6, 2013 - In addition to the Isle of Thunder, the shiny new Patch 5.2 added the Isle of Giants. It contained a World Boss named Oondasta and was full of elite dinosaurs. Groups could kill the dinosaurs and farm their bones to turn in for a mount.
March 10, 2013 - Oondasta was actually quite difficult at first, even for a 40 player raid group.
March 12, 2013 - Like the Isle of Quel'Danas, the Isle of Thunder was a phased / staged event that the entire server could participate in. The more people doing the dailes, the faster the Alliance/Horde takeover of the island and the more dailies available. This was Stage 2 of 5.
March 18, 2013 - They still hadn't fixed flight paths yet.
May 19, 2013 - The first time you travel to the Isle of Thunder on a character, you get to participate a little in the taking of it. You start out from a boat and do a personal scenario.
May 21, 2013 - Patch 5.3 - "Escalation" was released.
July 20, 2013 - Garrosh tried to kill Vol'jin. Vol'jin is pretty ticked.
September 9, 2013 - The upcoming Patch 5.4 will bring about a ruined version of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Before the patch I decided to fly around and collect a number of screenshots. They were all taken the same date.
September 10, 2013 - Patch 5.4 - "Siege of Orgrimmar" was released.
September 11, 2013 - The Timeless Isle was a new zone introduced in Patch 5.4. There were a few quests and dailies as well as a new reputation to grind, ton of rare mobs and armor upgrade tokens.
September 12, 2013 - This patch also brought the end of the Legendary Cloak questline. Upon completion, an image of your character was placed on a pedestal overlooking the Vale of Eternal Blossoms for a short time. Featured here is my good friend, Tsuni.
September 12, 2013 - One of the many rares on the Timeless Isle was a ghost pirate ship. Seriously. A freaking Ghost Pirate Ship. How awesome is that?
When 2013 drew to a close, Patch 5.4.2 was live. It was a minor patch with the usual fixes and tweaks.
Mists of Pandaria had been out 15 months at this point and the final raid, Siege of Orgrimmar was out for 3 months. On November 8, 2013 at Blizzcon, Blizzard announced the next expansion, Warlords of Draenor. Despite everyone's desire for it to come out sooner, rather than later, we would have to wait an entire year until November 2014 for it to be released. From the release of Patch 5.4 on September 10, 2013 to the release of Patch 6.0.2 on October 14, 2014, we would have the longest 'dry spell' of content ever. 13 months.
I originally didn't plan on making one of these for 2014, but I may as well. Upon completion of that I plan to make a index / foreword type post and then re-visit the previous years and tweak them a bit. Maybe add or remove a shot or two. Add patch trailers. One day I'd also like to do something like this for Neocron. Cya next year!
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