《魔兽世界:熊猫人之谜》是2012年发布的大型多人在线角色扮演游戏(MMORPG)的第四部资料片,需要基础游戏才能体验。该DLC将玩家带到迷雾笼罩的新大陆潘达利亚,故事围绕部落与联盟在岛上的冲突以及对抗被唤醒的“煞”展开。核心玩法扩展了等级上限,并引入了全新可玩种族“熊猫人”及“武僧”职业。特色系统包括小队副本“战场”和独立的宠物对战系统。该资料片为艾泽拉斯的叙事和游戏内容提供了大量实质性增加。
","tokens":{"input":3478,"output":142,"total":3620}}在击败死亡之翼的威胁后,部落在酋长加尔鲁什·地狱吼的领导下,抓住机会积极扩张领土。一场毁灭性的海战导致联盟和部落的部队被冲上了新出现的、被迷雾环绕的潘达利亚大陆。在这里,玩家接触到了高贵的熊猫人种族,并卷入了他们为对抗被血腥冲突从潘达利亚深处唤醒的“煞”(Sha,负面情绪的具象化存在)而进行的斗争。
\n叙事很快超越了单纯的领土争端。加尔鲁什·地狱吼对古代魔古族神器的追逐,例如神圣之钟,加剧了阵营间的矛盾,甚至在部落内部引发了冲突。玩家目睹了暴君雷神(The Thunder King)的崛起,以及影踪派等当地保卫者为镇压这一古老威胁所做的努力,这通常要求联盟和部落的英雄们在持续的战争中进行合作。故事最终以“围攻奥格瑞玛”的内部冲突达到高潮,冠军们集结起来推翻日益专制的加尔鲁什·地狱吼。
\n\n本次更新为核心MMORPG机制带来了一些关键的增添和完善:
\n\n一个重要的补充是引入了熊猫人作为新的可玩种族,以及武僧职业。武僧职业提供了一种独特的混合战斗风格,专注于“气”和“酿造”机制,涵盖近战、治疗和伤害输出。
\n\n等级上限得到提升,允许玩家在游戏进程系统中进一步发展。新增了新的区域、地下城和团队副本,以支持等级提升,并推进潘达利亚持续的故事情节。
\n\n本次更新引入了场景(Scenarios),这是一种专为三名玩家设计的小规模、独立的小组内容,提供了介于传统任务和完整五人地下城之间的一种过渡体验。此外,还实施了一个全新的系统——宠物对战(Pet Battles),允许玩家收集、训练并与其他玩家的宠物进行回合制战斗。
\n\n作为一个资料片,此内容并非独立运行。它需要《魔兽世界》的基础安装才能访问新的区域、故事内容、等级上限提升和游戏功能。以往的资料片通常包含在基础游戏订阅中,这意味着玩家在订阅当前版本的游戏时通常即可获得此内容的访问权限。
\n\n本次更新为游戏世界带来了实质性的全面扩展和改进。它引入了一个全新的可探索大陆、一种新的种族/职业组合,以及像宠物对战和场景这样的全新游戏系统,围绕潘达利亚日益紧张的冲突,提供了大量新的任务、探索和终局团队副本内容。
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Orgrimmar, heart of orcish civilization on Azeroth, was set ablaze by revolution. When Warchief Garrosh Hellscream revived the heart of the Old God Y’shaarj to empower his army, he desecrated Pandaria’s sacred Vale of Eternal Blossoms. This affront, alongside Garrosh’s increasingly dangerous conquests, led Horde rebels and Alliance stalwarts to assail the great walls of Orgrimmar, hoping to dethrone the tyrant before he ravaged an entire world. Alongside Thrall, champions of the Horde and Alliance fought their way to the Warchief’s lair beneath the city, where the battle grew so desperate that Garrosh absorbed the energies of the Old God to halt his downfall. It was not enough. At the behest of King Varian Wrynn, a defeated Garrosh was brought to trial before the August Celestials of Pandaria – but the scars of his rule will bleed for some time.

Garrosh Hellscream's quest for power in Pandaria leads him to excavate part of the sacred Vale of Eternal Blossoms in search of a sinister artifact, a decision that puts the Horde at odds with the Shado-pan and other influential pandaren. Meanwhile, in the Horde capital of Orgrimmar, Chieftain Vol'jin and the Darkspear trolls are declared traitors and hunted by the Kor'kron, Hellscream's personal guard. Vol'jin's people retreat to Durotar and the Barrens to gather supplies and reinforcements for their counter-strike, relying on the support of their former warchief, Thrall, and a particularly tenuous pact with the Alliance, whose interest in ending Garrosh's rule may not bode entirely well for the Horde...

While war between the Horde and the Alliance raged across Pandaria, the scattered mogu plotted a return to their terrible former glory. They rekindled their historical alliance with the Zandalari trolls, who managed to resurrect the tyrannical mogu emperor, Lei Shen the Thunder King, in the hopes of restoring mogu dominion over the continent. The valiant Shado-pan rushed to suppress their enemies, creating a task force, the Shado-pan Assault, originally composed of pandaren warriors and later supported by heroes of the Horde and Alliance. These fearless champions strove to defeat the Thunder King, though they also simultaneously served their factions' interests on Pandaria. Jaina Proudmoore led the Kirin Tor Offensive on a quest to uncover the source of all mogu power (and keep it from the Horde), and Lor'themar Theron took the Sunreaver Onslaught in search of mighty mogu weaponry to aid a daring plan…an insurrection against Warchief Garrosh Hellscream.

The conflict between the Horde and the Alliance entered a bloody new chapter in Pandaria. As the two factions' armies clashed on the shores of the continent, Warchief Garrosh Hellscream dispatched elite troops to find the Divine Bell—an ancient mogu artifact capable of endowing his soldiers with unimaginable power. Garrosh's bold and reckless actions, however, had dire consequences for the Horde, including the outbreak of violence against the Darkspear trolls and the expulsion of the blood elves from the once-neutral mage city of Dalaran. Although Garrosh claimed the bell, Prince Anduin Wrynn and the Alliance secret agents of SI:7 closely tracked the warchief's every move. On the highest peaks of Kun-Lai Summit, the brave prince thwarted Garrosh's plans, leading to the fabled mogu artifact's destruction.