A little under a year ago, at Blizzcon 2011, Blizzard announced the fourth expansion to the MMORPG behemoth that is World of Warcraft. Called Mists of Pandaria it seemed at the time that Blizzard was returning to some of the core principles of Warcraft, focusing on the conflict between the Alliance and the Horde.

It's now eleven months later and Mists of Pandaria is launching worldwide on September 25th at Midnight local time in Europe and the United States, and on the 27th in Korea. Anticipation of the new expansion is running high, with the beta being available since March and the public test realm since July the internet has been awash with content information and the Warcraft community has done its usual job of dissecting every little change that the developers make.

So, what will Mists of Pandaria bring to a game that is now almost 8 years old? And will this latest expansion arrest some of the subscriber number decline that Blizzard has seen in the last 18 months?