General Beta Notes

So I've had a couple days to run around in the beta; some stuff is in, some isn't, some is buggy.  A summary:

What's in:

• Monk class
• New talents/skills/glyphs (mostly)
• AOE looting (which is awesome, btw, and I need to test if it works with the loot-a-rang)
• Quests in the Jade Forest
• Pandarens and their starting zone
• New cloth and leather for gathering
• Temple of the Jade Serpent (instance)
• Some new battle grounds, although I haven't tried them

What isn't in yet:

• New crafting (or at least, not engineering)
• Mining and herb nodes
• Most mobs' loot tables in the Jade Forest
• Most mobs' correct type (most beasts are humanoid, etc.)
• Tamable mobs in the Jade Forest
• Pet talents

What's sort of in, but not quite:

• Pet battles - the interface is there, though you need to keybind it to see it, but I haven't been able to capture anything new yet.  You can see capturable critters, though, because when you mouse over them, you get a target cursor.

Frequently Asked Questions in the Jade Forest:

• Portals are buggy and you may need a Rune of Teleportation to use them.
• Wisdom of the Ages and Jinyu in a Barrel are both buggy and may not work if more than one person tries to do them at a time.  If there's a line, your best bet is to get in it.  There's probably still a chat channel for Jinyu in a Barrel (/riflechat).
• There are several quest hubs (crash site (Horde), Chun Tian Monastery, Arboretum, the orchards, etc.), but the crash site quests chains you through to making friends with your NPC faction.
• No flying on Pandaria until level 90.  (The skill is in your spellbook, waiting to be learned.)
• Premades will need to get a mage to port them to Orgrimmar, or get a Rune of Teleportation from someone to use the portals until they fix them.
• Currently only the Jade Forest is open, and you can't get to the other zones in Pandaria.
• Current level cap is 86.
• Hunter pets are bugged and appear at the size they were tamed.
• You only have a mainhand and and offhand slot now - no ranged slot.  You can put ranged weapons in your mainhand slot, and if it's a wand, you can use an offhand item with it.
• Once Nazgrim is at Hellscream's Hope, he's behind the tower.  (He just had an airship crash; cut him some slack.)