Let's see how I did

• Mists of Pandaria is the new expansion.  Right!
• No new race. Pandaren are NPCs.  Wrong!
• New Hero class (defined as starting at high level, not in general overpowerdacity): the Monk.  Halfway right.
• Taught by Pandas on some far-off island .  Right!
• Any race can be this class.  Right!
• Similar to the Death Knight starting area, Horde and Alliance are together here.  Right - but in a different way than I expected, since you don't have to choose your side until level 10.
• Wears cloth. Maybe leather. Half right.
• Maybe either! (two armor specializations)
• Shares resto/melee leather with druids and rogues
• Shares resto cloth with priests
• Can heal or melee. I guess you could say I got this 2/3 right.
• Melee: Unarmed or using a staff
• Healing: Uses some new and interesting heal mechanic, like having to be in melee range. If so they'd need to be highly mobile, like having a heroic leap-like ability on a short cooldown. We don't know yet.
• Maybe add a new kinds (or kinds) of weapons to coincide with the new class  We don't know yet.
• Talent system revamp.  I have to say I got a home run on this one.
• I can't imagine what this might be, but they have indicated that they would design it differently given a re-do. 
• Also, numerically it's been shown that the system is not sustainable. Adding more talents makes the game worse, not better, though it looks good on a box.
• The minimum they'll do is to fold more "boring" talents into the base and add a similar number of new talents.
• Raid content: I'm leaning toward Azshara, Neptulon and the Abyssal Maw. Unknown as yet.
• I don't think they will risk another major underwater zone given the cool reception of Vash'jir (which I loved, but many didn't)
• I don't think this will be all there is. Maybe only the starting raids will be water-related.
• Hopefully some new bad guys that we have never heard of before will be introduced. We have killed most of the previously-established ones by this point.
• Graphical upgrade of some kind.  Unknown as yet, though they have hinted that they are trying.
• It might not be a player model update for reasons they've previously stated, such as player attachment to their character's "look".
• I think it will be more radical than previous approaches of "fix one thing", like fire or water. The graphics have a strong need to be brought into the present day, and the lowest level of hardware has been raised since the game launched.
• No Alleria and Turalyon yet. Still pretty sure this is true.
• Tanking gets a redesign. This isn't rocket science to discern since they've been talking about it openly. This is sort of yesterday's news, even.
• Release date is early next year, maybe summer at latest. No way we're raiding Deathwing for a full year.  Definitely hope so.  Though I fear we might be punching that big iron jaw for a longer time that we wished we would

So, depending on how you calculate it, my extremely fair and unbiased estimation of my score is 7 2/3 out of 9, of the ones we know so far. 

Check out this old chestnut I just found on my hard drive:

Blizzcon World of Warcraft Prediction Mania

Below are my predictions for Blizzcon 2011. How could I pass up the opportunity to look completely ridiculous in two  one days' time?

• Mists of Pandaria is the new expansion.
• No new race. Pandaren are NPCs.
• New Hero class (defined as starting at high level, not in general overpowerdacity): the Monk. 
• Taught by Pandas on some far-off island . 
• Any race can be this class.
• Similar to the Death Knight starting area, Horde and Alliance are together here.
• Wears cloth. Maybe leather. 
• Maybe either! (two armor specializations)
• Shares resto/melee leather with druids and rogues
• Shares resto cloth with priests
• Can heal or melee.
• Melee: Unarmed or using a staff
• Healing: Uses some new and interesting heal mechanic, like having to be in melee range. If so they'd need to be highly mobile, like having a heroic leap-like ability on a short cooldown.
• Maybe add a new kinds (or kinds) of weapons to coincide with the new class
• Talent system revamp. 
• I can't imagine what this might be, but they have indicated that they would design it differently given a re-do. 
• Also, numerically it's been shown that the system is not sustainable. Adding more talents makes the game worse, not better, though it looks good on a box.
• The minimum they'll do is to fold more "boring" talents into the base and add a similar number of new talents.
• Raid content: I'm leaning toward Azshara, Neptulon and the Abyssal Maw. 
• I don't think they will risk another major underwater zone given the cool reception of Vash'jir (which I loved, but many didn't)
• I don't think this will be all there is. Maybe only the starting raids will be water-related.
• Hopefully some new bad guys that we have never heard of before will be introduced. We have killed most of the previously-established ones by this point.
• Graphical upgrade of some kind. 
• It might not be a player model update for reasons they've previously stated, such as player attachment to their character's "look".
• I think it will be more radical than previous approaches of "fix one thing", like fire or water. The graphics have a strong need to be brought into the present day, and the lowest level of hardware has been raised since the game launched.
• No Alleria and Turalyon yet.
• Tanking gets a redesign. This isn't rocket science to discern since they've been talking about it openly.
• Release date is early next year, maybe summer at latest. No way we're raiding Deathwing for a full year.

What are your predictions?