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Anne Stickney

Anne Stickney @Shadesogrey — Anne Stickney knows entirely too much about World of Warcraft lore, and would like to tell you all about it. Currently ensconced somewhere in the mountains of Colorado, Anne is the co-author of the World of Warcraft: Ultimate Visual Guide, as well as the author of the World of Warcraft Annual 2015, and the World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Strategy Guide.


The Queue: Little Pamela

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

You know, I like the revamps they did to the Eastern and Western Plaguelands in Cataclysm, but sometimes I find myself missing the old quests. It’s not that they were objectively better or worse, it’s mostly that they encapsulated the horrors of the Third War so perfectly. Obviously we’ve moved on from the Third War by now, but in vanilla, it was neat (and incredibly creepy at times) to have that snapshot of just what the Third War did to Lordaeron and the people that lived there. Yes, the Forsaken were a major part of that, but I liked seeing the stories of the regular people who lived and died there, too.


The Queue: Spoony bards

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

I really miss the Pandaren shrines. It was a nice place for getting things done, there were usually a lot of people there, but mostly I miss the Pandaren NPC on Alliance side that would play a song for some gold. We don’t really have anything like that in Warlords, although I suppose a world on the brink of being torn apart isn’t really concerned with snappy tunes, right? Speaking of bards…let’s get to the questions.


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