Anne Stickney

I'm not exactly sure what we'll be doing, but we're going to be livestreaming our leveling shenanigans today at 2 p.m.

The patch notes for World of Warcraft patch 6.2.2 have been updated with plenty of new information -- previously, all we had was a brief summary of the upcoming PVP Mercenary Mode, and flight on Draenor.

Well I may not have been around for the shenanigans, but it looks like the leveling bonanza crew decided to say sayonara to the misbegotten horrors of Hellfire Peninsula and instead venture into the cool blues and soothing waters of Zangarmarsh last week.

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Sometimes when I go digging through old screenshots, I stumble across images that I simply don’t remember taking, nor why I took them. This is one of those cases, although I’m guessing it has to do with the creepy painting this poor guy has to deal with on a daily basis. Forget everything else and just look at that painting for a second. That’s a painting. That means that whoever was painting that portrait had to deal with the thousand yard stare the entire time he was painting it. No wonder the quality is a little low, I’d be in a hurry to finish the thing too, if I were the painter. But we have some questions we should probably be getting to, don’t we?

Look, I'm as excited as the rest of you are about Legion -- I mean hello, Burning Legion, ancient elves, Illidan, Gul'dan, Titan artifacts, potential Old God stuff, Alleria and Turalyon?

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I’m catching up to what I missed with last week’s leveling stream and I found a new friend. Or he found me. He followed me home. I’m gonna keep him. I’m not sure how much of a fighter he’ll be, but hey, at least he’ll be useful for getting stuff off of the top shelf, right? I’m not sure what to name him yet, though. Or, you know, how he sees anything.

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So the other really cool part of the VGL concert I attended was the very last encore, which brought every special guest composer to the stage for a singalong of Still Alive. With everyone in the audience participating. They flashed the lyrics on the screens for us, just in case, but I don’t think there was anyone attending that really needed them. If you have a chance to catch Video Games Live in your area or somewhere nearby, go do it — it’s an experience that really shouldn’t be missed.

You don't necessarily have to utilize current game lore for your roleplay, but many players choose to do so.

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So while the rest of you were busy devouring Legion‘s announcement, I was off at Red Rocks for Video Games Live. I’m pretty sure one of the highlights of the whole experience was when Russell Brower took the stage to conduct a Warlords piece, and the wind kicked in precisely when the orchestra struck up the first few notes. Seeing a concert in an outdoor amphitheater like Red Rocks was amazing enough, but to hear that track, surrounded by giant rock walls on either side while the wind swirled around us all and nearly took the sheet music off the stands was downright eerie. It was like we were on Draenor. I still have goosebumps! And we have so many questions, so let’s get to those!

Illidan Stormrage is one of the most well-known figures in Warcraft lore, although the majority of his story took place long before World of Warcraft -- he was first featured back in Warcraft 3.