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The latest patch 5.4 newsWestern Plaguelands not so plagued anymore in Cataclysm
by Michael Sacco 
Feb 26th 2010 at 9:10PM
Twitter developer chatQ. With the Lich King defeated, in Cataclysm, will the Plaguelands be green and beautiful again?
A. Western Plaguelands will finally be free of the plague in Cataclysm. It's hard for the Scourge to survive without their beloved Lich King. I guess this means we need to rename the zone?
A. Western Plaguelands will finally be free of the plague in Cataclysm. It's hard for the Scourge to survive without their beloved Lich King. I guess this means we need to rename the zone?
Just awesome. This is the kind of change I was hoping for in Cataclysm, to be honest -- not just earthquakes and floods, but actual passage of time and logical storyline progression post-defeat of Lordaeron's traitor prince. Wonder what this means for Scholomance or Andorhal!
But, also, what does it mean for the name? I guess Eastern Plaguelands will likely become just The Plaguelands, but what will WPL become? East Lordaeron? New Lordaeron? Or, given the zone's proximity to the zone that's basically Azeroth's armpit, they could just go with the one that makes the most sense: Pennsylvania.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 6)
Dragonrose Feb 27th 2010 7:45AM
I hope they give level 80+ quests there about us helping cleanse the place. Then they send us to Stormwind to tell the thing everything is OK. When we come back, it phased into the new zone!
Oskjable Feb 26th 2010 9:15PM
Western Plaguelands Heroic is the new name ofc
Randomize Feb 27th 2010 2:17AM
The Welcome Bears will now be level 85 with 70k health and do 7k damage per hit. And you thought they were hungry for blood before...
Bizzy Feb 27th 2010 1:53PM
Lol at the Welcome Bears! I remember when I first began WoW & my lowly leveled undead wandered aimlessly from Undercity and into Western Plaguelands. "Why does this bear have question marks where his level should be?" I asked myself - and then he promptly proceeded to maul
my face off. I always wondered why such a high level zone was next to a starting area.
jfofla Feb 26th 2010 9:15PM
An Alliance zone so close to the Undercity will make things interesting...I wonder if the Worgan will have something here?
Suzaku Feb 26th 2010 11:43PM
There was absolutely nothing stating that WPL would become an Alliance zone.
In fact, Blizzard's leveling flowchart for Eastern Kingdoms goes like this:
Tirisfal Glades (1-10) -> Silverpine Forest (10-20) -> Hillsbrad (20-25) -> Arathi Highlands (25-30) -> Hinterlands (30-35) -> Western Plaguelands (35-40) -> Eastern Plaguelands (40-50)
http://www.wowwiki.com/File:Easternkingdoms_levelflow_blizzcon.jpg
elfennau Feb 27th 2010 11:42AM
@Suzaku You are, then, assuming everything is staying exactly the same from Blizzcon all the way through release. The cute innocence of that assumption makes me giggle. :)
Marolas Feb 26th 2010 9:16PM
"...given the zone's proximity to the zone that's basically Azeroth's armpit, they could just go with the one that makes the most sense: Pennsylvania."
"I'm a native son of PA, and I approve of this attack on the hated New Jersey. I assume that's what you mean?"
Everybody in the Undercity had better have a /fistpump emote come Cataclysm...
Falcon6 Feb 26th 2010 9:17PM
Now, now, let's be fair here...
At least the Western Plaguelands are habitable.
Radioted Feb 26th 2010 9:19PM
I really wish they'd implement some form of phasing with this, because the narrative of leveling from 1-85 is going to entrierly screwed up with stuff like this happening.
oniryuujin Feb 26th 2010 9:41PM
that's the whole point the original storyline and quest chains and what not are getting revamped, so when cata hits new players who never did WPL will probably only get some flavor npc text on how it was, same goes for a few zones as well.
Evil Midnight Lurker Feb 26th 2010 9:41PM
Nozdormu punched time. How hard is this to understand? ;)
Snuzzle Feb 27th 2010 12:08AM
"so when cata hits new players who never did WPL will probably only get some flavor npc text on how it was"
That's....kind of sad :(
sontrowa Feb 27th 2010 12:34AM
"that's the whole point the original storyline and quest chains and what not are getting revamped, so when cata hits new players who never did WPL will probably only get some flavor npc text on how it was, same goes for a few zones as well."
That's half the reason for the new Archeology profession. The things you find in the area will give you sort of a history lesson on it. Example they gave was finding Archeology points in the to-be-ruined Auberdine that told the story of the soon to be dead townlet.
Tomatketchup Feb 26th 2010 9:20PM
It should be called The Plaguelands, and the Eastern Plaguelands should be called The Flowerlands, just to refrence Iceland and Greenland. I mean, jeez, do you ever see ANY green on GREENland?
Amritrao Feb 26th 2010 10:29PM
Yes, you do. Check it out: http://www.rala.is/beta/29%20Greenland%20sheep%202.htm
Al Feb 27th 2010 1:03AM
They traded their green to Iceland, who reciprociated by giving Greenland their ice.
Marcosius Feb 27th 2010 10:00AM
When we're not sailing in the after-effects of a miniature iceage such as we had about 10k-8k years ago, greenland in fact has very little ice on it. Also North Pole has been completely unfrozen many times in earth's history, that's why they go drill the Antarctic ice when they want to study the atmosphere untold years backwards.
Wyred Feb 27th 2010 3:30PM
Not sure how kosher this is, but I always understood that Greenland was so named to make it sound more attractive to colonists at the time. If this is true, it possibly stands as the greatest act of trolling of all time.
*colonist lands on Greenland*
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"
Deathknighty Feb 26th 2010 9:20PM
Pennsylvania even sounds vaguely like "Sylvanas"! "Sylvan-ia", instead of "Sylvanas", and with a "Penn" on the front!
It's a conspiricy!