How Some of Vanilla WoW's Most Popular Dungeons Were Made

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The man behind many dungeons and raids from the original World of Warcraft, in addition to the previously mentioned ones, is John Staats. Although no longer working at Blizzard Entertainment, Staats is credited as having built some—if not most—of World of Warcraft's cherished dungeons and areas. Recently, Staats published his first book, The WoW Diary, which chronicles the development of World of Warcraft.
He moved across the coast to California to work on dungeons and other areas for Blizzard, which as a former dungeon master for Dungeons & Dragons, is a dream come true. As a person who enjoyed both architecture and experience as a former dungeon master, World of Warcraft was a "nexus of likes" to Staats. As for the team that Blizzard amassed?
“It was a blessing that we had the right programmers. I still think the programming team was the best team that has ever been assembled, at least while we were making that team. They were just—every single one of them was just a rockstar," he said. "They were a department in and of themselves.”
The massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre was barren at the time. Designers like Staats drew inspiration from FPS games, with him citing Quake in particular. The team began with a tool that made everything far too clunky and rigid, with inflexible geometry, as Staats described it. But more importantly, the team looked at EverQuest. The team's aim was not to directly emulate what their potential competitor already does, but to improve upon it. This was the philosophy of Allen Adham, one of the founders of Blizzard Entertainment.
"Allen was our design lead up until the last year of the project," said Staats, "and I remember him saying that, 'World of Warcraft wasn’t going to be revolutionary; it was going to be evolutionary.’”