For hunters in World of Warcraft, the world has become a little darker. An idol of the hunter community left us.
If Jäger want a particularly chic pet in World of Warcraft, then go looking for it for a long time. If you want to shorten the search, you can access different pages on the Internet. One of the best known is probably Petopia, which has been used for many years as a contact point for hunters with a penchant for particularly exclusive companions.
Now there was sad news: the founder of the site, Sandra Powers, died. This was announced in Petopia.
Who was Sandra Powers? Sandra “Mania” Powers was the founder of the “Petopia” page. She herself loved the hunter class and basically compiled all information about all the animal companions available in the game. Even if the page has received even more employees over the years and Powers retreated more and more after WoW’s “golden era”, she is still very important as the founder of the site.
In addition, Sandra Powers was also a MMO producer. She worked on Asheron’s Call, Everquest II and with her husband at the MMO project Gorgon.
At the end of January 2025, Powers died of cancer.
Why was Sandra Powers so important for hunters? Sandra Powers, who was more known to most WoW fans as “Mania”, founded the “Petopia” site. This is a website on which hunters can get information about all the Jäger-Pets available in the game-with information on all kinds of companions where you can find them and which strategies have proven to be particularly helpful when taming or bogging a spawn point.
Jäger fans from all over the world have been using this website for many years when they want to go looking for a very special companion.
So Power is immortalized in the game: Blizzard recognized the importance of Sandra “Mania” Powers for the community years ago and immortalized it with two NPCs in the game. One of them is the Orc lady “Beste Master Mania”, which you can find in the religious of the hunters in Legion.
The second NPC already comes from Cataclysm and is the rare mob “Ainamiss the swarm queen”, which you can find in Tanaris-at least when she is there, because it is a rare mob.
This is how the community commemorates: What the importance of Powers for the whole hunter community in World of Warcraft is evident in the WoW subreddit. The corresponding contribution has received over 14,000 upvotes and many remember how often they have resorted to the knowledge of Powers and Petopia:
On Petopia you say goodbye to Powers with a long contribution and once again draw attention to the fact that you can visit her as a hunter in the game.