Hundreds dead, thousands panicking, cities abandoned...

[Mikeus Caesar]

...and why? Because from what news i can gather, a single feature on World of Warcraft has accidentally spread out and caused chaos.

Blizzard adds in a new instance, Zul'Gurub. Inside is the god of blood, Hakkar. Well, when you fight him he has a debuff called Corrputed Blood. It does like 250-350 damage to palyers and affects nearby players.

Supposedly some higher level people who have enough HP to make it back to the towns and cities brought the disease back with them, and it kills lower level players within seconds. Hundreds of players between the levels 1-20 are dead, and those that aren't are fleeing the cities in the masses.

More info

[The_Doctor]

LOL

What about undead players?

[Sjakihata]

and what happens when you die? game over? if not, it's no big deal

[Mikeus Caesar]

I'm not sure, as i don't play WoW. I'd imagine you respawn, although there'd probably be some sort of penalty. But still, it sounds pretty cool. What started off as a mistake has given a bit of realism to it.

[The_Doctor]

I have never played it, but when you die you become a ghost in a grave yard and have to get back to your body. Or something like that.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Interesting. That means a hell of a lot of ghosts and diseased bodies.

[The_Doctor]

I don't think the bodies would be diseased, but there would be a lot of them.

[UglyandHasty]

I was just reading about it here

[Mikeus Caesar]

Many online discussion sites were buzzing with reports from the disaster zones with some describing seeing "hundreds" of bodies lying in the virtual streets of the online towns and cities.

They make it sound almost real. It's quite scary the way the BBC have reported it.

[Sjakihata]

It's cool though - that an epedmic can break loose. I'd be much more into MMORPGs if they resembled the real deal a bit more.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I don't play WoW either, but a friend does, and when I watch him play he dies a lot. You just turn into this white spirit thing from some spawn point where you have to go find your body and revive it. You don't lose anything I don't think.

If people are really scared and stuff, then I'm sure it's something along the lines of canceling accounts or something huge like that...

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I've never played it, but judging from the kind of game it is, people probably don't want to waste time being dead. Or something.

Kinda creepy.

[Kraxis]

Any reports of ghosttowns yet?

This sounds really fun to those of us who don't play. Quarantines, plagues, corpses in the streets. Haha... It is cool it is only virtual.

[The_Emperor]

I was playing the game a little bit during my absence.

From what I can make out this only started to happen on the US servers. The corrupted Blood disease spreads to NPCs and guards in a town, as well as to other players... It cannot be cured by Curse, Magic, poison or disease cleansing abilities.

The problem I heard is this spreads so rapidly that if you die, and run to your coprse again to ressurect all nice and healthy you'll probably get the Plague from a Town Guard or player standing near to you.

The penalty for death in WoW is a 10% durability hit on all equipped items upon death. If you ressurect in the graveyard rather than returning to your corpse you get a 25% durability loss on every item you have equipped or stored, plus ressurection sickness that causes all your stats to be reduced by 75% for 10 minutes (which means you punch like a wuss and probably couldn't kill a fly).

Die enough times and it might be rather expensive

One thing I did learn is that it is NOT easy to bring this disease back to the cities, and probably involves a dismissed Hunter or Warlock pet that was resummoned in the town (much like the previous "living bomb" thing that caused people to Nuke the local Auction House in town for 3,000 damage).

Still funny stuff.

[Mikeus Caesar]

One thing I did learn is that it is NOT easy to bring this disease back to the cities, and probably involves a dismissed Hunter or Warlock pet that was resummoned in the town (much like the previous "living bomb" thing that caused people to Nuke the local Auction House in town for 3,000 damage).

Still funny stuff.

I've heard about the living bomb one, and how people nuked the auction houses. Sounded funny.

[The_Emperor]

yep the living bomb comes from the Molten Core Boss Baron Geddon, as i understand it he turns a target into the living bomb to blow up the team.

Previously if a pet became the bomb you could dismiss it, and when you were back in town after the raid you could resummon the pet with the bomb still on it...

Given players of all leverls crowd around the Auction houses (and cause mass lag by doing so) it was the place where many people would resummon pets and then watch as it blew everyone up.

MC is a 40 man raid instance so i have never been there to see for myself. (you cannot do it unless your in a vast raiding guild), last I heard Blizzard fixed it so that a pet can no longer become the bomb.

[Abokasee]

yeah i did a "Kaboom Plauge" on warcraft 3 heres how i did it


1.I killed a Goblin Sapper with a meat with plauge upgrade

2.Then goblin burst into a plauge cloud and made a constant explosion where it was killed

3 units come near cacth plauge get killed by bomb any create another "Kaboom Pluage"

I won