Plague Strikes World of Warcraft
Amazing!! Talk about un-expected results.
Blizzard recently added the Zul’Gurub instance to the game, where Hakkar, the god of blood, uses a devastating disease attack on anyone who dares fight him. Seeing as how it’s a disease and most diseases are contagious, it shouldn’t be shocking when some players come back and haven’t been cured.
And that’s exactly what’s happened. Players are returning from this instance to towns with the diseases, spreading it, and Blizzard’s in a panic to keep things under control. GM’s have started to quarantine players in an effort to control the spreading, but players keep leaving the quarantine areas. Unless you’re above level 50, you more or less immediately fall over dead from the disease.
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little known fact is that the secret to kill hakkar is to get infected with the disease and not to dispel it, once he tries to do another one of his tricks called ’syphon life’ you’re actually raping his face with his own disease
how cool is that
Comment by adnans — September 20, 2005 @ 3:21 pm
adnans - you da man, dog!
Comment by eddie — September 20, 2005 @ 4:09 pm
that was my nerd moment Eddie. don’t ruin it
Comment by adnans — September 20, 2005 @ 4:37 pm
fa shizzle
Comment by eddie — September 20, 2005 @ 6:47 pm
http://wowaids.ytmnd.com/
Comment by adnans — September 20, 2005 @ 9:55 pm
http://files.filefront.com/WoW_plauge_divxavi/;4145249;;/fileinfo.html
– video of the plague in action. not interesting but gives you an idea of how it spreads.
Comment by adnans — September 21, 2005 @ 12:45 pm
From the Beeb –
In the last week, it added the Zul’Gurub dungeon which gave players a chance to confront and kill the fearsome Hakkar - the god of Blood.
In his death throes Hakkar hits foes with a “corrupted blood” infection that can instantly kill weaker characters.
The infection was only supposed to affect those in the immediate vicinity of Hakkar’s corpse but some players found a way to transfer it to other areas of the game by infecting an in-game virtual pet with it.
This pet was then unleashed in the orc capital city of Ogrimmar and proved hugely effective as the Corrupted Blood plague spread from player to player.
haha thats great
Comment by john paul — September 22, 2005 @ 11:58 pm
haha, i thought they just ported back to their home towns. thats how they did it. the pet
there is another boss in WoW game, called Barron Geddon (big ball of fire), his special move was to name random players fighting him a bomb, once you were declared a bomb you had 10 seconds to get away from your teammates before you blew up literally, killing yourself and nearby players. some classes are allowed to have pets which can be dismissed in seconds, so if they were randomly chosen to be the bomb, the pet could be dismissed and called again once you were back in your home town. this ritual of blowing up people happened usually in the Auction House. very funny seeing 50+ characters just die on the spot in one of the busiest places in wow universe. this was eventually banned by Blizzard or fixed.
Comment by adnans — September 23, 2005 @ 12:15 am