Shacknews reader pigz brings word of the latest goings on in Azeroth:
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Originally Posted by pigz
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. The amazing thing is SOME PLAYERS have brought this disease (and it is a disease) back to the towns, outside of the instance. It starts spreading amongst the genral population including npcs, who can out generate the damage. Some servers have gotten so bad that you can't go into the major cities without getting the plague (and anyone less than like level 50 nearly immediately die).
GM's even tried quarantining players in certain areas, but the players kept escaping the quarentine and infect other players.
So is this the intended effect or is it pardon the pun, a bug? Seems like it definitely adds a level of RP to the game but at the same time, a couple 250-300 hits of that disease and I'm a dead little gnome.
EQ2 had a game wide event for the plague a few months ago. Some owlbears were spreading it from Nektulos forrest. Started with a couple players bringing it to the city.. next thing you know almost every NPC had it as well. The GM's put in wierd snake-oil vendors and stuff. It ended up being solved by tradskill alchamists who developed a cure requireing a raid level guild to help get the components needed. The idea was cool, but man, was that plague annoying. /=
I personally like the idea. Turn the thing into a big event. Scale the splatting to level, and come up with a solution. Then, fix it in a post-event patch.
Yea, it's been in my server's Ironforge a few times. It's only annoying to high level players as we have enough Health Points to survive it for a long peroid of time. The only people it really effects are lower level characters that die in a matter of seconds from it. I can't see that really being the intended effect. It was probably never meant to leave Zul'Gurub.
This is a big fuck up by Blizzard. There is no way the intended for someone to get a plague and wipe out the lower level population of major cities. Glad I have not been playing for a bit. I would have been pissed after waiting in a Que for 20 minutes to log on and die. No, not hating on Blizzard so fanboys can STFU. I am just saying it is a bug and would have annoyed the hell out of me if I were still playing.
Now, if they were to make it level based as suggested above it could have some really cool RP effects. Every time someone gets the plague they could be banished from major cities until they get the cure. It would be cool if guards would kill them on site if they tried to enter a capital city with the plague. Make it so that druids/priests can make a cure or you have to complete some small quest to get it.
Lol, a high level priest could cause an awful lot of grief. Call her Typhoid Mary, she can travel from town to town, spreading the plague, keeping herself alive with her own healing abilities.
