The worst incident of World of Warcraft is back. The Corrupted Blood is raging once again and ruining entire cities.
In the 20-year history of World of Warcraft, there have been some incidents that have now become legendary among players. Special events and occurrences contribute to this, as well as quirky bugs with interesting consequences. The most devastating event was probably the “Corrupted Blood” incident, which crippled entire cities and realms.
Some were able to recreate this once again – and almost completely take down a realm.
This is what it looked like back then:
What kind of incident is this? We are talking about the “Corrupted Blood”. This is a debuff that comes from “Hakkar” in the raid “Zul’Gurub”. The debuff deals damage every few seconds and jumps to all nearby targets.
Actually, the debuff was only supposed to appear within the raid – but hunters managed to take the negative effect “outside” through their pets. This allowed the effect to jump to NPCs and other characters.
The result: For several days, entire realms felt deserted. Everywhere, players were infected. The plague was carried from one character to another, and some had fun spreading the effect even further.
The incident even became so large that scientists later used the data to create pandemic models that were used during the Corona years.
Now the incident has been repeated – on the realms of the “Season of Discoveries”.
On which realm did this happen? The realm “Living Flame (EU)” was once again plagued by Corrupted Blood. There are some videos from last night circulating, showing the city of Stormwind. Everywhere, you can hear the “bursting” of blood effects, while NPCs and player characters keep flashing red, taking damage and passing the effect on to those nearby.
Even though the chaos does not reach the same intensity as it did many years ago, it has still brought a nostalgic tear to some fans. For it has not been possible to see Stormwind in such a deserted state for a long time.
An actually dark chapter of World of Warcraft, which is, however, associated with much nostalgia and was able to celebrate a revival – or the exact opposite of that – for a few hours. So Merry Christmas, and here’s to many more nostalgic experiences.
Currently, many are playing WoW Classic on the “Fresh” realms – and are actively combating bots.
