In World of Warcraft, a debuff has escaped that crippled an entire realm. Many recalled the Zul’Gurub plague.
Over the nearly 22 years, there have been a number of bizarre incidents in World of Warcraft triggered by various debuffs. The most famous event of this type was the legendary “Corrupted Blood” incident, where an effect from the Zul’Gurub raid spread into the open world. Now there has been a similar incident on the realm “Moon Guard” that has devastated entire cities.
Plague like from Zul’Gurub cripples entire realm
What is this debuff? This time it is about “Withering Contagion.” This is an effect where affected characters suffer damage over 15 seconds and pass this debuff to player characters in a small radius every 1.5 seconds. Actually, this is not a cause for concern, as 15 seconds is not a long time, and such effects cannot leave the dungeons they come from.
Actually.
However, the “Withering Contagion” managed to escape from the dungeon “Brackenfell Cavern,” which severely damaged the Moon Guard realm.
What were the consequences? After some clever players managed to smuggle the debuff out of the dungeon, it was only a matter of seconds before the problem had spiraled out of control. Since Moon Guard is quite a populated realm, it quickly spread this “Plague 2.0” to other players who of course had a lot of fun infecting their surroundings.
This led to most players in Stormwind, Silvermoon, and Goldshire being infected within minutes. Especially for low-level characters, this almost meant instant death, resulting in a thorough “cleaning” in the notorious inn of Goldshire.
How did Blizzard react? In the meantime, the developers are responding quite swiftly to such events, and this time was no different. After the plague had terrorized the realm for a while, it ended quite suddenly. A hotfix ensured that the debuff now completely disappears as soon as you leave the Brackenfell Cavern. The deliberate spreading of this plague is therefore no longer possible.
At least this turned out to be just a minor bug, which was quite easy to fix. Because there are currently also major other problems making the rounds in World of Warcraft. For instance, an old area is probably the most bugged zone ever in the history of Blizzard’s MMORPG – and has been for many months.
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