When you lived via World of Warcraft‘s Corrupted Blood incident, you may in all probability bear in mind it as one of the crucial memorable (and probably terrifying) moments in on-line gaming historical past. This week, World of Warcraft Traditional gamers obtained an opportunity to expertise that exact same plague anew.
Per Redditor Lightstruckx (by way of Massively Overpowered), gamers on Traditional‘s Season of Discovery server managed to recreate Corrupted Blood a couple of days in the past, carrying the eponymous debuff into the Alliance capital of Stormwind Metropolis, the place it proceeded to decimate the inhabitants similar to the primary time.
Lightstruckx’s accompanying video reveals precisely the type of carnage you’d count on from Corrupted Blood; gamers are taking periodic injury ticks from the debuff and dropping like flies as healers fail to outpace the relentless illness.
One commenter beneath Lightstruckx’s video imagines the carnage if Corrupted Blood someway made its technique to one among World of Warcraft Traditional‘s hardcore servers, which characteristic permadeath; you have obtained one life, and after you lose it, it is over on your character.
In fact, I hope this does not occur for the sake of everybody who’s managed to construct up a treasure trove of loot and kit in hardcore mode, however however, I can not deny it might be enjoyable to look at.
In case you are not acquainted, the Corrupted Blood incident occurred again in 2005. Hakkar the Soulflayer, a boss within the Zul’Gurub raid, inflicted a debuff on gamers known as Corrupted Blood, which triggered their well being to tick down periodically.
Whereas gamers themselves could not carry the debuff out of Zul’Gurub, their pets may, and adventurers rapidly discovered that resummoning their deactivated pets exterior of the raid would trigger Corrupted Blood to be utilized in areas it ought to by no means have appeared in.
The occasion led to widespread sociological curiosity, with some epidemiologists trying to Corrupted Blood in an effort to try to perceive how a real-life pandemic on an analogous scale would possibly play out.
Sadly, the scope and breadth of the unique Corrupted Blood incident is not more likely to be repeated at present; Blizzard is way extra vigilant about such issues than it as soon as was. Nonetheless, it is virtually nostalgic to see this illness murdering participant after participant but once more, so a few years later.