Posted by Bastosa on Friday, October 24th, 2008 - 56 Comments
Tags: argent dawn, brains, world event, wrath of the lich king, zombie attack, zombies
I’m sure everyone has noticed, the new world event is going on right now. Blizzard is now providing us with the reason we all need to charge into Northrend, and the reason is simple: A ZOMBIE ATTACK. Awesome. I am super excited as I missed the world event for BC. I’ll just say: I think this is going to be really cool. It is obvious that this is an evolving event, and I can only imagine where this is going to go.
It all started with a crate showing up in booty bay turning somewhat willing victims into zombies. Players get infected by the crate and in 10 minutes time if no action is taken, the turn into full fledged zombies with a whole host of new abilities. During the “infection phase” players can be cured by Argent Dawn healers in the major cities or by friendly (or unfriendly depending on how you look at it) priests and paladins.
Now it is clear the plague is getting stronger. On the second day of the event crates and plagued critters are showing up in all the capitol cities. Additionally the infection is becoming harder to dispel, priests and pallies now usually have to try multiple times to remove the infection.
While it will likely start affecting our play style some, I am very interested to see where this thing goes. The idea of my Paladin fighting off waves of undead zombies controlled by other players is just too cool to be ignored. I can only hope this whole ordeal will involve some sort of cool reward for participating such as a tabard like players received last year. Of course I want a souvenir from the great zombie attack of ‘08!
While I did run around as a zombie for a little while earlier today I haven’t really had a chance to fully explore the zombie side of things. It appears that after a few days it may be unavoidable. While that may be bothersome to many players I am just along for the ride at this point.
This event is only going to happen one time ever, so I intend to make the most of it. How about you? How are you enjoying your “zombie time?” Are you avoiding the whole scene, or are you running around feasting on delicious brains?
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By Spike on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 10:53 am
on EU Bronzenbeard in Northshire : TOTAL ZOMBIE MASACRE!
By Spike on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 10:53 am
btw first
By Promitheus on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:00 am
ooooooo mannn!!!!
i wish i played on retail!!!!!
By Barugaara on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:11 am
The invasion might end of like the great WoW disease.
By Dan on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I do raids on friendly towns. I am that jackass, yes.
Me and my guilds main healer go around trashing our factions towns and pissing people off.
We’re nice people really. But when your infected and the Lich King tells you to try to kill Thrall, you go and try to kill Thrall
By JT on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Playing a zombie can be really fun - but you need numbers. There are quite a few articles on WoW Insider and such that are a good read if you’ve not been a zombie yet.
By Toranus on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Its amazing fun to group up with alliance & horde players an go zombie raiding through a couple of zones
By Lee Andrew on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Although its fun, I generally don’t follow this stuff, I miss out on most cool thing sin WoW, never knew or it was not obvious…. Despite that I like the idea, I hated it when they attack the fightmaster in Shattrath so that all gryphons flying infront of the master and you can’t click him to fly awy, most annoying. Took me several minutes to finally click him.
By Rugi on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I’ve made a trial account to try out the new patch in Bronzebeard.
The first thing you hear in Northshire is the Headless Horseman yelling, the second thing is players yelling in the general channel to “STOP F*CKING KILLING THE F*CKING ZOMBIES YOU MOTHERF*CKERS!”.
They say players who dispell and kill zombies are noobs and twats and retards, but this is not right.
They say they are ruining their fun, and it’s a “once in a lifetime experience”.
Well, I personally hate zombies, because basically it’s just a new way of ganking, but now the guys ganking you is not the opposite faction, but the same Alliance or Horde who fight alongside with you. But atleast you can call them motherf*ckers for ganking you, and they can understand it.
They infect the questgivers, Flightmasters and other important characters so leveling is impossible.
Is this a nice thing to do?
By Noobalicious on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:28 am
It’s only a hassle when I’m trying to complete a quest and then either I or the NPC I’m talking to turns into a zombie.
Other than that, it’s great fun
A 70 Paladin had to try cleanse 6 times last night before he could cure me…so it does appear that things are going to get more interesting soon.
I also read a post on the Blizzard boards by someone from Blizz that was hinting that things are going to get quite hectic before the event is over.
By Penrose on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:31 am
So… if you have some 70s and are done leveling until you roll a death knight with the 8million other people doing this - great for you. If you are trying to level, this is a load of stupidity if you are playing on a *non-PVP* server. This basically turns all servers into world PvP servers. On my lvl 29 character I have quests from 3 different areas that I cannot turn in because all of the NPCs have been killed. Other quests I cannot get. My bags are getting full of quest items I cannot turn in.
This is basically blizzard sponsored world griefing. If you are playing a PvP server you are used to this. Fine - whatever - that is what you pay for. For the rest of us who don’t like world PvP and so don’t play on those servers, and if you are actually trying to level your characters, this is the stupidest thing they have ever done.
Doing this for one day or two, great. Super fun. Fantastic. The longer this goes on, the more “stupid group mentality” people get and people who want to level their characters will either just quit for a while or just go play a private server.
By falkrinbar on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:41 am
its going to be sick wheter you like it or not a myriad of zombies comming at you priceless.
By ltgalloway on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Looks like normal gameplay is getting shelved for some, which is ok for me as, Im a semi casual player and I freakin’ love zombies!
I can see how this could be annoying in some instance, but my advice is to give in and start participating in the fun! There will be plenty of time for questing and such when we are free of the zombie epidemic.
Bart: “You killed Zombie Flanders!”
Homer: “Flanders was a Zombie?”
By nebrakaneizzar on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
in EU- Lightning’s blade
we at the horde decided to kill our own thrall =D
and we raped him =D
By toque on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Hunters, while they can’t remove disease, have some of the best abilities to stay at range and not get infected. I am loving the whole idea of solo huntering fighting off hordes of zombies in the forests. Kind of a protector of the land thing. No affiliation, no tabard (except maybe Cenarion Expedition).
Its too bad you have to deal with the QQ’ing from other players about killing their zombies.
By lawman30 on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Wow some people are really angry about this. I tend to look at it in the same vein as what I believe to be the majority…it will happen once in the game’s history so I’m along for the ride and I plan on having as much fun with it as I can.
My suggestion to those who are interested in leveling and don’t like the idea of being attacked by a mob of zombies is…GIVE IN AND JOIN THE MOB! What could be more fun than rolling with a supergroup of the undead crushing every mighty warrior you come across.
If you’re not interested in having FUN, maybe you shouldn’t be playing a GAME. =P
By lawman30 on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
In response to the comment about the group killing Thrall, if you kill the faction leaders as a zombie, will it count for the achievement?
If so, I better join a zombie mob now before Blizz nerfs it.
By Harper on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I am so tired of people telling me to just lay back and enjoy it. To be fair, I did try it. My level 42 zombie butt promptly got kicked by a level 70. So not fun. I am also peeved that this is ruining Hallow’s End. I’m not high enough level to go kill the horseman and now I can’t participate in trick or treating (innkeepers keep dying) or stopping the fires (the towns are overrun with zombies).
By Justin on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
1 time on my server there where probably 60+ people from one guild that were infecting in thralls room waiting to turn into zombies and once they did they attacked him, although it didnt go so well considering the gaurds are now lvl 75:P
By Pokesomi on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I am trying to avoid getting turned into a zombie. its not fun no achievement for it (yeah i am chievement whore) and if i am lvl grinding with a buddy it takes the fun out. now i will say this. I have been turned into a zombie a few times and had a little fun, but now its like the Wii. its fun at first but now the novelty has worn off.
By Orvidos on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
It’s nice, but since I’ve just joined Exec and am trying to level, it does tend to try my patience. I’ll have some fun with it this weekend though.
By Rugi on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Now it’s just 5 min before you turn into a zombie.
By Jeff on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
… don’t forget the total reset of your action bar once the ‘zombie’ you is dead… NOT my idea of fun, trying to remember the config. I had…
By Henry Petty on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I ran around goldshire and noticed they killed the npc that gives the daily for the hallowed eve. I was never infected.
By Bastosa on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
@Rugi
Just 5 minutes now? It is getting stronger!! Thanks for pointing that out. It will be interesting to see how low this thing goes.
-Bast
By WML on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Ive been sworn at and spat on for curing npc’s and quest givers, and players, and it’s rather upsetting. Sure, If you wanna be a zombie, go for it, but don’t harrass me for wanting to be able to turn in my quest or if I’m just doing my freakin job.
WoW/RL life lesson: don’t piss off the people who serve your food or heal your ass LOL
By Furbalto on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I was running around Terrokar as a zombie, i saw a 65 standing just out of shatt, and she saw me comming for her, she ran back into shatt and the gaurds got me
By Gilnid on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Arthas is completely balanced between the zombie killers and the zombies. Every time the zombie horde gets too big, a huge army stomps it before they can ruin much of anything, except maybe a lame town like Darkshore. I’ve done both. I don’t like people who tell me I’m an ass for killing zombies, especially when they’ve just killed all the daily quest givers in Ogrila. I also don’t like people who massacre zombie hordes that are trying to kill a world boss. He doesn’t give any quests, it shouldn’t even matter. I have to say, while killing zombies can be satisfying, being a zombie is amazing.
By Togarox on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I like being a zombie, because you get to kill people from your own side. Now, if I played alliance, people would frown upon it. However, I play horde. The one thing I love about the Horde is that (at least on my server) everything goes.
I am really starting to like this event. I feel it has already become better than the one during the original game. The last world event was pretty much the opening of the portal and a bunch of demons coming out of it (for those who weren’t around then). The difference between this one and that, is that this one is happening all around the world. Not just in the Blasted Lands.
By Samus37 on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Whenever I see one of these Zombies, I just have to kill them. Not really so much RP wise, (I am a paladin) but they keep killing low levels and quest givers, which makes it hard for the lower levels to level… and its not right to impair someone else gameplay just so you can look like a zombie for a few minutes.
Moon Guard = Zombie Infested
By Colto on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
So i think i have an evil streak in me.
I am a human pally and found that if you bubble well Infected you automatically turn into a zombie… some fun can be had with this.
Invite a random, infected person into a group then bubble them. They turn into a zombie and are quickly killed by guards in Stormwind and Ironforge.
Of course, then i immediately Rez, heal and apologize but it is definatly worth a good laugh on Vent.
Tip to everyone, if a paladin invites you to group and you are infected decline, it will only cause your demise.
Colto of Lethon
By Jowen on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
muahhaaha! i have a evil plan… The zombies can eat humaniods and doesnt have to be playas or npc right? so Im going to get infected, run to low level site near razor hill where theres lots of marines and scouts and start building my army there.. and people wont even know. low lvl players will just be WTH as they get magled up and turn zombie straight away. Then we attack razor hill… while our army in that area keep spreading as the marines spawns.. then we attack orrgamar and we infect them by number even if they have T6 we can jus keep maggling. 9 times maggle from any zombie and your gone. MUAAAAHHAHA
By Alayea on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Until I first saw a zombie, I had no idea what was up with the Argent Dawn healers staking out places in the major cities. I’m definitely intrigued as to what Blizzard is going to do next.
To all those peeps complaining about getting killed by a fellow player when they (intentionally) go zombie: Quit talking while you still have some sort of dignity left. Just as you’re free to participate in the world event, other people are free to put their spell/weapon in your face so they don’t need to wait for an NPC to respawn.
By Bemiss on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I HATE IT! ENOUGH SAID.
By Redauroa on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
ok has anyone noticed the face made out of fire in Shatt? Would like to know what it is all about.
By Jordan on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 5:57 am
This is alot of fun! yesterday and the day before i made two zombie raids of about 25 people each. going from Razor Hill through the barrens to the crossroads, down to ratchet and then through to darkshire and eastvale.
its alot of fun because you always hear people yelling in the general chat: “these zombies are pissing me off and im gnna kill everyone of them”. which they end up failing at because we slaughter them.
By michaelmdw on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
ther not ZOMBIES ther GHOULS zombies only want your barins and arent under any control but ghouls are under the lich kill and they want to do 1 thing make more ghouls and eat liveing flash thank you
By Dulica on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I’m not a fan of being a zombie. people are always complaining that they are getting killed…we’ll don’t go into a major city, the guards will get you. And if you attacke me, you better believe I will kill you! It was fun once or twice, now I’m always getting infected in the middle of something, and it makes me cranky
By Spudnik on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Me wants Brainz
By Argg on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Down to only 2 minutes!
Its getting stronger!
Whoo hoo!
-Argg
By Aulann on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Someone told me theres going to be a new Kara boss for this event
By Onaga on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I’m doing new quests in light hope chapel. The scourge is invading again just like in the patch ‘Shadow of the Necropolis’ !!!!!!!
By Remerold on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
The best part is, it is SOO easy to contain, yet the disorganized and self centered WoW community can’t do it!
By Owle on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
the time for turning into a zombie is down to 2 minets today, hopefully it doesnt get to be instant later on.
By Justin on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I want the Epics!
By Gaffe- EONAR server on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I see a zombie i kill it i see green i try to cure and yet i’m called a f*g retard and a noob what the hell !!! Is it my fault they got infected and turned into a zombie is it my fault they went after quest givers and flight masters no they did that making it harder for people to level thier toons i don’t think this is right. I do this on my 70 pally only when im trying to level my other toons and someone does this it is aggravating. So i make an ultimatum whenever i get on if i see undead i kill em if i see green i try to cure unless your leaving a city. Zombies wanna have fun that’s cool but don’t make life harder on the lower levels.
By Alayea on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
The debuff timer on the infection has indeed been decreased to 2 minutes. Additionaly, there is now an Argent Dawn scout in each major city (UC, SW, etc.) who gives you a travel quest to Light’s Hope, wherein you’ll be given more world event quests. Lastly, there is a new boss in Karazhan, so be sure to pick up the quest for it.
One other tidbit: When you are at the front entrance to UC, there’s an Argent Dawn NPC who gives a lowbie quest concerning the wierd spell circle you see near the zeppelin towers. Beware also of lvl. 63 elites battling inside Undercity against the guard NPCs. (I think this is the setup to the WotLK storyline involving Undercity.)
By Faid on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
A seasonal is forced on us, now that sux
By Heavus-Rexxar on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
A new development I heard about (that I’m surprised hasn’t been mentioned here) is the notion of the Scourge sacking Orgrimmar, and a redesigned version showing up extremely soon (so as not to disrupt the game). Apparently Darnassus might also be on this list. From the way the whole xombie invasion has gotten very strong very fast (on my server, the xombies– NPC’s mind you– had totally taken over Org all day), I’m inclined to believe this. It would add oodles of interesting flavor, in my opinion.
Also, has anyone else taken time to reflect on the irony of the Scourge’s invasion starting during the festival celebrating the schism between the Forsaken and the Scourge?
By Owle on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
the time it takes to turn into a zombies seemes to be cut in half each day, yesterday it was 2, now its down to 1 minet, probabaly will be 30 seconds on monday
By Alt on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Tbh, im getting very tired of the whole zombie thing.
When we`re talking about flightmasters and auctioneers beeing infected, and they vanish..pfft
Please Blizzard, end this now.
By FrOzEnFiRe on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 4:59 am
ITS GETTING WORSE! infection is down to 1 minute now… and there is some new quest outside shatt.
it seems if it gets anylower than 1 minute it will be dooms day..
allready theres no safe spot in shatt.. they get you before you can eaven move..lowercity and upper shatt are grawling wiht zombies who turn all who they agro in zombie in mater of seconds.. OG is doomed, UC is pretty safe, TB is safe also, SMC.. hmmm no zobies ever seen ther =P… if it get to that that all citys become overrun by zombie horde i go take fishing holiday in moonglade..=P
By cocopuffs on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 6:29 am
oh stop whining i am gointo tell you what i tell the babys on the trade chanel why shouldent we high levels have any fun becuase you wanto do some quest if ya can beat am join i say
By cocopuffs on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 6:40 am
i hope teh diseas ffect has benn reduced to 30sec the power of teh scourge is unmetchble all hail the scourge
By Talonni on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
This is one of the worst events ever. Blizzard has hit rock bottom.
By Alayea on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Debuff now down to 1 min. Also, there are commoners that’ll give you a quest that leads to Shattrath.
The scourge infection is really bad in Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff on the Malfurion realm, but Undercity is surprisingly unaffected by the whole thing. Wonder what has players skipping it…