a random WoW fact

[~Jagris]

Okay I was on the internet and foudn this
Corrupted Blood plague incident

The Corrupted Blood plague incident was one of the first events to affect entire servers. Patch 1.7 saw the opening of Zul'Gurub, the game's first 20-player raid dungeon where players faced off against an ancient tribe of jungle trolls under the sway of the ancient Blood God, Hakkar the Soulflayer. Upon engaging Hakkar, players were stricken by a debuff (a spell that negatively affects a player) called "Corrupted Blood" which would periodically sap their life. The disease would also be passed on to other players who were simply standing close to an infected person. Originally this malady was confined within the Zul'Gurub instance but made its way into the outside world by way of hunter or warlock pets that contracted the disease.
Within hours Corrupted Blood had infected entire cities such as Ironforge and Orgrimmar because of their high player concentrations. Low-level players were killed in seconds by the high-damage disease. Eventually Blizzard fixed the issue so that the plague could not exist outside of Zul'Gurub.
The corrupted blood plague so closely resembled the outbreak of real-world epidemics that scientists are currently looking at ways MMORPGs or other massively-distributed systems can model human behavior during outbreaks. The reaction of players to the plague closely resembled previously hard-to-model aspects of human behavior that may allow researchers to more accurately predict how diseases and outbreaks spread amongst a population.[26]



I think this should have been kept but have people and potions with cures, if anyone thinks the same thing might be good for a private server.

[Verye]

Almost everyone knew about this or knows about this.

haha this was funny back when it happened! loads of dead bodies in cities :P

[champion538]

The GMs were on like permanent plague control, but it was funny when someone was corrupted and ran back into Ironforge and got everyone killed again.

[Waterintofunk]

I had no idea this happened. (I've only been playing WoW for a year) But it sounds funny and like something i would try.

[~Jagris]

I have been playing for 1 and a half years, must of been back when I stopped for a spell

[SkilzDatKilz2]

haha i dont know how i already knew that

[Demonicmaster]

Along the same lines of debuffs was back when MC was one of the main raid dungeons the Baron used to make you the bomb where after a certain amount of time you would explode and do massive AOE damage. Well before a particular patch (I forget which one atm) pets used to be able to get the debuff. I knew some Hunters that purposly wanted their pets to get the ebuff and would dismiss there pet after they got it to save it for when they get back to a capital city and would cast eyes of the beast and make the pet go into the AH or something and kill everyone in there.

[champion538]

Demon, if I remember right that bug was hotfixed a few days or so after MC was implemented lol.