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The 6 best moments in World of Warcraft history from wisepowder's blog

The 6 best moments in World of Warcraft history



World of Warcraft has been around a long time. Across eight expansions and dozens of major updates, players have slayed intergalactic demon lords, traveled through time, saved the world, and fought atop a city-sized dragon. But even with so many big showdowns, a few stand out from the rest as the greatest moments in World of Warcraft history.To get more news about buy wow gold, you can visit lootwowgold official website.

For this list, I'm just focusing on in-game events that have happened over the past 17 years. Instead of including funny memes like Leeroy Jenkins or silly things players used to do like leading world bosses on a rampage through major cities, we're looking at the crazy plot twists, big world-changing events, and unexpected plagues that created some of the coolest moments in Warcraft's history.Most of the events on this list were intentional, but the Corrupted Blood plague was the result of a tiny bug that devastated entire servers for days. It all happened when a new raid, Zul'Gurub, was added to Warcraft back in 2005. In that raid, a boss named Hakkar the Soulflayer inflicts players with a curse called Corrupted Blood that causes them to take fatal damage very quickly. To avoid the whole group becoming infected and dying, players have to spread out since Corrupted Blood is highly contagious. What Blizzard didn't realize, though, was that if a Hunter's pet had Corrupted Blood and was then dismissed (causing it to despawn), it would still be afflicted with Corrupted Blood when it was summoned again.

We don't know who was patient zero, but at some point a player returned from Zul'Gurub and summoned their pet inside of a major city. The Corrupted Blood curse spread like wildfire to any player nearby. In a matter of hours, every major population center on some servers was a ghost town filled with the bones of dead players. NPC could be corrupted but wouldn't die, turning them into deadly asymptomatic carriers, forcing most players to run for the hills and avoid one another.

Some players became plague doctors, using their healing abilities to keep others alive, while others willingly infected themselves and tried to spread Corrupted Blood to everyone they could. Blizzard tried to create quarantine zones, but trolls kept ruining them, and Corrupted Blood disrupted life in WoW for over two weeks until a patch was released that changed how it worked with pets. Corrupted Blood was such a fascinating moment that real scientists studied it as a model for real-world diseases and how humans respond. Some of that learning even helped them prepare for the Covid-19 pandemic.

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