• Carpone

Did Blizzard hotfix the ability to trade between Alliance and Horde as a zombie? Friend of mine and I just tried it in Booty Bay but got the message "Target is not friendly".

 

Putts

Something amusing that we discovered tonight on our server...the gate that used to restrict access to the Hall of Legends in Org pre-2.0.1 can still be interacted with as a zombie. Some people managed to lock people in/out of the hall, causing mass panic and confusion.

 

Axira

I'm highly concerned that there is seemingly almost only negative feedback in the official feedback thread for this event. ( World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Zombie Infestation Survival Guide )

I'm very happy and impressed by this event as it made the game feel less static and alot more dynamic/immersive. It feels like the Scourge is a real threat now (instead of some lowbie farmable NPCs outside cities, like it was with the Naxxramas launch) and I seriously hope that similar ideas will be used for events in the future. Although they perhaps should've made stronger safe zones around highly populated areas, this event is the most fun I've had in WoW since a few years and I'm not a person that gets easily impressed by seasonal or promotional events.

 

Traj

I personally hate the event. It is so bad now I can't even use a capital city. Even the healers are dead. I was turned into a zombie twice waiting for a mining trainer to respawn. This stuff has no business being in capital cities, they should be immune. The game is close to unplayable now if you want to do something outside an instance.

 

Vasala

Yep the only sad thing is it does not reappear once you get where you are going. You either have to play toss the shade, zone into an instance, relog, or put the neck in the bank and pull it back out. With sense undead you will see they are called scourge haunts.

 

Mythor

The apparition is not moving at all. A guildmate checked Medivh server and it wasn't in the location we found on Stormrage.

But if they are other places, like EPL as said earlier, I guess we can hope for a new threat or portion of the event to come out of it.

 

Tirin

Like others have said, the people who are enjoying the event are busy enjoying the event. I am loving it for the most part. I think they should have examined how the various improvements in the event interacted before implementing it live though. With 1 minute infections, no healers, plague carriers all over the cities and Zombie Explosion's huge AoE it makes defending a bit pointless.

 

Briefcase

Putress has just set up camp in front of the Aldor bank, apparently the Forsaken are trying to beat the plague. How that makes any sense, I have no idea.

 

Nethris

Great opportunity to research it for their own ends I'd guess... that and getting turned into zombies isn't going to help the forsaken cause, either, not that I'm sure how you turn an undead into a zombie...

 

Axl_Stukov

bah delete this, had forgotten to refresh the page.

 

Espera

After our raid tonight we also decided to try and bring the infestation to a few major cities...we heard a rumor that you would get better zombies oder something like that, once you have infestated enough of the NPCs, so we tried it.. unfortunately the usual zombie is quite.. yeah, quite brainless (surprise!).
After getting a huge bunch of them, they all got stuck :

Ironforge

trying to get as many zombies as possible in thunderbluff


and once again, every single zombie shows why they are called "brainless"



I do think we got enogh zombies to deny the rumor we heard, so no "super-zombies".
I think its pretty funny though that once you get enough zombies, they are quite self-sustaining unless some players decide to bomb them away. We left quite a few zombies on a different platform in TB, and after getting there again half an hour later, they still were like 20 of them, chewing on newly spawning guards.
I must say, I really love this event. Tonight really felt like it was a real plague, much more than just the spawning nekropoles.

 

Shaewyn

New (alliance?) quest guy in shattrath, "Bishop Lazaril". Gives you a quest to (in my case), talk to Velen in the Exodar. I suspect it's to talk your racial leader.

When you turn in the quest, a "frozen shade" whispers to you... the shade is untargetable and apparently doesn't exist... o.0

 

flyingtoastr

I just blew up a very crowded Battlemaster room in Stormwind.

As fun as it was (and tells of "WTF did you do that for" to which I made a "FOR THE SCOURGE" macro is priceless), apparently the king of Stormwind can not become a zombie. Such a pitty.

Divine Favor still costs mana.

 

Tirin

It is an Alliance quest. Horde get a quest from the nearby Putress to go to UC. I think the bishop is a Scarlet Crusader, the flags look right. Red and Gold and the Lordearon 'L'

 

Ja7us

Putress' tauren quest has you take a severed head to Thunder Bluff. While transporting it, the head begins to whisper at you from your backpack. Pretty awesome.

 

Putts

I got a quest from Putress that directed me to Silvermoon on my main, just a simple delivery quest to an apothecary next to the Blood Elf leader.

Also decided to try this on my Orc Shaman, Putress directed me to Orgrimmar, so I think there's something to your theory.

I am unable to interact with Bishop Lazaril on either character, so it appears that each NPC is faction-exclusive.

Also, both quests gave me an item called "Dual-Plagued Brain" that whispered messages to me while I carried it, until I turned in each quest.

EDIT: Also an amusing note, next to the area where Bishop Lazaril is set up, and across from where Putress is set up, there are two tents that are newly set up. Inside one of the tents are two benches. Both benches have the tooltip "WotLK Light Bench". Also, the benches clip through your body if you attempt to sit on them. Oops!

 

Nethris

At least they did make the Bishop (and Putress I assume) immune to the plague - I can confirm the bench part though, that's priceless

Oh, and my human warrior was sent to Stormwind, so I think it does send you to your racial city.

Edit: The Apothecary messengers that come to Putress can be killed by Alliance players for some reason.

 

ayb

I was sent to Thunder Bluff on my Tauren shaman. I turned in my quest, then killed a plagued roach. Then I exploded and infected the quest turn in and Magatha Grimtotem

 

bbartlog

Anyone else have Peddlefeet (companion from Valentine's Day event, apparently) appear to accompany them while fighting Scourge zombies? I don't even know if it's related (could be a bug that has nothing to do with Scourge event), but I thought it might be triggered by this somehow...

 

• Haphnet

I'm pretty sure thats an alliance insignia. Notice it is the same flag near all the Stormpike emissaries.

 

footloop

One day. ONE day, that your normal game is 'unplayable'. I realise it's a hassle, but are you seriously trying to tell us that one day of interruption is too much to pay for an event that a once-ever event that a huge number of people are enjoying?

I was zombifying the cathedral in SW and I somehow spawned a level 60 elite. It had some amusing /yells, and was doing a pretty nice job of wiping out the remaining NPCs. It ran off somewhere and I lost track of it, but it was pretty cool.

 

Tirin

I think the Stormpike's image was borrowed from them, the Warsong's banner for WSG uses the wrong image too. If you look at the altar in front of the bishop you can see the Scarlet's blood-red 'L' of Lordearon as well.

 

boomix

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere. But there are level 63+ elites in Undercity messing everyone up.

Last night was pessimistic skydive in a foolish narcotic shell

 

Stormshot

I noticed that the quests you get today will put you neutral with two Wrath of the Litch King reputations: "Horde Expedition" and "The Hand of Vengance". I haven't gained any rep with either through any quest I've done yet (not likely until the expansion either). All quests have given Argent Dawn or capitol city rep.

 

• Intermission

Between killing the alliance leaders*, and turning Orgrimmar into an entire zombie town, I think the last two nights have been some of the most fun I've had in WoW for a long time. Wiping out the bank, auction house, flight point, and battlemasters -- is very satisfying. I can only hope they let us completely destroy Shattrath soon (ie, disable "Sanctuary").

*All but Magni. I think we need more than 40 people, or less than 60 alliance defenders to get that one.