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Zombie Invasion – Phase 1
There are many ways to get infected by the plague :
- Pick up one of the Suspicious Crate in Booty Bay, trying to loot one will instantly infect you.
- Stay in one of the poison cloud used by zombies
- Get damaged by a zombie.
When you’re infected, you can either run to a nearby Argent Healer or any player who can cure diseases to get it removed …. or you can turn into a zombie by :
- Waiting for the end of the timer (10 minutes)
- Getting killed by a zombie.
- Dueling another player and letting him kill you
- Using some of the existing “immunity” abilities like Stoneform, the paladin’s bubble, or Ice Block for mages.
After transorming into a zombie, you will only be able to using the following skills :
- Mangle! – Increases your next attack by 20 damage and reduces the target’s armor by 3%.
- Retch! – Retch on the ground! Humanoids in it are slowed and infected. Zombies in it are healed.
- Lurch! – You and nearby zombies gain a temporary burst of speed, to help catch your food. Removes any move impairment or crowd control effect.
- Beckoning Groan – Beckon up to four zombies to you. They must not be in combat.
- Zombie Explosion! – Burst into pieces, destroying yourself but infecting those around you.
As a zombie, your health will slowly decrease over time but it can easily be regenerated by hitting any living targets (beasts, humanoids, etc …). Any damage dealt to these targets will heal you for a % of the damage. You can also use Retch! on the ground and stay in the cloud to get some additional healing, these clouds are stackable and having multiple zombies stacking them at the same spot will let you regenerate your life in no time.
Zombie Invasion – Phase 2
Now active on all servers: you can now find new crates and new critters in capital cities. Killing these critters and/or looting the crates will infect you, enjoy your AH havoc while it lasts!
Zombie Invasion – Phase 3
The zombie invasion was changed once again tonight …
- The disease has been lowered from 10 minutes to 5 minutes.
- Plague residents are spawning outside major cities like Orgrimmar or Stormwind.
- It looks like the zombie explosion radius was greatly increased.
Zomvie Invasion – Phase 4
The main phase of the Zombie Invasion has now started !
- The infection now lasts 2 minutes instead of 5
- Necropolis from the pre-Naxxramas events are back throughout the world ! The undeads are everywhere ! The pre-naxxramas mini-boss in Stratholme (Balzaphon) is also back and still drops his level 60 gear
- The quest to kill Tenris Mirkblood is now available at the Light’s Hope Chapel and in most of the major cities !
- You cannot kite huge packs of undead anymore, they now have a debuff to reduce your speed by 50%.
Zombie Invasion – Phase 5
Disease has been reduced from 2 minutes to 1 minute … Capital cities are definitely going to be a mess, especially now that most of the Argent Healers are gone.
Zombie Invasion – The End
The zombie plague will end around noon PST, the Karazhan boss and the scourge invasion will be here for a few more days. The WotLK prologue is not over. “We’d like to thank players for participating so zealously (and valiantly!) during the Great Zombie Plague of ’08. Our intention with this event was to create something memorable and to literally change the face of Azeroth for a few days. This event is just one of many leading up to Wrath of the Lich King. As you know, the Scourge Invasion is now live as well and there is some other cool stuff coming up before all is said and done. Also, Hallow’s End continues on!
While we recognize that the event could prove to be disruptive at times, we hope you made the most out of it while it lasted. Part of playing in a “living and breathing world” means that things are going to change from time to time. We meant no harm but only wanted to create a lasting impression on players as they head to Northrend to defeat the Lich King. The Lich King’s goals (as you will soon learn) are to turn the Horde and Alliance not only on one another, but on their own kind as well. I think the plague truly demonstrated this firsthand.
So it looks like a cure has finally been found… for now.
Thank you for participating in our most memorable event to date… for better or for…. brrrrrrraaaaaains…
Couple of other important notes:
- The scourge invasion will continue for a few more days.
- The prologue event is not over! More to come!!
- The Karazhan boss will be up for approximately another week still
- We increased the respawn rate of the Necropoli
- Zombie cure should kick in by around noon PST
That’s It!
Tenris Mirkblood, the Karazhan boss, wil stay for another days, so get the rare items now!
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