The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
In which Hannelore faces off against the Scourge
by Hannelore
(but never actually sees any Scourge, or much of anything at all, except a lot of zombies with guild tags and the npc’s they’ve converted)
“Trick or treat, Innkeeper!”
“Braaaaaains…”
“…oh dear.”
/violence
Alright, I’ll just fly over to the Sepulcher to see if -
“Braaaaaains…”
“But how did-”
/violence
Screw this, I’m porting to Shattrath. All those super-high level players will -
/violence
I’ll just go find those undead that everyone keeps talking about invading outside the city, the ones that were not formally pug-fodder, and-
/violence
I’m going to the bank, in the middle of the city, far away from these dangerous doowhoppers that keep resisting all my spells, even before they’re full-on-zombies, and I’m going to work on my tailoring while all the kiddos are out playing hero.
“Hello, banker. I’d like to withdraw- ”
“Braaaaaaaaaains…”
“Well, no, cloth, preferably. Why can I not get to my bank?”
“Brrraaaaaains!”
“Oh bugger.”
/violence
My ultimate response?
/mariobros
You rotting meat sacks have an expiration date. I’m going to hide out in my Panic Room until you all decay.
Woo, mushroom!
October 27th, 2008
I know the feeling, although i am fine with abolish disease everywhere i go i end up stood there with NO quest giver NO griffon master and NO auctioneer.
October 27th, 2008
It’s was already to the point now where I’m just sticking my toons on the Isle of QD and running dailies there for money.
This weekend? This weekend, I tried that, then logged off in frustration and played WAR and LotRO. This event, lore-packed as it might be, made it impossible to PLAY THE GAME I’M PAYING TO PLAY.
Screw that: I’ll read about it on WoWInsider.
October 27th, 2008
[...] Hannelore said… “I’m going to hide out in my Panic Room until [the zombies] all [...]
October 27th, 2008
It’s another place where it sucks not to be a 70 )-: I’d love to participate in some PvZ warfare but my baby dual-boxing team keeps getting two-shotted (one shot each)!
It looks sooooo fun, but srsly can we stop for just a minute and let me train my new spells? Plz guyz?
I find it more entertaining than frustrating. The lag, on the other hand… Emerald Dream was effectively unplayable most of the weekend.
October 27th, 2008
The game is starting to feel like Dawn of the Dead. <_<; I was in Orgri the other night around 12 and the city was almost DESERTED save three or four 70s and a couple mid level guys in the bank/AH area. Of course since I was only on my 53 hunter, they removed the healers, and the disease only took 2 min, I died about 3 times in 10 min. At least I got unequipped for a couple of those times. I stated killing every zombie I saw out of sheer FEAR <_<; (’cept the darn guards /fistshake) And I think the silence of having music off at the time just added to the eeriness.
The normally bustling hub of the city is unnaturally quiet. The shops are void of both owners and patrons, the streets are littered with bodies, and the few remaining denizens appear to be loosely grouped in defensive fashion. A gentle breeze breaks the silence and then the sound of shuffling feet and gurgled groans begin to echo around the buildings. A mass of newly-”recruited” Scourge shamble forth from one of the last remaining guard posts. A flash of gunfire and spells fill the air as the survivors release their recently-allied companions from their mortal coil. A gentle breeze blows down the street, and the city returns to silence.
Ok so maybe that was going a bit far …. but I’m at work … and kinda bored right now. Plus the imagery just kinda popped in my head, so I thought “why not?” If it’s something that shouldn’t be taking up space in the comments just remove it. It’s ok.
I wonder how much more this is going to escalate as we get closer to the expansion. (Please don’t let the disease get down to something like 30sec or less.) Although it is kinda neat how they brought back the necropoli (plural of necropolis?) from a year or two ago.
October 27th, 2008
I know how you feel. I’d heard that there was an invasion. I even saw a zombie once. But for me, I found them to be a nuissence. I has business I was trying to accomplish; and when I returned from a very long grind only to find the questgiver slain I was righteously irked. The nerve. The nerve. The annoyance.
I gave up and portled into Ironforge. Then it hit me. There were bodies everywhere. Those huge halls were completely empty with NOTHING but corpses. I guess it was the total quiet that really freaked me. Then at once I heard the sound of gunfire. Someone was shooting as fast as they could. I followed the sound as the reports grew louder and eventually found the short fellow with his back to the wall and a trio or zombies bearing down on him.
I literally saw the only drawf in Ironforge making his last stand. I quickly learned that Treants do quite a number on zombies. Thorgru, the dwarf lived and would fight another day. But if the zombies could enter the Forge, then they could also be ……. at my home!
Sure enough, when the griffin from Moonglade set talon down in Rut’Theran I could tell from the skeletons and green clouds that my home was not safe. They had infected Darnassus. It is bad enough that Ogres dwell in their Dire Maul, but the sight of a disease cloud covering a moonwell is too much. It is just too much.
The quests will have to wait. The auctioneer can stay dead. There is no retreat and no panic room. Eviv triumphs when the good do nothing. We will fight. We will fight. We will fight.
~V
October 27th, 2008
What a wild ride this weekend turned into, some seriously good fun and well some absolute pain in the butt.
I worked my locks butt off to get to 70 for Friday’s Kara run, the zombies where a minor annoyance. 5 minutes to find an argent dawn healer or a pally or priest .. pff no problem .. So I got into kara and pulled down 3 pieces of loot – bracers, sholders, boots – knowing that Sunday we where trying for Gruuls. So I spent saturday grinding mat’s for enchants and honor for a pair of gloves. Really no problem, no issues and I can’t figure out what everyone is complaining about. Well Sunday I figured out what pain is, Im just trying to go through my bank inventory on one account while my lock is on the other waiting for the enchants. Bang – zombies are every where, npcs are going down the auctioneers in org. The only thing to save me was that my bank alt was on the laptop in the bank and my lock was on the bank on the big screen. The second I spotted the mess I logged my bank alt off and went and hid in RFC. I finished up the work inside of RFC, I had to make a quick dash to the auction house for the missing mats.
I knew the zombies where in full force so I spent my time hunting down scourge invasion points in Tanaris and other out of the way places. We did manage to do Gruuls, yeah they really nerfed that place. On the way to mag’s is when everyone else discovered what I already knew. The argent dawn healers where missing from many places and the timer was down to 2 minutes or was it a minute by then. Either way it’s turned into a port to shat and immediately hop on the broom (instant flying mount with no cast time) and get airborne before a zombie finds you. Fly to the fp and hover while you wait for a break in the action to get a flight to thrallmar to repeat the broom trick. Seems my guildies didnt bother reading what was being typed in since 3 or 4 of them got infected heading into shat on the way to Mags.
Yeah Mag’s went down as well, it took 2 tries but really it’s no challenge anymore
I did score enough runic stones to get the tabard, the gloves and the horn trinket. I picked up 1 leather, 1 plate and 1 mail leg piece at the scourge invasion points. Blizzard must hate me since I really do need the pants to upgrade from imbued netherweave.
The challenge is getting from one place to another without getting infected
October 27th, 2008
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse, population: all of us.
See a zombie, kill a zombie. It’s as simple as that. The cities are not silent, the streets are not empty. They echo with the groans of the walking dead, they are full of the unquiet hordes that have fallen to the Lich King’s plague. If you yet live, if you have the power to fight, then you know what you have to do. Find other survivors. Band together. Fight on.
We know the Lich King’s plan and it is nothing short of the extermination of all life on Azeroth. No more Alliance, no more Horde. No dragons or furbolgs or murlocs or naga. We cannot allow it. It is the duty, the responsibility of all who still survive to come together, protect those who cannot protect themselves, to stand united against the enemy of not just the Alliance or the Horde, but of all life on this world!
I call on you now to join together, to raise your swords and your spells and fight back against that which threatens us ALL! No more will we run and flee from the minions of the Lich King! No more will we hide and pray for the zombies to pass us by! Right here! Right now! We will stand together and WE WILL FIGHT! We will drive the forces of evil and darkness back from our cities and our homes! We will purge our lands of the undead and we will chase them back to Northrend and we will bring the fight to the very doorstep of the one who seeks to destroy us all! United, the free people of Azeroth will stand and united WE WILL WIN!
FOR AZEROTH!
October 27th, 2008
First time commenter…may not be my last one.
Egads. Only got infected once. Happened at TB (where the place is SPARSE with Argent Healers). I don’t think Taurens believe in Ghostbusters or something, cause when I got infected, it happened to be at the time when the infection time went down from 10 to ONE MINUTE to cure myself. Good grief, I tried to commit suicide by jumping off TB . That failed two-fold: I SURVIVED the fall from TB, and the guards were STILL ever so “helpful” in scaling VERTICAL 90DEGREE CLIFFS and slaughtering my poor zombified hide.
Anyways, I basically took refuge in Undercity (mostly because Ogrimmar from what my fellow guildmates told me, was a preverbial graveyard), and the fact that it was harder for incoming zombies to get into UC to do any damage due to the special nature of the gaurds.
Thank goodness pets can’t get infected! Had my cat on aggro when one smarty near the UC bank decided to become a zombie. Cat got to him, as well as a helpful 70 warrior and we both wasted the sap. He tried to complain about ruining his “fun”; I responded with a fart and an extra name in my ignore list.
October 27th, 2008
The most amusing thing about the zombie invasion was the zombies whispering to you “omg stop attacking” and “stop ruining my fun” after you killed them. Funny, all the people hanging around trying to turn in quests or use a flight master seemed pretty relieved when us dirty griefers would purge the area of zombies and cleanse everything in sight. Guess they’re all just party poopers
Thanks to Blizzard for the…”fun” world event, but I didn’t need a zombie enema to encourage me to go to Northrend, I’d planned to do that anyway. I actually feel somewhat less inclined to do so now, lest I be subjected to Blizzard Sanctioned Grief Fest 2009…the player base is bad enough to deal with without Blizzard giving them a license to be jackasses.
October 27th, 2008
I just logged in and asked about how the zombie problem was going and someone said they found a cure. o_O so… it’s over already?
So… no more Mario Bros? *Game Over music plays*
October 28th, 2008
That’s exactly what I did. Well… not Mario Bros. but I certainly took some time away from the game. In the beginning it was interesting and a little fun (I tried out being a zombie – didn’t care for it. The smell of rotting flesh was just too much for me) the last few days had left me haggard. When I am afraid to afk for one second in the Forlorn Cavern for fear of being zombified, it’s a little too much. Although entertaining to see how many other people decided to start fishing for Ironjaw as the zombie infestation escalated… first a handful and then night before last no less than 15 people. Coincidence? I think not.
October 28th, 2008
This was the most fun I have had in this game, and was absolutely brilliant. Instead of just planting a few dull mobs around the cities, in a stroke they infused the event with enough realism that I actually felt dread wherever I went. No computer program can yet replicate the workings of the human mind, and by putting this invasion in the hands of players it gave it a real edge.
It was a golden opportunity for us Priests (and Paladins) too, and my guild took full advantage of our ‘town defense’ mission to devote almost all of our time defending the Hordelands and beating back the Scourge. I’m proud to say that I slaughtered and cleansed countless zombies and infected during this time, and never once succumbed to zombification, and our guild- never a large one due to our niche- picked up four able recruits from our efforts.
I’m sorry to see it go, though it would have eventually grown stale.
If anything, I was largely incensed by all the complaining. While I understand that some folks are deelply allergic to PvP, paying $15 a month does not entitle anyone to dictate content. For such a short-duration event, this was a splendid effort from Blizzard, and the howls of outrage seemed to me to be deeply ungrateful. When I logged in last night in Orgrimmar, I immediately knew that peace had been restored to Azeroth.
Not because of the absence of zombies.
Not because of the relatively few bodies strewn about.
No, things were back to normal because the inane patter of Trade had returned. WTS this! WTB that! I’m sure for the cozy citydwellers, pining nostalgically for idle days spent trading anal murloc jokes, this was nirvana restored.
I’ll agree with a previous poster on one score- the QQ was on both sides of the divide. If the anti-zombie tirades were foolish, they were no moreso than the pro-zombie ones who’d rain verbal abuse on me for cleansing or killing them. One threatened to report me for disturbing his RP. Another called me ‘funkiller’ because I killed her, her friend, and her pack of minions chasing a L5 newbie orc through the Valley of Trials. (”If nothing else,” I told her as I left, “Orgrimmar owes you a debt of gratitude for those two goldfarmers you killed back there.”)
In retrospect, if it was to be done all over again, I’d have put a mechanism in store for the PvE crowd to engage them as well (beyond the latest-and-greatest grind of necrotic shards *yawn*). Instead of a deus-ex-machina-style ending (oh, they found a cure! There was much rejoicing!). Some sort of repeatable turn-in that would hasten the end of the Plague, so that all styles of play could feel that they contributed more than just by being zombie fodder.
October 28th, 2008
I think it was well played by Blizzard, the climax was rather short (period during which normality was non-existent). I think there would have been a lot less greif on the non-Zombie army side if it was known it wasn’t going to be ridiculousy hard to play all the way upto the expansion.
I don’t think the zombie army was all griefers, every – umm, younger person – who didn’t get a raid slot was like ‘ok, off to zombies then’ in a very matter-of-fact way – as if they were off to HH, or other event. People had a specific brand of fun that, due to its nature, should only be presented on rare occasion and then last a short period of time.
Yes I had to wait for a quest giver to respawn, yes I had to wait for auctioneers ect. to respawn, yes I had to wait for raiders to escape co-ordinated zombie attacks, and I did find it annoying. However, a world event is supposed to have impact – it did, some had fun, some tired quickly, and now its over.
And yes, I did get two-shotted when my bank-alt was a zombie headed to a populated area to explode, lol.
October 29th, 2008
I agree the ‘invasion’ caused us all to deal with it in whatever way we could. The only problem is, while defending SW sites from the goofy kids that would try and quite successfully zombiebomb the AH and bank, unless you were a 70 or close, you weren’t going to deal much damage.
Sort of takes the fun out of it for the rest of us. And I’m talking about a 42 lock and 56 hunter. I can only imagine what it would be like with a lvl 10 whatever. Near the last, when the infection was at its highest, I couldn’t even run to the mailbox without dying and having to make a ghostrun from the graveyard.
I broke out my 36 Shaman when it first started, and was able to heal some people and NPC’s, but Bliz quickly shut that down. I noticed the 70 Priests having to cast multiple times to cure the diseases, and with the ‘turn’ time being reduced, that made for merriment all around. Basically if you got infected, and couldn’t reach an Argent Dawn healer, you were soon loping around in a funky costume and then shortly thereafter attacked by everyone. At the apex of the battle in SW, the streets was literally adrift in a sea of zombie parts.
It was fun for an hour or so, then got to be a super pain in the ass. I moved all my toons to Darn, which quite honestly, never looked better. Damn it was peaceful there!
I guess in the end, it was an interesting twist in a great game, but it was time for it to go. I think for all those among you who enjoyed it, maybe Bliz could create an ‘infected zone’ where you could go and be reminded of the days when PVP came to the capital cities, and wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer.