October News/Discussion

[NiteFox]

Some people pay 15$ a month to play 15 hours a day. Some pay to play 15 a week.

If you only have an hour or two every day to play, having it ruined by something like this is more than frustrating.

Due to this week being the British school half term, the fact that I work as a cinema usher, and the general release of High School Musical 3 being this week (ugh), I only had an hour or two to play per day around my long shifts.

I loved it.

I knew from the off that normal business would be normal business would be disrupted, so I never even really attempted it (That said, since most of the zombie outbreaks were in the capital cities, that meant one could easily continue with their normal lives outside of the big outposts). I bounced between trying to figure out the best way to infest, say, Garadar and joining in with defending Orgrimmar from the horde (Ooh, irony.). The interruption with Hallow's End didn't concern me, since I knew that the only reason to run it was for the Hallow's End achievement (And, in the end, the It's Been A Long Strange Trip achievement) and I just knew that there was no way the RNG would let me get the helm and the squashling in treat bags or from the Headless Horseman (Just like how every single roll on a Brewfest mount went to either an Undead Warlock or a Blood Elf Paladin when I ran Corin every damned day.)

Disruption was actually minimal on my server. Granted, Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff were cleared of bankers and auctioneers, but the banks in Shattrath and Undercity were safe, and rarely did the hordes get close to the auctioneers in Undercity and Silvermoon. Since I do all my selling through a mule character, all I had to do was shift everything I had to sell to her and wait out the event.

As for questing disruption, about all I can say is that the zombies were nowhere near as effective as, say, a bored Alliance raid of 40 constantly stomping down on the Crossroads for hours on end. I've been through worse than what this event threw at me; the only disruption I faced was when The Rokk had been killed (But he was offering Revenge is Tasty. Again. For the third time this week) and at the very tail of the event where the quest NPC in Thunder Bluff was killed during an infestation of Elder Rise (Which I initially fell victim to and then cleared singlehandedly - Pets don't spread the disease if you send them to attack zombies and roaches, even if a 45-yard Arcane Shot instant kill on a roach transfers it back to you).

It really was an event you had to join in with. And even if you didn't want to join in, we were hardly talking an absolute pandemic on every server. Major flashpoints such as the IoQD were probably overran, but that shouldn't have stopped anyone questing elsewhere. Truthfully, my time could have been spent towards running dailies to help feed my mount addiction (23 so far!), but I had fun with the event; alternating between shooting zombies in the face and eating brains (Not that many in Shattrath, unfortunately, though the guards around the badge vendor were easy and fun to infect).

The only two regrets I have is that it didn't run longer, and that the questline involving the search for a cure wasn't longer. Hopefully there'll be an update in a few days.