Dear Blizzard (Those opposed)Follow

Dear Blizzard,

While the implementation of the scourge is just shy of awesome, there are many players who would like to be able to enjoy it WHILE CONTINUING TO ENGAGE IN THE REST OF THEIR IN-GAME ACTIVITIES.

Why can zombies so easily kill key NPCs such as Battlemasters, Arena Masters and Flight Masters?

Why do you get durability damage from it?

Why is it so freakin hard to find a corner of the world not being harrased by a couple of kiddies so that no quest givers stand a chance?

3.0 killed skilled PvP, so I went to level an alt. I can't tell you how many times my fun has been put on hold by some L70s that decided to take their plague to some lowbie town to kill everyone.

Thanks,

--Those who don't RP, and would like to engage in pointless PvP at their own convenience.--


I mean honestly. Thank god I'm a Druid. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to outrun Zombies at L26 :P


Edited, Oct 26th 2008 6:55pm by Jordster

Edited, Oct 26th 2008 10:54pm by Jordster

Here! Here!

I am putting my account on hold till they change this - this has absolutely burned me on WoW. I only have an hour to play at a time and now I play not at all from dying to much.

Edited, Oct 26th 2008 4:12pm by Sywryn

I would imagine a scourge invasion would be inconvenient and annoying to people... After all, it is zombies we are dealing with.

Thank you Jordster. I understand the seriousness of the invasion. I also remember a time when I was able to accomplish even the smallest task, like porting to a major city. I had a 62 level druid that hoped to make it to 70 before WotLK arrived. My 70 deals with the invasion and occasionally joins in, dailies and achievements are just nice for her. Many people did not roll a PvP server for a reason.

I just don't get all these people crying about the world event. It is an invasion for crying out loud, it's taking over the world, it's unstoppable!!! If ever you wanted a reason to go up to Northrend and kick his *** surely the Lich King has made you mad enough now that he has ruined your precious raid schedules and honor farming.

We've been grinding for a year, we have another year of it to come when the xpac hits, but people seem to be getting upset because something different is happening for 2 weeks?? Yes it's taking over the world, thats the whole point. WoW is an RPG, this is the story and the reason we are all heading up north, if you just want to go there for new shiney purples then I feel very sorry for you.

If it lasts two weeks, then it has given me an excuse not to play WoW for two weeks. Perhaps the break will be long enough that I find other things to do and WotLK comes out, I won't be in line waiting for it.

That would be GREAT!

... If only I wasn't trying to level quickly.

They could have made it specific to one area ... One major city per faction, perhaps. They could have made rewards and achievements a part of it so people would actually WANT to participate.

It was REALLY cool on the first day. Somewhat cool on the second day. Now, it's purely annoying.

It's a WORLD INVASION of the scourge, do you just not get it or something?

There are plenty of people who would read what you said and just say "LOLRP"



edit- RP server, not surprised.

Edited, Oct 26th 2008 8:57pm by mikelolol

Seriously. The idea of the event is pretty neat but it's like the entire rest of the game has been put on hold because of it. Battlemasters, bankers, and auctioneers, are always dead every time I want to use them, and I can't even get on alts because there's usually someone killing all the quest givers.

At the very least, battlemasters, and at least one auctioneer and banker per city should be immune to the plague.

Funny, on Doomhammer, it's the Horde who do that

Trade chat on my realm is lit up with profane condemnations of Blizzard the likes I've never seen.

The one thing I would have asked for is no durability loss on death if you get infected and can't get cleansed in time. I was bombing around Shat on my pally yesterday and tried to take on a pack of the NPC zombies...there was a player controlled zombie in the middle of them. I obviously got the infected debuff shortly after I started fighting (showed as 2 min countdown) but within seconds I was a zombie. I had no chance to cleanse myself...my first two attempts were resisted and then I was a zombie.

Hey thar, mr repair bill!

That's the only thing that really irked me. I'm saving for epic flight on my 5th 70 atm, nickle and dime costs are irritating, and knowing that becoming a zombie is guaranteed to force a repair bill makes me not want to participate. And that's on a new-to-70 paladin with mostly level 61-63 dungeon blues to repair. I'd be some choked if I had to fork out for the same durability loss on my druid.

Honestly, for the amount of irate players and the 3 weeks between now and the expansion, I'd say this event has to take a very dramatic shift in terms of what is going on, and soon, or there are going to be a lot of people not buying expansions. I'll still buy the expansion, but it is sort of irritating. Being a zombie is dull. You move slow, you've got only a handful of abilities, and you're just being a nuisance.

For the people who are really enjoying this, awesome. More power to you and I really hope you continue to enjoy it for the duration of the event.

Lots of people aren't, however.

I wasn't aware you lost durability on becoming a zombie, only if killed while a Zombie, by an NPC.

Even so, you say it's boring being a zombie, well, there's a very easy way out of it... Zombie Explosion. No durability lost, and you get to have your body back.