the zombie event was awesome. except for the douches that killed on site. they were no fun. for those that had a problem with the zombie event: this is world of warcraft, not a dark ally on elm street. just cause you didnt want to participate in the event or you were on a rp server does not give you the right to say that you are somehow entitled to special consideration or a chance to opt out for "pvp" events, not that this was anything close to pvp. it was far from it, like the distance from tokyo to the andromeda galaxy far. zombies were killed easily and the debuff could be dispelled, from npc's and players. so the excuse of "i dont like pvp" cant be used anymore, cause if you say that, then you know how to push a button, which means you should quit wow with haste. if you got mad cause your normal routine was interrupted, stfu. wow is a "living world" that changes. go play fable if you want routine. if you want to continue to play wow, then learn how to adapt to change, and more importantly, learn to have fun.

I say we rename NadiaV to Molly Molehill

All I have to say is the plague actually made Darnassus useful.

sorry for saying that 2 times haha

i agree with Balador

i agree with Balador

Well said sickdawg0. @NadiaV, this was not a PvP event. It wasn't as if all of a sudden Blizz said, "HEY, I KNOW, lets make it so that PvE servers (RP or otherwise) are affected by PvP rules!" This event had a minor PvP aspect and a major RP aspect. Tigole says, WoW is an "living and breathing" world, and certain things apply. I'm so sorry that you couldn't sit in your capital city and show of your gear uninterrupted until WOTLK release. Good on you Blizzard for making this event, kinda brings us back to the good ol' days of ZG release... you know, the one where we entered this strange jungle area that was previously locked off, and got a disease nobody has seen before, and it was carried by hunter's pets outside the instance and spread to the world. That is pure fun (and genius, however "accidental" it may have been). Come on, people (notice I didn't say whiners). This event was just wickedly fun, and they made it last the perfect amount of time (so as not to disrupt all of you leveling your 4th 70 character for too long). I personally found it exciting, running from zombies, hiding in the flight tower of Thunder Bluff killing zombies before they could reach us while waiting for the Flight Master to repop. True Resident Evil feel. In the words of sickdawg0, dont get pissed off at Blizz, get pissed off at the Lich King. From your post, NadiaV, I assume you are on an RP server. Get into it.

You mean the way the player zombies in Shat had immunity from those of us that wanted to eradicate them? The whole thing was terribly poorly thought out in my opinion, and its just that, an opinion. I only bothered posting to the forums after a gamemaster suggested I do so. It's our perogative to say what we thought. If thats crying to you then so be it. I'm just glad the crap is past.

Hate to say it, but the zombies were fun a the start, after that they grew ever more increasingly annoying... By the time it came to an end, the zombies were focusing around quest givers / end points, high respawn rate mobs, and important NPCs, either infecting them directly, or gaking any that came close to do things like get or turn in a quest or tend things like banking, etc. A flag would have been nice to avoid it, but better, I think would simply have been an immunity factor... Once you got turned you were immune from it for a period of time, much like some of the paladin's abilities, or the trick or treat debuff... That would have let people enjoy it, and let others get things done... For example when I tried to turn in a quest 8 times in a row on my lvl 8 paladin and got whacked everytime by the lvl 50+s that were constantly mobbing the quest end point. Given that it was a fairly important quest for my character it kind of wasn't a situation where I could not do it, and didn't really have much choice as if I had waited much longer to turn it in, I would have leveled beyond the point where it would have done me much good... In short? Good idea, but needed a bit of re-working to make it actually run a lot more smoothly and be fun consistently instead of just at the beginning...

I believe the plague event was amazing! It was good how every passing day the spread of infection became more and more of a threat to WOW, and what began as small dribs and drabs of zombie attacks eventually grew to every main city being laid to waste, with nothing but walking corpses remaining. This was very realistic, and fun but.......it had its issues. Now the zombies were pretty naff. Unless you had a party of at least 5 people doing the whole zombie attack, then you were munched by lvl 70 guard. And fair play you dropped the time in which it took for you to turn but, if ur gunna infect people, you want to still be living (in an undead way) to see them join the ranks of your zombie horde. And from the other side of the table, the zombies got very annoying. I mean i got invovled and had fun but after a while i just wanted to get back to lvling and questing. Like many others who are not yet lvl 70, i am racing to lvl for the release of WOTLK but this was majorly distrupting by the fact that i could not reach a banker or an AH or hand in quests because they were rather busy trying to eat my brains. I believe for the future blizzard should consider improving the zombies, and maybe at the start of the event allowing players the option whether they want to interact with the event or not. For they should respect the fact that some players are not interested in pvp, and that some do, and that these two groups should not be allowed to affect each other. For those playing as zombies, it would highly annoying to be munched by a player who you could not attack.

ICA = ICC RP Whiners. You go where the zombies are? You take the risk of getting infected. Stay IC and run to the hills, it was only a few days - take it and run with it. This event was TONS of fun AND spawned rediculous amounts of awesome RP. It was so FAR from real pvp that it just shows what whine asses some people can be. Don't blame Blizzard, blame the Lich King. Go send him a nastygram or something. Whine at his front door and maybe he'll do what Bliz can't - keep me from having to listen to 'moar crybaby blatblat my last 4 days were rooooooined'. Oh yeah. YAR YAR HUMP ... BRRRAAAAAIIINNNS

• Good post and well said NadiaV. I myself play on PVE servers and you have expressed my feeling exactly and the feelings of so many others that have chosen PVE or RP normal type realms. I also feel that for these realms Blizzard developers missed a wonderful opportunity to achieve the same effect and still respect our freedom of choice, the simple ability to flag (scourge if you wish to be a zombie, factional if you wish to fight them) this simple action on blizzards part would have respected our freedom of choice and still have given the PVE/RP realms the desired impact of the plague(and those who did not wish to be a zombie could have dies in peace without all the durability damage of the guards pounding us to death) would there still have been interruptions in our play? most probably but no more inconvenient then when the servers go down (to coddle the PVPers?) and would have solved the issue of all the 50+ players ganking the lower toon till they were broke (which so many of the greifes thought was so much fun and for them made this "The Greatest Event Eveah"), and yes I have expressed this opinion to blizzard if they chose to listen. in closing thanks NaviaV for a Good post. • • This is an edit to my previous post.

Good post and well said NadiaV. I my self play on PVE servers and you have Expressed my feeling exactly and the feelings of so many others that have chosen PVE or RP normal type realms. I also feel that for these realms Blizzard developers missed a wonderfull opertunity to achive the same effect and still respect our freedom of choice, the simple ability to flag (scourge if you wish to be a zombie, factional if you wish to fight them) this simple action on blizzards part would have respected our freedom of choice and still have given the PVE/RP realms the desired impact of the plague(and those who did not wish to be a zombie could have dies in peace without all the duribility damage of the guards pounding us to death, would there still have been interuptions in our play? most probibly but nomore inconvineant then when the servers go down (to coddle the PVPers) and would have solved the issue of all the 50+ players ganking the lower toon till they were broke (which so many of the greifes thought was so much fun and for them made this "The Greatest Event Eveah"), and yes I have expressed this oppenion to blizzard if they chose to listen. in closeing thanks NaviaV for a Good post.

The zombie event was nothing like being on a pvp server, a zombie (mostly found in the larger cities, rarely out in the wild) limping at you with 5 sucky abilities is quite different from a S3/S4 moonkin dropping from the sky to gank your level 63 ass while you quest in Nagrand. Zombies are easy to avoid, will die by themselves and are killed on sight by most players, Blizzard had some guts starting this event that made the world less scripted and dull. So you got knocked off your ponycorn while reciting some crappy poem to your RPing boyfriends who then have their brains eaten by your improved form? It was about time!

Thank you NadiaV. I couldnt have said it any better. You'll get a safe spot in my 'Book of cool and smart people'.

NadiaV have posted one of tho most intellectual, "WAAA, QQ's" I have ever seen. Actually well done. This event was fun BECAUSE in invaded what I was starting to take for granted. The scourge invaded Blizzards game. You know the one that we pay them to play...they dont pay us for our time online...the give us scrolls of resurrection and enhanced XP gains as a reward or as gratitude for our part in their game...you dont pay Porshe because you wanna drive a car you made...if you made it, why pay Porshe? I bought a game thats core purpose was to get people invlolved in some form of combat or interaction with something other than ourselves. I doubt there is someone who has level capped without casting an offensive spell or hitting something with a weapon. WE have taken all this for granted and somehow decided this is our game and our toons, when we only bought the software necessary to play their game and level their toons (read EULA). I really liked the zombie invasion because if something happens different nexter and someone says wow where did you get >insert whatchagot here<, i can say i was here when it happened. Blizzard gave me something to remember where i was in the games histaory and a story to tell nubs about, which may intrigue even those who dont play the game. Heck it might even create a new customer. Another person who will love it all till they level cap run out of stuff to dom so then start QQ'ing about how abboyin Blizzard is for invading what they think is their game when its not.

noobs u didn't take durability damage from dying to a player only if u get killed by NPCs

Fascinating type of people who always call anyone who disagree with them "whiners." I have noticed that people who make such strong comparisons tend to be censored, so I will try and sugarcoat it for you. Because for some reason these bullies are very faint of heart when it comes to someone offending THEIR fun. But here goes.. people have chosen to play RP servers for a reason. Many of them do not like to play PvP and they have always had the safety of being able to ignore the type of people unable to understand the simple word "no." The ability to ignore a buffoon spamming duel flags has been like a can of Maze in the pocket of a woman walking a dark street alone at night. Only now, Blizzard suddenly sided with the assailants and took away the freedom of choice of the people who do NOT wish to participate in the PvP "fun." Suddenly, the woman walking along the dark street has become the nun locked in the attic with all the maniacs in "A Nightmare on Elm Street." And people who protest this kind of abuse are just automatically branded as "whiners." I have a question to those people. If you were members of a club for a long while, and a part of that club's members were into homosexuality, but it was something you could opt out of - only suddenly that choice was removed and each time you showed up at the club you'd.. well... I'm sure you see the point. How much fun would THAT be to you? We are a lot of people who play WoW and who do not like to PvP. We haven't paid a cent less than the PvP players - why are WE whiners when we ask that our choices be respected? Not only do we daily see how bugs in the game are ignored time and time again. But the instant someone whines about not getting their "honor" points, all realms are taken down to immediately correct this heart stoppingly grievous problem? It's okay that you guys love PvP. We never spammed you with inability to PvP. We patiently endured your unending duel spams. And finally we had this "event" take our freedom of choice away. And to top it all, some geniuses say that we can just go play something else. I find it very hard to respect people like that for the very simple reason that you do not respect others. Learn that simple skill - respect for your fellow human beings. Then maybe we can communicate.

I think the event was totally fun. Sure it sucked when you're out searching the world for a working Auctioneer or Banker, but in the end for those who participated it was a blasting success. For those of you who wanted nothing to do with the event, well go play Warhammer and try to avoid getting killed. This game is about PvE interactions, PvP for the most part has always been a side issue thing limited to battlegrounds, Arenas, and on some few servers Southshore/Tauren Mill. This was the first real PvP World event that acctually worked, and I loved it. Suggestion: Next time you have an event like this, make the Auctioneer's and Bankers immune from day 1, and let the cry babies have a toggle that makes them immune as well, but prevents them from interacting with the event or people who are. Noting would be worse then letting the whiners have their shield of protection and still letting them kill mobs or cleanse debuffs related to the event.

Loved the whole real plague likeness of it all. If such a disease would ever come up in real life, you won't get a chance to get not infected. It was IMBA!!!