Scourge Invasion II has begun

[Montague]

Necropolis above the major cities, a new quest for Karazhan, mass zombie raids everywhere. Good times.

[Venkman]

They turned that on today? Schweeet. So very not going to be going to bed at a reasonable time tonight.

[Driakos]

I got an axe that lets me melt faces with the power of metal.

[Azazel]

What, How, and Link.

[Gobbeldygook]

The run down:

-There's a boss in kara above attumen.  Don't stand in the fire and don't hit him while the red beam is up.
-There is also the scourge invasion event, which is the worst thing since AIDS and I hope the people responsible catch it.

• Zones are invaded randomly.  At...one or two? locations throughout the zone, there are crystals.  As you destroy the mobs around the crystals, you get (BOP, one possible per mob) tokens that you can turn in for shinies.  This brings us to the first problem: To get tokens, you have to play the 'Who can tag mobs fastest?' game with everyone on your faction, assuming the opposite faction hasn't overrun the stone.  Isn't that fun?
• If you finally get a stone down to 1%, the opposite faction will roll in and destryo you because...
• The next step is spend 8 of your tokens to summon an elite.  There are four possible at the stone.  If you don't tag it fast, someone will steal your elite and its loots and YOUR 8 TOKENS.  This means no more than 4 groups per server can complete the quest per zone and that's assuming an optimal distribution.  It's more likely that one group will monopolize all of the elites and take all of the 30 tokens each elite drops for themselves.

This is why instancing was invented.  The mere existence of Captain Catass means YOU can't play the game.  Have fun.

[Calantus]

I hate this fucking event.

HAY LETZ MAEK AN EVENT TO KILL OFF QUEST AND BATTLEMASTER AND VENDOR AND FLIGHT NPCS IM SURE NOBODY WILL MIND LOLOLOL!!1!

[Lakov_Sanite]

Your tears, they sustain me.

[Lakov_Sanite]

What, How, and Link.

here you are. http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=23097.0

[Shrike]

It's an odd "event", if you want to call something that's going to run quite a while an event. I prefer: condition. It's a condition.

I have mixed feelings about it. Basically, it's a pain in the ass, but it does have its moments. Major cities (SW is particularly bad on Whisperwind) have truly nasty lag due to the bazillion people standing around with either their thumbs in or playing hide the zombie. On the other hand, I've had some pretty good times zombie bashing and (what bashing often leads to) PC infecting. Quel'danis is the wild west, and here you can have some fun. Most memorable last night was picking off a few zombies, then managing to get myself infected (this stuff is hard to cure) and deciding to run rampant. Best time was attacking two orc warriors, infecting one, then watching him promptly turn on his pal, who tried to hot-foot it, but didn't make it far. No wonder the scourge controls Lorderaon. Of course, it's nearly impossible to get the dailys done if too many undead are out and about, but there it is. Dry-gulching low level zombies looking to explode in crowded areas can also provide some short term amusement. Disease cleansing totems are win here.

The new boss in KZ can drop a variety of things. We did him on a KZ run tonight to help a few new 70s and recruits get started on their treadmill to...more treadmills. Anyway, like was said, don't stand near orbs and the tanks need to keep the boss moving. Not sure about the red beam thing. We saw it, but just kept on beating the bejezus out of the boss. He died, we took his shit. We did have two rather stout pally tanks, but it was a fun fight, and not particularly difficult. We didn't get the electric axe, but did get a very nice glowie arcanite reaper clone with bitchin' hunter stats. Our hunter was pleased. Also, everyone gets bat pets. Needless to say, there were flappy miniture bats everywhere soon as we looted. Also, the quest turn in gets you a monster hunting kit trinket. Not sure what it does (promptly banked it), but kinda sounds like the six demon bag, or whatever that thing was called.

Supposedlly, this goes on until Nov 13. A few dev hints suggest it might get a good deal more intense as time goes along.

[Lakov_Sanite]

It's an odd "event", if you want to call something that's going to run quite a while an event. I prefer: condition. It's a condition.

I have mixed feelings about it. Basically, it's a pain in the ass, but it does have its moments. Major cities (SW is particularly bad on Whisperwind) have truly nasty lag due to the bazillion people standing around with either their thumbs in or playing hide the zombie. On the other hand, I've had some pretty good times zombie bashing and (what bashing often leads to) PC infecting. Quel'danis is the wild west, and here you can have some fun. Most memorable last night was picking off a few zombies, then managing to get myself infected (this stuff is hard to cure) and deciding to run rampant. Best time was attacking two orc warriors, infecting one, then watching him promptly turn on his pal, who tried to hot-foot it, but didn't make it far. No wonder the scourge controls Lorderaon. Of course, it's nearly impossible to get the dailys done if too many undead are out and about, but there it is. Dry-gulching low level zombies looking to explode in crowded areas can also provide some short term amusement. Disease cleansing totems are win here.

The new boss in KZ can drop a variety of things. We did him on a KZ run tonight to help a few new 70s and recruits get started on their treadmill to...more treadmills. Anyway, like was said, don't stand near orbs and the tanks need to keep the boss moving. Not sure about the red beam thing. We saw it, but just kept on beating the bejezus out of the boss. He died, we took his shit. We did have two rather stout pally tanks, but it was a fun fight, and not particularly difficult. We didn't get the electric axe, but did get a very nice glowie arcanite reaper clone with bitchin' hunter stats. Our hunter was pleased. Also, everyone gets bat pets. Needless to say, there were flappy miniture bats everywhere soon as we looted. Also, the quest turn in gets you a monster hunting kit trinket. Not sure what it does (promptly banked it), but kinda sounds like the six demon bag, or whatever that thing was called.

Supposedlly, this goes on until Nov 13. A few dev hints suggest it might get a good deal more intense as time goes along.

That arcanite reaper IS the electric guitar, it has a hidden on-use effect.

The hunting kit trinket randomly shoots one of the weapons that belmonts use in castlevania knife/cross/axe/holy water for a decent amount of damage.

[Shrike]

So it is the guitar. Cool. I'll have to have our new hunter demonstrate when I see her again.

The bag...eh, I hate to give up my DST or panther, but might be worth testing on some zombies. Not like they're hard to find or anything. 

[Paelos]

I think the event is really funny. They picked a great time because if you're actually still trying to "accomplish" anything in WoW at this point, you're doing it wrong. Most people are just fucking around doing acheivements and having fun. This plays right into the fun concept. I spent this evening taking over the entire village of Thelsamar with a buddy of mine, only to be steamrolled later by a cadre of players. I then laughed at them and hearthed since they had no flightmaster.

[Calantus]

I think the event is really funny. They picked a great time because if you're actually still trying to "accomplish" anything in WoW at this point, you're doing it wrong.

Or you could be trying to level alts from 60-70 since they nerfed the xp needed and you would rather have them 70 before WotLK.

[K9]

The run down:

-There's a boss in kara above attumen.  Don't stand in the fire and don't hit him while the red beam is up.
-There is also the scourge invasion event, which is the worst thing since AIDS and I hope the people responsible catch it.

• Zones are invaded randomly.  At...one or two? locations throughout the zone, there are crystals.  As you destroy the mobs around the crystals, you get (BOP, one possible per mob) tokens that you can turn in for shinies.  This brings us to the first problem: To get tokens, you have to play the 'Who can tag mobs fastest?' game with everyone on your faction, assuming the opposite faction hasn't overrun the stone.  Isn't that fun?
• If you finally get a stone down to 1%, the opposite faction will roll in and destryo you because...
• The next step is spend 8 of your tokens to summon an elite.  There are four possible at the stone.  If you don't tag it fast, someone will steal your elite and its loots and YOUR 8 TOKENS.  This means no more than 4 groups per server can complete the quest per zone and that's assuming an optimal distribution.  It's more likely that one group will monopolize all of the elites and take all of the 30 tokens each elite drops for themselves.

This is why instancing was invented.  The mere existence of Captain Catass means YOU can't play the game.  Have fun.

This. Thankfully I'm only going for the tabard, so 8 runes shouldn't be too hard to get.

Also, what Calantus said.

[Koyasha]

18 runes for the tabard.  You are required to do the quest to turn in 10 of them in order to unlock the quartermaster that sells the tabard.

Most any class with an instant tag spell can get enough to get the tabard, most likely.

[K9]

Hopefully the rate of Necropoli spawning will increase, they're all dead at the moment on my server and get killed down before I can get to any of them.

[Paelos]

I think the event is really funny. They picked a great time because if you're actually still trying to "accomplish" anything in WoW at this point, you're doing it wrong.

Or you could be trying to level alts from 60-70 since they nerfed the xp needed and you would rather have them 70 before WotLK.

Awwwww 

Who cares. You only had, what, 20 months to pull that off? Even on rested xp alone that was plenty of time without the xp nerf. Kick back and enjoy zombies eating your face.

[RUiN 427]

I'm pretty stoked on this, since i missed out on it the first time around.

[Big Gulp]

This is pure fucking retardation.  I just want to bank and hit the auction house, but I've got to deal with this nonsense.  Cute for a while, but it gets real fucking old real quick.

Some of us haven't bothered catassing our ways to 70, and this shit makes actually playing the game a wee bit difficult.

[Lakov_Sanite]

This is pure fucking retardation.  I just want to bank and hit the auction house, but I've got to deal with this nonsense.  Cute for a while, but it gets real fucking old real quick.

Some of us haven't bothered catassing our ways to 70, and this shit makes actually playing the game a wee bit difficult.

Corp Por

[Xanthippe]

This is pure fucking retardation.  I just want to bank and hit the auction house, but I've got to deal with this nonsense.  Cute for a while, but it gets real fucking old real quick.

Some of us haven't bothered catassing our ways to 70, and this shit makes actually playing the game a wee bit difficult.

Have you tried the least populated city?  Might be easier there.

It's one weekend out of 2 years.   A world event.  Will be over soon.

I just realized every death is a dura-death.  OUCH on the repair bill after playing zombies for awhile.

[Xeyi]

Have you tried the least populated city?  Might be easier there.

The zombie invasion has led me to spend more time in Silvermoon and as a result I'm finding more things there I never noticed before.

I'm particularly fond of the leper gnome sweatshop underneath the tailoring store.

[Fordel]

I just realized every death is a dura-death.  OUCH on the repair bill after playing zombies for awhile.

No, Being killed by other players is considered a PvP death. Either way, just take off any durability items while shambling about, Zombies don't gain benefit from items either way.

[Merusk]

Or make sure you corpse explode.  No durability hit that way either. 

[Xanthippe]

I just realized every death is a dura-death.  OUCH on the repair bill after playing zombies for awhile.

No, Being killed by other players is considered a PvP death. Either way, just take off any durability items while shambling about, Zombies don't gain benefit from items either way.

Well, I have a 22g repair bill that says otherwise.  I fully repaired last night before going to bed and had done nothing but zombie myself this morning in Stormwind.

[mutantmagnet]

I hate this fucking event.

HAY LETZ MAEK AN EVENT TO KILL OFF QUEST AND BATTLEMASTER AND VENDOR AND FLIGHT NPCS IM SURE NOBODY WILL MIND LOLOLOL!!1!

Considering your avatar I found this message to be aesthetically appropriate. Kudos 

[Calantus]

This is pure fucking retardation.  I just want to bank and hit the auction house, but I've got to deal with this nonsense.  Cute for a while, but it gets real fucking old real quick.

Some of us haven't bothered catassing our ways to 70, and this shit makes actually playing the game a wee bit difficult.

Corp Por

Standing around waiting for an NPC to respawn so I can turn in a PVE quest is not PVP. If they had just made non-guard NPCs immune it'd have been a slightly annoying event, its the killing of essential NPCs that makes it retarded.

[K9]

Have you tried the least populated city?  Might be easier there.

It's one weekend out of 2 years.   A world event.  Will be over soon.

I just realized every death is a dura-death.  OUCH on the repair bill after playing zombies for awhile.

Only problem is that we have another two weeks of this. Like the guy said, it's fun for a while, but now it is just fucking tiresome. The people I feel sorry for are the lowbies, I was trying to get a couple of low-level things done and kept getting corpse-exploded into a zombie by a couple of tards in Auberdine. Got a paladin buddy to come kill them and we camped them for a bit, and cured them when they got the disease. They got pissed, and I wasn't exactly having tons of fun. The whole thing is arseways retarded.

[Azazel]

Hopefully the rate of Necropoli spawning will increase, they're all dead at the moment on my server and get killed down before I can get to any of them.

This.

This is pure fucking retardation.  I just want to bank and hit the auction house, but I've got to deal with this nonsense.  Cute for a while, but it gets real fucking old real quick.

Some of us haven't bothered catassing our ways to 70, and this shit makes actually playing the game a wee bit difficult.

This as well, Kinda. I'm trying to do the Halloween achievements, and it's annoying as hell when you're trying to do the candy buckets. As someone with limited time to play, it's kind of cool but would be nice if they could just get the fuck out of my way when I'm trying to do something else.

Fun in small doses, and if you couuld opt-in or out but the LOL NOOBS JUST ENJOHEY IT SINCE I R ENJOGYNG IT IF YOU STILL HAVE STUFF 2 DO IN WOW TIHS FAR IN U R RTARDED ITZ FUN FER ME 2 KILL THE FLIHT MASTER AND INFEKT BOM YOU WHEN U ARRIVE OFF A BERD mentality can fuck right off.

[K9]

I could deal with Zombies in the wild, zombies at the gates even. It's the zombies spawning in the fucking AH and Bank that need to fuck right off. Or even if it was only one or two cities that got infected, whatever.

[WindupAtheist]

One of my UO friends started a human on my WoW server today, so I decided to take my 70 and babysit her a bit. We had to stay out of the Goldshire inn for a while because the zombies were using it as a bunker, and thus delay her level 6 training until level 8, but that was about it. Oh, and the SW auctioneers were dead, so I had to go to Ironforge. Not a big deal.

[Venkman]

Dammit, someone spilled their multiplayer into my RPG!

Freakin' whiners. The game is always going to be there. They're probably already 70 on another character. And we're getting a brand new tasty expansion with the first post-launch class ever in a few weeks. But noooo, some darned immersive condition is in the way of them playing a solo game.

I get it that people are pissed. And I get that WoW is today because of what UO was before Renaissance. But jeezus some people need to lighten up, or start being part of the solution. I took my turn for an hour last night, continually clearing IF AH and bank area then suiciding on guards. Too bad I missed a few more Achievement unlocks. Waa the fuck waa.

[Nija]

I hate this fucking event.

HAY LETZ MAEK AN EVENT TO KILL OFF QUEST AND BATTLEMASTER AND VENDOR AND FLIGHT NPCS IM SURE NOBODY WILL MIND LOLOLOL!!1!

You've had 4 fucking years to play the game. Take a month off you spoiled child.

[Calantus]

I forgot that frustration and cockblocking is what leisure activities are all about. Silly me, thinking that I should be able to have fun in a game without people pissing on my face. I'm sorry if my fun was getting in the way of your griefing, or my whining touched the part of your conscience that realises that you're getting your fun at other people's expense.

[WindupAtheist]

I'm enjoying the shit out it. It's a nice break from the usual perfectly-ordered theme park gameplay.