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A deadly plague spread through World of Warcraft’s Moonguard server over the weekend, making it the second time in WoW history a horrific virus has run uncontrolled through the game’s populace.
As broken down by Wowhead, the origin of the plague in question comes from a Dragonflight dungeon, Brackenhide Hollow. Within the dungeon, some enemies cast a spell called Withering Contagion, a disease that inflicts heavy nature- damage-over-time and spreads to all players within five yards.
Whether by accident or intentionally, a player was able to bring Withering Contagion out of the dungeon and into the heart of Alliance territory and Silvermoon City. Lower-level players were quickly killed by the contagion’s damage-over-time effect, while those who survived only helped spread it even further.
Before long, areas like Stormwind and the Goldshire inn in Elwynn Forest were awash in green slime, as players started to document the pandemic on social media. The virus was brought to an end thanks to a July 3 hotfix from developer Blizzard, but not before the virus had rampaged unchecked for several hours.
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Players have quickly started referring to this most recent super-spreader event as “Corrupted Blood 2.0,” a reference to the previous
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