{"id":85405,"date":"2026-07-06T13:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85405"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:36:40","slug":"world-of-warcraft-just-got-a-sequel-to-its-most-literally-viral-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85405","title":{"rendered":"World Of Warcraft Just Got A Sequel To Its Most Literally Viral Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n

As broken down by Wowhead<\/a>, 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wow\/comments\/1umpgxh\/corrupted_blood_20\/ <\/p>\n

Players have quickly started referring to this most recent super-spreader event as “Corrupted Blood 2.0,” a reference to the previous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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