Artwork imitates life, and life imitates artwork

World of Warcraft‘s Corrupted Blood pandemic from again in 2005 is among the most infamous, and but fascinating, issues to ever occur within the recreation. It even has its personal Wikipedia web page titled “The Corrupted Blood Incident.” For individuals who is probably not acquainted, principally what occurred was that there was a debuff related to a sure boss combat on the finish of a raid. The debuff may cross between gamers in shut proximity, and whereas it was supposed to be energetic solely within the boss’ area, a bug allowed Corrupted Blood to unfold throughout the whole lot of Azeroth, the sport’s fictional world.

It’s an uncanny phenomenon given what we’ve skilled over the previous few years. The Incident was so good at replicated how illness spreads in the actual world, actually, that epidemiologists performed research on it, and truly acquired a greater understanding of find out how to fight diseases in actual life… from World of Warcraft. And my dad and mom mentioned video video games aren’t productive.

It’s taking place once more! Corrupted Blood incident v2: Contagious Cowardice from wow

Whereas Blizzard efficiently shut down the digital pandemic practically twenty years in the past, historical past has lastly repeated itself. The newly launched World of Warcraft growth, Dragonflight incorporates an identical debuff that may be discovered everywhere in the Dragon Isles referred to as Contagious Cowardice. This debuff is meant to finish after 12 seconds, however as an alternative, it continues to break the participant.

The excellent news is that in case your character turns into contaminated, you’ll be able to mitigate the harm by utilizing my therapeutic spell that removes a debuff, like Take away Curse or Cleanse. The dangerous information is which you can nonetheless see the debuff’s visible impact, and worse, continually hear the sound impact related to it. It’s annoying, however not less than it doesn’t kill you… proper?

Gamers have been sending in a flurry of bug stories over the previous few days, so it’s greater than seemingly that the WoW staff at Blizzard is working laborious on a Contagious Cowardice repair. Till then, although, watch out on the market.