Wrath of the Lich King - World Event
As I write this news, it looks like the pre-Wrath of the Lich King world event has been started on one of the US live servers, we're still unsure if it's just an error or if Blizzard is testing the event on a few servers. Below is a small preview of what to expect during this event .... You can probably expect more updates in the next hours if the event is extended to all realms.
* Zombies will randomly spawn in the world (and near cities) and infect anyone they damage.
* People infected by zombies can either get cured by other players or by Argent Healers deployed in most of the zones.
* If a player or NPC isn't cured within 10 minutes ... He will turn into a zombie !
* Players changed into zombies have access to a new set of skills to let them attack and infect other players. They become friendly with other zombies and hostile to all player factions.
I was going to log on anyway to finish more of the damnably addictive achievements they've added in the game (750 of them, with more to come) when I read about this event at work. WoW's now got its own temporary zombie simulator, not sure if it's for the Halloween event, or the new expansion coming out next month, either would explain it. Anyway, got to alt-tab back, the zeppelin arrived. 
It was fun.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
You're easily hooked.
I enjoy WoW because whether it's raiding, PVPing, questing, leveling, tradeskilling, or enjoying the ever-expanding holidays; Blizzard never ceases to surprise me with how creative they can be.
I have no idea why. It's like I have a mental block about capping out characters.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
In EQ, my main never got past 36. I played for well over a year. In DAoC, it was much lower - high teens or low twenties or something. CoH was the first game I hit 50 on, and that was after months and months of playing, because I couldn't ever really seem to stick with one character long enough.
WoW actually has enough variety and the levelling was both smooth and fast enough that I was able to stick it out to 60, Pre-BC. I signed up again on August 1st and created a brand-new mage on Mal'Ganis. By October 1st, two months later, I was level 70, had epic flight training and honored Netherwing faction (1 week later I was flying around on my personal dragon mount), and had 8 pieces of T4 or equivalent gear. And I didn't use the RAF system at all.
Here I am now : My Armory Page
Not even 3 months in and I'm raiding Hyjal/Black Temple. I've really progressed incredibly far in a very, very short time.
Damnati fucked around with this message on 10-23-2008 at 04:04 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
WoW can be a grind if you let it be, I started my warrior in April, I hit 70 in late june. Epic mount by mid July. Got into a guild that prefers dedication and ability in its applicants over current gear (though it does weed out some people), and now I'm MTing a lot of fights.
I didn't spend endless hours a day grinding, I didn't kill myself getting there. I think I had about 10 days played when I hit 70, I'm only at 30 days played now.
Once you start raiding, things slow down a lot. You log on, you do your raid for x nights a week (pick a guild that playes at your pace), you log off, I barely touch WoW on weekends.
They've changed a lot of the game to be a lot friendlier to casual players / people who have lives.
So much so that I look forward to the mini-grind to 80 before we start raiding again.
Holy Nova sure comes in handy, though.
