In 2005, World of Warcraft saw one of the strangest events in MMO history: the Corrupted Blood event, a plague that spread from person to person and infected so many players (around four million) that it was used by real-world scientists to study the spread of a pandemic.
Now a player has, somehow, brought the plague back to Stormwind, although to a less-devastating outcome. The video was uploaded to the Classic Wow subreddit by u/Lightstruckx.
It shows the familiar red flash of the Corrupted Blood debuff as it affects nearly every single player on screen. When this plague last struck, it left a trail of destruction that reached across all of Azeroth.
The game held no cure for the debuff, and it would hit characters for anywhere from 263 to 337 points of damage every two seconds.
Recommended Videos To put that in perspective, a fully maxed-out character with raid-level gear would die in around 30 seconds.