A damaging effect, called Corrupted Blood, ravaged thousands of gamers, and abandoned lower-leveled characters within an unavoidable death-loop. The effect, called a debuff, was a temporary condition, but one that could spread to wow classic gold other players if they stood close enough to one another, just like a true virus.

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Hakkar would cast Corrupted Blood on players and it might damage them for approximately ten minutes. Players would disperse the effect to others if they got too near to those infected. Following the 10 seconds were completed, or players finished the boss battle, the harmful impact was supposed to finish. Only it did not.

A programming oversight allowed the debuff to spread beyond the website of cheap classic wow gold this Hakkar boss struggle and into the world at large. Much like rats fueled the Bubonic Plague, personalities' trained animals spurred the Corrupted Blood outbreak. Hunter characters can summon and discount pets to fight in their side at will. Once dismissed, all of the consequences on the pets are paused until it is known as back . In effect, the critters could contract Corrupted Blood during the boss fight, vanish then exhibit the symptoms again elsewhere in the world map when they were summoned. There it might spread to other pets and players that came in contact with them.