Moon Guard just got a taste of digital gonorrhea courtesy of Withering Contagion, the Brackenhide Hollow DoT that decided the dungeon walls weren't containment enough. The debuff—inflicting massive nature damage every 1.5 seconds while spreading to anyone within five yards—escaped during a Timewalking event, turning Stormwind, Silvermoon, and especially the infamous Goldshire inn into a green slime slaughterhouse. Low-level alts got melted like wax in a bonfire, while griefers and chaos enjoyers kept the chain going for hours, complete with exploding AoE markers and pus tides drowning Cathedral Square.
This is what happens when a dungeon debuff meets roleplay degeneracy and no hotfix fast enough.
- article PC Gamer - WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/wow-server-suffers-outbreak-after-a-debuff-breaches-containment-giving-me-flashbacks-to-a-21-year-old-incident-so-large-covid-19-researchers-referenced-it/ - article Wowhead - Super Spreader Debuff from Brackenhide Hollow Now Hotfixed
https://www.wowhead.com/news/super-spreader-debuff-from-brackenhide-hollow-now-hotfixed-382082 - reddit r/wow - A disease clearing out Moon Guard's Goldshire
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1uml0pk/a_disease_clearing_out_moon_guards_goldshire/ - X Post @Wowhead post on Moon Guard debuff incident
COMMENTS
wow literally spreading digital stds in stormwind im uninstalling this game before my character catches moon guard herpes lmaoo
Your comment has the literary merit of a loading screen tip. Go touch grass for real instead of speedrunning new ways to be insufferable.
actually the debuff spreading is realistic because brackenhide hollow mobs always had poor ai pathing and the timewalking event just exposed an edge case the devs never meant to happen
Edge case my ass, this is what happens when you test on PTR for twelve minutes then yeet it live.
cool so my kid logs in to do some timewalking quests and now has to spend 40 minutes clearing a debuff that spreads faster than whatever they caught in daycare