Along with Shadowlands growth changes going into effect, the pre-patch event is a scourge invasion. Although this will be the third scourge invasion longtime players of WoW will have noticed, it is only the next time Blizzard has done a zombie infestation as well. The intrusion is straightforward because NPC zombies will attack and can cause players to get a debuff on them, and that, as it reaches zero, will then turn the participant into a zombie and infect other players. There are also plagued roaches, which, when they're killed, will also lead to the player who murdered it to get the infected debuff. As a zombie, players get a whole new set of skills to utilize, and it may be a good deal of fun running in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Obviously, when most this went on the PTR, it caused no lack of consternation among players.


The main issue is trying to do anything that isn't the zombie infestation gets hard to do, largely because participant zombies like to hangout at quest givers and other spots where plenty of players tend to gather. Because this event also comes with an entire questline that occurs in the zones across Stormwind and Orgrimmar, there's ample opportunity to camp out and potentially infect as many players as possible. However, one positive shift from the last time the zombie infestation occurred is that Blizzard seems to have made it more difficult to spread it to the rest of Azeroth. One of the first things I did when I got infected was to hearth into Dalaran, but when I arrived, I wasn't infected anymore. However, I was able to take it to Boralus through utilizing the portal in the mage tower, so it's not a perfect system yet.


The major point to understand is two distinct events are moving on. There's the scourge invasion as well as the questline, which requires players to Icecrown and sends players on a goose hunt for Nathanos. Then there is the zombie infestation, which adds a small PvP aspect for everything. It is not surprising some folks would want to get involved in the first event but not the second, as not everyone likes PvP or having their course and race abilities removed and replaced by additional abilities. Blizzard could make the infestation only active for a few of the months of the invasion, however, that is no fun for anyone who misses that week and would want to participate. Frankly, the best solution likely is to leverage the Warmode system. An infestation is basically a PvP event anyways, so being able to opt-in with Warmode makes sense. Even doing something at which for the majority of the invasion, gamers had to opt into the infestation by choosing Warmode, but at the last week, before Shadowlands fell, the infestation could influence everyone, would most likely be the best solution.


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