The Plague Event is Fine, but only if it's Opt-In

[Atulzan-thrall]

YES!!

[Ojoverde-eldrethalas (Ojoverde)]

you get extra bonus points for killing players in mid air!

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

@Derka-wyrmrest-accord

Best bet is to just not log-in or put yourself in whatever rare safe space exists in-game if you choose not to participate. It’d be silly to see people running around in Org or Zuld just immune from everything.

That’s why I suggested the sharding, so that you wouldn’t have that disconnect. If you’re a Ghoul or you opt-in, you go PvP. If you didn’t opt-in, then you only see NPC Ghouls and a reduced number of them.

Not everything has to be cranked to 11 difficulty-wise. Some people enjoy a calmer experience.

@Källí-dalaran

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

PvE servers existed because some people didn’t want to PvP. Shocker, right?

This isn’t PvP.
It’s a limited event. It’s supposed to be overwhelming, to stress the gravity of the events happening. There are already fail safes even on the PTR, namely the plague doesn’t go beyond the cities at the moment, so if you want to go about your day you can teleport to BfA or Dalaran and the debuff goes away and doesn’t follow you.

Other players are going to be actively coordinating groups against each other. I would rather just be left to my own devices. Those players are going to seek players like me out and intentionally wreck their experience. That’s PvP, which I didn’t sign up for.

@Ithax-korialstrasz

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

PvE servers existed because some people didn’t want to PvP. Shocker, right?

Pre-patch is a PvE event. Shocker, right?

Weird, I thought half the ‘hype’ around this ‘PvE event’ was getting to kill players on your own faction.

[Atulzan-thrall]

@Cartis-undermine

Why do you have such a hard time embracing the chaos. It’s a limited time event. Get into the RPG of it. The Helm of Domination is broken … which was the only thing holding back the scourge. The scourge is loose now and hell is breaking loose.

You’re worried about “being ganked”? LOL, that is 100% the point of a scourge invasion. You’re supposed to be ganked. Relax, stop taking yourself so seriously and laugh it off. Embrace the RPG and go gank others. It will be over soon and you can back to normal play.

Very well said.

A few people want to take the fun away from everyone.

[Bruhai-azgalor]

Currently some people cant even fight the ghouls because they are pvp flagged and you are not so you just get beat down with no option to fight back. Plus the lag is so bad you are basically a ghoul before you even load in all the way on the ptr. Sure you can have your chaos killing everyone but its not fun when I cant even do anything on the ptr right now due to all the lag.

[Silverleigh-drakthul]

It’s a WORLD event, not an opt-in event.

And it isn’t your place to say how it is done anyway.

[Hammerdan-proudmoore]

[Derka-wyrmrest-accord (Derka)]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

That’s why I suggested the sharding, so that you wouldn’t have that disconnect. If you’re a Ghoul or you opt-in, you go PvP. If you didn’t opt-in, then you only see NPC Ghouls and a reduced number of them.

Seems a lot of unnecessary work for an event that’s going to burn out in short order and all just to satisfy a small number of people with brittle spirits.

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

@Silverleigh-drakthul

It’s a WORLD event, not an opt-in event.

And it isn’t your place to say how it is done anyway.

Then it’s my place to not take part in it. I’m just suggesting ways to make it more tolerable for the folk like me that otherwise go take a break with PSO2 or whatever else is on the market until this works its way through everyone’s systems.

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

The ghoul has it’s own set of abilities.

[Källí-dalaran]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

I would rather just be left to my own devices.

This isn’t a solo game. At some point you will be affected by other peoples actions.

/end

[Paladina-kargath (Paladina)]

@Gatteka-area-52

Do you get special abilities as a ghoul

Yes, and you get flagged, it’s awesome, you get to chase down your friends and chomp on them.

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

Some people enjoy a calmer experience.

Then go play a calmer game for two weeks. If you don’t log in during this event, literally not a single person will care. You’ve already paid Blizzard. Nobody loses but you.

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

@Källí-dalaran

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

I would rather just be left to my own devices.

This isn’t a solo game. At some point you will be affected by other peoples actions.

/end

I get to choose when that happens. That’s what War Mode is about.

/end

[Gatteka-area-52]

Oh…in that case no thanks. Sounds boring.

[Ithax-korialstrasz (Ithax)]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

Weird, I thought half the ‘hype’ around this ‘PvE event’ was getting to kill players on your own faction.

You do, but it is still a PvE event as in order to kill anyone you have to be a ghoul.

[Derka-wyrmrest-accord (Derka)]

@Atulzan-thrall

A few people want to take the fun away from everyone.

In fairness, he’s not suggesting that the event be cancelled for everyone. He just wants an opt-out for himself.

[Virulas-moon-guard]

Let the chaos reign! Kill them all! Infect them all! NONE SHALL BE SPARED!!!

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

Not just flagged, last time it let you go through both faction portals. So you could be Alliance, turn into a ghoul, and go through a portal to Orgrimmar.

[Atulzan-thrall]

The whole point of an event like this is the chaos it brings. There 100% should not be an opt out.

I take that back the opt out button is already there, “Log Out” or “Exit Game”