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Please reblog if you play a character who is 30 years of age or older

I don’t care if it’s an OC or a canon character, and while I play a human, I don’t care if your fandom isn’t but for the love of god, why is everyone in their twenties? Give me some mid thirties or even some fourties. Hell, throw me some silver foxes. Please.

filibusterfrog

if you want to live to die in a different battle then you have to stay clean

aramis-dagaz-imaginarium

This also suggests that orcs have some of the best healers and physicians in the world, and they will even make any resulting scars look badass as hell, free of charge.

filibusterfrog

yes!! I was actually gonna do a continuation of this post regarding that

aramis-dagaz-imaginarium

Somewhat tangential brainstorm since this tag stood out to me:

#how are u supposed to fight if youre very dead

Necromancy, obviously, but there are at least two ways of looking at it:

1) Necromancy is great because you can keep fighting after you die, and thus would be encouraged among orcish society.

2) Necromancy is not good enough because you’re literally a brain-dead zombie, and where’s the fun in that?

A possible middle route would be reanimating shamed and disgraced orcs, since they never did anything worthwhile in life so maybe they can do something worthwhile in death and freeing up other able-bodied orcs for war. Obviously, such undead orcs would be used very carefully or limited to fully-scrubbed skeletons because of the disease risks.

If necromancy was acceptable, then orcs would have some of the best necromancers in the world, and if retaining enough self-awareness to continue being an honorable warrior was a concern, then orcish necromancy would have a lot of useful techniques for creating intelligent or semi-sapient undead. Even unintelligent orcish-made undead would some measure of innate understanding of martial honor.

I imagine that this would be a topic of considerable debate and controversy among orcs and really would depend on which orcish society you ask.

filibusterfrog

you are so right

theopaltree

1) This SERIOUSLY reminds me of Vikings.

2) Orcs who died dishonorably being burned instead of buried, to kill whatever germs killed them. Reanimated skeletons are charred black. They are used for harvesting crops, which doesn’t require too much ability to think (if it looks like this pick it if it looks like that leave it there). As they walk the fields, their blackened bones flake and leave behind black bone dust, fertilizing the crops. Their job is done when the skeleton disintegrates. They have fed the clan, and regained their honor.

dollsahoy

@mothgoggles

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Did someone say Ner’zhul?

makanidotdot

Have you seen on Reddit? r/wow/comments/abjpby/anduin_sylvanasas_corgis_happy_new_year_to_rwow/ Corgi Syl and Andy!

gdiiii im gonna have to draw some good boys and girls now

makanidotdot

as stated previously, some good boys and girls, +1 trash cat

wearepaladin

Tauren paladin by VanHarmontt

paxamericana

The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.

Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]

During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]

The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]

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please read the full wikipedia article

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Orgrimmar during the incident.

lyinginbedmon

This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.

nerdgerhl

This post leaves out the most incredible part, which is that the CDC straight up contacted Blizzard and asked for all the data they had on the Corrupted Blood Plague for the purposes of refining their models of epidemic behavior in real human populations.

kagesatsuki

This might be the best #Warcraft anniversary thing EVER.

zl-art

busy busy at work, something old i had meant to post

wow-images

Grizzly Hills in Unreal Engine 4

(CuriousTrick)

crafterofwars

Blizzard did it again!

Worgen and Goblin new models showed on Blizzcon.

Prettier female goblins, that’s good!

booterang

I'm still seeing people angry that the female worgen model isn't "scary" and "beastly" like the males, and your feelings are valid, HOWEVER, can we PLEASE agree that this is better than rabid chihuahuas with sticks jammed up their bums? Please?

#if I was on fire #I would rather have someone put the fire out with ice water and be uncomfortable #than wait around to have the fire put out in a way that doesn't make me wet and chilly #because I'd still be ON FIRE then