Wow, where to begin.

The zombie infestation was actually just a lag infestation. My entire server was unplayable, to the point where many raid encounters were outright broken. Try to quest somewhere else for lowbie rep? Well, either looting your quest items takes 30-45 seconds, or your questgivers are all dead.

Want to play zombie? Well, in addition to the fun lag, you got durability loss on every single death. "Oh, but pvp doesn't cause durability loss, l2p". Um.. Every single death, whether it was from players or guards, caused me durability loss. A 12 gold repair bill for 10 minutes of zombie is not fun. "Oh, just strip off your gear". I play a warrior, protection spec. Between a dps set, 3-4 different tanking sets, and resist sets, I don't have bag *or* bank space to take my gear off.

So past the zombie event, the city invasions.

I wouldn't have known they were happening if nobody'd said anything. No drops from mobs. No quest. 99% of the stuff in stormwind was ranged, so...gg warriors. So I ignored that.

The necrotic rune stuff, also known as the "oh, you don't have an AOE? Go somewhere else noob" event. Pick a target, charge...and it's already been tagged by the mage who's running and jumping through the area spamming AE. Worthless, pointless, and lag-inspiring.

But to top it all off, here's the now-legendary fail:
1. Patch the servers with a major patch,
2. 2 days later start the Hallow's End holiday event
3. 1 day after that start a huge world event.

Wow, look, our server *almost* stayed up.

Horrible event.

Badly designed, badly implemented, poorly tested, and generally not only not fun but somethign I couldn't avoid being badly impacted by.

The only good thing was it gave me time to play through Crysis.

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