Massive WoW server maintenance (AKA - Who isn't playing tomorrow?)

Agent Dormer

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Apparently the 16 hour down time is only for select servers, all the others will only be down for the regular 4 hour time period. Those that will undergo the 16 hour down time are:

Blackhand
Bonechewer
Cenarion Circle
Cenarius
Deathwing
Destromath
Dethecus
Doomhammer
Dragonmaw
Frostwolf
Gorgonnash
Hyjal
Icecrown
Kel'Thuzad
Kil'Jaeden
Kilrogg
Lightbringer
Nathrezim
Ner'zhul
Proudmoore
Shadowsong
Silver Hand
Silvermoon
Spinebreaker
Terenas
Tichondrius
Uther
Windrunner

Thankfully for me Mal'Ganis and Gilneas are not subject to the extensive maintenance. What about you guys?
 
I play on Aggramar and it's not scheduled (althought it should be... I've had instances of lag upwards of 2 or 3 secs--and as a caster this is NOT good).
 
Mashing said:
I play on Aggramar and it's not scheduled (althought it should be... I've had instances of lag upwards of 2 or 3 secs--and as a caster this is NOT good).

I was noticing a bit of that on Mal'Ganis today, but I usually attribute that to running the game below the recommended system requirements.
 
I wish Kargath was down tomorrow. Not that it needed to be down, but I just don't want anything to distract from playing Resident Evil 4 after I get it tomorrow.
 
im pretty sure blackrock is one of them... guess ill have to find something else to do.. maybe even outside!
 
I'm on Tichondrius, and the issues are pretty severe. I saw a buddy click on the Auction House in Ironforge today, and the screen froze for three minutes (before he could bring up the query window). That's how bad the performance is for the AH on our server. This maintenance is much-needed. Your petty 3 second lag means nothing to me.
 
I am Briarstone on Kilrogg and Alyathorayne on Kel'Thuzad.

Looks like I will be playing me some Mercenaries tomorrow during the maintenance.
 
Eggo said:
I'm on Tichondrius, and the issues are pretty severe. I saw a buddy click on the Auction House in Ironforge today, and the screen froze for three minutes (before he could bring up the query window). That's how bad the performance is for the AH on our server. This maintenance is much-needed. Your petty 3 second lag means nothing to me.

That does indeed suck. But lag in the battlefield can mean you are dead (which is not a big deal). Lag in the AH just means you are annoyed (or angered if you intended to buyout something that got sold before your click was registered).
 
Dying every once in a while unjustly is not so horrible. Having to wait 6 minutes to do a single auction is insanity. This is a constant problem on our server. Daytime, night, peak, offpeak. It's bad.
 
I hit 40 the other day and by 42 had the 100g to finally get my mount. Now I have my mount, i am kinda unsure as to what to do. Getting my mount was really my goal in the game, and now I must admit I am bored. There are no new spells between 43-60, just upgraded versions of stuff i already have. What am i really questig for?

Looks like I might be wrapping up my wow experience. It was a hell of a great ride.
 
Luckily I'll be at work thanks to the time difference, so Spinebreaker being down isn't going to cause too much of an issue.
 
All this server downtime and its hailed GOTY 2004? I'm not trying to be down on the game or anything, but that's just ridiculous. They should at least refund everyone for a month considering all the downtime WoW has had since launch.

Wasn't this game in open beta for well over a year?
 
My server (boulderfist) was up and I managed to create the perfect tough to my guy, thus proving Ninja Gnome Rogues>>>> All!!!

Ninja.jpg
 
Foobar said:
All this server downtime and its hailed GOTY 2004? I'm not trying to be down on the game or anything, but that's just ridiculous. They should at least refund everyone for a month considering all the downtime WoW has had since launch.

Wasn't this game in open beta for well over a year?
It was in closed beta for like 7 months and open beta for maybe 2 weeks.
 
On Kil'Jaeden here...or rather off of it for the next 16+ hours... :cries Oh well, better get sleep while I'm waiting. I'm just hoping that the maintenance really does fix the lag problems that the server's been suffering for the last week and a half. IF's AH is an absolutely irritating experience that no one should have to suffer. Fix yer shit, Blizzard. Fix yer shit.
 
MrAngryFace said:
Where do you get the shroud if youre horde?

If you're on a PvE server, head over to westfall and kill defias. It's a bind on pickup item. I wore my defias mask until I got my pirate hat.
 
It says on the notes now that those with characters on those realms (that are being worked on) will get an extra day tacked on to their accounts.
 
I feel really sorry for the servers that are going to be down an extra 16 hours for maitenance.

Luckily Garona only has the manditory 4 hours. :)
 
to those asking about the game being in beta for a year... they had nowhere near this response in beta... they have 600,000 users (and growing) and have 200,000 users concurrent. Not to mention many servers are full (I believe about 10,000) and most people congregating to the AH which they also didn't have to this degree in beta (people are now actually concerned with long term).

You can tell all of this by the fact that they "only" had 40 servers at launch.

Blizzard could have hoped for this response to the game, but I think it is crazy to expect them to have expected this kind of response.

Anyway, hopefully the maintenance today (including new hardware on all of those servers) will fix things...

and yeah, 2-3 second lag is nothing.. Try making a character on archimonde sometime and not seeing your instacast spell going off for 45+ seconds. Or knowing that if you see even a sliver of health on your health bar gone that the next time it will actually update you are probably dead. Not to say that your 2-3 seconds of lag isn't annoying, but it could be a lot worse.

Blizzard is working on it, and let's not forget they just got a HUGE inssurgence of cash from the first paid month of the game.. It will be fixed, we just have to be a little more patient.
 
As for what to do for 40+ it's all based on how fun you think doing the long dungeons in a good group is, because you're going to hit 60 just to be able to do the final ones. When doing those it just comes down to timing, aggro maintenance, planning and then how lucky you are in vegas to try and make your chacter the uberest. :P

60 Pallie on Magtheridon, will probably make a priest now.
 
*plays europe beta*

So many many many many undead rogues (and I'm one of them lvl17 woo) thinking about making a mace using dual wielder undead warrior in retail. SMASHY SMASHY!
 
Foobar said:
All this server downtime and its hailed GOTY 2004? I'm not trying to be down on the game or anything, but that's just ridiculous. They should at least refund everyone for a month considering all the downtime WoW has had since launch.

Wasn't this game in open beta for well over a year?
They have refunded all of us every single day that we have missed. One time the servers died for a few hours. We all got another free day added to our pay month. I think they've done this three times.

It sucks that it's happened three times, but no other MMO company would give you a free day to make up for just a few hours lost except Blizzard.
 
MrPing1000 said:
*plays europe beta*

So many many many many undead rogues (and I'm one of them lvl17 woo) thinking about making a mace using dual wielder undead warrior in retail. SMASHY SMASHY!
Warrior suck balls. I'm a level 33 Warrior, and I hate it. I'm waiting very impatiently for the patch to make us not useless.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Warrior suck balls. I'm a level 33 Warrior, and I hate it. I'm waiting very impatiently for the patch to make us not useless.

yeah I've heard they are shit, but I've also heard that warriors have been overreacting. Still a fix is bound to surface.
 
Yeah I really pity the Warriors. Every time I see one in distress I stop to help it out just because I feel so sorry for it.
 
SaitoH said:
If you're on a PvE server, head over to westfall and kill defias. It's a bind on pickup item. I wore my defias mask until I got my pirate hat.
where do you get the pirate hat from? and are those both rogue/leather only?

<--- Wants pirate hat for his warlock :P
 
westfall? easiest way to get there is to take a zep from orgimmar to grom'gol, then follow the road north into duskwood.. it splits and then goes east further into duskwood or west into westfall.

if you are in booty bay you can still just take the road north, but depending on what level you are there are plenty -high 30's to low 40's stuff before you get to the northern part of the zone.
 
MrAngryFace said:
gotta figure out how to get there. Is that near Booty Bay?

Here's a good map

The level 17-20 defias guys seem to have a better drop rate for the mask -which has no stats btw.

Borghe, the pirate hat is called "first mate hat" and it's a cloth item. You get it off the booty bay pirates and it seems to have a very low drop rate. In fact, I've only seen one other person wearing one.

^w^
 
I just gotta say that the Marudon instance KICKS ASS! PHAT loot and it's just REALLY well designed... absoultely fantastic instance. My guild willb e farming that place for a while I imagine.

Meanwhile Uldaman sucks.
 
Mashing said:
Meanwhile Uldaman sucks.


i was in there for like 6 hours yesterday...

NEVER AGAIN! unfortunately im level 42 so i probably don thave much choice in the matter.
 
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