Breakfast Topic: Up All Night
by Jennie Lees 
Jul 3rd 2006 at 6:00AM
It's tempting to get immersed in the world of Azeroth; perhaps too immersed. As a natural night owl, I've found myself (on several occasions) seeing the night through -- dawn falls in WoW slightly earlier than outside my window, the cities start filling up and a new day begins.
I don't recommend this behaviour, of course -- as I've found, one all-nighter begets another -- but it's interesting from an observer's point of view. The world is a different place in the small hours -- I use this time to grind popular spots, or level alts in deserted zones. PvP dries up, there are no raids, and you can almost hear the continents sleeping.
The breakfast topic part: How does this compare to the American servers? In Europe, we're generally at most one hour distant from the server time, so while there's something of a staggered night, there's a definite "quiet period". With more timezones to span, however, do the US servers ever get quiet?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mr. Tibbs Jul 3rd 2006 6:38AM
Seeing as it's 3:36AM PST (5:36AM Server time), I do notice that the server is nice and quiet for getting quests done or guys killed that you may not normally be able to without being ganked or having to compete with others. Devilsaur in Ungoro, for example, are much more abundant for me to kill and skin.
I dunno - it's kinda peaceful. A little *too* peaceful...
Fabian Jul 3rd 2006 8:49AM
Well I'm playing on European servers as well, so I don't know about the American servers...
...but I know that all-nighters seem to happen a lot in WoW for me. In my guild one of the most fun people to play with is our guild-leader. He plays very good, is a walking, talking version of thottbot et.al. and generally a fun person. Furthermore he is extremely good at motivating people. So far, so good...
Now to the problematic part: he works shifts. So if he has the late-shift he comes online around 11.30 pm or even 00.30. He immediately starts asking if someone would like to do something fun. And normally he manages to get enough people interested to start an instance run at BRD/LBRS/UBRS/Strat/Scholo you name it...
...and afterwards he sometimes even manages to get us along on farming reputation for the argent dawn or cenarion circle.
So we have an unusual number of all-nighters in our guild...
...nevertheless its always fun or we wouldn't be doing it - even if we curse ourselves the next day ;-)
Fen Jul 3rd 2006 8:57AM
While not actually relevant to the post, I live in Australia and play on an American server.
We're seven hours behind server time, but a day ahead. Get that stirring around in the noodle.
Quietest times are after random server restarts (like tonight, I logged on and only one person out of our guild was on) and lat-night Aus. times.
Sid Jul 3rd 2006 10:30AM
Last night, somewhere between 3-5 AM, I found the Sewer Beast hanging out in Stormwind's canal. Highest character being 9 on that server, I announced that it was up over General.
It was still there at 6:45.
Another thing, BGs simply don't exist at night. At any point from 11 AM to 2 AM, I have no problem getting into one within half an hour at most. At night, I use the queue to keep track of how long I've been playing.
Vlam Jul 3rd 2006 12:38PM
I play on the Sargeras Server(American) and BG's exist at any time of the night. I was playing AV till the wee hours of the mourning last night(to bout 4 a.m.)
Tryst Jul 3rd 2006 12:52PM
I'm an American playing on an Australian server so while it's nice that when I play at night from California, Azeroth is in daylight, it also is very rarely quiet. Many Americans were assigned to Khaz'goroth during their trial which causes massive guild raiding schedule issues and pretty much sucks. But, on the other, hand, there's usually about 20 guildies on at all times and you rarely have a problem finding someone to grind/quest with.
Quagmar Jul 4th 2006 12:00PM
I found that around 2:30am for me (12:30am server time) is a great time to make lots of gold...when i come home from the bars smashed around that time i will sit in orgimmar for a little while and spam my enchanter macro. The nice thing is that there are not a lot of enchanters on so there is really no one to compete against you for the enchants.
One a side not has anyone notice that there are way too many enchanters on your servers, i mean when people are putting +15 or +25 agi, crusader, lifestealing, ect. up for "free with mats tips appreciated" is kinda ridiculous; when i grinded hours and hours for the rep. or spent lots of gold with thorium brotherhood to get those enchants. I tried doing it free with tips but when someone tries to tip you 1g for +22int enchant i will tell them to f**k off. I'm not a price gouger i think 10-20g for a none common high end enchant is fair.
Anyways back on the subject, after jumping around in a circle in orgimmar for a half hour or so doing my AH and enchanting thing, because i really can't do anything at this point;) i head down to tarnis and level up my fishing by running up and down the cost looking for wreckage and swarms of stonescale eels (which on my server a stack sells for 15-18g.) I find that fishing is boring but a great way to whined down the night. After about a half hour of that i hearth and call it a night.
Gusher Jul 4th 2006 9:53PM
I play only at night from 8pm-6am PST because of my work schedual. from midnight to 6am its pretty quiet no BG's but there a still people on atleast enough to keep it interesting. This is why a few friends and i started a guild primarily for the sleepless and it doesnt help that we are all undead either :D