Drysc
reports that a number of realms are under investigation for performance issues and will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance at 5:00 AM
PDT on Wednesday, March 12 with a foreseeable downtime of 1 hour (
update: Zorayn notes that downtime will be extended to 2 hours as opposed to one). As Drysc edits the thread, realms are added (or removed) regularly. From a quick perusal of the realms, it seems as though it is the Nightfall
Battlegroup that is affected. Blizzard currently lists the affected realms as follows:
Aerie Peak
Altar of Storms
Alterac Mountains
Anvilmar
Arygos
Blackwing Lair
Deathwing
Demon Soul
Doomhammer
Gnomeregan
Icecrown
Jaedenar
Kel'Thuzad
Lethon
Onyxia
Sentinels
Tanaris
The Venture Co
Uldaman
Undermine
Drysc further notes that other Battlegroups are under close observation and will be taken down for maintenance should any issues arise that might require it.
Tags: aerie-peak, altar-of-storms, alterac-mountains, anvilmar, arygos, blackwing-lair, deathwing, demon-soul, doomhammer, drysc, gnomeregan, icecrown, jaedenar, kel-thuzad, lethon, maintenance, news, onyxia, performance-issues, realms, sentinels, tanaris, the-venture-co, uldaman, undermine
Filed under: Realm News, Realm Status, Blizzard, Forums
Mar 12th 2008 at 1:00AM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Louis C. Mar 12th 2008 1:18AM
Man, Uldaman's always under maintenance. I remember when I used to play on that server, it was always down. It still regularly goes under maintenance.
wtf, mate?
Ichigo Mar 12th 2008 4:45AM
Not sure if its a coincidence or not, but paid character transfers are also down at this time. All that Blue could tell me is that they had no eta as of this posting.
SimpleSurvival Mar 12th 2008 7:35AM
don't panick... this is the nightfall battlegroup, if you have a short memory, the shadowburn group had a bit of extended maintenance last week. They are avoiding doing extended work on all the servers at once and causing huge downtime by doing a battlegroup a week
Reading too deep into it would be a bit silly
faradhim Mar 12th 2008 7:59AM
They also need to take down Earthen Ring. I has been going crazy since about 8PM EST last night.
Walter Ritzel Mar 14th 2008 10:16PM
Please investigate Elune as well!!!! The server lag is horrorful!!!!
kunukia Mar 12th 2008 9:04AM
Silver Hand has been having issues also...
Ahoni Mar 12th 2008 9:27AM
Rexxar on the Vengeance Battlegroup was having issues last night as well.
Kaeb Mar 12th 2008 9:30AM
Llane (US PvE) was lagging about 2 to 3 minutes with every loot last night. It was horrible.
Gimmlette Mar 12th 2008 2:01PM
Absolutely terrible last night. You couldn't loot. You couldn't turn in quests. You stood by helplessly as your toon died spectacularly at the hands of 3 air elementals. (Happened to someone else, I swear. .>) Guildies got transported to odd locations, one of them winding up, he says, just outside of Dalaran before poofing and making it to Southshore, his original destination. Several guildies got stuck in trees or rocks with the "Unstuck" option seemingly disabled. Chat worked fine, however, so you didn't miss any Chuck Norris or Murloc at the Movies jokes.
h8rain Mar 12th 2008 10:07AM
Kael'thas was having some seriously issues. I was trying to farm leather, and finally just gave up and watched tv. The looting was bugged, mailboxes, AH, etc.
Milktub Mar 12th 2008 10:35AM
Wish they'd do some maintenance on Alexstrasza; after doing a group of trash in Mech everyone started lagging. I wasn't able to loot (just remained in the crouch), the rogue was dead, yet still moving around, and to my eyes the healer was at 5% hp and mana. I couldn't zone out of Mech. When I forced WoW to quit and tried logging back in, I was told my character was already in the world.
Spent more time dealing with lag than we spent doing the instance.
SimpleSurvival Mar 12th 2008 10:36AM
gotta be patient, it looks like they are doing this one battlegroup at a time to limit the inconvenience and qq over downtime
Hank Mar 12th 2008 11:08AM
On Runetotem last night, it was odd. Die, and able to rez immediately. A few minutes later, beamed to the gy, alive. Or, run to corpse from gy, and just before you get ther, beamed back to gy.
Alastren Mar 12th 2008 11:25AM
I think the whole Ruin battlegroup was experiencing similar issues.
John Allison Mar 12th 2008 3:07PM
I'm surprised not to see Tichondrius on the list. World server crashed once last night and was still buggy after the reset. I wonder if there was an extra script run on Tuesday.