Tuesday morning maintenance
by Adam Holisky 
Apr 22nd 2008 at 7:00AM
Sometimes I feel like Blizzard chooses a handful of random servers to Ice Block every few days – not letting players on, and giving a (hopefully) short window when the servers will be offline.If you're on the unlucky servers of Agamaggan, Azshara, Baelgun, Dark Iron, Detheroc, Emerald Dream, Greymane, Kalecgos, Lightninghoof, Maelstrom, Malfurion, Moonrunner, Nazjatar, Sargeras, Staghelm, Twisting Nether, Ursin, WildHammer, or either of the Tournamenet Servers, you're going to have at least two hours of downtime from 5:00 a.m. PDT until 7:00 a.m. PDT. Blizzard will also be doing rolling restarts across all realms this morning.
For those of you waiting to get your morning fix of WoW, fear not. There are several pieces of news and entertaining reads to catch up on.
New WotLK alpha screenshots – Did you know that WotLK is in alpha, and the first batch of new screenshots has been leaked? We've got them confirmed from an inside source and mirrored here for your enjoyment.
As a tank, I hate to pug. Our Warrior columnist Matthew Rossi agrees with me. Check out his enlightening piece for One reason tanks won't pug. And I hope the subject of his piece, Primula, enjoys his or her new found fame as one lowly ninja-looter.
Do you have a life outside of WoW? Not that I do, but if I did I would be a casual player and appreciate Robin Torres' advice from WoW, Casually: Finding groups fast. Just remember that they don't always have to be random pug groups.
Two pieces of Season 4 gear have been accidently enabled by a GM on the live realms. You can check out the new stats and have look at them. They remind me a bit of the Ori from Stargate, so I have to ask: Hallowed are the Ori, anyone? Hopefully the bosses at Blizzard are a bit more understand than the Ori and will let the GM that made this mistake keep his job.
And finally you can check out my new favorite column of the week, [1. Local] by Lisa Poisso. Lisa takes a look at all the comments posted on WoW Insider and rounds up the best of them for us to marvel over. I know that I've sent her a few lately.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
Filed under: Realm News, Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eternalpayn Apr 22nd 2008 7:26AM
Shadowburn is getting extended maintenance, again. We are the largest battlegroup, I believe, and we have been experiencing a lot of battleground lag and long queue times lately. My guess is that they are probably giving us a few more battleground servers to help out a bit. Random fact: Did you know that although people consider Bloodlust to be BG9, it is actually BG5 in terms of blizzard numbering? Shadowburn is truly BG9.
Marlamin Apr 22nd 2008 7:57AM
Hallowed are the Ori. :
Lundraxx Apr 22nd 2008 8:47AM
"If you're on the unlucky servers of ... Greymane..., you're going to have at least two hours of downtime from 5:00 a.m. PDT until 7:00 a.m. PDT."
Actually, after last night's lag spikes, i feel like we are lucky for getting maintenance. WTB new gerbils for the server wheel.
Ophelos Apr 22nd 2008 9:05AM
The server i play on isn't even in the list, an i keep getting stuck on Authenticating.. :P
aratan Apr 22nd 2008 9:10AM
Malfurion definitely has some issues - frequent lag spikes, and abominable BG times. Lag times are now 'traditional' when opening mail and/or looting.
Plus, the new daily in Terrokar (Ravager gland/ravager pet/ravager roots) was bugged like crazy when we unlocked the next Sunwell phase on Sunday.
Aratan
Yeng Apr 22nd 2008 10:07AM
From what I hear, those ravagers are bugged on all servers, not just our beloved Malfurion.
TheCarnifex Apr 22nd 2008 12:11PM
Queuing up from Malfurion into battlegrounds was pretty horrendous last night. It was taking between 4-5 from clicking enter to actually seeing the BG load screen. They really need to do something about it, no more band-aids and bubble gum.