Keep your fingers crossed, rolling restarts on the way
by Zach Yonzon 
Jan 21st 2009 at 8:30AM
All realms are undergoing a series of rolling restarts, with each realm going down for approximately 15 minutes. The entire process should conceivably last no more than an hour. I suppose we all saw this coming considering the stability issues realms have been experiencing since Patch 3.0.8 dropped yesterday. Most realms continually crashed because of a bug in Wintergrasp but have since stabilized at the cost of disabling the battle for the zone.Hopefully these restarts fix most of the issues that came with the latest patch -- I kind of want to actually win Wintergrasp without taking down the entire server. A series of restarts fixed the Death Knight bug yesterday, so we hope to see Azeroth return to normal after this.
Filed under: Patches, Bugs, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dracknol Jan 21st 2009 8:35AM
That's some great news to hear. i was tired of my server crashing every 10 minutes.
doofman Jan 21st 2009 8:40AM
Battle for Wintergrasp is disabled for the moment.
Tica Jan 21st 2009 8:37AM
Same.. i hope fix these bugs
Riz Jan 21st 2009 8:37AM
I had fun in Wintergrasp while it lasted =)
Matchu Jan 21st 2009 8:52AM
On my server (Stormrage EU), Alliance has been left with control of WG (and so VoA) for the past few hours.
Kemikalkadet Jan 21st 2009 10:13AM
Bladefist EU is stuck in Alliance control too.
Freebird Jan 21st 2009 8:56AM
I am still having the DK issue and Wintergrasp is still bugged after the rolling restart on my realm
paul Jan 21st 2009 9:05AM
We still have the DK issue on EU servers although it seems to only be on servers that are under 3 months old that you cant create a DK on
Calaana Jan 21st 2009 9:29AM
Think you'll find paul, that all new servers have it disabled so you don't have a population of dk and nothing else. Forced class distribution, if you will.
paul Jan 21st 2009 12:15PM
Does it say anywhere that thats what they intended to do?? If so I missed it
peagle Jan 21st 2009 9:12AM
The disconnects in heroic Naxx were almost hilarious yesterday. Almost. Every trash pull d/c'd about half the raid. Every boss, the same. Spin the roulette wheel and hope at least one of your tanks stays online.
Thaliana Jan 21st 2009 9:15AM
LOL. I love early morning server restarts. Higher Learning Achievement, here I come...
Axolotl Jan 21st 2009 9:18AM
Sooooo, in EU we can make DKs on overcrowded OLD servers, but not on shiny fresh ones :-/ Oh well, I'm gonna try an Alliance character now, so why not one that starts at 55 and that has all flightpaths available in the old world.
It'll expand my knowledge of the enemy even further (you know, places to go when at level 80 to be nice to ... I mean hunt down, ruthlessly decimate, maim or desintegrate lowbies ... Alliance on PVP servers)
Laresloci Jan 21st 2009 9:39AM
Hahaha...that's what I did. Boy the DK start seen was crowded. Yeah more Death Knights!
dreadpiraterose Jan 21st 2009 9:33AM
Even thought they had to disable Wintergrasp, I'm glad they figured out what was causing and did something about it. I was at least able to get a little game play in last night. I had almost given up. :P
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Scott Jan 21st 2009 9:53AM
Maybe this will fix the Glyhp's bug too!
Cyrus Jan 21st 2009 10:20AM
I'm generally more likely to mock the QQers than to QQ myself, but things are getting ridiculous.
Queues to log on? Traffic varies at different times of day. Server capacity that's more than enough, wasteful, at noon is insufficient at 6 p.m. Meh, it happens.
Massive lag in raid instances? Annoying and I hope they do something about it, but let's keep it in perspective. Naxxramas is the only multi-boss dungeon in Northrend right now, so it would get a little crowded on Tuesday and Sunday evenings. And speaking for myself at least, the lag hasn't actually been game-breaking. I've only seen one or two wipes due to lag over the past several weeks while on guild runs. A feral druid wears tanking gear while DPSing just in case the MT gets disconnected, hybrid classes pop potions and throw out a few heals if a healer gets disconnected, and life goes on, for most of the raid.
The Northrend server crashing every 10-20 minutes? It sucks and shouldn't have happened, and I wish they had disabled Wintergrasp quicker and would actually fix it ASAP so we can go back there. But... it's not like this is the first patch with some glitches.
But if the first two problems have been going on for weeks with no sign of change, the third one is really the final insult. Realistically I'm not going to completely quit over lag and the Wintergrasp crashes, but can anyone suggest a different MMORPG to get addicted to?
lucifer.cross Jan 21st 2009 12:06PM
EVE Online? Haha.
makkura Jan 21st 2009 1:17PM
Here's an interesting bug I've noticed.
My deathknight's glyph of death strike still reads (and seems to act) as it previously did before the patch.
I've seen the new glyphs on AH and they read properly and mine does not.
So DKs, if you've got a DS glyph equipped, don't switch it out quite yet!
I am assuming blizzard will fix in pretty shortly, though.
mikkel Jan 22nd 2009 10:58AM
now i installed the patch and there has gona a day and i still cant come in my server is online and i tjekket my firewall and it deosnt block any thing so WTF can be wrong