Rolling restarts incoming
by Adam Holisky 
Feb 17th 2009 at 11:40PM
There will be a series of rolling restarts Wednesday morning for all U.S. realms beginning at 5:00 a.m. PST / 8:00 a.m. EST and lasting a "minimal amount of time." That usually means about 15 minutes for each realm, and the restarts are usually completely over with by 7:00 a.m. PST / 10:00 a.m. EST.There is no information as to what the restarts fix, however things have been relatively stable tonight and there haven't been any abnormal number of complaints that WoW Insider has picked up on.
And since you'll obviously be up at five in the morning and will need something to do, why not check out our patch 3.1 coverage (hopefully the PTR will drop very very soon), or read up on dual specs? Good times ahead to be had by all.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
naseem jones Feb 17th 2009 11:49PM
as long as they keep them restarts rolling it sounds good to me!
SaveCache Feb 18th 2009 12:01AM
Possibly to get a solid backup of the databases before the PTR?
Guessing..
Malkia Feb 18th 2009 12:02AM
Garona has had some uhm interesting issues with lag. We've been getting 4-9 second lag spikes randomly. They last about 5 minutes and are the wrong time for wintergrasp lag.
Hoggersbud Feb 18th 2009 12:03AM
Probably some minor exploit, bad enough they don't want everybody doing it when they find out what it is, but not so bad they have to reset it during prime-time.
Brett Feb 18th 2009 12:17AM
Unless your Australian, which means its right in the middle of your raiding hours ;(
Hoggersbud Feb 18th 2009 9:56AM
Just looked at the message, Oceanic realms are getting a restart at 12 PM PST, which would seem to be just past prime raiding hours for those on the other side of the Pacific.
Dielantha Feb 18th 2009 12:17AM
Yeah there has been a lot of lag issues and disconnect issues in raid tonight. It's probably to fix that.
Cleverson Sutil Feb 18th 2009 7:06AM
I had problems with disconnect and lag yesterday night during Alterac Valley
Meethan Feb 18th 2009 12:14AM
If it is 3.1 test realm, I both support and deny it. I only deny it because of two things: I won't be able to do Ulduar in my gear and I feel it might be too soon.
The second point is nulled by the fact I think that Blizz went all out to bring us Patch 3.1 with exciting content in such a short time. But I digress really.
I will see you on the PTR if it's up. Gertiploiss
Rick Feb 18th 2009 12:21AM
Tonight in the military wing of Naxx there were red portals constantly spawning the unkillable ghosts. We all zoned out once, and that did not solve it. Not to mention there was a lot of lag in there tonight (Blade's Edge US)
mr.gerbz Feb 18th 2009 12:29AM
No unholy DK (probably the ones with glyphs) could summon their ghouls, unless there was a corpse nearby.
Got the error of that you need Corpse Dust, but you shouldn't when you have the glyph, of course. Not to mention, even when you did buy Corpse Dust, it didn't work, you'd get the same error.
Ah well, at least the GM gave me 2 free Corpse Dust (which is still 50s total tbfh).
Uncledave Feb 18th 2009 12:29AM
I had troubles tonight... my main is stuck in Dalaran... can't log on him... my twink is workin fine tho
Beatphreek Feb 18th 2009 12:29AM
Stonemaul has the same lag spikes... and my main has been stuck in OS for about an hour with 9 other guildies... No GM response yet. At least I know I'll be free tomorrow...
romiress Feb 18th 2009 12:31AM
I had the same thing - only mine fixed after about 15 minutes. But the corpse had despawned, still waiting on a GM response about that.
Superthrust Feb 18th 2009 12:36AM
if it is 3.1 and i can join it (my account ran out of time, and im a damn gaming news editor....go figure..), then hopefully i can get on and check out some changes...
I sadly havn't even been able to check out these new changes that are live...anyone wanna fill me in, in a short - TLDR kinda aspect on how the game is now??
Shionia Feb 18th 2009 12:37AM
lag here too.
Also, a number of priests I've talked to seem to have noticed severe mana regen issues as of today.
Coincidence?
Kaphik Feb 18th 2009 12:44AM
We had a Wintergrasp battle earlier today, the timer hit 00:00 just before the Alliance opened the keep. The game continued for about 10 seconds after that, when both Horde winning and Alliance winning messages popped up for everyone. We got credit for a win, but Alliance got control of the zone. I talked to a GM, this has been seen before. Not sure if that has anything to do with restarts, but I hope the restarts fix it.
Azao Feb 18th 2009 1:08AM
imo they're fixing personal arena rating exploit
Brian Broom Feb 18th 2009 1:25AM
"things have been relatively stable tonight and there haven't been any abnormal number of complaints"
This is unintended and will be corrected with the rolling restarts.
We apologize for the convenience.
;)
Taladan Feb 18th 2009 1:30AM
Don't know if it's related, but Northrend (Sholazar Basin) on Firetree was really laggy.