Posts with tag 3am-11am

Good Tuesday Morning everyone! We have a long maintenance ahead of us today, from 3AM to 11AM PDT. This downtime is in part to install new hardware on the Dunemaul realm in preparation for Wrath of the Lich King. Adam speculated a bit on what it may mean for the release date, but what it means in the short term is that those of us who play around now have to find something else to do.

Since we have somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 hours to wait until we can play WoW again, this is the perfect time to do a little bit of browsing on WoW Insider. Here's a recap of just some of the great content from the past week.

The World Wide Invitational was the big event of the weekend, of course, and there we had a team on the convention floor gathering all the news. You can check out our giant WWI roundup for all the liveblogs and reports on the class panel, the PvP panel, the dungeons and raids panel, and the Q&A panel, and event coverage. You'll also find extensive analysis of all the information broken down by class and subject. We also have a peek at the WWI goodie bag and videos from the Turpster! Check the roundup for all of it.

In addition, we posted even more Worldwide Invitational news and analysis on Monday:

• Take a peek at the WWI's playable Death Knight demo, complete with sneak peaks at all 3 talent trees.
• Get a look at the Oculus, one of the instances previewed at the dungeons and raids panel.
• Find out about how championing, coming in WoTLK, will make faction grinds easier. Factions will be more rewarding for tradeskillers too.
• Get a look at the new battleground coming our way in WoTLK.
• A German CM at the WWI may have let WoW's beta release date slip.
• Amanda Dean breaks down the results of the WWI's 3v3 Arena tournament.
• Despite some people's predictions, there was no Wrath cinematic at the WWI. When will it show up?
• The Blizzard Authenticator made its debut at the WWI, and is now for sale online.

While WWI did take up a lot of everyone's time and imagination this past week, there was other non-WWI news to be had... for example, the splash screen that appeared in the days before WWI!