Between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. PDT today (Sunday July 27th) all U.S. realms will be undergoing a rolling restart. Each realm should be down for about 15 minutes, though these things have a tendency to last longer than scheduled.
A friendly reminder that there will be a number of rolling restarts for U.S. realms this morning starting at 5:00 a.m. PDT, and lasting until 6:00 a.m. PDT. Several realms will be offline for approximately 15 minutes (if everything goes okay). This is a welcomed event as some servers have noticed stability issues in the past couple of days. 
The announcement on the login screen tonight tells us that the realms will be down for extended maintenance on Tuesday May 6th, from 3:00 a.m. PDT until 11:00 a.m. PDT. It's curious how extended maintenance used to last from five until eleven, but now lasts an extra two hours – from three until eleven.
It's Tuesday, and you know what that means: weekly maintenance! This week most realms are getting rolling restarts instead of a full maintenance -- which means the vast majority of US players won't notice a thing. (Sorry, Australian players, as the restarts still fall dead in your prime evening hours.) For rolling restarts, Blizzard brings down all of the realm servers for a quick reboot (no longer than 15 minutes of downtime) one by one. (The restarts no doubt follow some kind of pattern which we are not privy to.) The restarts will begin at 5:00 AM PST, and though your realm may not be restarted exactly at five, the whole thing should be over by six or so. A handful of US realms will have a brief maintenance: an hour of downtime between 5:00 AM PST and 6:00 AM PST. Sounds like a good time for an powernap for players on: Area 52, Auchindoun, Azuremyst, Blade's Edge, Blood Furnace, Coilfang, Exodar, Ghostlands, Shattered Halls, Terokkar, The Scryers, The Underbog, Velen, and Zangarmarsh.
Happy Tuesday, everyone! This week's regular maintenance cycle for US realms will be performed via rolling restarts of all realms, starting at 5:00 AM PDT today. What this means, of course, is that we shouldn't expect more than 15 minutes of downtime while the realms are restarted -- though we can't say precisely when the restarts will occur for each realm. (Blizzard will be working their way down the realm list, so your realm could come up right at five o'clock or could be left for last.)
US realms will be seeing rolling restarts beginning at 5:00 AM PST today to apply a small fix to introduce a necessary reagent to vendors across the world. Drysc isn't specific about what he might be referring to, but I can only assume he's talking about Wild Quillvine, a reagent required for a druid to cast Gift of the Wild rank 3 (the group buff version of Mark of the Wild). Complaints about the lack of the reagent go all the way back to beta, so it's good to see them finally getting some notice. To those of you hoping for Drysc might be talking about the missing Khorium veins, his wording seems pretty specific to a vendor reagent. The restart process shouldn't last more than 15 minutes -- perfect time for a breakfast break!
Well, they may have already happened on your realm, but starting at 4:38PM PDT rolling restarts began across all US realms. The restarts were apparently necessary to hotfix an issue with enchantments and items vanishing from players' inventories that was mentioned earlier. There's still no details on exactly what the issue with enchantments was, but it would have been serious to merit prime-time restarts...
All realms will be going offline starting at 4:00 AM PDT Friday morning (that's seven hours from the time of this post). They should all be back online by 5:00 AM PDT, with an expected downtime of about 30 minutes per realm. There's no real information on why the restarts are necessary - Drysc only says they're being done to address a server-side software issue. (Perhaps this is connected to last night's database maintenance - though that was only on a few realms, rather than all realms.) So if you usually play during that time, you'll need to find other distractions.
All US realms will be restarted starting at 5:00 AM PDT Wednesday morning. The servers should only be offline for about 15 minutes, but you should be prepared for a bit of downtime if you play at that that time of day. The restarts are required in order to fix what CM Eyonix refers to as a "minor technical issue," though I can't find any further information on what the trouble may be. I haven't personally seen any problems in playing since today's patch deployment, but perhaps others have. If anyone has the scoop on what's requiring these restarts, do share in the comments!
On Thursday morning at 4:00 AM PDT, there will be rolling restarts across the US realms to apply a "small server-side fix" for an unspecified problem. (If anyone notices any specific performance differences after the realms come back up, I'd be curious to hear it, however!) If all goes as planned, each realm should only be offline for 15 minutes. While this shouldn't have much impact on players in the US, it seems to hit prime Australian playing time. Fortunately the scheduled downtime should be brief, and you can get back to your normal playing quickly. Not all, but most US realms will be
hit by rolling
restarts Wednesday morning starting at 5:00 AM PDT. There's no listed reason for these restarts, but be
prepared for a brief downtime if you're going to be playing in the early hours of the morning. Unaffected realms
- which I believe are all running on new hardware - include Andorhal, Anetheron, Archimonde, Black Dragonflight,
Dalaran, Dalvengyr, Deathwing, Dentarg, Doomhammer, Duskwood, Executus, Haomarush, Icecrown, Kel'Thuzad, Khadgar,
Mal'Ganis, Norgannon, Scilla, Steamwheedle Cartel, Thrall, Turalyon, Ysera, Ysondre, and Zuluhed.
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| WSG weekend | 10/3 - 10/6 |
| Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza | SUN 2p - 4p |
| Darkmoon Faire (Mulgore) | 10/6 - 10/12 |
| BlizzCon 2008 in Anaheim, CA | 10/10 - 10/11 |
| Patch 3.0.2 | 10/14?? |
| Hallow's End | 10/18 - 11/1 |
| Wrath release | 11/13 |
wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta ghostcrawler wrath-of-the-lich-king Paladin wrath wrath-beta wotlk tweet-this raiding mage hunter arena beta pets wotlk-beta humor joystiqfeatures tanking blizzard Leveling gallery glyphs screenshots blizzcon screenshot
| # | Blogger | Posts | Cmts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Schramm | 96 | 21 |
| 2 | Alex Ziebart | 65 | 42 |
| 3 | Zach Yonzon | 50 | 0 |
| 4 | Elizabeth Wachowski | 36 | 2 |
| 5 | Adam Holisky | 27 | 16 |
| 6 | Daniel Whitcomb | 26 | 7 |
| 7 | Allison Robert | 25 | 44 |
| 8 | Eliah Hecht | 24 | 4 |
| 9 | Natalie Mootz | 22 | 9 |
| 10 | Matthew Rossi | 20 | 44 |
| 11 | Amanda Miller | 19 | 3 |
| 12 | Moo Money | 15 | 7 |
| 13 | Michael Gray | 12 | 0 |
| 14 | David Bowers | 11 | 40 |
| 15 | Amanda Dean | 8 | 0 |
| 16 | Daniel Howell | 8 | 0 |
| 17 | Christian Belt | 7 | 0 |
| 18 | Elizabeth Harper | 7 | 4 |
| 19 | Lisa Poisso | 6 | 6 |
| 20 | Scott Andrews | 5 | 0 |
More game info on GameDaily: GameDaily Biz, Fast & Free Game Downloads, Video Game Trailers, Video Game Cheats, Video Game Reviews, Video Game Screenshots,
All contents copyright © 2003-2008, Weblogs, Inc. All rights reserved
WOW Insider is a member of the Weblogs, Inc. Network. Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Notify AOL
AOL Games
Other Weblogs Inc. Network blogs you might be interested in:
Subscribe
