Happy Tuesday, everyone. Today's Maintenance will actually be pretty painless for most of us. The servers will go down at 5am PDT, about half an hour from now, and should be up by 5:30, according to Bornakk. Aussie servers won't be going down until 5 AM AEST. However, there are a few servers that are getting some extra downtime. They will be going down until approximately 6:30 AM PDT. You can find can a list of the affected servers on the downtime post.

Even if most of us will be cruising past maintenance with minimal downtime, Tuesday morning's as good a time as any to get caught up on WoW news. The biggest news, of course, is that Season 4 is on the way, coming to us on June 24th. Read all about it here, then find out everything you need to know to get started with Season 4 at WoW Insider, starting with these articles:

• If you're still grinding honor for a Season 1 gear set, you better work fast -- or get a tier 4 raiding group.
• If you're unsure of how to start planning for Season 4, let Zach help you out.
• Don't PvP? You might want to take an interest in Season 4 anyway. It may turn out to be rather lucrative for you.
• Will the new gear ratings put the kibosh on point selling? Zach doesn't think so.
• Watch for more Season 4 news and analysis to come as the start date gets closer!

Good Tuesday morning, everyone. As we mentioned earlier, it's a regular maintenance day today. That means at least a good six hours of no WoW, from 5am PDT to 11am PDT. Between that, and those two little dirty things known as school and work, a lot of us aren't going to be able to play WoW for a bit. Luckily, we can still read about the game, right here on WoW Insider. Allow me to guide you through some of the best content of the past week.

As always, we're striving to bring you the best Wrath of the Lich King news and analysis on the web. Here's some of the hottest articles related to the upcoming expansion this week:

• What's that Kalgan? You're doing away with pure spell damage gear?
• Like DoTA? Then you may find a lot to love about WoW's next planned Battleground.
• Everyone's been asking for penguin pets for WotLK. It looks like Blizzard may be delivering.
• You've been rocking the achievements on your XBox 360, I'm sure, but now you might be able to do the same thing in WotLK.
• In the latest Hybrid Theory, Alex tells you why, as a Shadow Priest, he's being cautiously optimistic about WotLK.
• Zach talks about a refreshing change in the way we renew our DoTs.
• The Blizzcast delivered with more news and interviews with the developers about WoTLK. You can read our breakdown of it all here.
• In more minor but still awesome news department, you might want to rock your desktop with some new WoTLK wallpaper.
• Learn about one of the new enemy races, the Magnataur.
• It's not much, but it is something. Class Designer Koraa very cryptically hints that great things should be coming for Shamans.
• But seriously, how excited are you about this expansion?
• And how will badges work in WoTLK again?

Of course, even as we look forward to the expansion, we're still keeping an eye on what's current. For more news and analysis from around the World of Warcraft, check out these articles:

Good Morning Azeroth! It's Tuesday, May 13, 2008, and that means maintenance. As we mentioned earlier, it's an extended maintenance, from 3 AM to 11 AM PST (That means you have about a half an hour of play time left), and it's looking rather likely that 2.4.2's going to drop. Exciting news, but that still means that you'll have at least 8 hours in which it is impossible to play World of Warcraft.

Of course, this means the perfect thing to do is browse WoW Insider. Since 2.4.2's probably on it's way, why not browse all our 2.4.2 news?

• The original patch notes are posted here.
• We break down the Undocumented changes here -- including pictures of the new mounts added to the game files.
• You can find the latest test realm page notes here. MMO-Champion points out two new changes: Prince Kael'thas will now drop Primal Nethers in Heroic Magisters Terrace, and the Darkmoon Card: Madness' buffs will now last 60 seconds.
• Check out our reports on all the Hunter class changes, Including Growl and Scare Beast, the math problems and controversy surrounding the Growl change among the Hunter community, and getting your own flight-formed Druid pet.
• Good News for Weaponsmiths, with the epic one-handers becoming non-unique.

But enough about 2.4.2, what about the big news? First, of course, is the fact that Blizzcon 08 was announced. Check out the details and look back on some old Blizzcon 07 memories in our announcement post.

You may also recall all the Wrath of the Lich King news that dropped this week. Of course, you know we have it all for you on WoW Insider. Check it out after the break.