{"id":189489,"date":"2024-08-27T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=189489"},"modified":"2024-08-27T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:50:42","slug":"day-war-withins-launch-also-maintenance-day-slightly-extended-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/08\/27\/day-war-withins-launch-also-maintenance-day-slightly-extended-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the day after The War Within&#8217;s launch, but it&#8217;s also maintenance day \u2014 servers now live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/08\/26\/wow-war-within\/\"><em>WoW<\/em> expansion launch<\/a>\u00a0means that maintenance day comes fast, and this morning&#8217;s maintenance window is a little longer than usual: the <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> servers will be offline from 7am to 9am pacific. The servers are now back online and we haven&#8217;t seen any noticeable problems now that the game is running again.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday morning maintenance is typically just an hour long, so this maintenance is slightly longer than average, with no details on what may be changing (if anything). Though, after a busy weekend in early access and a crowded \u2014 but mostly stable \u2014 launch day, it&#8217;s likely Blizzard has identified a few extra issues to take care during the regular maintenance cycle. We&#8217;ve already had <a href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/wow\/t\/the-war-within-hotfixes-august-26\/1930982\">some hotfixes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/wow\/t\/dragonflight-tier-set-adjustments-incoming\/1931115\">changes to <em>Dragonflight<\/em> set bonuses<\/a> since launch, but today&#8217;s maintenance didn&#8217;t roll out any new changes (that we&#8217;ve found) other than kicking off the new weekly quests.<\/p>\n<p><em>WoW Classic<\/em> got the same maintenance treatment this morning, offline from 7am to 9am, while <em>Cataclysm Classic<\/em> has the typically quick 7am to 8am maintenance schedule.<\/p>\n<p>All servers came back online as scheduled, and we&#8217;re off to the (virtual) races once more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a Monday WoW expansion launch\u00a0means that maintenance day comes fast, and this morning&#8217;s maintenance window is a little longer than usual: the World of Warcraft servers will be offline from 7am to 9am pacific. The servers are now back online and we haven&#8217;t seen any noticeable problems now that the game is running again&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78456,3],"tags":[1021,45502],"yst_prominent_words":[10674,8509,8297,11823,28327,13272,8583,9719,17410],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189512,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189489\/revisions\/189512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189489"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=189489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}