Are the WoW servers up yet? Yes!

Welcome, WoW players, to patch day! The World of Warcraft servers are due to be down for a full 10 hours, from 5AM to 3PM PT (or 7AM to 5PM in Blizzard Watch time). Blizzard has been giving themselves generous time frames for maintenance lately, so we may well see the servers come online early, but be ready for the realms to be offline most of the day, just in case.

Update: And the servers are coming back online early, as we suspected. While there’s a pretty sizable login queue, you can currently side-step it by skipping the launcher login and going in to the game directly. But if that’s not the case by time you read this, well, grab some coffee and enjoy reading up on 7.2.5 while you wait:

• Official 7.2.5 patch notes
• Our roundup of everything you need to know about patch 7.2.5
• Blizzard’s patch 7.2.5 survival guide, covering the patch highlights
• Wowhead’s patch 7.2.5 survival guide