One last maintenance before The War Within Season 1 — servers now live!

Long maintenance is starting to become a staple for The War Within, and so it’s no surprise that here at the start of Season 1, we have one more long maintenance day. The World of Warcraft: The War Within servers will be offline from 7am – 11am pacific today. 

Fortunately servers came up right on time, and we can all jump into Nerub-ar Palace (Normal, Heroic, and LFR Wing 1), higher level Delves (Tier 4+), and Mythic dungeons (only Mythic zero this week), all of which launch today.

Like most recent maintenance, whether in the usual Tuesday timeslot or popping up at unusual times (Thursday maintenance, anybody?), we don’t know what Blizzard is working on in these extra hours of maintenance. But the choices are endless, since we’ve seen a number of post-launch issues in the Auction House, banks (and guild banks and Warbanks), and more. My guild is still getting random guild achievement popups whenever players log on, which is… well, it’s fine, but also we got these achievements a decade ago, and it’s time to move on.

Most of these lingering issues aren’t game-breaking, but still, I can see why the game might need a few extra hours of maintenance lately.

Retail WoW servers are online now with the first round of Season 1 content – though I’m still playing Pineappl’ar Palace to get ready for raid night.