It’s Race to World First day, and The War Within servers are back online after a longer-than-expected maintenance

After The War Within Season 1 started last week, I know players are all eager to jump online and check their Great Vault this morning to see what’s shown up. (Probably three pairs of bracers, knowing my luck.) However, we the wait is over: World of Warcraft: The War Within servers are now live! Maintenance was extended twice since the original announcement, but even this extended maintenance shouldn’t didn’t cut into the regular gaming hours for most players (sorry, Oceanic gamers).

It’s a long maintenance in a string of long maintenances, though they haven’t been stretching outside of their maintenance windows often, so they haven’t been too disruptive (except for those of us who like to sneak on to check our Vaults and do a couple of World Quests in the morning).

When the servers come back online, Mythic Nerub-ar Palace will open kicking off the latest Race to World First, and after having a chance to jump into the new raid it will be interesting to watch the best players in the world tackle these same fights. But if you aren’t interested in that level of play, Nerub-ar LFR Wing 2 and Story Mode also open today — so basically there’s something for everyone. Well, at least everyone who loves slaughtering spiders and occasionally (frequently) getting stuck in webs.

Cataclysm Classic also had a slightly long maintenance today in advance of its Phase 3 launch: its servers were down from 7am to 9am pacific, but came back online as scheduled Traditional WoW Classic has its usual downtime, from 7am – 8am pacific, and also came back online as scheduled.

With the servers back online, there’s not much need for distractions, but if you need a break (or something to do while you wait for raid night), might I suggest The Plucky Squire? But for now, I’m hopping online to check my Vault.