Surprise! It’s WoW maintenance Thursday — the servers are currently offline

Today’s Wold of Warcraft maintenance is short, but you really never expect Thursday morning maintenance so it’s possible this extra bit of downtime may wreck your morning plans to get in a few Timewalking dungeons. The WoW servers are scheduled to be offline from 7am to 8am pacific, which translates to 10am to 11am eastern.

There’s no word on what today’s maintenance is for, but The War Within has been plagued with bugs that have been disrupting day-to-day play recently, and any of them might be the culprit for today’s extra downtime. We had slightly extended maintenance on Tuesday, as well as a round of maintenance for Blizzard services, but some issues persist. (For example, transferring currency between your Warband still causes a lag spike in Nerub-ar Palace as your entire guild disconnects and reconnects to guild services.) Right now we’re just waiting to see if there’s anything changed when the servers pop back online later this morning.

I’ll keep you up to date here if maintenance is extended or anything else happens — but for now, the WoW servers are offline.