The WoW servers are offline with extended Tuesday maintenance for WoW, WoW Classic, and Cataclysm Classic

It’s that time again: Tuesday, when the WoW servers do their weekly reset and drop offline for a morning of maintenance. Today’s maintenance isn’t too bad, but is a little longer than usual with The War Within and Cataclysm Classic both down for two hours, and WoW Classic down for four hours: the WoW servers are currently offline for maintenance.

Here’s what to expect from this week’s downtime:

• The War Within offline from 7am – 9am pacific
• Cataclysm Classic offline from 7am – 9am pacific
• WoW Classic offline from 7am – 11am pacific

After a rocky launch (in terms of extended maintenance), The War Within’s weekly maintenance has slowed down lately, often fitting neatly into the standard one hour window. This is the first Tuesday in a while that’s had extended maintenance — though we should expect another extended maintenance next week, when patch 11.0.7 drops.

WoW Classic’s extended maintenance is a bit out of the blue, though it may have something to do with the launch of the popular Anniversary realms. Phase 1 kicks off on these new realms this Thursday, and it’s possible that a little extra maintenance is required to keep the servers running smoothly if Blizzard expects a rush of people hitting the servers this week.

But even though these maintenances are a little longer than usual, we don’t expect them to drag on beyond their assigned windows — though Blizzard could always prove me wrong. I’ll update this post with the latest on maintenance, and let you know when the WoW servers are back online.