It’s another long Midnight maintenance for World of Warcraft (but other WoW versions got off easy)

This week’s maintenance is scheduled to last all day for Midnight realms as Blizzard rolls out WoW patch 12.0.1, which includes many class updates and additional UI improvements — primarily things we’ve already seen testing on the beta, just rolling to live a little before the Midnight launch. It’s a significant patch, and a significant maintenance has been scheduled to match.

But all other versions of World of Warcraft have a simple one-hour maintenance, and are already back online.

Here’s the WoW maintenance schedule for Tuesday, February 10:

• Midnight: Offline from 7am – 3pm pacific (10am – 6pm eastern)
• Mists of Pandaria Classic: Offline from 7am – 8am pacific (10am – 11am eastern)
• WoW Classic (including Classic Era, Season of Discovery, and Hardcore realms): Offline from 7am – 8am pacific (10am – 11am eastern)
• The Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary realms: Offline from 7am – 8am pacific (10am – 11am eastern)

All WoW Classic servers are back online, but Midnight servers remain offline.

While we wait for the servers to come back online, I highly recommend perusing the latest Midnight patch notes to see what will impact your gameplay. The scale of these changes is massive as Blizzard has continued class tuning and refining UI elements leading into Midnight. If you’d just gotten used to the class changes that came with patch 12.0, there are probably more changes for your class rolling out today.

After all, you have all day to read the patch notes, so you may as well catch up on the latest updates.

But for players of all other versions of WoW, maintenance was  just a brief nap away. All WoW Classic realms came back online in their scheduled hour, and are now available for play. So if you get tired waiting for the Midnight realms, you could always take a trip back in time and visit Classic for a while.

I’ll keep this post updated with the latest maintenance status, so stay tuned to find out when the servers come back online or whether maintenance has been extended. Hopefully I’ll see you in Azeroth soon, but it may be Blizzard soon(tm).