WoW

I feel like I'm pushing my luck by announcing short maintenance for three weeks in a row — particularly since Mists of Pandaria Classic just launched last night, and was having some server stability issues.

In the past few months we have seen a steady stream of updates on the imminent launch of Player Housing in World of Warcraft, with the latest answering many of the most commonly asked questions about Neighborhoods.

The Collectors' Bounty event is still going strong and it seems like out of all the recent events it's the most popular.

The Herald of Sa'bak mount and Sa'bak's Favored battle pet are new 6 month subscription incentive rewards coming to specifically Retail WoW and WoW Classic Progression, respectively.

While Player Housing early access is now in full swing, we won't be able to experience the month-long collaborative block party of Endeavors until Midnight launches next year.

Now that we are starting to get major details about the grand finale of The War Within, the time is ripe to begin speculating on who will serve as the main antagonists for the next expansion, Midnight, as well as the finale of the three-part Worldsoul Saga, The Last Titan.

The War Within patch 11.2.7 sees the return of the Turbulent Timeways, and for the next ten weeks we'll have an active Timewalking event, encouraging us to revisit old dungeons and factions -- including the debut of Shadowlands Timewalking.

The Winds of Mysterious Fortune buff is back in WoW, giving you a leveling boost leading into patch 11.2.

Blizzard dropped a little bit of a bombshell of a last-minute patch 11.2 feature: personal banks will be getting a Warband Bank-style makeover, while Void Storage (which we once nominated as one of the strangest holdovers from Cataclysm) and the more recent Reagent Bank will be going away -- and rolled into the bank.

I'm trying not to curse today's maintenance, but I have to call it like I see it: an hour-long Tuesday maintenance for all WoW servers is a quick maintenance.