Downtime

It's that time again: Tuesday, when the WoW servers do their weekly reset and drop offline for a morning of maintenance.

Today's World of Warcraft maintenance is short, but you really never expect Thursday morning maintenance so it's possible this extra bit of downtime wreckedyour morning plans to get in a few Timewalking dungeons.

Diablo 4's first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, was due to launch today, October 7, at 4pm pacific alongside Season 6, but Adam Fletcher (otherwise known as PezRadar, Diablo's Global Director of Community) says the launch is delayed due to a "small technical issue." Frankly, it wouldn't be a Diablo 4 launch without some kind of technical problem, but we seem to be in for a fairly long downtime tonight.

While I think the overall launch of The War Within has gone well — the servers have been online when they were supposed to, zones, dungeons, and delves are accessible, quests are playable, and so on — there have been a few issues.

We're getting very close to the official launch day for The War Within expansion, with early access starting Thursday and the official launch next week.

The World of Warcraft servers went offline for another long Tuesday maintenance this morning, scheduled through 3pm pacific (6pm eastern) — but the servers came online about an hour early, around 2pm pacific.

WoW maintenance today is a bit longer than usual, but it shouldn't be as bad as last week's mega-maintenance, when servers were down most of the day for the rollout of patch 11.0.1.

It's time for World of Warcraft The War Within pre-patch.

Patch day for World of Warcraft always means change is on the horizon, but when patch 11.0.1 goes live later today it will include a massive change to the way our accounts work: Warbands.

It's an exciting moment in the history of World of Warcraft: the clock is ticking for Azeroth’s heroes to protect both future and past against the threat of the Infinites in Dragonflight patch 10.1.5, Fractures in Time, which launches today.