Downtime

It's Friday, and the World of Warcraft servers had some surprise maintenance this morning.

This week's maintenance schedule for World of Warcraft is once again refreshingly light: all WoW servers will be down for just an hou this morning.

Tuesday always means maintenance day for World of Warcraft fans, but today is a big one because The War Within patch 11.1 is rolling out.

This week's WoW maintenance should be short and sweet: the WoW servers are scheduled to be offline from 7am - 8am pacific time.

Just because it's a holiday for most of us doesn't mean that World of Warcraft's weekly maintenance is canceled — though it is a short one this week, with all iterations of WoW going offline for just an hour.

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.