Downtime

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.

It's patch day in WoW! Patch 9.0.2 goes live today, which is the last patch we'll see before Shadowlands launches on Monday.

Update: The servers are back up early, so you can jump in and get playing right now if that's your thing.

Update: Yes, the servers are up.

The WoW team has gotten so good at maintenance that the servers have been up early almost every recent maintenance period.

Welcome, WoW players, to patch day!