Maintenance

After The War Within Season 1 started last week, I know players are all eager to jump online and check their Great Vault this morning to see what's shown up.

Long maintenance is starting to become a staple for The War Within, and so it's no surprise that here at the start of Season 1, we have one more long maintenance day.

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.

Having a Monday WoW expansion launch means that maintenance day comes fast, and this morning's maintenance window is a little longer than usual: the World of Warcraft servers will be offline from 7am to 9am pacific.

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.

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

WoW Classic is here and that means that it'll probably need scheduled maintenance times.

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

We've got a week left of Legion but that doesn't mean there isn't time for more class tuning.

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