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World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past
1up has the news that Tuesday maintenance will no longer be the way of the future for World of Warcraft. This is a big change from the weekly several-hour downtime that the company has used for the past two years. From the official post: "In the upcoming weeks, we will be testing the effect of a live maintenance, where regular maintenance tasks are run during off-peak with realms live. On Tuesday, December 26 there will be no scheduled downtime for weekly maintenance. We will perform all necessary maintenance tasks while the realms are live. We are anticipating the possibility that we may need to perform rolling restarts off-peak if we find that a realm restart is necessary; however the downtime for each realm would be less than 10 minutes if it was required." Is this really that big a deal? I know that the timeframe had to be inconvenient for EU players on the U.S. servers, but was a couple of hours of downtime early in a workday really such a burden?
You idiot. They will do off times. AKA, early in the morning when most US guilds are not running. They also, with the exception of patches will not have to reboot, hence LIVE FUCKING maintenance.
Oh, and every time you kill a boss in any of the raids, it stays for 3 to 5 days depending on the raid. You get stuck with a certain instance, that way guilds can't farm the bosses as much.
OH FUCK we have to re kill trash for 20 minutes. THE FUCKING WORLD JUST ENDED. If your guild is upset about redoing some trash, you have more to worry about than a server reset. You are still learning the instance,and there is no way you are 95% done. Jesus, have you ever actually done a raid?
You mad
Hahaha. Bullshit. If you take 6 hours to do any 5 man you are a shitty group and have no chance to finish in the first place. Most sholo runs take 3 hours tops. BRD is almost never done in full. If you get no warning that was a crash dumb ass. I have usuualy seen 30 minute warnings on planned resets.
You mad