BG forums lounge (Part 1)

[Holycow-uldaman]

@Tsataga-zuljin

At least this is an authentic classic expansion launch experience.

I wonder if they have to reload everything from scratch each time they find/fix a game-breaking bug.

Poor server engineers.

Cdew is not happy. I’m not sure what he was attempting to do.

https://twitter.com/cdew_wow/status/1394798299408908297?s=20

[Jadei-grobbulus]

@Holycow-uldaman

https://twitter.com/cdew_wow/status/1394798299408908297?s=20

I feel his pain. I had marks stored in my mailbox to jumpstart my gear too. They expire after 24 hours which will be AFTER servers are back up.

[Holycow-uldaman]

@Jadei-grobbulus

I had marks stored in my mailbox to jumpstart my gear too.

Why did the marks have to be stored in a mailbox?

[Jadei-grobbulus]

Can only have 20 in inventory for classic. That goes to 100 in TBC. If I had 20 marks in my bag, it mailed me my marks.

[Holycow-uldaman]

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/very-extended-maintenance/968539

@Kaivax

No one on the WoW team that I’ve talked to this afternoon can remember a maintenance that took this long. It looks like that’s because we’ve never done anything like this in World of Warcraft, where we’re basically turning one game into two games and we need every player-character in both games to be perfectly playable as they all were just before maintenance started.

Please know this: there’s a good reason for how long it’s taking, and our live operations team are making solid progress toward a resolution.

There are jobs that copy data and jobs that check the integrity of data and there’s an immense amount of data to process before we even begin the steps that we take to check everything manually. It’s not possible for us to lose anything, but it is possible for us to have an issue that requires a step to be repeated. In today’s case, the step we had to start over was a big one. While performing data integrity checks on the Burning Crusade Classic and Classic Era realms, we discovered an unfortunate issue with all player mail. The nature of the issue necessitated that we restore the portion of the database that contains that information in order to ensure nothing is lost. We’ve been in progress on this restoration for quite some time, but as you can imagine, it’s a huge amount of information.

We apologize for the delay in getting you back into Azeroth. We’re pretty sure we’ll be done in a few hours. It’s impossible to know with certainty, but our understanding of how long it’s going to take is coming into focus.

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@Kaivax

While performing data integrity checks on the Burning Crusade Classic and Classic Era realms, we discovered an unfortunate issue with all player mail. The nature of the issue necessitated that we restore the portion of the database that contains that information in order to ensure nothing is lost. We’ve been in progress on this restoration for quite some time, but as you can imagine, it’s a huge amount of information.

I wonder if it was all the marks y’all were storing in mailboxes…

[Jadei-grobbulus]

I would assume no since it affected all players and not everyone would have had marks in their mailbox. Sounds like it’s something a little more complex than that.

They have an expired mail recovery so I’m really not that concerned. Even if I don’t get them back, I’ll being doing bgs for honor anyway.

[Holycow-uldaman]

@Jadei-grobbulus

I would assume no since it affected all players and not everyone would have had marks in their mailbox. Sounds like it’s something a little more complex than that.

I was kidding… slightly…

@Jadei-grobbulus

They have an expired mail recovery

What?! Since when?!

[Jadei-grobbulus]

That’s just evil! If you only knew how painful it is to get AB marks as alliance.

And this gear has brought out every quest geared level 60 on poverty mounts with a “let them win for the ez mark” attitude.

@Holycow-uldaman

What?! Since when?!

https://imgur.com/a/pYY1RF8

15 day cooldown, I believe.

[Holycow-uldaman]

@Jadei-grobbulus

15 day cooldown, I believe.

Thanks! Never knew we had that option.

[Jeonseol-faerlina]

lol very funny

[Holycow-uldaman]

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/blizzard-shop-bc-classic-purchases-temporarily-unavailable/969308

@Bornakk

Due to the extended maintenance , we have delayed the release of the availability of the Dark Portal Pass or Deluxe Edition for Burning Crusade Classic in the Blizzard Shop. These options were originally intended to be available with the launch of the pre-expansion patch but are now expected to be available later today (May 19). Both of these items are currently available on the in-game Shop.

As a reminder, Burning Crusade Classic is included as a part of every players’ subscription at no additional cost.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Jdpp-zuljin (Jdpp)]

The wife was asking why it was taking so long yesterday because it’s a 15 yr old game and I responded with well the game 15 years ago didn’t have a cash shop.

Now here they are somewhat confirming the cloning service/cash shop items is what held them up.

I’m just amazed at the people that take off work for blizzard releases.

[Fatfreddy-emerald-dream (Fatfreddy)]

It was good times dueling premades 58s on the ptr.

So now I’m stuck even more between druid and rogue LOL… and maybe warrior because it was surprisingly fun and at least can prevent getting feared into oblivion just to be drained after…

[Holycow-uldaman]

@Jdpp-zuljin

I’m just amazed at the people that take off work for blizzard releases.

I’m gonna wait a bit. I imagine Blizzard will be hotfixing stuff today and tomorrow. Other players can have the honor of beta testing Blizzard’s new servers and services.

[Jdpp-zuljin (Jdpp)]

@Fatfreddy-emerald-dream

stuck even more between druid and rogue

Rogue is always a staple in the playbook lol.

End of TBC is when boomies got the boomkin nickname which is the balance patch we got. I think starfire is the hardest hitting ability in this expansion. I’m a sucker for big numbers.

I’m struggling with the same decision on what to boost. But I also have my lock to alt instead of one of these two.

@Holycow-uldaman

Other players can have the honor of beta testing Blizzard’s new servers and services.

smart move. funny how people have no faith in blizzard’s products lolol

[Tsataga-zuljin]

I logged in this morning just to dump all the stuff my AH goblin has been hoarding for a while in an attempt to gouge help out all the new Jewelcrafters get their skill points.

Tonight will probably be rebuilding my UI and keybinds for all the cool new Paladin toys, then my leveling partner goes to her weekend ER shifts so I have 5 days of just not being able to do much on my main.

[Squeektoy-grobbulus]

Kicking everyone out of bgs they are winning? not cool blizz not cool. Whole realm in all 3 bgs got kicked out of winning games.

[Jdpp-zuljin (Jdpp)]

What are yalls thoughts on the honor nerf in the prepatch? Seems off personally.

[Jadei-grobbulus]

Well I didn’t get kicked out of a losing AV so I got my one mark and 70 honor. That’s right, 70 honor for 23 minute game. This is getting more painful by the day!

Supposedly, 107 hours of AV, as alliance, with a 50/50 win/loss to get a 2h only. 170 hours as horde with the longer queue times. Glad I already had all the rank 12 gear because anyone trying to get all of the gear is in for a long, excruciating grind.

@Jdpp-zuljin

What are yalls thoughts on the honor nerf in the prepatch? Seems off personally.

It seems overkill to me and when you combine it with getting kicked from 75% of the games before they end, it’s a disaster. “So since we can’t fix the bgs so you actually stay to earn all of the honor from the bg and the mark, we’ll just go ahead and punch you in the face with a big honor nerf.”

[Jdpp-zuljin (Jdpp)]

Yea the math doesn’t seem right but who knows. Google doesn’t give much. A couple different friends have told me that honor per kill is way off. I’m hoping that’s the case to discourage this stupid sit at the gates afk meta.