This leads me to believe it will be down for awhile
Beta Realm Maintenance - October 15
By: Kaivax 1 hr 48 min ago (Patch 12.1.5)Source#1
We’re planning to take the WoW Forever Beta down in about 15 minutes, at 1:15 p.m. PDT.
This will be a maintenance period that includes deploying and testing a new build of the game, and that build has quite a few changes and fixes.
We’ll have a full update to the Development Notes for you when we get through the updating and the testing. See you on the other side!