While they are adding some features, I don’t think it will be the entire length today. I bet it’s up around 1pm PST. Consider me hopeful, cause I’ve got a fat vault I’d like to be disappointed in before the sun sets in my area.
I’m also thinking/hoping this one doesn’t run for the full duration. This doesn’t seem like a patch that needs 8 hours. But this is still Blizzard, so it’s always a fun time betting on when maintenance will be over.
They decided there wasn’t enough timegating in the patch already, so they’re also timegating the maintenance, as well as timegating the server downtime. While we get the normal server downtime advertised, there’s a whole bunch of additional downtime timgated until later in the day that will unlock.
Once maintenance is complete, they’ll timegate bringing the servers back up slowly.