Why are they doing an 8 hour maintenance?

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Just curious?

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Because there’s a content patch today.

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There is? What one?

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The War Within Patch 11.0.7 Overview - Wowhead

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I heard (smell?) KFC was for lunch…

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have to change the hamsters today.

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This week is Sirin Isle and Winter Veil is Thursday, I think they are adding new stuff to the holiday.

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So when the servers come up in 5 hours everyone will act like they did some amazing job today

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Yeah the thing I dont understand about these patches are:

*I downloaded the pre-patch ages ago
*I still downloaded something else today when I loaded Battlenet
*The new content was planned ages ago

Why does it still take 8 hours on top of all that, for “patch day” given all the above?

Why bother having an earlier download, etc?

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97 bottles of beer

:crab: :ocean: :crab: :ocean:

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Hmmm I wonder if they’ll actually make it. I kind of doubt it it’s a bigger patch, but it would bbe fun…

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To pump in a bunch of recycled boring content. Curious to see how much maintenance it will take to get all the bugs out.

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Voidelf shadow priests are getting a huge damage buff

I heard it was like 30% increase to base haste rating.

they are specifically increasing base intellect by 20% for players named Ravenhex on the Stormrage server.

so in order to not buff the unworthy they have to manually go thru the character database to type in my numbers.

…I also might be making this up completely cuz I have time between adulting stuffs and wanted to stir the pot…

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9 was too much.

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8 hours? i thought it was 12 hours

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No I won’t, Siren island is very small, teeny tiny, not large.

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Sigh guess they don’t tank at all.
Buff tanks would be nice… learn?

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So they can distribute the server load over time rather than have millions downloading it at once and people complaining that they can’t play because the downloads are so slow.

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There’s been a lot of changes since then.

Because they change and add things constantly.

Planned but not added or finished.

Because actually applying the patch to their servers is a long and time consuming process.

One less thing you have to do when the server comes up.

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because they have to do things on their end.