Blizzard has seemed to have changed when they do their Tuesday maintenance schedule. Now, servers are going down in the PM hours.
For the past month, it’s been like this. Servers going down around 1-2pm Eastern, but going back up in about a minute (sometimes taking 10 minutes). Does this mean they’re improving their maintenance? Maybe working on individual servers instead of all at once?
Still wish they would do it while I’m asleep, especially for as short of a downtime as they do. But, this beats getting on and knowing I have to wait ’till 2pm to play. So I have little reason to bitch about this. It’s only a tiny inconvenience.
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Also, something I forgot to mention because of RPing with my friend. There’s been some major changes to Hollow’s End this year. The ‘Tricky Treat’ is now the official currency for Hollow’s End (as well as being eatable). You can buy the Hollowed Helm and the Sinister Squashling with it (both 200 candy a piece.. and no, that wasn’t a pun), instead of being forced to kill the Headless Horseman in the dungeon event and having a chance for them to drop. My Tauren Hunter lucked out a year ago and got both in one go.
You can even get them as “drops” from the Candy Buckets found near Innkeepers all over Azeroth, which is also new. My friend got the Sinister Squashling about a week ago, and before server maintenance today, I got mine. So awesome, and minus the work I had to put in as my Tauren Hunter.
There’s also two new pets this year. The Creepy Crate (a crate that follows you around), and the Feline Familiar (a black cat with a witch’s hat riding a broom).
You get the Creepy Crate after completing a nice, new quest chain in SW, only available for Level 85’s (but I’ve seen 83’s with the crate, so..). The quest chain is easily soloable as the only guy you gotta kill is low health, but is an 84.