In case you haven’t noticed, some realms in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft have been suffering from erratic connection speeds and frequent disconnections. Authorities are hard at work, but several servers had to be taken down for maintenance.
According to blue poster Drysc at the WoW forums, here are the World of Warcraft realms that went down:

Aman’Thul
Barthilas
Blackrock
Caelestrasz
Dath’Remar
Dreadmaul
Frostmourne
Frostwolf
Khaz’goroth
Kil’Jaeden
Kilrogg
Nagrand
Ner’zhul
Proudmoore
Sen’Jin
Silver […]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends

David Bowers lightly ribbed me earlier about being too lazy to read quest text. Avid role-player that he is, he considered skipping quest text a capital offense. He went on to tell me about some folks that even made certain to read every readable book or object in […]

Filed under: Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Humor, Lore, RP
So, you know what Haiku is, right? It’s mold of Japanese poetry. The most popular English version is 3 lines expanded. The first line is 5 syllables, the second 7, and the third is 5 again. All well and good, I’m certain you say, but what […]

As the first day of May is a Labor Day holiday in France and working on that specific day is subject to stringent legal restrictions, Blizzard Europe will be providing limited support on Thursday, May 1st. All the realms will be available for play as usual, however our Technical and Billing Support teams will not […]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tricks, Odds and ends, PvP, Arena, Hardware
We’ve covered the topic of keyboard turners before, but Paul by on LJ has a similar distinction amidst control schemes — he set up a spectrum that has clickers (or those who go all their icons with the mouse) on one end, and pressers […]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Leveling, Alts
The Waaagh blog, despite technically being about some other dirty little game, keeps churning out some pretty good posts. The latest is Syp’s 10 Commandments of Altitis. I’m a recent convert to altitis myself. I pretty much stuck with one character on all my previous MMOs, with […]

Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Battlegrounds
Today, in Arathi Basin, my Tauren warrior took on six Alliance and won.
This isn’t me bragging: I fully expected to die. Usually when I do that kind of thing… in fact, in 99% of the times I’ve charged into a pack of Alliance or Horde when […]