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 [...]

Some players have been complaining that players on the PvP realms are having a hard day unlocking the Sunwell phases in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Due to that, some have taken the liberty of asking the community managers when the phases will automatically be unlocked.
Community Manager Bornakk responded to the question, saying that they “haven’t [...]

Filed under: News items
WoW Insider has received a high number of reports of hacked accounts today. We have traced the Trojan to Trojan.Crypt.FKM.Gen. that Trojan has been known to steal World of Warcraft login knowledge.
What we believe has happened, and please take that with the appropriate grain of salt, is that Fraps had a modified [...]

Filed under: News items
WoW Insider has received a high number of reports of hacked accounts today. We have traced the Trojan to Trojan.Crypt.FKM.Gen. that Trojan has been known to steal World of Warcraft login knowledge.
What we believe has happened, and please take that with the appropriate grain of salt, is that Fraps had a modified [...]

Test concluded. Closing. Nothing to see here. Move along now. *whistles*
Original post by Isaac C.

We will be mentioning that event in our events section on the homepage later today :]
Original post by Isaac C.

Filed under: Realm Status, News items
As of 10:50 AM PDT, 1:50 PM EDT, Blizzard has brought down all the realms in the Bloodlust (US) battlegroup for brief maintenance “to address issues relating to high latency and disconnections.” The affected realms are expected to be done after about an hour, which means they should come back [...]

Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Humor
Many of you might remember that a while back, we organized a Stormwind Stampede, where a bunch of us created a herd of Tauren by on Zangarmarsh, and next had a little footrace all the way to Stormwind. Our friend BigRedKitty is apparently putting something similar [...]

Filed under: Events, Guilds, Raiding
Some of you may be excited about Nihilum’s live stream of a Sunwell Plateau raid, which was scheduled for today at 1 PM EDT. I know I was looking forward to it about it. However, sad news — it’s been delayed, so we’ll have to wait a little bit longer to [...]

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=3779180356amp;pageNo=1amp;sid=1#7
Original post by Victor B.

Please don’t keep posting new topics on that subject, instead, please stick to posting about that subject in that thread: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=3779180356amp;sid=1
Original post by Victor B.

bump…… no GM got instance to reply? i see ya reply plenty of other posts There are a multitude of changes in patch 2.4.2 (currently on the PTR) that will help combat boosting, pointselling and wintrading. To the best of my knowledge, none of these changes are live yet.
Original post by Victor B.

Filed under: Tips
You’ve probably noticed that we use Wowhead to embed item, spell, talent, and quest tooltips in articles here, and some of you use the same functionality on your own blogs. Wowhead’s codeslinger Skosiris has made a change in the way that is handled, and that change necessitates a small update in the cipher [...]

Consolidating all discussion about that specific topic (Wintrading) to that thread: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=3779180356amp;sid=1Locking.
Original post by Ryan C.