Extended Maintenance for May 13th and patch 2.4.2
by Daniel Whitcomb 
May 12th 2008 at 5:45PM
We don't know for sure yet if patch 2.4.2 is hitting the live servers tomorrow, but there's a few clues that may suggest we're going to see it soon. First is that maintenance tomorrow morning will be extended, from 3am-11am PST. Extended maintenance doesn't always mean a patch, sometimes it's for hardware upgrades or other reasons. However, if there's patch, there is generally extended maintenance.
But there is one other sign that could be a harbinger of 2.4.2. Tipster Phillip pointed out to us that the PTR servers are currently down. There's hasn't been an official notice posted on the US PTR Forums as of this writing, but there is an official notice of the end of testing on the European forums. Certainly, Blizzard's already had one false stop on the 2.4.2 PTR, but it could be that the second time is a charm.
If you need to jog your memory on 2.4.2's content, check out the initial patch notes here and the undocumented changes (most of which have since been folded into the official test server patch notes) here.
You can also read about the Hunter changes and their fallout here, with articles on Growl, Scare Beast, and some of the controversy and math problems surrounding the Growl change.
Filed under: Patches, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zeplar May 12th 2008 6:14PM
Now's a good time to buy up all the Void Crystals on your realm in anticipation of rapidly rising prices from Void Shatter losing its cooldown. And sell all your prismatic shards.
Laragaal May 12th 2008 7:41PM
Can someone explain why maintenance is between 3:00 am and 11:00 am PST??? Seems to me that if it was delayed by 3 - 4 hours then those in the east (Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, etc) would get some game time Tuesdays and no one would miss out in the west coast of the USA - the realms would be back up by the time you got home from work/school.
Star Druid May 12th 2008 10:16PM
Remember the east coast. For us realms come back at 2:00 pm with the normal maintenance times.
synack May 13th 2008 12:09AM
Blizzard is on the western coast of the US, in the Pacific time zone. Thus PST.
mike May 13th 2008 1:41AM
"Extended maintenance doesn't always mean a patch, sometimes it's for hardware upgrades or other reasons."
Sorry seems to me that everyweek is extended maintenance, look at all the cash Blizzard is saving in bandwidth costs by having the servers down 8 hours out of the week.
BTW moonrunner is offline as of 10:40 server time
Madeleen May 13th 2008 10:01AM
The patch is going live when the servers go up.
WoW just let me download it even though I couldn't log on.