That's all I have to say. If you haven't read this yet, you gotta read this now. It only takes a couple minutes. Compliments of your's truly...

Happy April 1st to you!

I'm positive that I'm in the same boat as each and every one of you readers are currently.  That is, World of Warcraft is unavailable for play.

I got home from my job this evening and loaded my priest. Much to my surprise, I didn't have to wait long. First and foremost, I realized I needed to update my mods, namely, CTmod. I exited and loaded the CTmod site, and, as no surprise to me, the site was so overloaded that I kept receiving errors.

And so, I left my computer for a couple of hours. When I returned, I was able to update my CTmod, and upon attempting to re-log to WoW, I discovered that now the world server was unavailable while more work was being done.

What did I discover during all of this?

That while millions of subscribers have been desperately pleeing for this patch, regardless of what bugs might be included, there are still yet (against my surprise) bugs which require maintenance.

What have I learned through all of this commotion?

That when things are rushed, such as this patch, things will always be left undone, and when those certain things are discovered, it becomes a priority to rectify those inadequacies, regardless of the amount of players it might affect.

And my advice is?

To sit tight and let it be. Flooding the WoW forums will have no affect one way or the other.

Should Blizzard have taken more time to test their software? Perhaps. Should the fan-base have allowed more time for this testing? Perhaps. Should we expect more from Blizzard? In my personal opinion (and isn't this what a news-site is all about?)? No. For one, this is hardly different from every other rushed patch in history. Second, when a company is rushed to release a product in order to retain its fan-base, problems are sure to arise. In this case, it is preventing us players from accessing the game. I'm as upset as you, do not misunderstand me, but let us ask ourselves this question:

Will complaining about it and threatening to cancel change anything?

No.

Will standing by patiently while waiting for the problem to be corrected change anything?

No.

But! Which will be a more efficient use of our time? Let's try standing by waiting. We've all been compensated in the past, let us hold on to hope that we might in return be granted some sort of compensation.

In the meantime, I'm dying for some Counter-Strike, who's with me! :P

Be patient though, the authentication servers are currently overloaded. Plan for a hour before you axtually hit the game!

• Priest Talents fix
• Weather Effects (finally)
• Final Destination Flight Paths
• Level 60 Experience to Gold Conversion
• New Armor sets

Though much of Draenor was shattered by the reckless Ner'zhul, the Hellfire Citadel remains intact– inhabited now by marauding bands of red, furious fel orcs. Though the presence of this new, savage breed presents something of a mystery, what's far more disconcerting is that the numbers of these fel orcs seem to be growing.

Read the rest here.

• Scholomance, BRD and Stratholm now have a 5 man limit. While UBRS in now reduced to a 10 man
• The loot for the above instances have being significantly improved.