We’re excited to let everyone know we’re approaching the final stage of completing database sharding and are planning to shard the PC EU megaserver next Tuesday, April 5 so you can reap the performance benefits of sharding as soon as possible.
While we recognize the timing is not ideal as this falls on a day during the Jester’s Festival, we’ll do our best to perform maintenance during a time that causes the least amount of disruption for our global playerbase on PC EU and will plan to begin maintenance around 03:00 BST / 04:00 CEST / 13:00 AEDT. Additionally, completing this maintenance now will allow us to begin work on replacing our megaserver hardware sooner (more news on that as we get closer to it happening).
As with previous maintenances to support sharding, you can expect this to take several hours to complete. Thanks in advance for your patience and we look forward to finally completing this project!