World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

2019-08-31T01:00:00Z, we opened two new WoW Classic Realms in this region:

We strongly encourage players who wish to avoid extended queues on crowded PvP realms to plan to move to one of these two new realms. We expect these new realms to have a population base that is easily sufficient to long support a healthy PvP realm community.

Thank you!

With hotfixes that we are currently deploying to all WoW Classic realms, we are substantially increasing the number of players that can be simultaneously logged in and playing. We expect this to result in smaller queues for realms that have large queues, and some realms should no longer have queues at all.

We will closely monitor performance and stability throughout this process.

Thank you very much.

In order to deploy an improvement to the game service, we will perform restarts of all WoW Classic realms in this region 2019-08-28T15:00:00Z.

Realms should be unavailable for about 15 minutes. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The following realms were opened in this region today, Tuesday, August 27:

We recommend that players looking to avoid queues on Full realms move to one of these new realms for a smoother experience.

Thank you!

Thank you all for testing Classic Alterac Valley with us on Thursday afternoon and posting the feedback above! It was fun to reminisce about the Alterac Valley of olde while we got more information on issues that we can address:

• There were some NPCs (notably Durgen Stormpike) who weren’t the correct level. We’ve fixed this issue and other related bugs players have reported.
• We hear you about the item-level of rewards from Classic AV, and we’re working on increasing them. We’ll let you know what that looks like once we’ve made a final adjustment.
• We really appreciate your feedback on specific NPCs you thought were too easy or too tough, and we’re going to take all of it into account as we make a final tuning pass.

We noticed some players had questions about the specifics of this event battleground that haven’t been answered yet, so here are some additional details:

• Players can queue up from level 10 to level 120, and will be s...

Updated the OP with Azuresong, Benediction, Thunderfury, and Windseeker.