I saw something strange and unusual this morning when I jumped on to do an AH scan.
I know what you are thinking… what’s so unusual about downtime or rolling restarts…. well nothing really.
What I noticed, for the 1st time ever, was this bit:
all Oceanic realms on Friday 1 at 5:00am AEST.
So what’s so unusual about this?
Usually Oceanic downtime is just US downtime – when things are quite in the US – which is prime time in Australia (and for other on Oceanic Realms). You know, 1/2 way through that badge run and server shuts down.
So.
- Oceanic Realms get a different restart time.
- It’s 5 am Australian time.. I think I am one of the few people awake and on our servers at that point.
- The time is list in AEST.. no converting from PDT!
Thanks Blizzard… this is very nice!
Gnomer and Out!
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That is nice for those of us on Oceanic realms. However I think this is only for rolling restarts. Regularly scheduled downtime will still be at the usual (US PDT) time. So don’t go scheduling raids at that time just yet.
I wonder what hotfix they’re doing.
Yeah. Tuesday night is a ritual night off.. but I can live with that.. as I am not usually playing during the week (at night at least), this isn’t an issue for me.
But it drives me freakin crazy when we are 15 minutes from the next boss when the Restart warning comes up.. there is a collective groan across the server.
And when you are always pugging (which to some extent or another I am), 80% of the time, your group wont reform after the restart – especially if it’s late.
Sure this is a nice way to drop group, but it’s a terrible way to hold a group together.
So if they can do their rolling restarts at 5am (where ever possible) then I will be a happy man.
you know if you got up one hour earlier and I stayed up one hour later we would be on at the same time 😛
Im also happy about the “lets not ruin their raids” restart time, and as much as I would like to see more of that in future, I think this time we just got lucky!
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