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There’s a detailed server maintenance announcement for tomorrow, Tuesday August 4th. And off the bat: we still don’t know for sure if Patch 3.2 is dropping tomorrow. You can bet that we’ll be burning the midnight oil waiting to find out, though. (Note, that would be inadvisable. If you attempt to ignite a petroleum product on this ship at zero hundred hours you will activate the fire suppression system, which would seal off this entire compartment.)

All realms will be down from at least 3:00 a.m. PDT / 6:00 a.m. EDT until 11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT tomorrow. However a large group of special realms will be down from 12:00 a.m. PDT / 3:00 a.m. EDT until 12:00 p.m. PDT / 3:00 p.m. EDT.

Those special realms are those in the battlegroups Emberstorm, and Whirlwind.

Check after the break if you need to see a listing of which realms belong on those battlegroups, and stay tuned to WoW.com tonight and tomorrow for all the patch 3.2 goodness.

Minor update: The service alert, which is obviously suffering from a typo, now reads in part: “..we expect all realms to be playable by approximately 11:59PM PDT on Tuesday, August 4.” Emphasis added. Hey, at least they’re honest, right?

Update: Blizzard changed their announcement to indicate that only Emberstorm and Whirlwind would be going offline for an extended period.
All the realms which will be offline for an extended period tonight include:

Emberstorm Battlegroup:
Antonidas- Normal

Drenden- Normal

Farstriders- RP

Hydraxis- Normal

Mok’Nathal- Normal

Moon Guard- RP

Nazgrel- Normal

Nordrassil- Normal

Quel’dorei- Normal

Rivendare- PvP

Shandris- Normal

Tortheldrin- PvP
Whirlwind Battlegroup:
Anub’arak- PvP
Blackwater Raiders- RP

Bladefist- Normal

Cenarion Circle- RP

Cenarius- Normal

Darrowmere- PvP

Echo Isles- Normal

Hyjal- Normal

Lightbringer- Normal

Maiev- PvP

Misha- Normal

Ravenholdt- RP-PvP

Sisters of Elune- RP

The Forgotten Coast- PvP

Uther- Normal

Vashj- PvP

Castro World of Warcraft News items, Realm News, Realm Status

The Breaking News box has recently cropped up in-game, announcing tomorrow’s maintenance for North American realms. As you can see in the image to the right, servers will be down from 3:00 AM PDT until roughly 11:00 AM PDT, assuming all goes well. If you’re not sure what time this is in your timezone, use this timezone conversion tool.

You know the drill, guys. WoW.com will, as always, be here all throughout the maintenance to cure your boredom. For you European readers, remember that some of you will be hit with an extended maintenance later on, which we’ve posted about already.

Castille World of Warcraft Realm News, Realm Status

We’ve received a lot of tips in the past few minutes, and now it’s official: the Shadowburn battlegroup is down for emergency maintenance. The realms are estimated to return in two hours, around 3:30 EST, but we’ll keep you posted if we hear anything new.

The affected realms are Agamaggan, Azshara, Baelgun, Dark Iron, Detheroc, Emerald Dream, Greymane, Kalecgos, Lightninghoof, Maelstrom, Malfurion, Moonrunner, Nazjatar, Sargeras, Staghelm, Twisting Nether, Ursin, and Wildhammer.

What are you guys going to do in the mean time? I hear there’s a good WoW blog around here somewhere that you might enjoy browsing through.

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