WOD Servers down

[MiRai]

I find it laughably convenient that every MMO release and expansion for the past year has been the target of "DDOS attacks." As an IT employee, I'd do the same thing, but it still makes me chuckle - I have very little doubt that increased numbers of legitimate customers counts as a "DDOS attack" in a very broad definition of the term...

I dunno, it sure does seem like quite a bit of traffic from outside the country was focused directly at the Los Angeles area last night:



If the problem was that only Draenor was overloaded then only Draenor's world server would have been crashing (and it probably was on numerous servers), but playing last night in low level instances -- separate from any of the world servers -- I was feeling a tremendous amount of server lag even after the maximum capacities had been lowered, and I was playing on a realm in the Chicago datacenter. However, this morning at 4:30AM there was still an 1100 person queue to get into Sargeras, but once I was inside the realm there was zero lag at all because the DDoS had already ended (IPViking showed no abnormal activity).

[moosejaw]

Todays (Friday) maintenance has been extended on the US servers until 11:00 AM PST.

[JohnGabriel]

If only WoW let you port from server to server as easy as Rift, so you could find a less populated area.

[JohnGabriel]

• You drew a dick with your quest item. So did thousands of other people (and most of em posted here.)

What does this mean?

[fightcow]

1064min wait...
I don't think I will be able to play tonight either lol

wonder when this will 'resolve itself' ? cos clearly blizzard are just waiting it out.

[MiRai]

• You drew a dick with your quest item. So did thousands of other people (and most of em posted here.)

What does this mean?

Very early on in the Tanaan Jungle scenario you get a quest that has you pick up and carry a barrel full of gun powder. The gun powder is leaking out of the barrel and you leave a trail wherever you walk. People are inclined to draw stupid things on the ground and then continue to share it over and over again (but that list was from reddit).

[zenga]

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What does this mean?

There is a quest that leaves a trail after you walk away. And people find it funny to draw figures with it, most notably dicks, often referred to as cocks. Cocks as in 'man with a big cock'. (link)

[Mercurio]

There is a quest that leaves a trail after you walk away. And people find it funny to draw figures with it, most notably dicks, often referred to as cocks. Cocks as in 'man with a big cock'. (link)

LOL, I'm really happy that those who can get in to play the game are using their time so wisely.

Warms one's heart as you stare at the log in queue.