WoW sold out

Even in the Blizzard Entertainment - Online Store World of Warcraft is sold out. The explanation given on the official forums is "We are limiting restocks until we can be sure that those who purchase the game will have an enjoyable experience." Or to translate that into normal English: World of Warcraft now has more players than the servers can handle, so they aren't selling more games until they added more hardware and fixed some server problems.

Unfortunately I'm on one of the more populated servers, Icecrown. That was one of the servers that had an extended maintenance downtime of 16 hours this week. And even that didn't fix much, the server is currently down again, and there were some minor server crashes all weekend. Blizzard also says they are working on a one-time possibility to allow players to switch to less populated servers, something known from Everquest as "/movelog" command.

But there are some happy news to report as well: My druid finally got his Rod of the Sleepwalker from Blackfathom Deep, on the sixth run through that dungeon. Thanks a lot to Relluc, a guild mate, who baby-sitted me through the dungeon with a level 60 mage. I've heard people saying mages were gimped, but once you see a high-level mage killing half a dozen mobs with a single spell, you stop thinking so. My druid doesn't have a single area-of-effect spell, and being able to damage several monsters at once is a rare and valuable ability in this game.

The other good news is my dwarven pally reaching 150 in engineering, and now being able to create explosive sheep. This is basically a pet on a short fuse, which will run towards the closest enemy and explode. :) Engineering is a rather expensive tradeskill, but it produces a lot of fun items like that. I like it a lot.
- posted by Tobold @ 7:46 AM Permanent Link