Worst Maintenance Results in Quite Some Time
I don’t think I’ve seen the server perform so poorly after maintenance in quite a long while. Not since vanilla, in fact. It takes me two minutes to pick up some quests. During play, I lock up for 30 seconds at a time on occasion (just pray your healer or tank doesn’t lock up in a 5-man). Mail isn’t working 90% of the time. And I’m worried we’ll have to call our raid tonight because of it, since tonight is the only realistic day we’ll even be able to get some raiding done this week, since our second tank is having RL interfere on our other raid days.
Honestly, it makes me wonder why the database system still has major issues over five years after release. I think it’s time Blizzard seriously considered an overhaul of the system, because this can’t keep happening with every major patch and maintenance. Is it a lot of work? You bet. But it’s better than losing a day of play every time a patch is released, or more in this case.
I couldn’t agree more, Lume. One would surmise that after fives years of WoW Blizzard would have their patch and maintenance procedures down to a fine art. With virtually no impact on database performance and stability as a result. The continued instability and server performance issues which you mentioned Lume, only add to my already high levels of frustrations with the game. For those of us with limited amounts of time to spend in-game as a result of work, studies and other RL issues, don’t want to be standing around waiting for mail to appear, or a NPC to hand in a daily quest. Another prime example, my guild luckily enough managed to clear ICC 25-man (excluding Arthas) just in time for a server shutdown for another emergency database maintenance for 5 hours.
Lets hope we see some improvements, and soon.