We will be performing a one hour maintenance on our authentication system tonight, May 18 beginning at 11:00 PM PDT. The maintenance is not expected to affect the majority of login requests, including those for the game, account management and the forums. We do however anticipate that intermittent authentication issues may occur during the scheduled maintenance time.

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Rhaele
Senior Game Master
Blizzard Entertainment

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this maintenance has been moved forward to 9:00PM PDT. Below is a copy of the Breaking News Post located in the World of Warcraft Game Client.

We will be performing a one hour maintenance on our authentication system tonight, May 18 beginning at 9:00 PM PDT. The maintenance is not expected to affect the majority of login requests, including those for the game, account management and the forums. We do however anticipate that intermittent authentication issues may occur during the scheduled maintenance time.

This maintenance is now over and everything should be back to normal. Thank you for your patience while we were working on this issue. Enjoy!