The rollout of World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight expansion promises a particularly impressive and massive influx of players during the first few moments, especially when it launches on Tuesday, November 29, 2022. This massive influx could cause stability and server connection issues. game, preventing some from accessing it for a longer or shorter period. We explain how to know where the servers are, and especially if a maintenance is planned soon!
Dragonflight Server Status: Play or Quit?
The big day has finally arrived: the World of Warcraft servers allow players to access the content of the Dragonflight expansion! Usually, Blizzard has accustomed us to a particularly surprising stability on WoW realms in recent years for most of them.
However, if you are on Hyjal, Archimonde or even some densely populated English servers, Outland and Stormscale for example, then you may well experience many disconnections, or even an extraordinarily long queue when you connect at 00:00 this Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
If this happens to you, the best solution is to abandon any attempt to access your game server for the evening: even if you managed to connect, you would experience such slowdowns in game that it would be unplayable and greatly affect your experience. Reconnect in the middle or late night if you really have the motivation, most players will have left the game around 03:00 in general, or during the day after a good night’s sleep!
For most of the other realms, everything should be fine based on the gaming experience we had when Shadowlands came out. We still strongly recommend that you avoid War Mode if you want to level up rather than pounding on it for long hours: landing on the Dragon Islands is done in the same place for Horde players as well as ‘Alliance, this risks quickly degenerating!
Main peak hours:
- 00:00 – 03:00 (On November 29 only)
- 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Realm status can be viewed by logging directly into the game, or on the dedicated Server Status page on Battle.net. Also remember to follow the accounts regularly Warcraft, Warcraft_EN, Blizzard CS EU and Blizzard CS FR Twitter for any important information regarding the stability of realms when expansions or major content updates launch.
Meaning of the different population categories:
- Weak : The server is sparsely populated and online. No stability or player influx issues to report.
- New players: The server is the one recommended by default for new players. Moderately populated, it has no stability issues or abnormal influx of players.
- Mean : The server is medium populated and online. No stability or player influx issues to report.
- High: The server is densely populated and online. You may experience connection or latency issues in-game.
- Complete : The server is very densely populated and online. It is recommended not to connect to it, a queue probably affects it and therefore prevents players from connecting to it for long minutes or even hours. In game, strong latency problems, or even untimely disconnections may occur regularly.
- Offline : The server is not working and is under maintenance. This status is often visible during the weekly maintenance of all realms (on Wednesdays), or after too many players on a single server at the end of an expansion. Its relaunch is in progress and Blizzard has probably communicated about it on its official social networks.
Dragonflight November 30, 2022 maintenance
Scheduled maintenance will be deployed this Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 03:00 a.m. (Paris time), it will last until around 04:00 a.m. (Paris time) the same day. In particular, this will allow the deployment of the first Dragonflight content which was deactivated during the first day of the deployment of the extension in order to promote slow and pleasant progress for the average player, a story that they do not feel aggrieved by. do not pass level 70 in less than 24 hours.
Here is the list of content available only after this maintenance:
- Mythic Dungeons
- The Dragonsbane Dungeon Reinforced Chests
- The Loot from the Great Hunt Maruuk Centaurs (quality unusual, Rare and Epic)
- The weekly quest dedicated to the Feast of the community
- The weekly quest Help the concordat
- The weekly quest Show your courage
- All the weekly quests dedicated to professions in Valdrakken
- Weekly PvP quests that grant Honor
However, it is likely that this maintenance will be extended by several hours. Expansion launches often spell trouble, and Dragonflight might be no exception. Again, the best way to keep yourself informed is to follow Warcraft and Warcraft_EN, Blizzard CS EU and Blizzard CS EN on Twitter, announcements are published quite regularly concerning possible maintenance extensions.
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The official release date of the World of Warcraft expansion Dragonflight is upon us after long months of waiting! We invite you to discover the official release time of the game for each of the most popular time zones, especially in France of course.